Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1991-04-26
1991-12-17
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99443C, 99468, 99477, 99483, 1988605, A23L 300
Patent
active
050726633
ABSTRACT:
A shrimp cooking apparatus has a frame having a motor driven endless belt conveyor with a porous endless belt supported to the frame. The frame includes a plurality of upright members, each two upright members being connected by transverse support channels. A housing covers a portion of the porous endless belt and is supported on the frame and has an entrance thereinto and an exit therefrom. A steam pipe is connected to a source of steam and is connection to a plurality of steam nozzles for directing steam into the housing. The housing is formed from a pair of stainless steel layers having a predetermined layer of insulation therebetween. The housing has a lift mechanism attached thereto for lifting the housing relative to the plurality of frame members to thereby gain access inside the housing. A plurality of solenoid valves are operatively connected to temperature sensors to open and close each steam feedpipe nozzle to thereby control the feeding of steam into the housing. The housing lift mechanism includes individual chains mounted inside the upright frame member between pairs of sprockets and are driven by a motor driven rotating shaft located in a transverse beam and driving a sprocket on the chain drive at each end thereof in one of the upright channels. A lift bracket is attached to each chain which in turn is attached to the housing for lifting and lowering the housing responsive to the operation of the electric motor.
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Hobby III William M.
Seafood Equipment Development Corporation
Simone Timothy F.
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