Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1995-05-25
1997-01-07
Scherbel, David
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
99409, 99410, 99483, A47J 2762, A47J 2700
Patent
active
055905870
ABSTRACT:
A food cooker/rethermalizer especially suited for cooking or for reheating of prepared, packaged meat and sauce entree items, and optionally for cooking vegetables. The apparatus includes a multiple of food item receiving locations defined by a locator rack, and fluid ejecting tubes beneath the locations to eject fluid such as air therefrom, which rises over the package surfaces for bath mixing and efficient and uniform heat transfer. The tubes include a pair of upwardly sloped conduits oriented in opposite directions and which eject fluid at the upper ends of the tubes, on opposite sides of the bath, to cause circulation of the heated liquid bath. The bath is heated by resistance coils embedded in rubber bonded to the outside of the vessel. The bath level is controlled by a dual temperature sensor device, one sensor above the other, to detect a predetermined temperature differential and activate a water supply valve to inject only small quantities of water. The heating chamber is separated from the electronics control chamber by a space which has a thermally generated convection cooling action. The defined locations of the locator rack have a geometric arrangement matching the geometric arrangement of controls on a control panel.
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Alexander Reginald L.
Oliver Products Company
Scherbel David
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