Machines for the cooking of pancakes and like hot-plate goods

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR COOKING PANCAKES AND LIKE HOT-PLATE GOODS, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR SYSTEM SUPPORTED BY A FRAME AND EMBODYING AN ENDLESS SERIES OF HOT-PLATES IN SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP AND DISPOSED TO FORM UPPER AND LOWER SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL STRETCHES OF HOT-PLATES; MEANS OPERATIVE TO MOVE THE ENDLESS CONVEYOR AND HOT-PLATES ASSEMBLY INTERMITTENTLY; MEANS FOR HEATING THE HOT-PLATES; MEANS LOCATED NEAR THE LEADING END OF THE ENDLESS CONVEYOR AND HOT-PLATES ASSEMBLY TO DEPOSIT MEASURED QUANTITIES OF PANCAKE BATTER ON EACH HOT-PLATE IN TRANSVERSE ROW RELATIVE TO THE TRAVEL DIRECTION OF HOT-PLATES; PANCAKE-TURNOVER MEANS COMPRISING A TRAVELLING CARRIAGE LOCATED TRANSVERSELY ABOVE THE UPPER STRETCH OF HOT-PLATES AT A SUITABLE POINT INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH OF THE ENDLESS CONVEYR AND HOT-PLATES ASSEMBLY AND MOUNTED PIVOTALLY TO ROCK ON A PAIR OF RECIPROCATING SIDE-MEMBERS SUPPORTED AT THE SIDES OF THE MACHINE FRAME, A TRANSVERSE BATTERY OF PANCAKE-TURNOVER SLICING AND LIFTING BLADES SUPPORTED BY SAID CARRIAGE AND DISPOSED TO FACE SAID LEADING END OF THE ENDLESS CONVEYOR AND COMPRISING O ROW OF BLADE MEMBERS CARRIED BY LOW OF SPINDLES MOUNTED FOR AXIAL RECIPROCAL TURNING MOVEMENT ON THE TRANSVERSE CARRIAGE MEMBER, AND OPERATIVE MEANS COMPRISING MEANS FOR IMPARTING ROCKING MOVEMENT TO SAID TRANSVERSE CARRIAGE MEMBER, MEANS FOR IMPARTING RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT TO SAID SLIDE-MEMBERS, AND MEANS FOR IMPARTING RECIPROCAL TURNING MOVEMENT TO EACH OF THE SPINDLES CARRYING THE ROW OF BLADE MEMBERS, ALL OPERATIVE IN TIMED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT OF EACH HOT-PLATE TO MOVE SAID TRAVELLING CARRIAGE AND BLADES FROM AN ELEVATED NEUTRAL POSITION AND IN A DIRECTION OPPOSITE TO THE TRAVEL DIRECTION OF THE HOT-PLATES AND LOWER SAID BLADES INTO SLICING ENGAGEMENT WITH A HOTPLATE LOCATED IMMEDIATELY BENEATH SAID BLADES IN SAID LOWERED POSITION AND LOAD THE PARTLY COOKED PANCAKES FROM SAID HOT-PLATE ONTO SAID BLADES, THENCE RAISE SAID BLADES THENCE RETRACT THE TRAVELLING CARRIAGE AND TURN THE BLADES OVER SIDEWARDLY TO DEPOSIT THE PANCAKES WITH THE UNCOOKED SIDE DOWNWARDS ON SAID HOT-PLATE AND RETURN SAID TRAVELLING CARRIAGE AND BLADES TO THE ELEVATED NEUTRAL POSITION, SAID PANCAKE-TURNOVER OPERATIVE MEANS BEING OPERATIVE TO REPEAT THE CYCLE OF MOVEMENTS COINCIDENETAL WITH THE INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT OF EACH SUCCESSIVE HOT-PLATE; AND PANCAKE DISCHARGE MEANS LOCATED NEAR THE TRAILING END OF THE ENDLESS CONVEYOR AND HOT-PLATE ASSEMBLY TO SLICINGLY SEPARATE FROM THE HOT-PLATES THE COOKED PANCAKES APPROACHING THE TRAILING END OF THE ENDLESS CONVEYOR AND HOT-PLATES ASSEMBLY AND DISCHARGE SAID PANCAKES FROM THE MACHINE.