Apparatus for cooking chicken

Abstract

Abstract THE DISCLOSURE PERTAINS TO A DEEP FAT FRYER AND A METHOD OF COOKING CHICKEN USING SAME IN WHICH THE CHICKEN AND COOKING OIL ARE EMPLOYED IN A RATIO ON THE ORDER OF ONE TO TWO, RESPECTIVELY, AND ARE PLACED IN A SMOOTH WALLED GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL CHAMBER OF THE FRYER WITH THE FRYER BEING PROVIDED WITH BAND TYPE ELECTRIC HEATERS ADJACENT TO BUT SPACED FROM THE LOWER END OF THE CHAMBER AND OUTSIDE OF SAME THAT ESTABLISH A CONVECTION FLOW IN THE COOKING OIL WHICH RISES ADJACENT THE CHAMBER WALL AND FALLS ADJACENT THE MID PORTION OF THE CHAMBER. THE CHICKEN IS APPLIED TO THE CHAMBER IN A BASKET THAT SEATS ON THE CHAMBER BOTTOM ABOVE THE SPECIAL FILTER UNIT THAT ALSO SEATS ON THE CHAMBER BOTTOM IN A RELATIVELY COOL AREA OF THE CHAMBER. THE CHAMBER IS CLOSED BY A COVER HINGE AT ONE EDGE OF THE CHAMBER AND IS CLAMPED IN PLACE FOR COOKING UNDER PRESSURE CONDITIONS. THE COVER HINGE INCLUDES A LOST MOTION ARRANGEMENT SO THAT WHEN THE COVER CLAMPING MEANS IS RELEASED, THE COVER SEAL IS PARTIALLY RELEASED SO THAT FLUIDS UNDER PRESSURE WITHIN THE FRYER ESCAPE IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM THE OPERATOR. THE FRYER INCLUDES A DRAIN AT THE BOTTOM OF ITS CHAMBER THROUGH WHICH THE COOKING OIL MAY BE PERIODICALLY DRAINED UNDER PRESSURE THROUGH THE FILTER UNIT TO SEPARATE OUT THE SOLIDS, AFTER WHICH THE FILTERED COOKING OIL IS RETURNED TO THE CHAMBER WITH ENOUGH NEW COOKING OIL TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL VOLUME THEREOF. ASSOCIATED WITH THE COVER IS A NOVEL PRESSURE REGULATOR THAT LIMITS THE PRESSURE BUILD UP WITHIN THE FRYER, PROVIDING FOR BOTH AUTOMATIC AND MANUAL RELEASE OF SAME, AND DIRECTS RELEASE OF FLUIDS UNDER PRESSURE AWAY FROM THE OPERATOR.

Inventors

• 👤 Carl P Mies Jr
• 👤 Winston L Shelton

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