Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
367 words
A hot oil recirculating cooking system for deep fat frying food, such as chicken parts, including a cooking pot that has a chamber in which such food is to be fried by immersion in a pool of the hot oil during a cooking cycle, said pot chamber having a flow outlet in the bottom area thereof and an inlet in the top area thereof, conduit means providing a through flow path between said pot chamber outlet and inlet including a pump and an openable closed filter tank having a chamber containing removable filtering means, characterized by the combination of 1. means defining in the bottom area of said pot chamber a depending cold zone deep well having transversely spaced and opposed sidewalls merged with more widely spaced pot chamber sidewalls thereabove with the latter defining therebetween the frying zone above the well cold zone, the mergence providing at least one upwardly facing shoulder ledge in the vicinity of the bottom of the frying zone, said cold zone well having an elongated and relatively narrow, well-closing bottom section which extends laterally between and in the direction generally parallel to the surfaces of its transversely spaced sidewalls with the pot chamber flow outlet located in the vicinity of one closeD end of said well bottom section; 2. heating means exterior of said pot to apply heat externally of said pot chamber to at least one of said well sidewalls and to said mergence of this sidewall with the frying zone sidewall thereabove in the vicinity of its shoulder ledge; and 3. a discharge nozzle assembly flow connected to said conduit means and located in the pot chamber frying zone and the cold zone well, this assembly including nozzle means to direct discharge jets laterally along said mergence shoulder ledge for washing particulate solids off of the latter down into the bottom section of said well, and additional nozzle means depending down into said well bottom section to the vicinity of the other closed end of the latter to direct at least one discharge jet laterally along said bottom section toward the pot chamber flow outlet for sweeping into this outlet particulate solids which tend to collect in this section.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
367 words
A hot oil recirculating cooking system for deep fat frying food, such as chicken parts, including a cooking pot that has a chamber in which such food is to be fried by immersion in a pool of the hot oil during a cooking cycle, said pot chamber having a flow outlet in the bottom area thereof and an inlet in the top area thereof, conduit means providing a through flow path between said pot chamber outlet and inlet including a pump and an openable closed filter tank having a chamber containing removable filtering means, characterized by the combination of 1. means defining in the bottom area of said pot chamber a depending cold zone deep well having transversely spaced and opposed sidewalls merged with more widely spaced pot chamber sidewalls thereabove with the latter defining therebetween the frying zone above the well cold zone, the mergence providing at least one upwardly facing shoulder ledge in the vicinity of the bottom of the frying zone, said cold zone well having an elongated and relatively narrow, well-closing bottom section which extends laterally between and in the direction generally parallel to the surfaces of its transversely spaced sidewalls with the pot chamber flow outlet located in the vicinity of one closeD end of said well bottom section; 2. heating means exterior of said pot to apply heat externally of said pot chamber to at least one of said well sidewalls and to said mergence of this sidewall with the frying zone sidewall thereabove in the vicinity of its shoulder ledge; and 3. a discharge nozzle assembly flow connected to said conduit means and located in the pot chamber frying zone and the cold zone well, this assembly including nozzle means to direct discharge jets laterally along said mergence shoulder ledge for washing particulate solids off of the latter down into the bottom section of said well, and additional nozzle means depending down into said well bottom section to the vicinity of the other closed end of the latter to direct at least one discharge jet laterally along said bottom section toward the pot chamber flow outlet for sweeping into this outlet particulate solids which tend to collect in this section.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
43 words
heating means exterior of said pot to apply heat externally of said pot chamber to at least one of said well sidewalls and to said mergence of this sidewall with the frying zone sidewall thereabove in the vicinity of its shoulder ledge; and
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
heating means exterior of said pot to apply heat externally of said pot chamber to at least one of said well sidewalls and to said mergence of this sidewall with the frying zone sidewall thereabove in the vicinity of its shoulder ledge; and
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
132 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 1 characterized by said cold zone well sidewalls being located generally symmetrically with respect to said frying zone chamber sidewalls and between upwardly extending planes of inner faces of the latter sidewalls with the well bottom section arranged substantially intermediate these planes, a pair of similar upwardly facing and transversely spaced mergence shoulder ledges being provided thereby, and a pair of said heating means being provided with each arranged relative to one of said mergence shoulder ledges and the well sidewall which is associated therewith with the well bottom section being arranged between said pair of heating means, said nozzle assembly having a pair of said lateral jet directing nozzle means with each associated with one of said mergence shoulder ledges for such washing thereof.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
50 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 2 characterized by the provision of a lateral food-supporting, foraminous rack which is of peripheral shape substantially complementary to the transverse sectional shape of the frying zone, and removably nested in this frying zone above said pair of lateral jet directing nozzle means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
108 words
a discharge nozzle assembly flow connected to said conduit means and located in the pot chamber frying zone and the cold zone well, this assembly including nozzle means to direct discharge jets laterally along said mergence shoulder ledge for washing particulate solids off of the latter down into the bottom section of said well, and additional nozzle means depending down into said well bottom section to the vicinity of the other closed end of the latter to direct at least one discharge jet laterally along said bottom section toward the pot chamber flow outlet for sweeping into this outlet particulate solids which tend to collect in this section.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
108 words
a discharge nozzle assembly flow connected to said conduit means and located in the pot chamber frying zone and the cold zone well, this assembly including nozzle means to direct discharge jets laterally along said mergence shoulder ledge for washing particulate solids off of the latter down into the bottom section of said well, and additional nozzle means depending down into said well bottom section to the vicinity of the other closed end of the latter to direct at least one discharge jet laterally along said bottom section toward the pot chamber flow outlet for sweeping into this outlet particulate solids which tend to collect in this section.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
106 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 3 characterized by said pair of lateral jet directing nozzles being in the form of a pair of oppositely directed and transversely extending tubes closed off at their outer ends and respectively mounted immediately above said mergence shoulder ledges in the vicinity of the transverse ends thereof which are located farthest away from the pot chamber flow outlet and immediately above these shoulder ledges for wash thereof, each of said nozzle tubes having a series of longitudinally spaced-apart jet openings in the side thereof which faces toward the other end of the shoulder ledge above which it is mounted.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
48 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 4 characterized by a plurality of support members depending from said rack and resting upon said mergence shoulder ledges to support said rack in said frying zone in a lateral plane immediately above said pair of lateral jet directing nozzle means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
79 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 3 characterized by said conduit means having a discharge section leading down through said frying zone to said discharge nozzle assembly which is equipped with a small aspirating and bleed hole in a side thereof that is located in the vicinity of a predetermined level of the surface of the intended hot oil pool in the cooking chamber frying zone in which said food-supporting rack and its food load will be immersed.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
47 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 2 characterized by the provision of said pot chamber flow outlet being a lateral flow-directing opening located in the end of said well bottom section at a point of lowest elevation toward which said depending nozzle means directs jet discharge.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
90 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 1 characterized by said conduit means having an intake section connected to said pot chamber outlet and extending from the latter to an inlet openinG in an inlet end section of said filter tank and equipped with a normally closed, openable, through flow valve; said tank having its inlet end section closed by a removable lid with its other downstream end section being closed and equipped with an outlet communicated to the inlet of said pump by another section of said conduit means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
139 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 8 characterized by said filter tank being in the form of a generally cylindrical, cup-shaped tank having its longitudinal axis extending substantially centrally through its lid, inlet end section and its outlet end section and oriented generally horizontal, said tank chamber having removably nested therein a cup-shaped foraminous retainer basket having a generally cylindrical sidewall, a transverse downstream end wall and an open inlet end located in the vicinity of said tank inlet section downstream of the inlet opening in the latter and gasketed to the wall of said tank chamber with its sidewall and downstream end wall spaced inwardly from opposed tank wall portions, and a removable open mouth filter bag nested in said retainer basket with its open mouth removably anchored to the open inlet end of said retainer basket.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
26 words
The cooking system as defined in claim 9 characterized by said filter tank lid having a valved opening therein connectable to a discharge and suction tube.