Electrode type cooking package

Abstract

Abstract Described is a packaged food product including a container, shell or enclosure which exists in an ''''open'''' position prior to loading and ''''closed'''' position thereafter and which encloses food substances such that an essentially electrically nonconducting food component has in contact therewith on at least one of its surfaces or envelopes the major part of a relatively electrically conducting food component. The conducting food substance protrudes or extends longitudinally away from two axially polar parts or ends of the non-conducting food substance and, when the container, shell or enclosure is in a closed position both the non-conducting and conducting food substance are held in a fixed position as a result of the design of the internal surfaces of the ends of one or both portion(s) of the container, enclosure or shell. At the ends of the container, enclosure or shell, electrical conducting means such as metal foils are attached to and are in intimate contact with the internal surfaces of the axially polar ends of the container and are designed to make electrical contact with the terminals of an electrical energy source for a finite period of time when the container is in a closed position and while the non-conducting and conducting foods are held in the container. Apart from the electrical conducting means, the rest of the container is both (1) electrically non-conducting and (2) thermally non-conducting, so that when electrical energy is applied to the electrical conducting means when (a) the container, shell or enclosure is in a closed position and when (b) the conducting and non-conducting foods contained in the container, both these foods are heated; and immediately subsequent to the application of the electrical energy, the food remains in a heated state for a convenient time. When the container, shell or enclosure is in a closed position and the electrically conducting and non-conducting foods are properly positioned therein, the electrically conducting food is pressed tightly against the electrical conducting means located at each of the axially polar internal surfaces of the ends of the container in a form-fitting manner, due in part to the nature of the physical properties of the material of construction of the container, enclosure or shell.

Inventors

• 👤 Ernst Theodore Theimer
• 👤 Donald Joseph Roslonski

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