CN1139374A - Self contained frying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

A self contained frying machine (10) having a storage area (21), a mixing chamber (19') for receiving a pre-measured amount of deshydrated food product from the storage area (21) and rehydrating and solidifying the same, a piston (32) for compressing the rehydrated food product and forcing it through an orificed die plate where the dehydrated and solidified food product is formed into individual pieces. The pieces are then deposited into a hot oil chamber (122) and, after frying, drained and deposited into a container (136) for consumption.

Description

Self contained frying machine

The cross-reference of related application

The application is to be that November 12, application number in 1993 are the part continuation application of 08/150,853 application the applying date.The background of invention invention field

The present invention relates to Fryer, more particularly, relate to a kind of self contained frying machine of the deep-fried food that is used to produce oil.Prior art is described

As everyone knows, existing in the prior art polytype machine that is used for fried food.These machines are made dough mixture with dehydrated food earlier usually again, then mixture are cut into block and fried these blocks of reservation shape.

Conventional device is fast, constantly to repeat and effective and efficient manner is produced on the delicious non-greasy food and had some problems.Some conventional device need be done many maintaining work, needs during work meticulously, therefore is not suitable for those inexperienced operating personnel and uses.

Therefore, this just needs a kind of machine that can produce delicious non-greasy food in mode quick and that constantly repeat.

Brief summary of the invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of improved self contained frying machine.

Another object of the present invention provides the automatic self contained frying machine of a kind of improved French.

A further object of the invention provides a kind of drying granular vegetable food (as the potato grain) of reorganization that utilizes and produces a kind of food, the Fryer of (as the French fried food).

Preferably by providing a kind of self contained frying machine to realize above-mentioned and other purpose, this self contained frying machine has the storage area, hybrid chamber and piston.This hybrid chamber is used to receive from the dehydrated food of the scheduled volume of storage area and makes it rehydration and solidify, and this piston is used to push the food after the aquation and forces it to pass through foraminous die plate, and during by template, rehydration and the food that solidifies have formed block one by one.Then these blocks are put into the deep fat chamber, drain, put into container again for consumption through after fried.

Brief description of the drawings

Fig. 1 is the perspective view of Fryer of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the cutaway view of Fryer of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the cutaway view of a part of the machine of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is the local section cutaway view of another part of the machine of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is the view along the 5-5 line intercepting of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is the broken section detail drawing of a part of the Fryer of Fig. 1 to Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is the local section cutaway view of a part of the Fryer of Fig. 1 to 5;

Fig. 8 is the view similar to Fig. 7, the working condition of the part of the Fryer of its presentation graphs 1 to 7;

Fig. 9 is the decomposition view of the Fryer of Fig. 1;

Figure 10 is the detailed section view of a part of the Fryer of Fig. 1;

Figure 11 is the perspective view of a part of the Fryer of Fig. 1;

Figure 12 is the view along the 12-12 line intercepting of Fig. 2;

Figure 13 is the view along the 13-13 line intercepting of Fig. 2;

Figure 14 is the detailed view of a part of the equipment of Fig. 8;

Figure 15 is the preferred workflow diagram of the equipment of Fig. 1 to 13;

Figure 16 is the part working condition detail drawing of Figure 12 equipment;

Figure 17 is the schematic diagram of the water supply situation of present device;

Figure 18 is the view along the 18-18 line intercepting of Figure 12;

Figure 19 and 20 is respectively along the 19-19 line of Figure 18 and the view of 20-20 line intercepting;

Figure 21 is the cutaway view of a part of a kind of modification of presentation graphs 1 to 20 equipment;

Figure 22 is the view along the 22-22 line intercepting of Figure 21;

Figure 23 is the cutaway view of a part of the another kind of modification of presentation graphs 1 to 20 equipment;

Figure 24 is the cutaway view of the part of Figure 23 equipment;

Figure 25 is the plan view of a part of the equipment of Figure 24;

Figure 26 A to 28C is the plan view of working condition of the part of expression Figure 23 to 25 equipment;

The description of preferred embodiment

Referring now to Fig. 1 of the present invention, the Fryer 10 shown in the figure has 11, one front control plates 12 of a shell and a panel sub-assembling platform 13.Machine 10 has a radicle that the cable 14 of plug 15 is housed, and this plug 15 can insert in the wall power sockets 16 that is complementary.As shown in Figure 1, some French fried foods 17 are put into a cup 136 that can be received in panel sub-assembling platform 13.

Referring now to Fig. 2, the shell 11 among this figure has been removed, machine 10 comprise an epicoele 19 and one be used for the vegetable food of drying from product supply with dosing system 20 be transported to the total hybrid chamber 19 in bottom in it '.

With food storage in having a following funnel part 22 and feed box 21 by the outlet 23 of product flow adjuster 24 control.As can be seen from Figure 3, adjuster 24 can be divided into as four sections with suitable baffle plate 25, and this baffle plate 25 can rotate along the direction of arrow 26 indications, so that utilize gravity that the particulate material 27 of scheduled volume is transported to product supply pipe 28 downwards, this pipe can be flexible corrugated flexible hose.Adjuster 24 is by housing 30 " being installed on framework 29 (see figure 2)s housing 30 " has L shaped installing plate 30 (see figure 9)s of integral body, and has the suitable opening 31 that is used to receive bolt or like on the installing plate 30.Central hollow bar 211 engagements with gear motor 209 (Fig. 9) with adjuster 24 of an output shaft 210 are so that motor 209 drives bar 211 rotations.The some holes 31 of blind patch 30 ' have ', the opening that these holes are used for plate 30 is fixed to housing 30 ", be provided with this blind patch 30 ' be to lead to housing 30 in order to block ".

Product supply pipe 28 terminates at by aperture 134 (Fig. 9) and faces on the orifice plate 183 of hybrid chamber 19 ' (Fig. 3) inside.

Compression assemblies 32 (Fig. 3) is installed in the plunger shaft 19 with hybrid chamber 19 ' be communicated with.This compression assemblies 32 comprises a motor 33 (Fig. 4), and motor 33 is connected on the installing plate 34 that is installed on plunger shaft 19.The output shaft 35 of motor 33 extends out by the notch on the plate 34 184 (Fig. 9) and drives the belt pulley 36 (Fig. 4) that belt 37 is housed.Belt 37 is on the belt pulley 38 and combination with it, and belt pulley 38 is connected on the elongated shape drive screw 39 that is vertically mounted in the chamber 19.Drive screw 39 has the no threaded upper end 40 of extending by a ball bearing assembly 41, and this ball bearing assembly 41 is installed on the pillow block 52, and this pillow block is locked on the non-rotating position in the chamber 19 by pair of locking bolt 42,43.Pad 186 (Fig. 9) with the centre bore 187 that is used to receive end 40 be located at plate 34 cylindrical boss 188 in aggregates in.

The cross section in chamber 19 is preferably circular, chamber 19 ' shape (Fig. 9) of rectangle preferably, and these two chambeies are to align coaxially with vertically arranged.Therefore lower end, chamber 19 ' preferably is by the U-shaped passage of template 66 sealings of extrusion modling, and seals its tops with piston shell 19.Chamber 19 ' " U " shape channel part 19 " open-position-side (Fig. 9) wallboard 176 with opening 134 is installed with flushing owing to have accurate machined surface, can make between open-position-side and the wallboard to seal effectively.Utilize matched edges 202 and groove 203 that the upper end 200 of wallboard 176 is slidably mounted in the plate 201 respectively, the state after assembling is finished is presented among Fig. 3.Outside plate 204 (Fig. 9) has the also isolated carriage 205 that is linked to be integral body with it, and this outside plate 204 is fixed on the plate 201 by some threaded fastener 206 ' (see figure 9)s.Fig. 3 of state after finishing referring to expression assembling, wherein carriage 205 abuts against the downside of framework 29.Pin 206 is contained on the plate 204, but the spring that it preferably is installed on the plate 204 loads release pin 206, the hole 207 (Fig. 3) of the perpendicular separation in this pin and the plate 201 engages, the pin end 208 (Fig. 9) of pin 206 can be inserted in the selected hole 207, so that releasedly plate 204 is locked on the plate 201, they are vertically separated apace, so that keep in repair or other similar work.

Sleeve pipe 44 (Fig. 3) be installed in chamber 19 ' in, as shown in Figure 9, this sleeve pipe has the keyway 45 that a machining is made, and accommodates the one or more separation bolts 47 of usefulness in the keyway and is fixed on key or elongated member 46 (especially referring to Fig. 5) on the inwall of cylindrical shell 19.

Also have magnetic blocks 49 in the sleeve pipe 44, this magnetic block and one that installs along housing 19 or a plurality of sensors 50 of installing the at interval (see figure 4) that cooperatively interacts.Sensor 50 can be a part that is used to control the circuit board of machine 10 operations.Elastic O-ring 51 (Fig. 9) be installed in the chamber 19 and be in pillow block 52 and and sleeve pipe 44 upper ends of screw rod 39 engagements between.

As shown in Figure 5, sleeve pipe 44 has the external diameter main part 53 identical substantially with the internal diameter of housing 19, and the external diameter of the lower body part 54 (Fig. 3) of one-tenth integral body is then smaller than them with it.This part 54 is assemblied in the open upper end of piston rod 55, and piston rod 55 extends downwards and is connected (Fig. 4) on the piston seat 56.Piston seat 56 be installed in hybrid chamber 19 ' in, this hybrid chamber 19 ' internal diameter greater than the internal diameter in upper piston chamber 19, by wall 57 they are separated.Therefore, piston seat 56 have a top 58 of passing the opening 59 on the wall 57 and external diameter greater than top 58 and be positioned at chamber 19 ' lower part 60.Like this, piston seat 56 and bar 55 have just constituted a compression assemblies.

The bottom of lower body part 60 (Fig. 7) has a t shaped incision 61, receives the part 62 of the approximate T shape of a panel 63 in the otch 61.Panel 63 has some spaced apart protruding 64 (simultaneously referring to Fig. 8) that are suitable for matching with the hole 65 of template 66.As shown in figure 14, the side of tooth 64 can be straight or vertical, and the side in the hole angle X shown in figure of offset from perpendicular a little, as about 7 °.

Shown in Fig. 6 and 9, fluid intake 68 and chamber 19 ' inside communicate, this inlet 68 be screwed into be installed in housing 19 ' outer wall 70 on block 69 in, block 69 has an elongated shape aperture 71, the opening that it is similar to shape on the wall 70 or 72 (referring to Fig. 4) fluid communication that enters the mouth.Shown in the arrow among Fig. 6 73, water can by inlet 72 (Fig. 9) sprayed into chamber 19 ' in and contact with the mixture 27 that is used for rehydration (hereinafter will discuss) to it.Inlet 72 can be a prolate shape opening.In the groove 74 ' that O shape circle 74 can be arranged in the block 69, and between block 69 and wall 70, it is used to carry out the fluid sealing.The bolt (not shown) that block 69 can utilize some to pass hole 132 (Fig. 9) is fixed on the wall 70, and bolt enters the board 133 of the plate 176 with opening 134.

Shown in Fig. 8 and 9, flat runner 83 is installed on the plate 84.Slide plate 83 is driven by a rack pinion transmission component 75.Silicone liner 74 is installed in the top front end of slide plate 83.Template 66 is arranged on the front end of plate 84.

Shown in Fig. 7 and 9, assembly 75 comprise the motor 75 of a driven wheel 76 ', this gear 76 is installed on the L shaped housing 77, housing 77 is rotatably connected on the U-shaped support 210 that is installed on the lower house part 176 by rotational pin 78.The vertical extension 80 (Fig. 8) of housing 77 by a spring 81 make its abut against housing 19 ' outer wall 70 on.The two ends of spring 81 suitably remain on respectively housing 19 ' and the groove 130 and 131 of housing 77 in, as shown in phantom in Figure 7.Bolt 81 ' pass the center of vertical extension 80 and spring 81 and be screwed into housing 19 ' plate 176 in, shown in Fig. 7 and 9.

Elongated shape tooth bar 82 is installed on the slide plate 83.As shown in Figure 9, U-shaped plate 84 straddles on the substrate 83, by with in bolt 86 ' the be screwed into tooth bar 82 and can move groove 85 in and make tooth bar 82 be suitable for reciprocating motion in the groove 85 of plate 84.

On two sidewalls 88 of plate 84, have a pair of longilineal notch 86,87.The end 89,90 of each notch 86,87 is bent upwards (Fig. 8) respectively slightly.Shown in Fig. 8 and 9, pair of bolts 91 and 92 is passed cam follower 93,94 respectively, and is located at (see figure 9) in the notch 86,87.In the cam follower 93,94 ball bearing has been installed, bolt 91,92 is screwed on the ball bearing.

As shown in Figure 7, hereinafter the slide plate of describing 83 is positioned at the below of template 66.In Fig. 8, liner 74 ', promptly move towards direction away from template 66 towards the direction of arrow 95 indications.Air control housing 99 (Fig. 2) is used for getting rid of steam from machine 10 employed cooking oil.Shown in Figure 10 and 11, steam is discharged into exhaust entrance 98 (Figure 10) through blast pipe 135 (shown in the dotted line among Fig. 2) from cooking cavity 97 (Fig. 2).Discharge steam shown in arrow 100 is by filter 101), again through the one or more filter 103 shown in the arrow 102 of Figure 10, then by a pair of fan 104,105 (Figure 11 can certainly be provided with a fan, or two above fans).Last steam is discharged in the atmosphere such as arrow 106,107 shown in.

The bottom of blast pipe 135 (Fig. 2) is communicated with the afterbody of gastronomical process and the product of cooking will be distributed in the cup 136 (hereinafter will discuss).

Filter 101 can be mounted in medium filter in the moveable drawer, and it removes oil droplet from steam.Filter 103 (or a plurality of filter) can be a charcoal filter, also can be installed in the moveable drawer, and this filter is used for removing peculiar smell from the steam that filters before air is discharged housing 99.

97 of cooking cavities are shown in Figure 2.This cooking cavity comprises a body assembly 108 that is installed on the framework 109, and this framework is bearing in them on its housing 11 lower walls 110 by a plurality of isolated legs 111,112.Deep fryer 122 is installed in the assembly 108.With a plurality of (for example four) fried basket 113,113 ', 114,115 (have only among Fig. 2 basket 113,114,115 can be visible--see Figure 12) are installed on the disk 123, this disk is rotatably installed in deep fryer 122 inboards at member 116 places.Screwed hole 117 is opened in the lower wall 119 of pot 122, and this hole is closed by ball valve 118 usually, and it is used for draining the oil to pot.

Traditional band heater 123 ' grip outside of deep fryer 122.If necessary, can band heater 123 ' and external module 108 between heat-proof device is set.Disk 123 is installed in 116 places on its central shaft, and it provides supporting and fixing for basket 113-115.Vertical axis 125 is from sleeve 116 ' by outer cover 126.Endless belt 127 ' around disk 123, to reinforce this disk.

The top of axle 125 ends in the belt pulley 143, shown in the dotted line of Figure 12, a belt 144 that extends to motor reel 145 is arranged on the belt pulley, and motor reel drives its rotation by the motor 146 that is installed on the installing plate 109.Available suitable mode for example is connected to control panel 147 on the motor 146 with conduit 148, with the operation of control control panel 147 and the rotation of axle 145.

Be appreciated that the rotation of axle 145 can drive axle 125 by belt 144 and belt pulley 143 and rotate, thereby disk 123 is rotated, and drives basket 113 to 115 then again and rotates.

As shown in figure 12, second motor 149 also is installed on the installing plate 109, and installing plate is connected on the control panel 147 by conduit 150.Motor 149 drives roughly axle 151 rotations that extend in parallel with plate 109, and axle 151 has first extensions 152 that axle 151 extends that are basically perpendicular to of an integral body, and perpendicular to extension 152 and be basically parallel to second extension 153 of axle 151.Extension 153 ends in the U-shaped basket 154 (seeing Figure 16).

The top of each basket 113 to 115 all has collar parts 155 (Fig. 2), and collar parts 155 have one and are pivotally connected to extension support 156 on the disk 123 by pivot pin 157.Each basket 113 to 115 all has a pine to be located at the pin 158 of basket in 154 spaciously.

Food in the basket of the most close cup 136 is after completion of processing, and motor 149 rises to dotted line position or inverted position as shown in Figure 2 (seeing solid line position) with axle 151 (together with support 154) from solid line position shown in Figure 16.Motor 149 (Figure 12) is preferably by the suitable electronic equipment control that links to each other with plate 147, thereby make basket 113 remain on centre position (for example middle dotted line position among Figure 16) before making the basket upset and being poured into food in the cup 136, the cooking oil in this position cooker 122 is flowed out and is drained.Make basket 113 get back to the solid line position of dotted line position shown in Figure 2 and basket 115 shown in Figure 16 during motor 149 counter-rotating.The rotation of disk 123 drives basket 115 rotations and next empty basket is provided, as the basket 114 among Figure 12.

The electric gear motor 127 (Fig. 2) that utilization is installed on the turning cylinder 129 of sub-frame 128 can move to cup 136 on the operating position selectively.Motor 127 (Figure 13) is connected with control panel 147 (Figure 12) by conduit 159 (Figure 13), thereby can control the position that cup 136 is placed, so that filling food.

Therefore, motor 127 rotates axle 129 and spaced apart belt pulley 160,161, and belt pulley is connected on the axle 129, so that belt pulley is rotated together with the axis.One end of belt 162,163 engages with belt pulley 160,161 respectively, and its other end engages with similar belt pulley 164,165 respectively.Cup 136 is arranged on the top of belt 162,163 (see figure 2)s, when motor 127 rotates axle 129, utilizes frictional force to make belt drive the cup motion.Therefore, as shown in figure 13, when axle 129 rotated, a cup 136 just was pulled to the position (solid line position) of basket along the direction of arrow 166 indications.The cup 136 that will be filled then moves to food packing district shown in Figure 1 (the anterior dotted line position among Figure 13).

Traditional cup type dispenser that is used for automatic vending machine or similar machine is well known in the art, and it once only delivers to food packing district with a cup.

Water is delivered in the machine 10 through an inlet that leads to normally closed solenoid valve 237 (Figure 17) from any suitable water source.Water is from flowing to filter 137 by a pressure regulator 174 here then.Water has been removed hard water deposit, solid particle or pollutant after filtering through filter 137, is sent to then in the water heater 238.If necessary, can carry out preheating to the water of introducing filter 137.Water warp with heating sprays into chamber 19 ' interior (Fig. 3) with inlet 68 inlet tubes that link to each other 240 then.The water that flows out heater 238 is controlled in (normally closed) magnetic valve 237 that utilization is energized simultaneously and the acting in conjunction of (often opening) magnetic valve 141 effectively.When magnetic valve 237 was in closed condition, magnetic valve 141 was held open state so that water cavity remains under the atmospheric pressure, and no matter the effect of hot exapnsion or thermal contraction how.When magnetic valve 237 was opened, magnetic valve 141 cut out, and can not flow into discharge tube to guarantee water, and guarantee exactly the predetermined water yield to be sent into hybrid chamber 19 ' in.

Can hold suitable cooking oil sources in the casing 142 (Figure 11), this oil sources can be a demountable container, and this container is used for filling again by hand cooker 122 after a predetermined cycle of cooking.

Can adopt any suitable material.Also can use a teleswitch and hall effect sensor whole cooking in the process.Comparatively suitable by the RF300 type remote controller that the VISITECT Co., Ltd in California Fremont city produces.

Can adopt any suitable temperature, for example the water inlet temperature is about 110 °F to 140 °F, and the temperature of cooking oil is about 350 °F.

The device of available Fig. 1 to 16 is produced any required fried food, for example French chip potato.The device 10 will by feed box 21 send into chamber 19 ' dehydration graininess victual, for example the potato grain is reprocessed.It is well-known in the prior art adopting the granular potato products of dehydration.At United States Patent (USP) 3,622, describe and ask for protection a kind of such product in 355.

When water with predetermined temperature through enter the mouth 72 spray into chamber 19 after, water remains on chamber 19 ' interior and contact with the dehydration grain products in the cycle at a preset time, this time cycle is enough to make the grain products that dewaters to be processed into dough again.

Piston rod 55 among Fig. 4 is in the state that will move downward, dotted line 60 among the figure ' show a position of piston portion 60, and dotted line 60 " shows its next position.

In processing the dehydrated food process again, slide plate 83 (Fig. 7 and 8) is in the blocking position (Fig. 7) under the template 66.Therefore, piston portion 60 pushes dough 167 (Fig. 7) on slide plate 83, to form a dough pieces.As shown in Figure 8, motor 75 ' makes with tooth bar 82 (Fig. 8) meshed gears 76 and rotates, thereby tooth bar 82 is moved together with the pin 91,92 that is positioned in the groove 86,87.Rack drives slide plate 83 makes it be in the position of Fig. 8 toward swivel motion.The further motion of piston rod 55 forces piston portion 60 extrude doughs 167, make dough pass through perforate 65 on the template 66, tooth 64 enters perforate 65 (see figure 8)s and extrude dough 167, forms dough shape bar 168 when making dough pass through hole 65 on the template 66, for example potato slices.Hole 65 and hole 65 make bar 168 form given shape with the engagement of tooth 64.

Then the potato slices of extruding are put into basket 113 to 115 (Fig. 2), made it and cook oil to contact.Fried to predetermined fried state at bar, basket (for example among Fig. 2 basket 113) is raised and disengages with cooking oil in the deep fryer 122, drain oil then, make the basket upset, so that the bar that will explode is poured into from basket 113 in the cup 136 and (is utilized the rotation of belt 162 discussed above, make cup move to the operating position, as shown in Figure 2).As shown in Figure 1, cup 136 moves to panel sub-assembling platform 13, and client can take away this French fried food 17 edible then.Another cup moves on to the operating position by belt 162,163, and another basket also moves to the position among Fig. 2, to deposit another batch French fried food.

Therefore, in slide plate 83 transporting particulate material below utilizing extrusion die plate 66 and the process of water, chamber 19 ' inside be closed.Make water have time enough to infiltrate in the granular materials, to form again the isotropic body of dough making.When plate 83 is opened, and piston 60 is during with the aperture 65 of dough extrusion die 66, and the dough of food moulding and moulding falls in the cooking oil of deep fryer 122 by gravity.

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) (teflon) material can be arranged on the plate 63 of piston portion 60.That is to say, because this material is arranged, add chamber 19 ' vertically be provided with, so do not need to separate with template 66 with the food of any division mechanism again with moulding.In addition, reduce the accumulation of residual food product material, thereby reduced the number of times that need irregularly clean.

In order to carry out time-based maintenance and cleaning, piston 60 can be unloaded and not need special instrument at an easy rate by non-service technician.

Utilize an eccentric toggle clamp (not shown) can be easy to cooker 122 is separated with lid 126, so that clean.Pot 122 and lid 126 inner surface can be handled with teflon, so as more easily to remove thicken and burn after grease.

Cooking oil in pot 122 is easy to pour out and change.Therefore, as shown in Figure 2, leg 111,112nd is fixed, and support 211,212 is installed in the downside of framework 109.Traditional ball bearing slide plate 213,214 is inserted in respectively between support 211,212 and the leg 111,112.Therefore, in order to help to handle, cooker 122 can be pulled outwardly from the shell on its guide rail or the leg 111,112.Open ball valve 118, oil is drained in the proper container (not shown).In pot 122, fill fresh oil by one from pot cover 126 suitable opening (not shown).

Cooker 122 and lid 126 can be heat insulation, make chance that the attendant burns and the energy consumption that reduces device 10 with minimizing.

Utilize conduit 135 cooker 122 and air treatment system (Figure 11) closely can be coupled together,, can keep the high efficiency of air filtering system (Figure 11) simultaneously to keep the cleannes of machine 10 inside.

Air cleaner assembly is made up of some medium air filters 101 that are used to get rid of elaioleucite, and charcoal filter 103 also can be used for removing or reduces cooking stink.

In whole device 10, preferably use some hall effect sensors 50.These sensors 50 cooperatively interact so that do not need to carry out periodicity adjustment, and those special point of excitation can drift yet.The reliability of this device is very high.The temperature of the water that makes can be preestablished by the producer, so that victual rehydration under optimum temperature.The actuation duration of magnetic valve can be controlled by suitable microcontroller.The length that magnetic valve is opened the cycle can be used for determining to spray into rehydration chamber 19 ' interior water yield.Pressure regulator is used in no matter guarantee the stable water yield under the entrance pipe pressure situation how.

Slide plate 83 straddles between the sidewall 177,178 of plate 84 (Fig. 9) and is in extrusion die 66 belows.Because the surface is the action of the compression assemblies of board 63 slide plate 83 before extruding, is just return in the vegetables dough.Because the deadweight of the dough pieces of moulding makes it separate with extrusion die 66.When extrusion cycle finished, drive ram also returned to piston rod 55 to stop effectively on the position of opening 134.After victual was extruded, slide plate 83 was closed.By utilizing rack and pinion mechanism 76,82 to drive slide plate 83.Gear 76 and connector or rack member 82 engagements, and rack member is by otch 85 (Fig. 9) and the bolt 86 that engages with parts 82 ' be installed on the slide plate 83.Plate 74 with perpendicular to chamber 19 ' the rectilinear direction in hole along processing notch freely-movable on wall 86,177.Also has the structure that is used to install suitable magnet on the parts 82.Hall effect sensor is to the position of microprocessor (hereinafter will discuss) indication slide plate 83.Microprocessor in due course between to sled motor 75 ' an apply electric current.

Piston drive mechanism is as described below: piston portion 60, the piston support that is provided with on the wall in chamber 19, piston rod 55 and piston sleeve 44 be all by using pin or other securing member that they are interfixed, and these parts be can with the shared axle in chamber 19 on the non-rotatable member making straight line or move both vertically.This motion is finished by utilizing key 46 (Fig. 5), this key 46 be connected chamber 19 ' the hole on, and keyway 45 is positioned at sleeve pipe 44.Have screw thread on the inside circumference of sleeve pipe 44, so that mesh with drive screw 39.The supporting lumen 19 ' the top be installed on the bearing pillow block 52 with ball bearing assembly 41.Screw rod 39 have one extend to the part 39 of topping bar in the assembly 41 '.Being screwed into sleeve pipe 44 drive screws 39 interior and that be connected on the bearing assembly 41 can be around its axis rotation.This rotary action can make piston rod 55 along the chamber 19 axis make linear vertical motion.

Another effect of bearing pillow block 52 is to reserve an installation site to drive motor installing plate 34.Drive motor 33 is connected on motor mounting plate 34 downsides, and makes the axis of motor be parallel to the axis of drive screw 39.Utilize belt pulley 36,38 and have toothed belt 37 that motor reel 35 and drive screw 39 are coupled together.Size to rotating speed, drive pulley 36,38 and the belt 37 of motor 33 is selected, so that by required speed drive piston rod 55.

Product measuring and adjusting device 24 (see figure 9)s are regulated the product flow that enters product dispatch tube 28 from feed box 21.Disk 123 makes basket 113-115 be positioned on two ad-hoc locations in the moment of regulation at every turn around deep fryer center line half-twist.A position in two certain bits amounts is just in time below extrusion die 66, the district is extruded at product in another position, in this district, the food of cooking is taken out from cook oil, and utilize the inverting action (as indicated above) of basket that their branches are installed in the dixie cup 136.

Utilization has toothed belt and belt pulley 143 (seeing Figure 12) that the upper end of disc shaft 125 is connected on the disk drive motor 146 (Figure 12).Slide bushing 143 ' (Figure 18) can be connected the shaft portion 125 that joins with belt pulley 143 ' on so that separate, help like this cleaning with driving belt.Stop pin 243 (Figure 19) pass lining 143 ' and axle in 125 groove 250 and remain on pin 143 and groove 250 in.Adjust bolt 244 (Figure 18) with lining 143 ' be locked in shaft portion 125 ' on, relatively rotate preventing.Elasticity can extract collar 245 snap in lining 143 ' lower end 247 in interval trough 250 ' (Figure 18) and the groove 246 in the axle 125 in, with lining 143 ' be connected on the axle 125.As can be seen, take collar 244 and can make lining 143 ' separate with axle 125, simultaneously in order to clean, removable belt pulley 143 down, shaft portion 125 ', pin 243, lining 143 ' and belt 144.Motor 146 can be separated with disc shaft 125 like this, so that when cleaning and filled again cooking oil, pot 122 can be pulled out from top, operating position.

The mechanism of basket turned letter is made up of electric gear motor 149 and basket axle 151.Basket axle 151 has a nicked support 154 (Figure 16), and when making the basket location for the packing product, this support 154 engages with pin 158 on fried basket.Hall effect sensor for example can radially be installed near on the position of motor output shaft 151.Sensor detects three positions: normal position (basket is in pot), centre position (the drop oil level is put) and branch holding position.Motor 149 receives the electric current from the microprocessor that links to each other with control panel 147 at the appointed time.

Figure 15 is the flow chart of machine 10 operations.Make some hypothesis below:

1. oil is in operating temperature.

2. water is in operating temperature.

3. in feed box 21, powder is housed, for example potato product.

4. cup is full of.

5. piston rod 55 is in downward position.

6. valve 74 is in the enable possition.

7. basket all is in and cooks the position.

8. basket all is in inactive state (not upset).

9. rotating one time one basket per approximately 24 seconds can set the time, to be controlled at the process time in the oil.

Three positions as shown in figure 15: the first, i.e. Figure 15 A, system's starting, basket rotates; The second, promptly Figure 15 B enters new instruction, and extrusion begins; The 3rd, i.e. Figure 15 C, the product that exploded is poured out in first basket of upset.

In the position of Figure 15 A, basket begins to rotate, and stops in original position then.Do not detect instruction if constitute Hall element, magnet and other element of the microprocessor controller of plate 147, then do not have product and be squeezed in the basket.If instruction is arranged, then extrude beginning (seeing Figure 15 B) (the some B among Figure 15 A overlaps with some B among Figure 15 B).Position 1 refers to Figure 15 A, and at this moment basket faces the below (Fig. 8 cannot see) of extruding bar 168 in Fig. 2.

At panel sub-assembling platform (Figure 15 C), the fried food in basket 113 ' (cannot see among Fig. 2--see Figure 12) is drained and is poured in the cup 136.

Cooking oil can adopt any suitable temperature, and as 350 °F, the temperature of input water is about 140 °F.Any suitable electronic unit known in the prior art all can be used for automatically performing the step in the flow chart of Figure 15.For example, the so-called intelligent piece of being produced by Z-World Co., Ltd can be used for sending pulse signal to various motor, and at magnetic valve, when for example valve 141,171 is opened, to IO (I/O) converter output signal.Hall effect sensor is well known in the prior art, and these sensors cooperatively interact with magnet of (as mentioned above) meticulous placement in position.The signal of telecommunication that these sensors send is sent to microprocessor controller 175.Certainly, other device also can be used to control machine 10.Any powdery vegetable product can be processed again by mixing water.Yet machine 10 is specially adapted to production French fried food and suitable dehydrated potatoes goods, the goods described in people's such as Beck United States Patent (USP) 3,622,355.

Though the embodiment of Fig. 1 to 20 can work finely, their existence can make from template 63 clamp-on fried basket 113,113 ', the problem (see figure 8) that the bar 168 of the extrusion molding in 114 and 115 bonds together.Basket 113,113 ', it is in 350 deep fats that the fried food 168 under the about room temperature in 114 and 115 is placed into temperature.This temperature difference bonds together in the time of can causing bar 168 in depositing their basket in.

Therefore, as shown in figure 21, wherein identical with Fig. 1 to 20 machine part can have the anti-bonding device 301 that is attached thereto with identical numeral, machine 300.In order to carry out thermal control better, be provided with a pair of band heater 302,303, with replace a heater 123 ', with above-mentioned single heater 123 ' identical, band heater 302,303 is located at the side of pot 122.Figure 21 is the rearview of Fig. 8 device, so bar 168 has left in the basket 113,114 and basket 113,114 moves to position shown in Figure 21 like that by discussed above.

Reversible motor 309 drives and passes lining 305 and be attempted by elongated drive screw 304 rotations on the motor 309.

Be fixedly attached on the inserted link housing 307 inserted link 308 that this housing has a plurality of (for example six) extends vertically downward at the nut on the screw rod 304 306.Spaced-apart and three bars of bar 308 are one group, have two groups, so that three bars 308 vertically align with basket 113 inside, and three bars 308 vertically align with basket 114 in addition.

As mentioned below, these bars 308 are preferably stainless, so that have the temperature difference between the deep fat in bar 308 and the pot 122.Therefore, also can adopt any suitable material that causes this temperature difference and can reuse.Because stainless steel 308 has the automated cleaning effect, it also is ideal therefore making bar with it.

Shown in Figure 21 and 22, actuator arm 310 is mounted thereto to have on the housing 307 of electromagnetism contact 313, and extends to Magnetic Sensor switch 311 places that are installed in control panel 147.As shown in figure 21, the second Magnetic Sensor switch 312 is located on the plate 147 and is positioned at switch 311 belows.These switches are similar to above-mentioned switch 50, for example are to be connected on the plate 147 and the hall effect sensor of cooperating with it by suitable electronic unit.

The normal position of bar 308 is presented on the solid line of Figure 21.As above-mentioned description to Fig. 8, after bar 168 was put in the basket 113,114, basket 113,114 turned to position shown in Figure 21 (also as mentioned above).When basket 113,114 arrived these positions, motor 309 was driven, so that inserted link housing 307 moves downward (Figure 21), like this, bar 308 just reaches in the deep fat of basket 113,114 inside of pot 113, as shown in phantom in FIG..When actuator arm 310 reaches lower switches 312, cut-off switch, motor 309 reverses, and makes inserted link housing 307 get back to solid line position, and when by contact 313 cut-off switch 311, the inserted link housing stops to move upward.By utilizing suitable electronic unit and plate 147 that switch 311,312 is connected to mode on the motor 309, motor 309 is shut down at this some place.

When the deep fat in the bar 308 contact pots 122, temperature difference can cause too much bubble.This stirring and intercourse meeting disconnect the bar of not cooking 168 of any bonding.Then bar 168 is cooked the time of predesignating, again the French fried food of cooking is poured out basket 113,114 by foregoing method.

Though used the cup assembly shown in Fig. 2 and 13, also can use cup assembly 320 (Figure 21).This modification can be stored more cup 136, and these cups once have only one to fall on belt 162,163.

Therefore, the cup assembly 320 that falls comprises glass housing 321 that falls (also seeing Figure 22 and 23), this housing has the movable antetheca of a underframe 322, arc 323, movable vertical rear wall 324, vertical sidewall 325 and one by a pair of retractable member, for example is used for the roof that the mechanism of drawer type slide plate forms.Like this, upper-part 328 can receive movable lower member 327 and combination by the mode of telescopic engagement slidably.Lower member 327 have at least one extend downwards be used for flange 329 to spring 330 guiding.One end of spring 330 be connected the flange portion 331 of wall ' on, its other end be connected the flange 328 in aggregates with upper-part 328 ' on.

But utilize a retracting spring biased pin assembly 400 that the top of wall 324 is connected on the movable member 327 by support 402.Pin assemblies 400 has an interior pin so that wall 324 is locked on it of mating holes that is suitable for removably being inserted in movable member 327.A U-shaped plate 331 (also seeing Figure 26 A) can be connected on the wall 324 rotationally around pivot 332.An available knob of holding 333 is housed in the outside of wall 324.Like this, pin 401 can be from separating with the joint of support 402, and when cup uses up, and can hold that knob 333 will lean against wall 324 and plate 331 on one side partially and spring 330 retracts and stack cup on frame 322 again.Wall 324 and plate 331 are got back to the position of Figure 23 and will be sold 401 and be locked on the support 402 then.

A pair of spaced-apart elongated shape bar 334,335 can be set, for example Teflon (teflon) band along the top of frame 322.Teflon is the registration mark of E.I.Du Pont Company, and it is a kind of fluorine-containing synthetic resin of boning of being used to prevent.As shown in figure 23, can place the some groups of cups 136 that stack between plate on frame 322 331 and the curved wall 323.

Motor mounting plate 336 stretches out from frame 322, and pair of motors 337,338 is housed on this plate.Top some suitable electronic building bricks 339,340 that also can be provided with of plate 336.Shown in Figure 23 and 25, the cup assembly 341 that falls is located at the front end of frame 322, and movable wall 323 is crooked around through hole 342 peripheries.

Shown in Figure 26 A, when calibration motor 337 drove travelling gear 349 rotations, gear 349 drove ring gear 347 rotations again.Movable wall 323 is fixed on the dividing gear 347 and in Figure 26 A and is in the locked position.On frame 322, placed the cup 136 that three rows stack.Microscler guide plate arranged apart 351,352 lays respectively at a side of stacked cup, moves along frame 322 with the guiding cup.Guide plate 351,352 be can't see in Figure 23.

When cup uses up by opening 342, as hereinafter discussing, the suitable electronic unit that links to each other with motor 337 can detect this situation, and make ring gear 347 rotate (latch wall 323 simultaneously) (Figure 26 B), so open the stacked cup 136 of next row by making wall 323 move to position shown in Figure 26 B along the direction of arrow 353.Meanwhile, spring 330 and the wall 331 that engages with one group of cup 136 after leaning on most promote this several groups of cups 136 along the direction of arrow 354.Shown in Figure 26 C, one group of new stacked cup 136 falls in the opening 342, and gear 347 continues to rotate barrier 323 along the direction of arrow 355 simultaneously, makes it to return to the position of Figure 26 A.Like this, wall 323 is just kept apart remaining several groups stacked cups.

When one group of cup 136 was positioned at opening 342 places, a plurality of spaced apart cam 344 that is provided with on every side at the cup assembly 341 (Figure 25) that falls was bonded on the lip limit of the cup of foot.The cup assembly 341 that falls comprises the isolated plate 345,346 up and down with lobe plate 356, is rotatably mounted with a plurality of cams 344 on the lobe plate.Lobe plate 356 drives its rotation by connecting rod 357 (Figure 24), and connecting rod 357 is connected on the lobe plate 356 by connector 358.One end of connecting rod 357 is useful on the elongated slot 359 (Figure 25) that receives pin 360.Pin 360 fuses with the board component 361 that is connected on the motor 338 by axle 362 (Figure 24).Connecting rod 357 also links to each other with the spacing block 364 that is fixed on installing plate 336 downsides by the pin of fixing on it 363.

Said mechanism as the cup assembly that falls is known in this area, can be used for the Lisern Enterprises production and selling of cup assembly by New York Mamaroneck that fall of apparatus of the present invention.Therefore, for this device, the course of work of reply cam 344 is done comprehensively to understand.

Though this device is well-known, when stacked cup be in opening 342 places and when motor 338 along 361 pairs of the direction drive plate assemblies of arrow 364, pin 360 is mobile groove 359 in.

Therefore connecting rod 357 drives supports 358 and moves back and forth, and support rotates part cam 344 so that separate on the cup lip limit of foot, and then closes with the lip edge joint of next cup, up to nethermost cup fall and cam 344 with the lip edge joint of next cup fashionable till.Therefore, between the lip limit of cup and cam, produce screw action.In addition, above-mentioned content about the cup assembly that falls is well-known, and except the production environment that the present invention proposes, it does not constitute technology instruction of the present invention.

Above-mentioned anti-bonding device 301 be easy to by after the French fried food is finally extruded to system carry out part automatically control realize (shown in Figure 15 b).The cup assembly 320 that falls also can be contained in this system at an easy rate, sees " cup 136 falls " step among Figure 15 c.

Clearly, those skilled in the art can adopt other distortion and device to realize technology of the present invention, and protection scope of the present invention is only limited by the scope of claims.

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1. Fryer comprises:

Feed box is used for dehydrated food is transported in the hybrid chamber;

Hybrid chamber, the opening that has upper end, lower end and be communicated with described feed box;

Plunger shaft, it is installed in described hybrid chamber top, be communicated with its upper end, described plunger shaft has the reciprocating piston rod that movably is installed on it, described piston rod has top and bottom, there is piston element this lower end, and described piston rod is moving back and forth near between the second place of described hybrid chamber lower end away from the primary importance of described hybrid chamber lower end and described piston element at described piston element, the lower end of described hybrid chamber be opening and by template it is closed usually;

Described template has opening some predetermined spaces and that run through this template;

Slide plate, it is installed in described template below and reciprocating between the primary importance of closing the spaced openings that runs through described template and the second place away from described spaced openings, thereby forms passage;

Water inlet, it has slit opening, is communicated with the fluid between described opening and described template of leading in this hybrid chamber of described hybrid chamber inside; And

Deep fryer, it is installed in described slide plate below, has a basket at least in the pot.

2. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said piston element have the lower end of appearance similar of its profile and the described opening that runs through described template, and this lower end can be received in this opening.

3. machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein has four spaced apart baskets of the central axis around pot at least in described deep fryer.

4. machine as claimed in claim 1 comprises basket withdrawing device that links to each other with described basket and be used for promoting described basket in described deep fryer.

5. machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said basket of withdrawing device comprises and being used for described basket upset, so that the turning device that makes the object in the described basket can lean on gravity to pour out from described basket.

6. machine as claimed in claim 5 is included in the described machine near described deep fryer place and is used to receive cup platform from the product of cooking of described basket.

7. machine as claimed in claim 6 also comprises a glass conveying device, and it links to each other with described cup platform, is used at a time selectively a cup being transported to described.

8. machine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said cup conveying device comprise the cup device that falls that is installed in described cup platform top, the described cup device that falls be suitable for holding the stacked cup of many groups and at a time will described stacked cup in a cup drop on the described glass of platform.

9. machine as claimed in claim 8, also comprise the frame that is suitable for placing described stacked cup on it, an end of described has a cup heap retaining hole, the movable wall that has a spring to move at its other end, also comprise first mobile device, it is used to promote the movable wall that described spring moves, and makes it to abut against the stacked cup on described, and promote these cups, till top one group of cup falls into described hole.

10. machine as claimed in claim 9, also comprise a curved surface movable wall that partly centers on described hole periphery, described first mobile device is connected on the described curved surface movable wall, be used for promoting selectively described curved surface movable wall, so that when described top one group of cup is in the described hole, stop next the group cup that is positioned on described.

11. machine as claim 10, described cup conveying device comprises the movable cam that links to each other with the described hole of described encirclement perisporium, these cams are suitable for closing with the lip edge joint of the cup bottom of described cup, described top one group of cup is placed in the described hole, so that described bottom cup remains in the described hole, till described cam is disengaged from bottom a cup lip limit.

12. machine as claim 11, wherein said cup conveying device comprises the cam driving gear that links to each other with described cam, it is used for promoting selectively described cam, make in the described cup of this cam and selection the lip edge joint of a cup bottom close and be disengaged, so that cup falls from described hole.

13. machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein said cup conveying device comprises indexing means, and it is used for pushing several groups of cups of plurality of separate to described cup platform.

14. machine as claim 13, wherein said cup conveying device comprises that an one end has one group of cup receiver hole, have the shelf that a spring moves movable wall at its other end, described wall is suitable for leaning against and pushes away this group cup on the one group of cup that is positioned on the described shelf and towards described hole.

15. machine as claimed in claim 1 also comprises air eliminating and filter, it links to each other with described deep fryer, and the stink that is used to remove in the described deep fryer also filters from the gas in the pot.

16. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said feed box comprises a carrier pipe that links to each other with the described opening that leads to described hybrid chamber, also comprise the valve member that links to each other with described carrier pipe, described valve member is used for the dehydrated food of scheduled volume is delivered into the described opening that leads in the described hybrid chamber from described feed box.

17. machine as claimed in claim 1, the cross section of wherein said hybrid chamber inside is a rectangle, and the cross section of described piston element is consistent with the rectangular cross section of the inside of described hybrid chamber.

18. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fried basket is installed on the rotating disk.

19. as the machine of claim 18, wherein the central axis compartment of terrain around pot is provided with some baskets in described deep fryer, therefore, rotatable described disk once makes a basket move on to below the described slide plate selectively.

20. as the machine of claim 19, also comprise an axle that links to each other with described disc centre, and be connected described axle and be used to rotate this drive unit.

21. machine as claimed in claim 1, also comprising links to each other with described slide plate is used for making the reciprocating machine straightening device of this slide plate along rectilinear direction roughly.

22. machine as claimed in claim 1, the lower surface of wherein said piston element scribbles teflon material.

23. machine as claimed in claim 1, the longitudinal axis of wherein said piston rod and the axis of described piston element are coaxial and are vertically to arrange.

24. machine as claimed in claim 1, a ball bearing assembly that is installed in the pillow block is passed in the upper end of wherein said piston rod, described plunger shaft is surrounded the upper end of described piston rod, and fixture is passed the part of upper end that described plunger shaft surrounds described piston rod and described pillow block and engaged with described ball bearing assembly.

25. machine as claim 24, the upper end of wherein said piston rod is securely fixed on first belt pulley, second belt pulley and described first belt pulley are spaced apart, belt drives on described two belt pulleys and by belt pulley, electronic device and the engagement of described second belt pulley, rotating pulley also drives described piston rod rotation thereby be used for selectively.

26. as the machine of claim 25, also comprise a sleeve pipe that surrounds described piston rod and be connected with piston rod thread, described plunger shaft has an inwall, described sleeve pipe is keyed on the inwall of described plunger shaft.

27. machine as claimed in claim 1 also comprises the sensor device that links to each other with described sleeve pipe with described plunger shaft, sensor device is used to detect described sleeve pipe along the position on the described inwall of described plunger shaft.

28. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fried basket is installed on the rotating disk, center line around pot in described deep fryer is provided with several baskets spaced apart, also comprise and be used to drive the drive unit that described disk rotates, and sensor device links to each other with described drive unit, be used to detect the position of described disk, thereby and detect the position that is located at the basket in the described deep fryer.

29. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said isolated opening have and vertical direction inwall at angle.

30. as the machine of claim 24, wherein said inwall becomes about 7 ° of angles with vertical direction.

31. machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said piston element have the appearance similar of its profile and the described opening that passes described template and can be contained in lower end in this opening.

32. as the machine of claim 31, wherein said piston element has the corresponding to projection of several isolated and described spaced openings, described isolated projection has vertical outer peripheral wall.

33. machine as claimed in claim 1, also comprise the anti-bonding device that links to each other with described deep fryer, it is suitable for reaching selectively in the described deep fryer or leaves described deep fryer, so that after the oily heat in described pot, disconnect the food of not cooking that bonds together in the described deep fryer.

34. machine as claim 33, wherein said anti-bonding device comprises the isolated bar of several elongated shapes with lower end, and this bar movably puts in the lower end that primary importance in the described basket that is placed in the described deep fryer moves to described bar and leaves the second place that is placed on the described basket in the described deep fryer from the lower end of described bar.

35. machine as claim 34, at least comprise that one is placed in the described deep fryer and with described at least one basket isolated second basket, described anti-bonding device comprises the second group of isolated bar of some elongated shapes that separates with described first group of isolated bar of some elongated shapes, and this bar has the lower end that is suitable for protruding in described second basket.

36. as the machine of claim 34, wherein said bar is stainless.

37. as the machine of claim 35, wherein said bar is stainless.

38. the machine of a production French fried food from the former dehydrated potatoes mixture of processing again, one of them template with some spacer holes is meshed with a piston with some identical distance projectioies, force the potato mixture of processing again to pass this hole with production French fried food, its improvement comprises:

Projection has vertical outer wall, and described hole has and the corresponding to inner peripheral wall of described protruding profile, and this wall and vertical direction have an angle.

39. as the machine of claim 38, wherein said angle is approximately 7 °.

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