CN218484380U

CN218484380U - Front oil drainage device and fryer equipment comprising same

Info

Publication number: CN218484380U
Application number: CN202222722733.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 沈辉; 王伦
Original assignee: Henny Penny Corp
Current assignee: Henny Penny Corp
Priority date: 2022-10-17
Filing date: 2022-10-17
Publication date: 2023-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 2032-10-17

Abstract

The utility model discloses a front oil drainage device (7) for fryer equipment. The front oil drain device (7) includes: a front drain hose (73), the front drain hose (73) fluidly connected to a drain outlet (53) of a manifold (5) of the fryer apparatus, an oil inlet (51) of the manifold (5) for fluidly connecting to a drain pan (3) of the fryer apparatus; a front oil drain valve (72), the front oil drain valve (72) being provided at the front oil drain hose (73); a handle (76), the handle (76) is connected to the front oil drain valve (72) and is used for controlling the opening and closing of the front oil drain valve (72); wherein when the front oil drain valve (72) is opened, the front oil drain hose (73) is opened to drain the oil in the drain pan (3) through the front oil drain hose (73). A fryer apparatus including the front drain is also provided. The utility model discloses make the user can discharge waste oil safely, clean, friendly and high-efficiently.

Description

Front oil drainage device and fryer equipment comprising same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil technical field especially relates to a deep fryer of oil extraction before can.

Background

In general, the general procedure for waste oil treatment in fryers is: manually discharging the lower oil discharge disc; placing a waste oil barrel in the position of the oil discharge disc; after the waste oil is cooled, an oil drain valve on the oil drain tank is opened, and the waste oil is drained into the barrel; finally, the barrel is manually taken out, and the oil drain pan is installed back on the fryer. This treatment solution is cheaper and has a smaller footprint, but it is neither safe nor efficient.

Henny Penny has provided an oil waste treatment system (ODS) for deep fryer that can replace the waste vat to collect and automatically pump the waste oil into the recovery vat, eliminating the manual steps of lifting and dumping the waste vat, and is more labor-saving and safer, but the oil treatment system is costly and has a large storage space, limiting the use of users.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

According to an aspect of the utility model, a front oil discharging device for deep fryer equipment is provided to solve the problem that above-mentioned prior art exists, make the user can discharge waste oil safely, clean, friendly and high-efficiently.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a following scheme:

a front oil drain for a fryer assembly comprising: a front drain hose fluidly connected to a drain outlet of a manifold of a fryer apparatus, an oil inlet of the manifold for fluidly connecting to a drain pan of the fryer apparatus; a front oil drain valve disposed at the front oil drain hose; a handle connected to the front oil drain valve for controlling opening and closing of the front oil drain valve; wherein when the front oil drain valve is opened, the front oil drain hose is opened to drain the oil in the oil drain pan through the front oil drain hose.

Optionally, the front oil discharge device further comprises a waste oil tank for receiving oil discharged from the front oil discharge hose.

Optionally, a quick coupling is provided at an outlet of the front oil drain hose.

Optionally, the entrance of waste oil barrel is provided with another quick-operation joint, quick-operation joint can with another quick-operation joint cooperation is connected, in order to incite somebody to action front oil discharge hose connects to waste oil barrel.

Optionally, the oil inlet of the manifold is fluidly connected to the drain pan via a pump of the fryer apparatus, and the at least one oil outlet of the manifold is for connection to a fryer pot of the fryer apparatus.

Optionally, the front oil discharge device further comprises an disable switch, and the disable switch is used for controlling the pump to be turned on and off.

Optionally, the front oil drain valve is provided at an inlet end of the front oil drain hose connected to the oil drain port.

Optionally, the front oil drain valve is connected to the oil drain port by an elbow joint.

Optionally, the front oil drain device further comprises a bracket for supporting the front oil drain hose.

According to the utility model discloses a further aspect provides a deep fryer equipment, including fryer, oil drain pan, pump, manifold, oil return pipeline and control panel, fryer with oil drain pan fluidly communicates, the pump will oil pump in the oil drain pan is sent the oil inlet of manifold, at least one oil-out of manifold passes through oil return pipeline is connected to fryer, control panel is used for control deep fryer equipment's operation, deep fryer equipment still includes as above preceding oil discharging device.

The utility model discloses for prior art gain following technological effect:

the utility model provides a front oil discharge function allows the user to be connected to front oil discharge hose from the preceding oil drain port on passing through the manifold with the waste oil in the fryer, and then directly discharges away waste oil through front oil discharging device. The whole waste oil discharging process is safe, clean, user-friendly and efficient.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a fryer apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the oil draining principle of the fryer apparatus according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a perspective view of the front oil drain device of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a side view of the front oil drain device of the present invention;

wherein: 1-fryer, 2-oil drain pipeline, 21-oil drain pipe, 22-oil drain valve, 3-oil drain basin, 4-pump, 5-manifold, 51-oil inlet, 52-oil outlet, 53-oil drain port, 6-oil return pipeline, 61-oil return pipe, 62-oil return valve, 7-front oil drain device, 71-elbow joint, 72-front oil drain valve, 73-front oil drain hose, 74-quick joint, 75-bracket and 76-handle.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the present invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.

As shown in fig. 1-4: the present embodiments provide a fryer apparatus. The fryer apparatus includes a fryer pot 1, an oil drain pan 3, a pump 4, a manifold 5, an oil drain line 2, an oil return line 6, and a front oil drain 7. Wherein fryer 1 is connected to drain pan 3 via drain line 2, so that oil in fryer 1 can flow into drain pan 3. Drain pan 3 communicates to an inlet of pump 4, an outlet of pump 4 communicates to an oil inlet 51 of manifold 5, and one or more oil outlets 52 of manifold 5 communicates to fryer pot 1 via return line 6 to enable oil to flow back into fryer pot 1 via return line 6 under the action of pump 4. The manifold 5 is also provided with an oil discharge port 53, and the front oil drain 7 is connected to the oil discharge port 53 for discharging the waste oil.

The oil drain line 2 includes one or more oil drain pipes 21, and each oil drain pipe 21 is provided with an oil drain valve 22. The number of oil drain pipes 21 is the same as that of fryer pots 1 so that oil drain pipes 21 correspond to fryer pots 1 one to one.

The pump 4 is driven by a motor (not shown) which is electrically connected to a disable switch. And pressing the disable switch, driving the pump 4 to work by the motor, and pumping the waste oil into a waste oil barrel through the front oil discharge device 7 until the discharge is completed. Then the disabling switch is released, and the motor is stopped, thereby improving the use safety.

The return line 6 comprises one or more return pipes 61, each return pipe 61 being provided with a return valve 62. The number of return pipes 61 is the same as the number of fryer pots 1 so that return pipes 61 correspond to fryer pots 1 one-to-one.

As shown in fig. 3-4, the front oil discharging device 7 includes a front oil discharging hose 73, an inlet end of the front oil discharging hose 73 is connected to the oil discharging port 53 of the manifold 5, an outlet of the front oil discharging hose 73 is used for being connected to the waste oil tank, and a front oil discharging valve 72 is communicated in the front oil discharging hose 73.

A front oil drain valve 72 is connected at an inlet end of the front oil drain hose 73, and the front oil drain valve 72 is connected to the oil drain port 53 through an elbow joint 71. The front oil drain valve 72 is provided with a handle 76, and the handle 76 is used for controlling the opening and closing of the front oil drain valve 72. The distal end of the handle 76 may be an L-shaped rod for manual control. When the handle 76 is turned to the horizontal position (i.e., the L-shaped rod is in the horizontal plane), the front oil discharge valve 72 is opened, and waste oil discharge can be performed; handle 76 is rotated to the vertical position (i.e., the L-shaped rod is in the vertical plane) and front oil drain valve 72 is closed.

The outlet of the front oil discharge hose 73 is connected to a quick coupling 74, which is a male quick coupling or a female quick coupling, by which it can be quickly connected to a female quick coupling or a male quick coupling on the waste oil bucket.

The front drain 7 may also include a bracket 75, the bracket 75 being fixed to the fryer pot frame, the bracket 75 being used to hang the front drain hose 73. Further preferably, the bracket 75 may be an L-shaped angle iron welded to the fryer pot frame. It is further preferred that the stand 75 be secured to the fryer at any other location that facilitates access to the front drain hose 73.

All valves in this embodiment may be ball valves or any other suitable valves.

The process of waste oil treatment using the fryer with front oil discharge in this embodiment is as follows:

quickly connecting a male/female quick connector at the outlet of the front oil discharge hose to a female/male quick connector of a special waste oil barrel; rotating the handle to a horizontal position, and opening the front oil drain valve; long-time pressing of the disable switch starts the pump, and waste oil begins to be discharged to the special waste oil barrel; the pump will stop when the disable switch is released. In addition, after the waste oil is discharged, the handle is restored to the vertical position, the male/female quick connector at the outlet of the front oil discharge hose is pulled out, some oil possibly remains in the front oil discharge hose, a basin or a cup can be placed below the male/female quick connector, and meanwhile, the connection between the front oil discharge hose and the waste oil barrel is disconnected.

It should be noted that, the present embodiment is only an optimization improvement of the hardware structure of the fryer capable of draining oil forward, and does not optimize and improve the control panel and its circuit in the fryer.

The principle and the implementation mode of the present invention are explained by applying specific examples in the present specification, and the above descriptions of the examples are only used to help understanding the method and the core idea of the present invention; meanwhile, for the general technical personnel in the field, according to the idea of the present invention, there are changes in the concrete implementation and the application scope. In summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation of the present invention.

Claims

1. Front oil drain (7) for a fryer installation, characterised in that said front oil drain (7) comprises:

a front oil drain hose (73), said front oil drain hose (73) fluidly connected to an oil drain port (53) of a manifold (5) of a fryer apparatus, an oil inlet port (51) of said manifold (5) for fluidly connecting to a drain pan (3) of said fryer apparatus;

a front oil drain valve (72), the front oil drain valve (72) being provided at the front oil drain hose (73);

a handle (76), the handle (76) being connected to the front oil drain valve (72) for controlling the opening and closing of the front oil drain valve (72);

wherein the front oil discharge hose (73) is opened to discharge the oil in the oil drain pan (3) through the front oil discharge hose (73) when the front oil discharge valve (72) is opened.

2. Front oil drain (7) according to claim 1, characterized in that: the front oil drain further includes a waste oil tank for receiving oil discharged from the front oil drain hose (73).

3. Front oil drain (7) according to claim 2, characterized in that a quick coupling (74) is provided at the outlet of the front oil drain hose (73).

4. Front oil drain device (7) according to claim 3, characterized in that a further quick coupling is provided at the inlet of the waste oil bucket, said quick coupling (74) being fittingly connectable with said further quick coupling for connecting the front oil drain hose (73) to the waste oil bucket.

5. Front oil drain arrangement (7) according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that an oil inlet (51) of the manifold (5) is fluidly connected to the drain pan (3) via a pump (4) of the fryer apparatus, at least one oil outlet (52) of the manifold (5) being for connection to a fryer pot (1) of the fryer apparatus.

6. Front oil drain (7) according to claim 5, characterized in that: the front oil discharge device (7) further comprises an incapability switch which is used for controlling the opening and closing of the pump (4).

7. Front oil drain (7) according to claim 1, characterized in that the front oil drain valve (72) is provided at the inlet end of the front oil drain hose (73) connected to the oil drain port (53).

8. Front oil drainage device (7) according to claim 7, characterized in that: the front oil drain valve (72) is connected to the oil drain port (53) through an elbow joint (71).

9. Front oil drain (7) according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the front oil drain (7) further comprises a bracket (75) for supporting the front oil drain hose (73).

10. Fryer installation comprising a fryer (1), an oil drain line (2), an oil drain pan (3), a pump (4), a manifold (5), an oil return line (6) and a control panel, said fryer (1) being in fluid communication with said oil drain pan (3) through said oil drain line (2), said pump (4) pumping the oil in said oil drain pan (3) to an oil inlet (51) of said manifold (5), at least one oil outlet (52) of said manifold (5) being connected to said fryer (1) through said oil return line (6), said control panel being intended to control the operation of said fryer installation, characterized in that it further comprises a front oil drain (7) according to any one of claims 1 to 9.