GB543772A - Improvements in and relating to doughnut frying machines - Google Patents

Abstract

543,772. Endless conveyers. LOWE CORPORATION, J. Aug. 26, 1940, No. 13461. Convention date, Oct. 7, 1939. [Class 78 (i)] [Also in Group VI] In a doughnut machine wherein the doughnuts, formed by a cutter 126 and dies 116, fall into a kettle 100 containing frying fat and are received between cross flights 110 of a conveyer extending substantially the whole length of the kettle, a single turnover device 111 arranged about mid-length of the conveyer and rotated by the flights thereon operates to turn over the doughnuts in succession, transferring each one from the space between one pair of flights into the next space in advance. Heating means for the kettle is supplied to transverse stiffening tubes 104 from which the conveyer sprockets 106, 107 are carried by brackets 135. The lower run of the conveyer is led round guide rolls 142, 144 arranged at the lowest part of the kettle. The turner 111, Fig. 8, has four blades 112 with flanges 117 to embrace the doughnut which is supported on, and tripped by a plate 131 when being turned over by a conveyer flight acting on a spring plate 132 arranged adjacent each blade. Each doughnut is drawn over and supported by a resilient plate 128 as it approached the turner. After leaving the main conveyer the doughnuts may be carried by an auxiliary conveyer 122 to a delivery shoot 125.