Recot Inc.

Kenneth R Brocker

Andrew Cecil Harvey

Malcolm E Taylor

Ponnattu Kurian Joseph

Edward Dickinson

Richard Terrazzano

Patsy Coppola

Stephen N Forti

Lawrence Alan Graham

Todd Charles McNeel

Edward Joseph Goldman

Apparatus and method for cooking snack food pieces features a drum-type fryer which transports individual, die-cut piece preforms through hot oil contained within a cooking tank defined between the periphery of the drum and a housing in which the drum is contained. Vacuum transfer and feed rollers transfer the individual piece preforms from a die-cutting roller assembly onto the drum for cooking, and a similar roller transfers the cooked snack food pieces from the drum to a take-away conveyor for subsequent, downstream processing. The pieces are retained by suction against molding surfaces of frying mold elements distributed over the periphery of the frying drum.

Apparatus for form-frying snack food product

Method for form-frying snack food product

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Plano, TX, United States of America

Kenneth R Brocker