The Frymaster Corporation

Lewis Frank Moore

George M Price

A cooking system includes a frypot comprising heat transfer walls which are spaced to facilitate cleaning of the frypot. Each heat transfer wall comprises a lower vertically extending portion and an upper outwardly curved portion shaped to cause wastes to flow to the bottom of the frypot. A plurality of burners are provided for maintaining combustion in zones adjacent to the vertically extending portions of the heat transfer walls. This causes heated products of combustion to flow upwardly along the vertically extending and outwardly extending portions of the heat transfer walls, whereby heat transfer is effected through the walls to cooking oil in the frypot. Each burner comprises two or more orifices for discharging mutually interacting gas jets and a target for deflecting the gas jets and entrained air toward the heat transfer walls and for reflecting heat into the combustion zone and through the heat transfer walls. Baffles are provided for preventing recycling of the products of combustion into the combustion zone and for maintaining the cooking oil in the bottom of the frypot relatively cool.

Cooking system

Frying apparatus including a fry pot and rack handling means for inserting a vertical stack of frying racks into and withdrawing the frying racks from the fry pot is disclosed. The rack handling means includes a frying rack assembly and a rack support assembly movably suspended with respect to the open mouth of the fry pot. The rack support assembly includes portions defining an open channel detachably engaging the frying rack assembly and means for guiding the frying rack assembly for movement from an elevated position above the open mouth of the fry pot wherein the frying rack assembly may be inserted into the channel prior to a cooking cycle or withdrawn from the channel after completion of the cooking cycle, to an immersed position inside of the fry pot wherein food portions previously loaded onto the frying rack assembly may be fried during a cooking cycle. In a preferred embodiment, the frying rack assembly comprises an open basket frame and a plurality of frying racks stacked in vertical relation within the basket frame, and the rack support assembly comprises a pair of support arms pivotally coupled to the frying rack assembly defining a pantograph structure which stabilizes the movement of the frying rack assembly as it is inserted into or withdrawn from the fry pot.

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Shreveport, LA, United States of America

Lewis Frank Moore