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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2022
Henny Penny Corporation, Eaton, OH (US);
Kimberly Reichelderfer, Yellow Springs, OH (US);
Thomas M. Smith, Lewisburg, OH (US);
Adrian Jason Pereira, Dayton, OH (US);
Michael Maddux, Kettering, OH (US);
Henny Penny Corporation, Eaton, OH (US);
Abstract
An automated cooking system for adding time and labor efficiencies has a fryer including a plurality of fryer vats, heating elements, and a vertical transport assembly associated with each of the fryer vats. The vertical transport assembly is configured to support and move a basket of food product into and out of the cooking medium at the fryer vat, and optionally also with reciprocating shaking movements as well. The vertical transport assembly includes a lift base, a platform support hanger, and a basket support platform. The basket support platform includes a tray-shaped platform portion defined by a wire rack construction that circumferentially surrounds a bottom portion of the basket to retain the basket, the platform portion having an angled entry taper to correct any misalignments of the basket and the basket support platform as a gantry moves the basket onto the basket support platform.