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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1978
Filed:
May. 03, 1976
Cecil R Cunningham, Altus, OK (US);
Other;
Abstract
A cooking oil cleaner and filter system for deep fat fryers which includes a fryer well for containing either cooking oil to be used in frying, and a cooking oil filtration and recirculation assembly connected to the well. The cooking oil filtration and recirculation assembly is substantially cylindrically shaped and includes a filter housing having a cylindrical outer surface connected to and longitudinally aligned with a pump housing also having a cylindrical outer surface and an aligned pump drive motor mounted on the pump housing. A suitable filter medium is disposed within a filter cavity in the filter housing with a foraminous partition extending across the filter cavity intermediate the filter medium and the pump housing. A gear pump is located in the pump housing and is drivingly secured to the pump drive motor output shaft, with the inlet port of the gear pump communicating with the filter cavity and with the outlet port communicating by means of a suitable conduit with the well. Another conduit communicates between the filter cavity and the opposite end of the well. In operation, the gear pump draws cooking oil from the well through the filter medium in the filter housing and pumps clean, filtered cooking oil from the pump housing through the connecting conduit to the opposite end of the well. The cooking oil filtration and recirculation assembly can be quickly and easily removed from the well and disassembled for cleaning or renewing the filter, and also for maintaining and servicing the gear pump.