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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward M Anderson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
99403 ; 99407 ; 99409 ; 99341 ; 99342 ; 40613 ;
Abstract
A combination food cooking and advertising machine has a deep fat fryer, mechanical food manipulators in the fryer for dispensing, flipping and removing the food product, and motionless advertising signs which are mechanically connected to and are given motion by operation of the food manipulators. This sign has a slip-on bracket, and sign plates and drive arm that can be driven by the food cooker. A method of operation and a method of converting an existing fryer into the cooking and advertising machine are provided. The method and apparatus are particularly useful in miniature donut making and selling.