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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1992
Yasuhiro Shimizu, Isehara, JP;
Toshin Technical Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A compact food frying machine having a vertically-oriented U-shaped pan for holding a heated liquid, an endless belt for carrying food items, multiple guiding elements spaced along the length of the belt, each including a number of parallel slats spaced adjacent to each other along the width of the belt, a feeding position, and an unloading position directly above the feeding position, and a guide member projecting and sloping up from the unloading position into the region where the guiding elements pass by, for allowing the slats of the guiding elements to pass through the guide member in an intermeshing relationship but retaining and guiding the food item to the unloading position after the food item has been carried through the heated liquid by the endless belt.