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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2001
Paloma Industries, Limited, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a valve opening/closing device for a fryer, in which the operation of opening/closing the oil discharge valve is easy, and with which it is possible to recognize with one glance whether it is in an open state or a closed state. In the valve opening/closing device ( ), by opening and closing an oil discharge valve ( ) placed in an oil discharge pipe ( ), which extends from the bottom of an oil vat containing cooking oil, the oil discharge pipe opens and closes. The valve opening/closing device is provided with a long bar-shaped fixed link portion ( ), which is fixed at one end to the oil discharge valve and which extends substantially perpendicular to the rotating shaft of the oil discharge valve; a first short bar-shaped rotating link portion ( ) fixed at one end to the rotating shaft; a second rotating link portion ( ) that is of a similar length to the first rotating link portion and disposed parallel thereto, and that is rotatably attached at one end to the other end of the fixed link portion; a long bar-shaped coupling link portion ( ) rotatably fixed at both ends to the other ends of the first and second rotating link portions; and a rotating lever ( ) fixed to the other end of the second link portion and extending therefrom.