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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2010
Terry Tae-il Chung, Bartlett, IL (US);
Loren Veltrop, Chicago, IL (US);
Wieslaw Tomczyk, Wheeling, IL (US);
Donald Van Erden, Grayslake, IL (US);
Jack Guasta, Glendale Heights, IL (US);
Terry Tae-Il Chung, Bartlett, IL (US);
Loren Veltrop, Chicago, IL (US);
Wieslaw Tomczyk, Wheeling, IL (US);
Donald Van Erden, Grayslake, IL (US);
Jack Guasta, Glendale Heights, IL (US);
Restaurant Technology, Inc., Oak Brook, IL (US);
Abstract
A food product steamer includes rotatable platforms that can be covered and uncovered by one or more rotatable, concave hoods. In a first position for the platform(s), the platform(s) supports a food product over a steam-emitting opening above a steam generator. In a first position for the hood, the hood covers the food product such that steam from the steam generator is trapped within the hood to steam the food product. In a second, open position, the hood is rotated where it can receive the food product when the food product slides or falls off the platform as the platform is rotated from its first position to a second, elevated position. At least one embodiment enables food products to be removed from either side of the steam generating base by using a double-acting hinge.