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US 10,881,121 B2Granted
Cooking-conveying-batching apparatus
OwnerFusheng Suinventor
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Abstract
A cooking-conveying-batching apparatus for automatic cooking and food production. It uses the principle of rotation to cook, convey and formulate batching. Cooking containers are rotated by a curved bevel track that lowers the cooking containers into a heat source cooker. At the end of the cooking process the cooking containers are raised and rotate to deposit the cooked food into conveying containers. The conveying containers rotate towards a batching container that deposits ingredients into the food-containing conveying containers.
Claims20
A system, configured for cooked food production, comprising:
- a food main container, configured to hold a food product;
- a conveyor belt for transferring the food product away from the food main container;
- at least one cooking container having operably connected thereto a lifting rod with a spring, a cooking container connecting rod, and a cooking container shaft, wherein the conveyor belt transfers the food product to the cooking container;
- a cooking container drive shaft to which the cooking container connecting rod is operably connected;
- a rotation motor operably connected to the cooking container drive shaft by a cooking container drive belt that rotates the cooking container drive shaft and the cooking containers attached thereto;
- a curved bevel track in which the lifting rod and spring, on the at least one cooking container, engage to lower the cooking container as it advances along the curved bevel track and wherein the spring raises the cooking container as the lifting rod approaches an end of the curved bevel track;
- at least one heat source cooker, configured to cook the food product, into which the at least one cooking container is lowered as it advances along the curved track,
- wherein the cooking container can be rotated on the curved bevel track so that the food product therein is lowered closer to the heat source cooker and subsequently raised away from the heat source cooker when finished cooking;
- at least one conveying container, configured to receive the cooked food product from the cooking container, having operably connected thereto a conveying container connecting rod that contacts an operably positioned cooking container lever so as to cause the cooking container to deposit the cooked food product into the conveying container;
- a conveying container power belt that rotatably connects the conveying container connecting rod to the rotation motor to rotate the conveying container connecting rod and the conveying containers attached thereto;
- at least one batch container, configured to contain a batch formulation, comprising a batching release switch that opens a batching release port to release a pre-determined amount of the batch formulation and a release port spring that closes the batching release port;
- a batching container rotating shaft with a batching release lever that operably contacts the batching release switch;
- a batching container power belt that connects the batching container rotating shaft to the rotation motor to rotate the batching container rotating shaft and the batching release lever thereon so as to open the batching release switch to release the pre-determined amount of batch formulation into the conveying container containing the cooked food.
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