US 12,471,736 B2Granted

Rotisserie turkey deep fryer

AssigneeNational Presto Industries, Inc.

InventorsJames A. Hedrington, Michael R. Berge

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Abstract

A deep fryer and related methods of frying a whole turkey in a reduced cooking oil volume. A frying basin can have a rounded profile avoiding dead spaces within the frying basin. The frying basin can include a recessed channel at a bottommost portion of the frying basin to accommodate a heating element, such that the heating element does not project above a floor of the frying basin. The deep fryer can have a rotisserie assembly for mounting and rotating the whole turkey such that only a lower half of the whole turkey is submerged within the cooking oil at any one time. The deep fryer can include a kick-stand feature that allows a user to lower and raise the rotisserie assembly including the whole turkey using only one hand such that a user need not lean over or otherwise put their hands or body above the frying basin.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method of deep frying a food item, the method comprising:

attaching the food item to a removable spit assembly, the removable spit assembly including a front mounting assembly, at least one spit member having a first end and a second end distal to the first end, and a rear mounting assembly comprising a rear spit plate, the front mounting assembly being located at the first end of the at least one spit member and the rear mounting assembly being located at the second end of the at least one spit member;
positioning the rear mounting assembly to reside on a control assembly fixedly mounted to a fryer body whereby the front mounting assembly is elevated entirely above the fryer body, the at least one spit member positioned such that a center point of the rear spit plate remains below an upper edge of the fryer body;
and
lowering the front mounting assembly while the rear mounting assembly remains on the fryer body such that at least a portion of the food item is lowered into cooking oil contained within the fryer body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/085,655Filed 30 Oct 2020 · division
Priority: 17 Mar 2017
Published: US 2021/0106176 A115 Apr 2021
Granted: 18 Nov 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A47J 37/1219
Deep fat fryers, e.g. for frying fish or chips: with means for lowering or raising the frying basket
A23L 5/11
General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying: using oil
A23L 13/50
Meat products; Meat meal; Preparation or treatment thereof: poultry products, e.g. poultry sausages
A47J 37/041
Roasting apparatus with movably-mounted food supports or with movable heating implements; Spits: with food supports rotating about a horizontal axis

Family

Application62/473,001Us provisional application · filed 17 Mar 2017
Application15/923,578Parent of this division · filed 16 Mar 2018
US 2021/0106176 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 Apr 2021
US 10,849,460 B2Parent of this division
US 2018/0263418 A1Published application
US 12,471,736 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.