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US 12,653,343 B2Granted
Convection deep fat fryer
AssigneeThe Frymaster Corporation
InventorsJan Claesson, Daryl G. Erbs, Douglas S. Jones
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Abstract
A deep fat fryer with a vat containing cooking oil for frying food including an integrated circulating pump housing below the oil level connected to a separate heat exchanger wherein the cooking oil is circulated from the cooking vat through the heat exchanger then back into the cooking vat. Circulating pump motor, pump inlet, and pump impeller assembly is mounted with the pump motor above the cooking oil level and the pump assembly is removable from the cooking vat and pump housing without the need to remove the oil from the cooking vat.
Claims11
A fryer comprising:
- a vat that is fillable with oil up to a predetermined oil level;
- a pump having a pump motor and a pump shaft that is rotated by the pump motor, the pump motor being positioned above the predetermined oil level and the pump shaft being connected to an impeller positioned below the predetermined oil level,
- wherein the impeller is positioned between an upper impeller housing and a lower impeller housing, wherein the lower impeller housing is connected to a pump mounting surface on a lower face of the pump mounting surface and the upper impeller housing is connected to the pump mounting surface on an upper face of the pump mounting surface, and wherein the pump mounting surface is connected to the vat so that the upper face of the pump mounting surface is inside the vat and the lower face of the pump mounting surface is on an exterior of the vat.
A fryer comprising:
- a vat that is fillable with oil up to a predetermined oil level;
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- a pump having a pump motor and a pump shaft that is rotated by the pump motor, the pump motor being positioned above the predetermined oil level and the pump shaft being connected to an impeller positioned below the predetermined oil level,
- wherein the pump shaft connects to a heat dissipating component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.