Fry cycle monitoring
AssigneeRestaurant Technologies, Inc.
InventorsARIES ESTRELLADO, MICHAEL J. ZWEBER, MATT JENNINGS
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Abstract
A method comprises operating one or more commercial fryers, including activating an operational event for the one or more commercial fryers by sending a current through a wire to an operational member of the commercial fryer, collecting information each time a different operational event is carried out in the commercial fryer by sensing whether the current is flowing through the wire or by sensing whether a voltage is present in the wire, and communicating the information to a database.
Claims20
A method for tracking operating data for commercial fryers comprising:
- operating one or more commercial fryers, including activating an operational event for the one or more commercial fryers by sending a current through a wire to an operational member of the commercial fryer;
- collecting information each time a different operational event is carried out in the commercial fryer by sensing whether the current is flowing through the wire or by sensing whether a voltage is present in the wire;
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- communicating the information to a database.
A commercial fryer tracking system comprising:
- one or more commercial fryers including an oil filtration mechanism and a fry cycle mechanism;
- a first sensor operatively coupled to a wire supplying current to the oil filtration mechanism, the first sensor adapted to either sense a current through the wire or a voltage present in the wire, and deliver a signal indicative of an operational event of the oil filtration mechanism;
- a second sensor operatively coupled to a wire supplying current to the fry cycle mechanism, the second sensor adapted to either sense a current through the wire or a voltage present in the wire, and deliver a signal indicative of an operational event of the fry cycle mechanism;
- at least one control box, the control box being operatively associated with the first and second sensors such that control box receives operational information of the commercial fryer;
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- a database for storing the operational information, the database being in communication with the control box such that the control box sends the operational information to the database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.