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US 2019/0365153 A1Published application
Conveyor belt and endless fryer system
AssigneeWilde Brands
InventorJason Wright
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Abstract
A flying system for flying a food product is disclosed having an endless conveyor system for cooking product in a bath of hot cooking oil. An upper conveyor belt of the conveyor system includes a plurality of protrusions on the surface that retains the food items with a lower conveyor belt. The protrusions may be formed by bars or rods that may be integrally formed with a fluid pervious surface forming the belt. Also, a process of cooking food items with an endless conveyor system.
Claims20
A conveyor belt comprising:
- a fluid porous structure, and
- a plurality of protrusions extending away from the fluid porous structure,
- wherein the conveyor belt forms a loop.
An endless flying system comprising:
- a reservoir for holding cooking fluid;
- and,
- a conveyor system configured to move food items through the bath in a direction of travel while the food items are cooked in the cooking fluid, the conveyor system comprising:
- a first conveyor belt, the first conveyor belt forming a loop;
- and,
- an second conveyor belt positioned to retain the food items on the second conveyor belt as the food items are moved through the bath, the second conveyor belt comprising a fluid porous structure and a plurality of protrusions extending away from the fluid porous structure towards the first conveyor belt, the second conveyor belt forming a loop.
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A process of cooking a food item in an endless flying system, the process comprising:
- continuously providing a plurality of uncooked food items at a first end of a first conveyor belt, wherein the uncooked food items are planar, when viewed from a side;
- moving the first conveyor belt with the uncooked food items through a bath of cooking fluid;
- retaining the uncooked food items on the first conveyor belt with a second conveyor belt while the first conveyor belt is being moved through the bath of cooking fluid, the second conveyor belt comprising a fluid porous structure and a plurality of protrusions extending away from the fluid porous structure towards the first conveyor belt to provide the second conveyor belt with a non-planar surface;
- and,
- recovering cooked food items at a second end of the of the first conveyor belt, wherein the cooked food items have a non-planar shape.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.