Automatic scullery system
OwnerWilton Richardinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for automatically processing carrying trays having used culinary items and refuse thereon whereby desired operations, such as collection and cleaning of reusable culinary items (e.g. knives, forks and spoons), separation and disposal of waste, and cleaning of the trays can be effected without need for operating personnel. In preferred systems the apparatus automatically stacks the cleaned trays and sorts and collects the cleaned reusable culinary items by type so that the trays and the culinary items are readily available for reuse.
Claims15
Automatic scullery apparatus which comprises:
- conveyor means for conveying carrying trays having thereon, inter alia, magnetically responsive culinary items;
- means for selectively magnetically removing magnetically responsive culinary items from trays on said conveyor means while leaving nonmagnetically responsive residual contents on said trays;
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- means for collecting and cleansing the removed culinary items.
Automatic scullery apparatus which comprises:
- means for conveying carrying trays having culinary items and refuse thereon;
- means for magnetically engaging tray-carried magnetically responsive culinary items and removing said items from the conveyed carrying trays so that said items are selectively removed from the conveyed carrying trays and the refuse remaining thereon;
- means for disengaging the magnetically engaged culinary items;
- means for collecting and washing the disengaged culinary items;
- means for removing from the carrying trays the refuse remaining thereon;
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- means for cleaning the carrying trays.
Automatic scullery apparatus which comprises:
- conveyor means for conveying carrying trays having thereon, inter alia, table silverware having magnetically responsive end portions;
- means for magnetically engaging said magnetically responsive end portions and removing said silverware from trays on said conveyor means;
- means for collecting, washing and drying said removed silverware;
- means for classifying said washed and dried silverware according to like articles and isolating said classified articles each from the other;
- means for collecting and dispensing said isolated articles;
- means for removing refuse remaining on the carrying trays after the removal of said table silverware therefrom;
- means for collecting, comminuting and flushing refuse removed from the trays;
- means for washing and drying the trays;
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- means for collecting and dispensing the washed and dried trays.
Automatic scullery apparatus which comprises:
- conveyor means for conveying carrying trays having thereon, inter alia, table silverware having magnetically responsive end portions;
- means for magnetically engaging said magnetically responsive end portions and removing said silverware from trays on said conveyor means;
- means for classifying said removed silverware according to like articles and isolating said classified articles each from the other;
- means for collecting, washing and drying said isolated articles;
- means for collecting and dispensing said dried isolated articles;
- means for removing refuse remaining on the carrying trays after the removal of said table silverware therefrom;
- means for collecting, comminuting and flushing refuse removed from the trays;
- means for washing and drying the trays;
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- means for collecting and dispensing the washed and dried trays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.