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US 4,050,447 AGranted
Deep fat fryer heated fat supply reservoir and fat replenishment device
OwnerAndrew Terraccianoinventor
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Abstract
An auxiliary fat container near a deep fat fryer lowers to a convenient height for filling with an entire replenishment package of solidified cooking fat. A heater within the auxiliary container melts and elevates the temperature of the replenishment fat to approximately cooking temperature. A fat level sensor within the deep fat fryer meters the addition of preheated replenishment fat.
Claims4
In a deep fat fryer system, a heated fat supply reservoir and fat replenishment device comprising:
- a. a supply vessel;
- b. a deep frying vessel
- c b. means for heating the contents of said supply vessel;
- d c. means for sensing the fat level in said deep frying vessel;
- and
- e d. means responsive to said sensing means for transferring an amount of fat from said supply vessel to said deep fat fryer;
- f. said sensing means comprising an electrical signal generating means operative to generate at least two electrical signal levels responsive to fat levels;
- g. means responsive to one of said two electrical signals to raise said supply vessel;
- h. means responsive to another of said two electrical signals to lower said supply vessel;
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- i. a feed tube connecting said supply vessel and said deep fat fryer.
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