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US 5,289,760 AGranted
Combination food processor and fryer
OwnerGeorge Barradasinventor
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Abstract
A food fryer and processor for solid food, such as potatoes, and having a rotatable blade and a rotatable paddle for cutting the food product into segments and ejecting the segments into an adjacent perforated basket within a receptacle having hot oil therein for frying the food product. Several types of interchangeable cutter blades can be used for slicing the food product.
Claims15
A motor-driven solid food processor and fryer comprising:
- a housing, a chamber in said housing having a cutting blade, a pusher paddle in said chamber spaced from said cutting blade, a receptacle for cooking oil in said housing, a removable perforated basket in said receptacle, means for heating said cooking oil to a predetermined temperature, means communicating said chamber with said receptacle whereby food is inserted in said chamber and cut into segments, said food segments being engaged by said paddle which pushes said cut segments through said communicating means into the basket within the receptacle wherein said receptacle and basket have hot oil therein in order to fry said food segments.
A motor-driven solid food processor comprising:
- a housing, a chamber in said housing having a cutting blade, a cover for said chamber, a pusher paddle in said chamber spaced from said cutting blade, a removable receptacle in said housing laterally spaced from said chamber, an opening in a side of said cover, communicating said chamber with said receptacle whereby food is inserted in said chamber and cut into segments, said food segments being engaged by said paddle which pushes said cut segments through said opening in the cover into the laterally spaced receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.