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US 5,365,831 AGranted
On-site cooking apparatus
OwnerHarvey G. Kuhlmaninventor
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A pasta cooking apparatus includes a generally rectangular cabinet including an upright cooking tank and a sauce heating chamber with a common wall, with an opening permitting water flow therebetween. The cooking water temperature and the sauce heating water are separately temperature controlled for heating thereof. A sauce chamber abuts the heating chamber and includes various sauce containers. Transfer hoses extend from the containers, through the heating chamber into nozzles located above the cooking tank. A self-contained conveyor unit within the cooking tank has an endless chain with equi-spaced pasta baskets. The cover has a top run above the tank. The baskets are pivotally mounted. The baskets are inverted in the upper run and then reset. A dish table rotates beneath the horizontal run and successive baskets drop the pasta into an aligned dish which then rotates beneath the nozzles. The unit has a 34 inch width to allow it to move through conventional doorways in small fast food restaurants. The conveyor table and pumps are driven with hydraulic motors to permit thorough cleaning of the total self-contained cooking apparatus.
A self-contained food preparing apparatus for preparing individual servings of food, comprising a cabinet structure, an elongated cooking tank in said cabinet structure and having a length which is a substantial multiple of the width of said cooking tank, means for maintaining a bath of hot cooking liquid within the tank, a loop conveyor unit mounted within said cooking tank and including a cooking run located within said cooking tank and a food interchange run connected with said cooking run and located outwardly of said bath, a plurality of individual serving size food containers coupled in spaced relation to each other to said loop conveyor unit, a container transfer unit mounted in said cabinet structure and located in inter-transfer relationship to said cooking tank to move said individual containers from said interchange run of said conveyor unit and for depositing a cooked food product into a serving dish, a fluid food additive unit mounted to said structure in laterally spaced relationship to said cooking tank and adapted to contain a plurality of additive food products, and a passageway unit coupled to said food additive unit and terminating in operative alignment with said container transfer unit for supply of additive food product to said cooked food product, and control means for operating of said apparatus to selectively and sequentially move said loop conveyor unit and thereby said containers through said cooking tank and said transfer unit for cooking the food and actuating of said additive food unit to supply the additive food to said cooked food and provide automated preparation of a cooked food product with an additive food.
Apparatus for cooking and serving individual pasta portions with different sauces, comprising
A pasta cooking apparatus for preparing and serving of individual servings, comprising a rectangular cooking tank having an open top cavity adapted to contain a body of cooking water, a self-contained conveying unit adapted to be mounted as an integrated unit directly within said tank and removed directly from said tank as said integrated unit, a lateral side extension of said tank defining a separate heating chamber with a common non-insulated wall therebetween and with restricted openings to provide for flow of the cooking water into and from said heating chamber, means for supplying of cold water to said heating chamber, powered passageway means for circulating of water between said cavity and said chamber, sauce applicating lines passing through said heating chamber and terminating in coupled relation to said conveyor unit for depositing of sauces on cooked products.
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