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US 6,305,270 B1Granted
Electric fryer with an elevating mechanism
OwnerDonglei Wanginventor
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Abstract
An electric fryer with an elevating mechanism, includes a housing, a top cover, a fryer body, heating elements, a food basket assembly, a temperature controller, a cutout fuse and a timer. The electric fryer also includes an elevating mechanism. It is capable of lifting or lowering the food basket automatically, thus realizing the automation of the frying process.
Claims2
An electric fryer comprising:
- housing having an open end with a top cover thereon, a fryer body suspended within the housing and containing oil therein, and a food basket assembly operatively disposed within the fryer body;
- an elevating mechanism is disposed within the housing at one side thereof and moves a food basket of the food basket assembly into and out from the oil contained within the fryer body, a timer is disposed within the housing and is operatively connected with the elevating mechanism, and heating elements are positioned at a bottom of the fryer body;
- wherein said elevating mechanism is composed of a hoisting sheave, a cam, limit switches and an electromotor, wherein the cam and the hoisting sheave are sequentially secured on a spindle of the electromotor, which is fixed in the housing, and a limit switch is symmetrically arranged at either side of the spindle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.