Automatic food product loading system
OwnerLon Lehmaninventor
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Abstract
A food loading system provides the ability to stage a volume of food in a freezer or cooler that keeps food product safely stored until the product is ready to be transferred to a cooking unit. The food loading system is configured to deliver the food product directly from storage to a loading mechanism for a cooking unit or directly to a cooking unit. The food loading system includes a control panel that accepts operator inputs for transfer of food from storage, or the food loading system may be connected wirelessly or by wire to one or more Point-Of-Sale (POS) devices, such as tablets, cash registers, and the like, and the food loading system uses the input from the POS devices to transfer food automatically from storage to a cooking unit input or directly to a cooking unit.
Claims20
A food product loading system, comprising:
- a columnar loader unit including a plurality of load slots formed by a plurality of walls, each wall of the plurality of walls positioned a spaced distance from at least one other wall of the plurality of walls;
- wherein
- the columnar loader unit is configured to be positioned in a first orientation to permit a food product to be loaded into at least one of the plurality of load slots, and the columnar loader unit is movable through an angle from the first orientation to a second orientation to transfer food product approximately simultaneously from the plurality of load slots into a plurality of cooking slots.
A food heating device configured to heat a food product, comprising:
- a plurality of vertically oriented cooking slots arranged to be positioned side-by-side, with at least one heating surface positioned between two adjacent vertically oriented cooking slots;
- and
- a food product loading system including a columnar loader unit including a plurality of load slots formed by a plurality of walls, each wall positioned a spaced distance from at least one other wall, the columnar loader unit configured to be positioned in a first orientation to load food product into the plurality of load slots, and the columnar loader unit being positioned in a second orientation at an angle to the first orientation to permit the approximately simultaneous transfer of food product from the plurality of load slots into the at least two vertically oriented cooking slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.