Merchandisers with central heating and control mechanisms and methods for manufacturing and reconfiguring such merchandisers

    公开(公告)号:US06627855B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-30

    申请号:US09901132

    申请日:2001-07-10

    IPC分类号: A21B126

    摘要: A merchandiser for displaying food products and holding such food products at a controlled temperature has a well divided into three or more well sections, wherein each of the well sections receives a serving tray and wherein the serving trays collectively have a center line. A rear access door, a pair of side plates, and a transparent front plate, together with the well, define a food product holding cavity. A pair of supporting brackets position a merchandiser heating and control device above the well. The merchandiser heating and control device has a heating compartment, which positions three or more heating elements and three or more illuminating elements substantially above the center line of the serving trays, wherein the heating compartment includes three or more circulating fans for circulating heated air from the heating compartment into the holding cavity. The merchandiser heating and control device also has a retaining bracket for receiving an upper edge of the rear access door and has an enclosed guide surface. Further, the merchandiser heating and control device has a control compartment positioned above the retaining bracket and containing control elements for controlling heating elements and illuminating elements and having a rear control panel, wherein the control compartment includes a cooling fan for cooling the control elements and a plurality of vents formed in the control panel for drawing cooling air into the control compartment from outside the holding cavity and for exhausting heated air outside the holding cavity. Moreover, the merchandiser heating and control device has a securing bracket for mounting an upper edge of the transparent front plate. Methods for manufacturing such merchandisers permit them to be readily reconfigured during manufacture or at a customer site.

    Merchandisers with central heating and control mechanisms and methods for manufacturing and reconfiguring such merchandisers
    3.
    发明授权
    Merchandisers with central heating and control mechanisms and methods for manufacturing and reconfiguring such merchandisers 有权
    具有中央供暖和控制机制的商人以及用于制造和重新配置这种商品的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06259065B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-10

    申请号:US09560135

    申请日:2000-04-28

    IPC分类号: A21B126

    摘要: A merchandiser for displaying food products and holding such food products at a controlled temperature has a well divided into three or more well sections, wherein each of the well sections receives a serving tray and wherein the serving trays collectively have a center line. A rear access door, a pair of side plates, and a transparent front plate, together with the well, define a food product holding cavity. A pair of supporting brackets position a merchandiser heating and control device above the well. The merchandiser heating and control device has a heating compartment, which positions three or more heating elements and three or more illuminating elements substantially above the center line of the serving trays, wherein the heating compartment includes three or more circulating fans for circulating heated air from the heating compartment into the holding cavity. The merchandiser heating and control device also has a retaining bracket for receiving an upper edge of the rear access door and has an enclosed guide surface. Further, the merchandiser heating and control device has a control compartment positioned above the retaining bracket and containing control elements for controlling heating elements and illuminating elements and having a rear control panel, wherein the control compartment includes a cooling fan for cooling the control elements and a plurality of vents formed in the control panel for drawing cooling air into the control compartment from outside the holding cavity and for exhausting heated air outside the holding cavity. Moreover, the merchandiser heating and control device has a securing bracket for mounting an upper edge of the transparent front plate. Methods for manufacturing such merchandisers permit them to be readily reconfigured during manufacture or at a customer site.

    摘要翻译: 用于在受控温度下展示食品并且保持这种食品的商品广告商被分为三个或更多个井段,其中每个井段都接收一个托盘,其中该托盘共同具有中心线。 一个后检修门,一对侧板和一个透明的前板与井一起限定一个食品容纳腔。 一对支撑支架将商品采暖和控制装置定位在井上。 商品采暖控制装置具有加热室,该加热室将三个或更多个加热元件和三个或更多个照明元件定位在基本上在服务托盘的中心线上方,其中加热室包括三个或更多个循环风扇,用于将来自 加热室进入保持腔。 商品采暖控制装置还具有用于接收后通道门的上边缘并具有封闭的引导表面的固定支架。 另外,商品采暖控制装置具有位于保持支架上方的控制室,并且包含用于控制加热元件和照明元件的控制元件,并具有后控制面板,其中控制室包括用于冷却控制元件的冷却风扇和 多个通风口形成在控制面板中,用于将冷却空气从保持腔的外部抽吸到控制室中,并且用于将加热的空气排出到保持腔外部。 此外,商品采暖控制装置具有用于安装透明前板的上边缘的固定支架。 制造这种商品的方法允许它们在制造期间或在客户现场容易地重新配置。

    Pasta cooker
    4.
    发明授权
    Pasta cooker 失效
    意大利面炊具

    公开(公告)号:US5609093A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-11

    申请号:US494038

    申请日:1995-06-26

    摘要: A pasta cooker which includes an open water tank shaped to receive pasta for cooking, a heater for boiling water in the tank, a trough positioned to receive and collect starch foam from an upper surface of the water in tank, and a drain for draining water from the trough and tank, the drain including a screen box for filtering pasta particles and starch foam from drained water to prevent clogging of drains downstream of the screen box. The trough is coextensive with a front upper edge of the water tank, and the cooker includes a water fill valve which is actuatable to fill the tank such that a small amount of water continuously washes over from the tank into the trough during the cooking of pasta, thereby conveying starch foam floating on the upper surface of the water of the tank to the trough. The screen box includes a removable drawer having perforated sides and positioned to receive the water and starch foam drained from the trough and tank. The drawer is positioned within a housing shaped to collect water flowing through the drawer, and to receive water which overflows from the drawer in the event that the drawer becomes completely clogged. The screen box includes a downwardly and rearwardly sloping floor to direct drained water toward a rear opening connected to a conventional drain pipe. The pasta cooker preferably includes a second tank, also draining into a screen box, for washing cooked pasta. The second tank also includes a flexible spray nozzle for cleaning both tanks and washing cooked pasta.

    摘要翻译: 一种意大利面炊具,其包括形状为接收用于烹饪的面食的开放水箱,用于在罐中开水的加热器,定位成从罐中的水的上表面接收和收集淀粉泡沫的槽,以及用于排水的排水 从槽和槽中排出的排水口包括用于从排水中过滤面食颗粒和淀粉泡沫的筛箱,以防止筛网下游排水管堵塞。 槽与水箱的前上边缘共同延伸,并且炊具包括一个充水阀,该充水阀可致动以填充罐,使得少量的水在面食的烹饪过程中从罐连续地洗涤到槽中 从而将淀粉泡沫输送到槽的水的上表面上。 筛箱包括具有穿孔侧面的定位的接收从槽和槽排出的水和淀粉泡沫的可移除抽屉。 抽屉定位在成形为收集流过抽屉的水的壳体中,并且在抽屉完全堵塞的情况下接收从抽屉溢出的水。 筛箱包括向下和向后倾斜的地板,以将排出的水引导到连接到常规排水管的后开口。 面食锅最好包括一个第二个罐,也排放到一个屏幕盒中,用于洗涤熟的面食。 第二个罐还包括一个柔性喷嘴,用于清洁两个罐和洗涤熟的面食。

    Screen box for a pasta cooker
    5.
    发明授权
    Screen box for a pasta cooker 失效
    面食炊具的屏幕盒

    公开(公告)号:US5452648A

    公开(公告)日:1995-09-26

    申请号:US140242

    申请日:1993-10-21

    摘要: A pasta cooker which includes an open water tank shaped to receive pasta for cooking, a heater for boiling water in the tank, a trough positioned to receive and collect starch foam from an upper surface of the water in tank, and a drain for draining water from the trough and tank, the drain including a screen box for filtering pasta particles and starch foam from drained water to prevent clogging of drains downstream of the screen box. The trough is coextensive with a front upper edge of the water tank, and the cooker includes a water fill valve which is actuatable to fill the tank such that a small amount of water continuously washes over from the tank into the trough during the cooking of pasta, thereby conveying starch foam floating on the upper surface of the water of the tank to the trough. The screen box includes a removable drawer having perforated sides and positioned to receive the water and starch foam drained the from the trough and tank. The drawer is positioned within a housing shaped to collect water flowing through the drawer, and to receive water which overflows from the drawer in the event that the drawer becomes completely clogged. The screen box includes a downwardly and rearwardly sloping floor to direct drained water toward a rear opening connected to a conventional drain pipe. The pasta cooker preferably includes a second tank, also draining into a screen box, for washing cooked pasta. The second tank also includes a flexible spray nozzle for cleaning both tanks and washing cooked pasta.

    摘要翻译: 一种意大利面炊具,其包括形状为接收用于烹饪的面食的开放水箱,用于在罐中开水的加热器,定位成从罐中的水的上表面接收和收集淀粉泡沫的槽,以及用于排水的排水 从槽和槽中排出的排水口包括用于从排水中过滤面食颗粒和淀粉泡沫的筛箱,以防止筛网下游排水管堵塞。 槽与水箱的前上边缘共同延伸,并且炊具包括一个充水阀,该充水阀可致动以填充罐,使得少量的水在面食的烹饪过程中从罐连续地洗涤到槽中 从而将淀粉泡沫输送到槽的水的上表面上。 筛箱包括具有穿孔侧面的可移除抽屉,并且定位成接收从槽和罐排出的水和淀粉泡沫。 抽屉定位在成形为收集流过抽屉的水的壳体中,并且在抽屉完全堵塞的情况下接收从抽屉溢出的水。 筛箱包括向下和向后倾斜的地板,以将排出的水引导到连接到常规排水管的后开口。 面食锅最好包括一个第二个罐,也排放到一个屏幕盒中,用于洗涤熟的面食。 第二个罐还包括一个柔性喷嘴,用于清洁两个罐和洗涤熟的面食。