Cooking oil storage and filtration system

• US 10,376,101 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2013
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sal Coco
• Original Assignee: Sal Coco
• Inventors: Coco, Sal
• Primary Examiner(s): Popovics, Robert J
• Application Number:
  US13/745,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20130193044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,398 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/1223 with means for filtering the frying liquid

Abstract

A system for pumping cooking oil from a filtration device or cooking oil reservoir to a storage tank or back into the cooking oil reservoir. The system can also be used to pump oil from the storage tank to a disposal location. The system can include a pump used to pump oil from one location to another. The system can include a housing for containing the pump and/or the storage tank. The system can include a fresh oil storage tank.

Claims

1. A system for pumping and storing cooking oil in a kitchen from one or both of a cooking oil reservoir and a filtration device, the system comprising:

a housing defining an internal storage volume;

a storage tank mounted within the housing;

a pump mounted on a surface of the housing;

a pump interface mounted on a top surface of the housing and a side surface of the housing, the pump interface having a top portion and a side portion;

a first control valve located on one of the top portion of the pump interface, the side portion of the pump interface, and an outer surface of the housing and adapted to transition between a first orientation and a second orientation;

at least one intake hose opening connected to the pump, the at least one intake hose opening located on one of the top portion of the pump interface, the side portion of the pump interface, and an outer surface of the housing that intakes oil from one of the cooking oil reservoir and the filtration device;

at least one outlet hose opening connected to the pump, the at least one outlet hose opening located on one of the top portion of the pump interface, the side portion of the pump interface, and an outer surface of the housing that outputs oil away from the pump; and

a pump actuator located on one of the top portion of the pump interface, the side portion of the pump interface, and an outer surface of the housing, the pump actuator transferable from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the pump is powered on when the pump actuator is in the first configuration and the pump is powered off when the pump actuator is in the second configuration;

wherein the pump pumps cooking oil from one of the cooking oil reservoir and the filtration device back to the cooking oil reservoir when the first control valve is in the first orientation and the pump actuator is in the first configuration and wherein the pump pumps cooking oil from one of the cooking oil reservoir and the filtration device to the storage tank when the first control valve is in the second orientation and the pump actuator is in the first configuration.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a cooking oil compartment mounted on the outside of or on the inside of the housing;

a second control valve mounted on one of the top portion of the pump interface, the side portion of the pump interface, and an outer surface of the housing that transitions from a first setting to a second setting;

wherein the pump pumps oil from the cooking oil compartment to one of the storage tank and the cooking oil reservoir when the second control valve is set to the first setting and the pump actuator is in the first configuration and wherein the pump pumps cooking oil from one of the cooking oil reservoir and the filtration device to one of the storage tank and the cooking oil reservoir when the second control valve is set to the second setting and the pump actuator is in the first configuration.