MULTIPLE FACILITIES FOR ASSEMBLING COOKING AND DISPENSING FOOD-PRODUCTS

• US 3,673,948 A
• Filed: 01/25/1968
• Issued: 07/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles Jere Albright
• Original Assignee: Charles Jere Albright
• Inventors: Albright, Charles Jere
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilhite, Billy J.
• Application Number:
  US04/700,608
• Time in Patent Office: 1,622 Days
• Field of Search: 99/352,356,373,443,355,391,392,393,394,396,399,402,407 107/1.6,1.65 214/6K 126/41
• US Class Current: 99/355
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/06 Roasters; Grills; Sandwich grills

Abstract

The essential concept of this invention involves one or two facilities each comprising a pair of superimposed, relativelyshiftable elements and each facility being structured to have positioned thereon an ordered arrangement of portioned foodproducts subject to their being transferred, in the same ordered arrangement, onto an under-positioned support as a result of the relative shifting of the respective pair of elements; the facilities being adapted for use individually or collectively to position an ordered-arrangement of food-serving components on the under-positioned support and subsequently having the same ordered-arrangement of portioned cooked food-products superimposed on the previously-arranged food-serving components on the under-positioned support.

Claims

1. Food preparing apparatus for use with a broiler and for simultaneously stripping a plurality of meat patties off their grill and onto their respective, prepositioned bun halves, said apparatus comprising;

a grill on which said patties are positioned in rows for broiling, a stripper frame having a number of parallel blades extending thereacross and between said rows of patties, said grill slidable beneath and relative to said blades, said frame adapted to be positioned over a bun pan having bun halves prepositioned thereon, one half beneath each patty, whereby said grill can be slid relative to said frame and thereby cause said patties to abut against their respective blades and be pushed off said grill due to grill movement and onto their respective bun halves.

2. A food processing facility for use in dispensing food products comprising, a frame, a first supporting element having the food products thereon in horizontal rows and in spaced relationship, the first supporting element being shiftable relative to said frame, a plurality of horizontal elements on the frame and positioned above the first supporting element, the horizontal elements being between the horizontal rows of the food products, a second separate supporting element placed under the frame, whereby upon shifting of the first supporting element relative to the frame the horizontal rows of the food products are deposited onto the second supporting element in the horizontal rows and in substantially the same spaced relationship

3. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the frame has side members supporting the same, the horizontal elements being mounted on the side members in spaced relationship to each other.

4. The facility as set forth in claim 3 wherein the side members have intermediate supports upon which the first supporting element is slidably mounted.

5. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the first supporting element is slidably supported on the frame.

6. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the first supporting element comprises a series of parallel wires within a wire frame.

7. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the frame and the first supporting element with the food products thereon support the food products while the frame is inserted into a cooking facility and the cooked food products are transferred to the second supporting element.

8. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the second supporting element is adapted to receive a series of food supporting elements thereon placed in the same spaced relationship as the food products on the first supporting element, the food products being deposited onto the food supporting elements when shifting the first supporting element relative to the frame.

9. The facility as set forth in claim 8 wherein the series of food supporting elements are bread products.

10. The facility as set forth in claim 2 wherein the frame has side members supporting the same, the horizontal elements being mounted on the side members in spaced relationship, the first supporting element comprising a series of parallel wires within a wire frame and slidably supported on the frame.