Food cooking apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6281478
SERIAL NO

09757899

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Food cooking apparatus having a two conveyor belts, one of which is heated by a platen to provide a moving cooking surface. Since both belts are movable, they are operable to grip a bun heel or crown and convey it along a cooking path between the two belts without disfigurement of the bun. Also disclosed is a quick connect/disconnect feature that allows quick removal of one of the assemblies for cleaning, maintenance and/or belt replacement. This feature has a bracket member which when released allows the removable assembly to slidable disengage from the frame of the apparatus. The food cooking apparatus includes an electrical heating platen with a coil wound in a serpentine manner and spatially distributed to produce high temperature cooking in the early stage of cooking and lower temperature cooking in the later stages of cooking. The food cooking apparatus also includes a mechanism that responds to manual pushing of the idler roller to shift the idler shaft between a drive position and a belt slack position that allows easy and quick installation or removal of the endless belt.

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RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGY INC2111 MCDONALD'S DRIVE OAK BROOK IL 60523

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chandler, Neal Shreveport, LA 4 62
Lackman, Lamont Keithville, LA 3 46

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