Abstract: An apparatus for raising and lowering cooking baskets in a commercial deep-fat fryers which includes a basket support carried by a lift assembly which is vertically reciprocated along a guide track by a timed lift mechanism.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a base unit, a rotatable shaft extending vertically from the base unit, a means for rotating the shaft, and a rotatable cylindrical basket capable of holding fried foods. The basket comprises an horizontally disposed circular bottom piece and a vertically disposed cylindrical piece of porous material being attached at its lower open end to the outer edge of the circular bottom piece to form the vertical wall of the basket. The basket is vertically connectible to and removable from the rotatable shaft. The apparatus further comprises a means for coupling the rotatable shaft to the rotatable basket so that the axis of the shaft is aligned with the axis of the basket. The apparatus also comprises a solid vertical wall surrounding the porous vertical wall of the rotatable basket. The solid vertical wall has an annular channel on the inside of its lower edge so that it has a substantially J-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A filtering system for deep fat fryers includes a filter tub for receiving contaminated oil from fat frying vats, a primary filtering means mounted in a covering relationship to bottom wall of said tub, and a fine filter cannister to effect removal of contaminated particles down to at least 1/10 of a micron in size from said oils.