Abstract: Fryer for frying food having a removable oil containing cartridge. The fryer includes a fry basket adapted to receive the food to be fried, a vessel adapted to receive the fry basket, a bowl adapted to receive the vessel and the removable oil containing cartridge, at least one of the fry basket and the vessel being adapted to move between a first position and a second position, the first position being characterized by movement of the oil from the removable oil containing cartridge and into the fry basket and the second position being characterized by movement of the oil from the fry basket into the removable oil containing cartridge, and at least one of a biasing mechanism being arranged inside the removable oil containing cartridge, the removable oil containing cartridge having a bellows shape, and the removable oil containing cartridge being removably connected to the vessel.

Abstract: Fryer for frying food having a removable oil containing cartridge. The fryer includes a fry basket adapted to receive the food to be fried, a vessel adapted to receive the fry basket, a bowl adapted to receive the vessel and the removable oil containing cartridge, at least one of the fry basket and the vessel being adapted to move between a first position and a second position, the first position being characterized by movement of the oil from the removable oil containing cartridge and into the fry basket and the second position being characterized by movement of the oil from the fry basket into the removable oil containing cartridge, and at least one of a biasing mechanism being arranged inside the removable oil containing cartridge, the removable oil containing cartridge having a bellows shape, and the removable oil containing cartridge being removably connected to the vessel.

Abstract: Fryer for household use. The fryer includes a fry basket adapted to receive the food to be fried. A vessel is adapted to receive the fry basket. A bowl is adapted to receive the vessel and a quantity of oil. At least one of the fly basket and the vessel is adapted to move between a first position above the oil and a second position which is at least partially within the oil. A filter is adapted to be disposed inside the bowl. A biasing mechanism is adapted to be disposed within the bowl. A retaining mechanism is provided for retaining one of the fry basket and the filtering vessel in the second position.

Abstract: A flow control mechanism for use in a high speed packet switching network where calls are multiplexed on network trunks with each connection using a reserved amount of the total bandwidth. Data terminal equipments access the network via access nodes. Each access node includes a Leaky Bucket component which maintains a refillable token pool. Each time an incoming packet is received by the leaky bucket component, the number of available tokens is compared to two predetermined threshold values. If the number of tokens is less than the low threshold, acknowledgments of received packets are stopped, inducing an interruption of packets transmitted by the emitting terminals. Interrupting packet transmission will lead to a regeneration of the number of tokens in the token pool. If the number of tokens reaches the high threshold, acknowledgments are again generated to restore packet transmissions.

Abstract: A flow control mechanism for use in a high speed packet switching network where calls are multiplexed on network trunks with each connection using a reserved amount of the total bandwidth. Data terminal equipments access the network via access nodes. Each access node includes a Leaky Bucket component which maintains a refillable token pool. Each time an incoming packet is received by the leaky bucket component, the number of available tokens is compaired to two predetermined threshold values. If the number of tokens is less than the low threshold, acknowledgments of received packets are stopped, inducing an interruption of packets transmitted by the emitting terminals. Interrupting packet transmission will lead to a regeneration of the number of tokens in the token pool. If the number of tokens reaches the high threshold, acknowledgments are again generated to restore packet transmissions.

Abstract: A preventive X.25 flow control mechanism for use in a high speed packet switching network where calls are multiplexed on network trunks with each connection using a reserved amount of the total bandwidth. X.25 data terminal equipments access the network via access nodes. Each access node includes a Leaky Bucket component which maintains a refillable token pool. Each time an incoming packet is received by the leaky bucket component, the number of available tokens is compared to two predetermined threshold values. If the number of tokens is less than the low threshold, acknowledgments of received packets are stopped, inducing an interruption of packets transmitted by the emitting attached X.25 terminals. Interrupting packet transmission will lead to a regeneration of the number of tokens in the token pool. If the number of tokens reaches the high threshold, acknowledgments are again generated to restore packet transmissions.

Abstract: A flow control valve is provided having a system of cup valves (3, 4) and a mushroom valve (6) mounted on a sliding rod (8), which valves alternately close one or more passages (5) admitting fluid in a first condition and an outlet passage (7) for the fluid in a second condition. The invention is applicable, among other things, to the feeding of a frying tank with hot oil followed by discharge of the oil cooled by the heat exchange with the foods to be fried, without a significant mixing between the hot stream and the cooled stream.