Abstract: The invention relates to a new process for the quick cooking of foods such as pasta, rice, legumes and the like, and the automatic machine to carry it out.The process comprises three phases, namely pre-cooking, cooking and final cooking starting with overheated water. The process and the machine allow reduction of cooking time, improving efficiency of cooking level, avoiding excess of water hardness, reducing power consumption, avoiding or reducing scales, simplifying the machine and extending its life, having different types of heating, according to the local availability, and keeping comfortable the surrounding room where the machine has been installed.

Abstract: A multi-frypot, deep fat frying assembly is formed by operatively interconnecting a filtered, multiple frypot cooking module with one or more nonfiltered, multiple frypot cooking modules, each module having headered cooking fluid supply and drain piping systems disposed within its outer housing. To form the ganged frypot assembly, the module housings, with appropriate side panels removed, are placed in a side-by-side orientation and the adjacent headered piping systems are connected to one another to form in the assembly common supply and drain headers. The filtered module is provided with a roll-out, self-contained filter unit which may be moved into and out of the filtered module housing directly beneath its frypots, the filter unit having a cooking fluid receiving container which carries a filter pump that may be quick-connected to the supply header.

Abstract: The invention involves a method for measuring the temperature in a heating system of the type having an electrically heated hot plate with a filled cooking vessel on it and a radiation pick-up located at varying distances from the side of the vessel and pointed at it which emits a signal indicating the temperature of the substance in the vessel based upon radiation from an area on the side of the vessel as detected by the radiation measurement field of the radiation pick-up, the radiation intensity of which decreases as a square of increasing distance. To compensate for the effect on measurements of spurious radiation form the changing position of the vessel on the hot plate, the invention involves adjusting the angle of a non-intersecting radiation measurement field to obtain corresponding reduction in the area of radiation detetion on the vesel for increasing distances between vessel and radiation pick-up.

Abstract: A two piece aspirator is constructed to be fitted within a fitting such that an annular clearance is provided between the bore that has two supply inlets and a depending cylindrical section of the aspirator body. A venturi cap member is snap fitted onto the aspirator body and has an outer periphery axially spaced from the end of the cylindrical section to provide an annular opening thereabout which is in communication with a passage through the aspirator body. The venturi or cap has a radial section which spans most of the interior of the cylindrical section and has a frusto-conical section which is complementary to a tapered end of the cylindrical section to provide for a radially extending section of the passageway leading to the annular opening.

Abstract: A nursing bottle with removable pacifier includes a nursing bottle with a cap removably mounted on the upper end thereof. The cap secures a first valve assembly in place on the nursing bottle which is operable between open and closed conditions, to allow or prevent the flow of liquid from the bottle. A pacifier portion is selectively locked onto the first valve assembly. The pacifier has its own valve assembly therein which corresponds with the first valve assembly such that both valves are placed in an open condition when the pacifier is locked on the first valve assembly. The first and second valves are also cooperable such that removal of the pacifier from the first valve assembly will close both valves, such that liquid will be prevented from flowing out of the nursing bottle, and such that air will be prevented from passing through the pacifier into the nipple on the pacifier.

Abstract: The combination plaster guard and mounting bracket (10) has a mounting bracket section (12) which is mounted to a mixing valve fitting (18). A tubular protective member (14) is connected to the mounting section via frangible tabs (24). The tubular member (14) is sized to receive and protect the mixing valve (16) during installation of the valve and construction of the surrounding wall. During certain installations, it is desirable for removal of the tubular member from the mounting section. The removal can be accomplished by rotation of the tubular member so that frangible tabs (24) break to release the tubular member from the bracket section (12).

Abstract: An apparatus for discharging a moving fluid stream into a spa tank or the like for subjecting a user's body to the massaging action of the stream, the apparatus having a substantially rigid guide means mounted to the housing of the device which reciprocates between two positions in response to the movement of the fluid stream.

Abstract: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for mixing solids that are difficult to mix. The apparatus includes means for providing a slurry of the solid to be mixed to the inlet side of a centrifugal recirculating pump.

Abstract: Machine for the automatic production of meat and/or vegetable kebabs threaded onto skewers.The object of the invention relates to the sector involving the shaping or treatment of food products.According to this addition, the arrangements taking the skewers (20) are made up of a plurality of tubes (38) corresponding to the perforations of the container lid, the said tubes (38) being fixed at one end into holes made out in the thickness of a coupling plate (38b) making up a guiding and positioning assembly for the said skewers.

Abstract: A portable cooking apparatus has a pair of longitudinally elongated stanchions, a spit rod support and a motor support bracket for supporting a drive motor with its power output shaft aligned with the spit rod. A mounting bracket connects the first spit rod support member and the motor support bracket and provides freedom of movement of the motor support bracket with respect to the spit rod support member about pitch and yaw axes which serve to permit the motor support bracket to move with respect to its associated stantion to be aligned with the power output shaft of the motor and the spit rod in use.

Abstract: Closure assembly includes a lid carrier or base having a hinged lid. The top wall of the lid carrier has a sealing means surrounded by a downward alignment sleeve. The assembly is especially useful with high-speed automatic container-capping machinery, because the sleeve cooperates with the cylindrical upright neck or spout on a container to see that the closure assembly is not cocked prior to sealing and that the top of the spout makes square contact with the sealing means to assure a good seal. The sleeve is interrupted on the opposite side of the carrier from the hinge so that it does not interfere with action of a latch depending from the lid. The spout itself forms a stop for the latch so that it will not be overextended and break when it is pressed in unlatching.

Abstract: There is disclosed a food handling device especially adapted for handling sliced food products, such as pizza pies or the like, which consists of a base support means forming a food support surface, food gripping means positioned above and substantially parallel to the base support means, and flexible means interconnecting the food gripping means with the base support means. The flexible means is formed of a relatively resilient material in order to permit the food gripping means to be reciprocable toward the base support means. In the preferred embodiment, the base support means, food gripping means and flexible means are integrally formed thereby to provide a food handling device which is unitary in construction.

Abstract: A divider for dividing a space, such as the interior of suitcases, drawers and the like, into individual smaller compartments of various dimensions. The divider includes a main divider of a fixed length, which divides the space into halves. A front and a rear sub-divider co-operate with the main divider for further dividing the halves into smaller compartments. Extension members co-operate with the main divider and the front sub-divider to alter their fixed lengths.

Abstract: Electric household appliance (1) which combines toasting of bread (A) and cooking or heating of dishes (B) by an appliance (1) which comprises separate elongated compartments (2, 3) extending in parallel relation respectively for toasting (2) and cooking (3), each of these compartments being provided with its own heater (15, 16). The appliance (1) is provided with bearings (4a, 4b; 5a, 5b) for tilting the compartments (2, 3) into positions located substantially at right angles to each other and corresponding to their normal respective operating positions. Utilization for toasting and for cooking all food products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable trolley barbecue, which is built up to form a trolley barbecue with some table plates provided for allocation of certain articles thereon, and which is collapsed to become a portable configuration for carriage and storage. By way of two lateral curved frames arranged at both sides by slip joint to lock up the base of the oven at the time the component parts been arranged inside the base. The two curved frames are pushed outward to provide a respective handle for hands to push and pull, and for a table plate to place thereon. Four pieces of stands are collapsibly arranged at the four corners of the base of the oven, with one pair of the stands respectively connected with a wheel. A cover plate provided to cover the base of the oven at the time the oven is collapsed, is separated from the oven and connected with the four stands by releasable joints to provide a place below the base of the trolley barbecue for certain articles to arrange thereon.

Abstract: A cooking grid system comprises a cover holder and a replaceable cover which can be fitted to the holder and substantially secured by a pivotal retainer. The holder comprising a grid and a pivotal retainer. The grid comprises a plurality of elongated rectangular shaped bars being aligned parallel to one another on an equal plane, spaced equally apart and supported by two elongated rectangular shaped crossbars. The retainer comprises a plurality of relatively thin elongated bars having uniform circular cross sections throughout their lengths. They are aligned parallel to one another on an equal plane, spaced equally apart and held in place by two crossbars located perpendicular to and at the ends of said retainer bars and are made of the same stock as said retainer bars. The retainer being supported at its back end by fitting the rear retainer crossbar in notches provided at the back end of a portion of the grid bars and being secured in the notches by two small spring wire retainers.

Abstract: A continuous digesting apparatus for digesting a high viscous material such as a raw material for bean curd (for example, a Japanese food "tofu") or various kinds of soups. According to the digesting apparatus of the present invention, the digesting chamber is divided into a plurality of compartments by a plurality of partition plates each having a notch and therefore the raw material in each compartment can be sufficiently mixed and uniformly digested by the injected steam and the following raw material fed from the upstream compartment through the notch of the partition plate. This makes it possible the raw material to be uniformly heated and mixed. In addition, the partition plates can prevent the formation of bubbles of active ingredients such as protein included in the raw material and the discharge of the active ingredient from the discharging pipe.

Abstract: A constant temperature fryer assembly having a conveyor for cooking food in oil at a predetermined constant temperature. The fryer is constructed having an external heat exchanger for heating the oil. Oil is removed from the fryer, pumped through the heat exchanger and then pumped back into the fryer through a series of aperatures. The aperatures are positioned in the fryer to provide predetermined temperature at various positions along the conveyor, thereby maintaining a controlled cooking environment.

Abstract: An enriching device consisting of a container which comprises a removable tightly fitting metal body the sparingly volatile material being present in a coiled groove. During operation of this device transverse flows and shortcuts, respectively, of the carrier gas flow occur. To assure that the carrier gas flows through the material without having an escape possibility, the groove (5) is made either in an outer wall of the metal body (8) or in the bottom (4) of the container (1), and the parts (6) present between the individual turns of the groove have a cutting edge, i.e. a cross-sectional profile in the form of a wedge, the tip of which is in contact either with the smooth inner wall of the container (1) or with the smooth lower side of the metal body (8). The device is suitable for adjusting a defined mass flow of sparingly volatile materials which are used as starting compounds for chemical deposition from the gaseous phase.

Abstract: An extension is provided for a compacting device of the type adapted to be inserted into a container and having a plurality of compacting plates adapted to press loose material into the container and engage the compacting device to prevent expansion of the compacted material. The extension is adapted to sit on the upper end of the compacting device and extends above the container to hold excess loose material prior to compaction by the compacting plates. Smooth guide rods are provided on the inner surface of the extension for guiding the compacting plates into engagement with aligned threaded rods in the compacting device.