Method for form-frying snack food product

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6403135
SERIAL NO

09998652

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Apparatus and method for cooking snack food pieces features a drum-type fryer which transports individual, die-cut piece preforms through hot oil contained within a cooking tank defined between the periphery of the drum and a housing in which the drum is contained. Vacuum transfer and feed rollers transfer the individual piece preforms from a die-cutting roller assembly onto the drum for cooking, and a similar roller transfers the cooked snack food pieces from the drum to a take-away conveyor for subsequent, downstream processing. The pieces are retained by suction against molding surfaces of frying mold elements distributed over the periphery of the frying drum.

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  • FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brocker, Kenneth R Plano, TX 3 45
Coppola, Patsy Anthony Bedford, MA 8 336
Dickinson, Edward L Littleton, MA 20 543
Forti, Stephen N Stoneham, MA 9 123
Goldman, Edward J Foxborough, MA 5 68
Graham, Lawrence Corinth, TX 3 45
Harvey, Andrew C Waltham, MA 62 1527
Joseph, Ponnattu Kurian Irving, TX 32 176
McNeel, Todd Charles Flower Mound, TX 6 82
Taylor, Malcolm E Pepperell, MA 20 1469
Terrazzano, Richard F Salem, NH 8 246

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