| 摘要 |
<p>Coin-operated formation, cooking, and delivery of individual portions of rehydrated potato food product. Prior art devices employed raw potato pieces to form the individual portions, requiring special storage arrangements to prevent deterioration of the stored product and relatively extended cooking periods. The present invention overcomes these deficiencies by employing dehydrated food product which is easily stored, rehydrated, formed, shaped, and may be cooked in a greatly reduced time period. The apparatus includes a mechanism (22, 68, 180) for delivering an amount of dehydrated food product corresponding to the size of an individual order, a chamber (60) and system (80) for rehydrating the product, a mechanism (130, 138) for cutting rehydrated product forced (124) out of the chamber, a cooking device (26) for the severed product, and a conveyor (28) for delivering cooked product. The invention further provides a lever (80) that combines a closure for a carrier (68) of dehydrated product with a shower head (82) for furnishing water for reconstituting the product, and provides a device (140) for cooking and for conveying rehydrated product.</p> |
