US 12,232,650 B2
Fry basket
Rich Bauer, Palatine, IL (US); and Mark Gartz, Osseo, MN (US)
Assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed by Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/509,634.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/104,619, filed on Oct. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0125245 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 37/12 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/1295 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A basket for deep frying food items, the basket comprising:
a bottom;
opposed side walls that extend from the bottom and angle outwards from the bottom;
opposed end walls that extend from the bottom and extend between the opposed side walls, the opposed side walls and the opposed end walls forming a top opening into an open interior defined by the opposed side walls, the opposed end walls, and the bottom;
a plurality of dividers extending upwards from the bottom between the opposed end walls, the plurality of dividers defining a plurality of lanes, each lane having an equal cross-sectional area in a lateral dimension;
wherein each divider of the plurality of dividers comprises a frame comprising end bars and comprising at least a top crossbar and a bottom crossbar extending between the end bars and a plurality of divider rails secured to the outsides of the frame between the top crossbar and the bottom crossbar in divider rail pairs secured to matching positions on opposite sides of the frame.