US 12,440,065 B2
Automatic oil filtering fryer
Andy Sul, Hawaiian Gardens, CA (US); and Dabin Sul, Alhambra, CA (US)
Filed by Andy Sul, Hawaiian Gardens, CA (US); and Dabin Sul, Alhambra, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,323.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0044879 (KR), filed on Apr. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0320528 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A47J 37/12 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 37/1223 (2013.01) [A47J 37/1266 (2013.01); A47J 37/1285 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic oil filtering fryer comprising:
a frying oil container 103 that is filled with oil O0 and that an ingredient is to be contained into;
a heating unit 105 installed inside the frying oil container 103 and heating the oil O0;
an oil filtering container 107 located below the frying oil container 103 and receiving the oil O0 that is discharged from the frying oil container an oil discharging pipe 109;
the oil discharging pipe 109 transferring the oil O0 discharged from the frying oil container 103 into the oil filtering container 107;
a filtering device 111 that is installed inside the oil filtering container 107 and configured to include a filtering mesh 111m and a frame 111f that surrounds an edge of the filtering mesh 111m to filter first debris contained in the oil O0, thereby forming a first filtered oil O1;
a filtering paper 113 that is installed inside the oil filtering container 107 and filters second debris contained in the first filtered oil O1, thereby forming second filtered oil O2; and
an oil supplying pipe 115 transferring the second filtered oil O2 discharged from the oil filtering container 107 into the frying oil container 103,
wherein the automatic oil filtering fryer further comprises an oil supplying pump 117 that is installed inside the oil supplying pipe 115 and that pumps to raise the second filtered oil O2 upward from the oil filtering container 107 and supplies the second filtered oil O2 into the oil filtering container 107 through the oil supplying pipe 115,
wherein the oil supplying pump 117 includes:
a motor 117m providing rotational power;
a shaft 117s one end of which is connected to the motor 117m and rotates according to rotation of the motor 117m;
a circular plate 117p connected to the other end of the shaft 117s and rotating according to rotation of the shaft 117s; and
a plurality of blades 117b coupled onto the circular plate 117p,
wherein the circular plate 117p has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and
wherein the shaft 117s is connected to the first surface of the circular plate 117p, and the plurality of blades 117b are fixedly coupled to the second surface of the circular plate 117p.