Patent ID: 6865983

Claim:
A frying apparatus for frying a food product, the apparatus comprising; a container for holding a liquid cooking medium and having an entry side and an exit side; at least one conveying device for conveying food product from the entry side through the container to the exit side; at least one submerging device movable between an out-of-use mode in which it is in a raised position and an in-use mode in which it is in a lowered position operative to hold the food product down on the conveyor belt; and a food product transferring device for transferring the product from a first conveying device in a first section of the container to a second conveying device in a second section of the container, the food product transferring device including a rotatable shaft having a plurality of vanes fixedly mounted thereon, the vanes being adapted for receiving food product emerging from the first conveying device and transferring said food product to the second conveying device by rotation of the transferring device such that product emerging from the first conveying device is received onto a vane and carried through an arcuate path until the product falls from the vane onto the second conveying device, the food product transferring device being moveable between two alternative positions, a first position in which the product is flipped upside down through a 180° angle as the product is transferred from one section to another section; and a second position in which the product is conveyed from one section to another section without being flipped through a 180° angle.