Patent ID: 8464635

Claim:
A fryer comprising a housing having a tank for holding a bath of cooking oil, a conveyor system carrying food product through the bath, a drive system driving the conveyor system, a heat exchanger heating the bath, said tank having a bottom surface and left and right sidewalls extending upwardly therefrom on laterally distally opposite sides of said conveyer system therebetween, said tank having an in-feed end and a discharge end, and comprising left and right pocket cut-outs in said left and right sidewalls, respectively, said left and right pocket cut-outs being intermediate said in-feed and discharge ends, and extending laterally outwardly away from said tank, such that said left pocket cut-out extends laterally outwardly away from said left sidewall and receives a portion of said bath of cooking oil therein, and said right pocket cut-out extends laterally outwardly away from said right sidewall and receives another portion of said bath of cooking oil therein.