Patent ID: 7770515

Claim:
A deep fryer apparatus comprising a fryer vessel, the fryer vessel comprising side walls and a bottom, an electric heating element extending substantially horizontally in the fryer vessel for direct contact with frying oil, and an outlet opening in the bottom of the fryer vessel for draining off at least used frying oil, at least a portion of the bottom adjacent the outlet opening having, in at least one vertical plane, a funnel-shape which narrows toward the outlet opening, a collection vessel having side walls, a bottom, a top and an inlet opening communicating with a space above a predetermined flying oil level in the collection vessel which predetermined level is lower than the outlet opening of the fryer vessel, a filter in communication with the outlet opening of the fryer vessel and removably disposed therebeneath so as to receive and filter frying oil drained therefrom, and a conduit communicating between a downstream side of the filter and the collection vessel.