Patent Application
20080173188
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a hot dog cooker, more particularly, to a compact hot dog cooker which is able to heat more sausages at the same time in a relatively small volume.
2. Description of the Prior Art
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Such hot dog maker has some drawbacks. The electric heating rollers 92 must be placed side by side at one level in order for convenience of putting and taking the sausages 94. When more pieces of sausages, usually more than 4, need to be cooked at the same time, more electric heating rollers 92 have to be added correspondingly, which will significantly increase volume and weight of the hot dog maker.
The main object of the invention is to provide a hot dog cooker which is able to cook more pieces of sausages at the same time without significantly increase volume thereof.
The main object of the invention is to provide a hot dog cooker which is able to cook more pieces of sausages at the same time without significantly increase weight thereof.
In order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides a hot dog cooker having:
a chaises;
a base housing detachably mounted on the chaises;
a first supporting housing securely mounted on one side of the base housing;
a second supporting housing securely mounted on an opposite side of the base housing, leaving a space between the first and the second supporting housing;
a motor installed in the first supporting housing;
a sausage rack being received in the space between the first and the second supporting housing, having a pair of round end plates respectively and rotatably mounted on the first and the second supporting housing, a plurality of transversal poles evenly installed on peripherals of the two round end plates, and a set of hanging means including at least two spaced placed identical hooks on each the transversal poles, each the hooks having a ring end loosely surrounding the transversal pole and a curved end suspending downward for supporting a sausage thereon, each the curved end having a mouth, a hole being defined in each the round end plate through which the electric heating tube is able to pass and be fixed to the first and the second supporting housing, respectively;
an electric heating tube transversally passing the sausage rack with two ends thereof respectively fixed on the first and the second supporting housing and when electrified, is able to give heat;
a transitional means contained being able to make the sausage rack drivenable to rotate by the motor;
a timer to adjust the time of heating;
a power source electrically connected to and supplying power for the motor, the timer, and the electric heating tube; and,
a cooker cover covering on the first supporting housing, the second supporting housing, and the sausage rack and defining a basically air tight space surrounding the sausage rack.
These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
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The sausage rack 60 has a pair of round end plates 61 respectively and rotatably mounted on the first and the second supporting housing 30 and 40, a plurality of, preferably 8, transversal poles 62 evenly installed on peripherals of the two round end plates 61, and a set of hanging means including at least two spaced placed identical hooks 63 on each transversal poles 62. Each of the hooks 63 has a ring end 64 loosely surrounding the transversal pole 62 and a curved end 65 suspending downward for supporting a sausage thereon. Each curved end 65 of the hooks 63 has a mouth 66 via which the sausage is able to be put in and take out. A hole 66 is defined in each round end plate 61 through which the electric heating tube 70 is able to pass and be fixed to the first and the second supporting housing 30 and 40, respectively.
The hot dog cooker 1 of the invention may also has a heat intensity adjuster 53, a work light 54 which is able to indicate a situation of working, or a number of, preferably 2, bread supporting poles 90 mounted on the chases 10. An oil collecting plate 22 and an oil shielding sleeve 21 are able to be provided within the base housing 20. A separate power light 55 from the work light 54 is preferred which enable a user to know whether power is well in condition before he starts the timer 52.
In use, a user is able to place the hot dog cooker 1 of the invention on a level and plane surface and then electrify it. When sausages are prepared, the user is able to open the cooker cover 80 and rotate the sausage rack 60 with one hand to a position at which a sausage is convenient to be put into the hooks 63 of each hanging means via the mouths 66 thereof and then put the sausage in with another hand. The user is able to continue to rotate the sausage rack 60 and put other sausages in until all the hanging means of the sausage rack 60 is filled with sausage and then close the cooker cover 80. The user is then able to start the hot dog cooker 1 by adjusting the timer 52 to a preferred time. The electric heating tube 70 starts to give heat and the sausage rack 60 starts to rotate, baking the sausages within the basically air tight space. When the preferred time expired, the user is able to open the cooker cover 80 again and rotate the sausage rack 60 with one hand to a position at which a baked sausage is convenient to be taken out from each hanging means via the mouths 66 thereof and then take it out with another hand. The user is able to continue to rotate the sausage rack 60 and take other baked sausages out.
According to the hot dog cooker 1 of the invention, more pieces of sausages are able to by baked at the same time without increase number of electric heating rollers, which have to be placed side by side at a level plane, thus keeping volume and weight of the hot dog cooker 1 of the invention not significantly increased.
It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. Its embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
