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The present invention features an electrical, frying appliance that uniformly cooks food items placed within its frying basket. This frying appliance cyclically immerses and extracts the cooking basket into and out of a pan containing heated oil. In this fashion, the food in the basket is uniformly

The present invention features an electrical, frying appliance that uniformly cooks food items placed within its frying basket. This frying appliance cyclically immerses and extracts the cooking basket into and out of a pan containing heated oil. In this fashion, the food in the basket is uniformly fried during the cooking cycle. The frying appliance contains a translationally moveable basket that operates by a parallel linkage driven by a gear train and worm drive mechanism. The translational movement of the basket allows the food in it to lie flat as it is immersed in the oil. The frying basket remains substantially horizontal during its movement between its immersed and non-immersed positions. In this fashion, the food items are prevented from shifting around in the frying basket. This allows the food to fry evenly within the basket and, when cycled, to be drained of oil periodically. The gear train and worm drive mechanisms that move the basket are both powered by a motor that is offset from the oil pan housing, allowing for a cooler, operational motor temperature. The motor is less subject to heated oil vapors and oil leakage that are usually associated with motors located at the bottom of an oil pan housing. The gear train and worm drive mechanisms are also offset from the oil pan, and are protected from heated oil vapors by the outside wall of the oil pan housing.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A frying appliance that comprises a frying basket that is moveable between an upper, non-immersed, oil pan position and a lower, immersed, oil pan position, said frying appliance comprising:a housing supporting a moveable frying basket and a stationary oil pan disposed ad

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A frying appliance that comprises a frying basket that is moveable between an upper, non-immersed, oil pan position and a lower, immersed, oil pan position, said frying appliance comprising:a housing supporting a moveable frying basket and a stationary oil pan disposed adjacent said frying basket, said oil pan having means for receiving and heating oil for frying food disposed in said frying basket;a translational mechanism connected to said frying basket for moving said frying basket between an upper, non-immersed, oil pan position to a lower, immersed, oil pan position, wherein said foods disposed in said frying basket are cooked in heated oil disposed in said oil pan, said translational mechanism allowing said frying basket to remain substantially horizontal during said movement between its upper and lower positions; anddrive means operatively connected to said translational mechanism for driving said translational mechanism between said upper, non-immersed, oil pan position to said lower, immersed, oil pan position.