Melter and heating apparatus
CA 2028216 A1 · Owner: Knepler, John T. · Inventors: Anson, James H.; Brewer, Alan W.; Knepler, John T.
Overview
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Apparatus for melting and heating shortening includes a housing having a top, a bottom and sidewalls; a heating grid mounted in the housing and spaced above the bottom thereof for melting shortening and allowing melted shortening to pass therethrough toward the bottom of the housing. A door is mounted to the housing for introducing a block of shortening onto the heating grid. A bottom heater is mounted adjacent the housing bottom for maintaining the melted shortening at a desired temperature. A control circuit maintains control of the operation of both the heating grid and the bottom heater in a predetermined fashion for initially melting a block of shortening introduced onto the heating …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 22, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 22, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 22, 2012.
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