An automatic French fryer in which a cooking basket, upon completion of a variable cooking time, is first lifted to drain the food and then tipped to dump the food to a receiving tray. The basket is engaged by a hook on a flexible strip extending out of the tank over an arcuate tank lip and connected by a mechanical linkage to a motor. An adjustable timer is started when the cooking starts and acts at the end of the cooking time to energize the motor to cause the hook to first lift the basket ou...

An elongate potato product simulating a French fry and provided with a plurality of serrated, longitudinal ridges alternating with longitudinal valleys, is formed by extrusion of a potato mix through a suitable die. The serrations of the ridges provide a multiplicity of individual projections more or less resembling spicules, which are completely exposed to hot fat during initial frying of the product prior to freezing and to applied heat during reconstitution of the frozen product. This results...

An operator for a French casement window having an operating arm with a roller mounted at its end and pivotable to move in an arc between extended and retracted positions, and a channel member horizontally mountable on the inner side of one sash and confining the roller as the operating arm is moved between its extended and retracted positions to move one between open and closed positions, respectively. A bracket is on the inner side of the other sash adjacent its outer vertical side, and a drag...

An apparatus is provided for cooking frozen french fries in which a supply of frozen potato pieces is held in a hopper and in which the potato pieces are continuously fed from the hopper at a predetermined, adjustable rate, by means of an upwardly slanting endless conveyor, into an enclosed bath of hot cooking liquid. Water vapor generated when the frozen potato pieces contact the hot liquid is removed by a vapor extraction system. A second endless conveyor is provided within the cooking liquid ...

An apparatus is adapted to fold a foldable article, such as a towel or the like, into three panels of substantially equal width, with the side panels overlapped beneath a central panel in the course of effecting a French fold. Such apparatus includes a feed conveyor having an adjustable support for the article central panel, and an adjustable underlying folding plate adapted to precisely position the intermediate article panel whereby a French fold is effected in which all three panels are desir...

A medical lead having a diameter of no greater than 3 French and employing an insulation material that is substantially stiffer than would normally be employed in the context of a permanently implantable cardiac pacing lead is disclosed. A material having a Young's modulus of at least 25,000 pounds per square inch such as Pellethane 2363-75D, or an even stiffer polymer, is used to provide a lead body that does not exhibit a whip-like effect in response to such movement as would occur during a he...

A french door refrigerator seal having vertically extending seal elements on the juxtaposed edges of the french doors defining an air space therebetween. Closure seals are provided at the upper and lower ends of the edge seals to close the air space and thereby define an insulative dead air space between the french door edge portions when the doors are in the closed position. The closure seals illustratively may be formed as overlapping flexible flaps carried by the vertical edge seal elements w...

French toast having a moisture content between 14 and 32 percent and an A.sub.w between 0.80 and 0.90 is prepared by saturating bread with an emulsion containing 15 to 35 percent water soluble sugar solids, 3-15 percent edible polyhydric alcohol and an effective level of antimycotic to prevent mold growth. The product may be stored for long periods of time without the need of sterilization or refrigeration.

French manicure templates comprising a lower template positionable in a horizontal plane wherein a representation of a human hand and aligning notches are printed thereon, and a wedge shaped upper template, positionable in overlapping relationship with the lower template such that a person's hand may be interposed therebetween; the upper template is provided with corresponding aligning notches and a plurality of variable size nail masks about the peripheral edge thereof.

Artificial fingernails and fingernail kits which are comprised of a plurality of pieces laminated together form a composite nail having a preferred look. A preferred look called "French Manicure" is obtained where the color scheme very accurately resembles the colors of a natural nail. Fingernails of the invention have a pink color visible through a white translucent material. The arrangement of the pieces which form the composite nail may include a structure where a first thin piece made of tra...