Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With material pressing means
Patent
1995-06-07
1996-09-17
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With material pressing means
99353, 99377, 99379, 100 93P, 100266, A47J 3706, A47J 3712
Patent
active
055557945
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to an adjustable hinge apparatus for use with a cooker having multiple stacked heating plates and a support pin extending across one side of the cooker to form a common pivot axis. The hinge apparatus includes an array of adjustable hinges formed to be positioned adjacent one another on the support pin. Each hinge includes a hinge block having a pivot aperture sized for sliding movement of the support pin therein and an arm extending away from the hinge block. The arms of adjacent hinges are formed for attachment with consecutively stacked heating plates and the hinge block of each hinge is formed to slide on the support pin perpendicular to the pivot axis and independently of adjacent hinges. Thus, the hinging apparatus in accordance with the present permits variable spacing and free floating vertical movement between heating plates, and prevents relative horizontal movement between the plates by maintaining a common pivot point for all plates in the various positions.
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Ragan Robert S.
Templeton Robert J.
SaniServ Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
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