Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With material pressing means
Patent
1996-07-01
1997-07-01
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With material pressing means
99355, 99379, 99423, 100324, 100325, A22C 700, A47J 2762, A47J 3706, A47J 3712
Patent
active
056426585
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to an adjustable hinge apparatus and spacer means for use with a low temperature grill having multiple stacked heating plates and at least one support rod extending across one side of the grill to form a common pivot axis. The hinge apparatus includes an array of adjustable floating hinges formed to be positioned adjacent one another pivotally supported on the support rod. Each hinge includes a hinge block having a slide aperture therethrough sized and shaped for receiving a support arm member extending therethrough in the vertical plane and being slidably supported therein at a selected position in order to support the plates at a selected height. The support blocks also include a pivot aperture therethrough positioned substantially normal to the support arm aperture being sized and shaped for receiving the horizontal support rod therethrough. The support arm members of adjacent hinge blocks are formed with offset bends for attachment with consecutively stacked heating plates. The hinge block of each floating hinge is formed to rotate on the support rod perpendicular to the pivot axis and independently of adjacent hinges. The floating hinge apparatus of the present invention provides a means for variable spacing and free floating vertical movement between heating plates to maintain the plates equal distance in the horizontal plane while rotating on a common pivot point.
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Carrithers David W.
Simone Timothy F.
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