Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Opposed heated mold or surface type
Patent
1976-06-11
1978-05-09
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Opposed heated mold or surface type
A47J 3706
Patent
active
040880672
ABSTRACT:
A sandwich grill or similar cooking appliance is disclosed. The sandwich grill is adapted to heat both upper and lower surfaces of a sandwich or other article to be cooked, under controlled conditions. The appliance includes a main housing unit with a lower platen supported thereon, an upper platen, and a heat source for both platens. The upper platen is supported by a mounting arm or the like, for movement between a raised position and a range of lowered positions. In the raised position, sandwiches can be placed on or removed from the grill. The upper platen is mounted so that, in the lowered position thereof, the platen may pivot freely so that its lower surface will engage the upper surface of the sandwich. This permits the upper platen to lie parallel to the lower platen or to the upper surface of the sandwich. The grill includes a counterbalancing spring which acts on the support arm and the upper platen so as to reduce the downward force exerted by the upper platen on the article when the arm is lowered. The sandwich grill further includes an adjusting assembly associated with the support arm and adapted to engage a part of the appliance which is fixed with respect to the housing so as to determine which of a number of lowered positions the upper platen will occupy when it is lowered. The adjustment also prevents application of undue downward force on a sandwich when the grill is initially closed by lowering the upper platen.
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Kaebitzsch Johannes W.
Tuegel John L.
Gealow Jon Carl
Hornsby Harvey C.
LaPorte Ronald J.
Lind Charles F.
McGraw-Edison Company
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