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US 12,446,726 B2Granted
Height adjustor for upper griddle platen
AssigneeAccu Temp Products, Inc.
InventorsDale W. Taylor, Raymond R. Rudy, Cole Bruick
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Abstract
A griddle system including a height adjuster setting the gap between the upper platen of an upper platen assembly and a lower platen in a closed position of the upper platen is disclosed.
Claims12
A griddle comprising:
- a lower platen;
- a heat source for heating the lower platen;
- an upper platen assembly rotatably connected to the lower platen, the upper platen assembly rotatable about a pivot axis from an open position to a closed position relative to the lower platen, whereby the upper platen assembly and the lower platen are configured to receive a food product when the upper platen assembly maintains the open position and the food product is positioned for cooking between the upper platen and the lower platen when the upper platen assembly maintains the closed position;
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- a height adjuster, comprising:
- a rotary input rotatably indexed for rotation to one of a plurality of indexed positions;
- a distal support threadably engaged with the rotary input and blocked from rotation so that a rotation of the rotary input is translated to an axial translation of the distal support, the distal support setting a gap between the lower platen and the upper platen assembly when the upper platen assembly maintains the closed position.
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A griddle comprising:
- a lower platen;
- a heat source for heating the lower platen;
- an upper platen assembly comprising an upper platen, the upper platen assembly rotatably connected to the lower platen, the upper platen assembly rotatable about a pivot axis from an open position to a closed position relative to the lower platen, whereby the upper platen assembly and the lower platen are configured to receive a food product when the upper platen assembly maintains the open position and the food product is positioned for cooking between the upper platen and the lower platen when the upper platen assembly maintains the closed position;
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- a height adjuster, comprising:
- an input;
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- a distal support establishing a gap between the lower platen and the upper platen when the upper platen assembly maintains the closed position, the distal support having a continuously adjustable support height relative to the upper platen assembly, the distal support moveable between a support height comprising a first height relative to the upper platen assembly at a first extent of travel of the distal support and a support height comprising a second height relative to the upper platen assembly at a second extent of travel of the distal support, the first extent of travel opposite the second extent of travel, the distal support continuously movable from the first height to the second height and from the second height to the first height, the input continuously adjustable to actuate the distal support from the first height to the second height and from the second height to the first height.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.