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US 4,604,949 AGranted
Meat press
AssigneeMepaco, Inc.
InventorJohn D. Giese
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Abstract
A meat press including a first frame and a second frame which are moveable with respect to each other, the first frame having support trays to hold meat while cooking and the second frame having pressing trays to exert force on the meat while it is being cooked, and a spring assembly between the first frame and the second frame, the spring assembly including a device to vary the spring force when meat is held between and in contact with the support trays and the pressing trays.
Claims4
A meat press comprising:
- a first frame having a horizontal meat support tray held between vertical columns,
- a second frame having a horizontal meat pressing tray held between vertical columns, the vertical columns of said second frame being formed to be vertically moveable with respect to the columns of said first frame when said pressing tray is vertically aligned above said support tray,
- a spring assembly connected at one end to said first frame and at the other end to said second frame, said spring assembly including a spring and means to vary the force exerted by said spring when said first frame and said second frame are in contact with meat to be pressed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.