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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Accutemp Products, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Inventor:
Gary Seitz, Decatur, IN (US);
Assignee:
AccuTemp Products, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 37/00 (2006.01); A47J 43/20 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01); A47J 37/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 43/20 (2013.01); A47J 37/067 (2013.01); A47J 37/101 (2013.01); A47J 37/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cover positionable over a food item placed atop a cooking surface to provide downward pressure on the food item to facilitate achieving flush contact with the undersurface of the food item on the cooking surface below is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a sheet of chainmail is secured to a frame which is hingedly supported above a heatable cooking surface. A support which allows the cover of the present disclosure to be easily retrofit to an existing cooking device such as a griddle may be utilized to hingedly support the frame relative to the cooking device.