US 7,514,655 B2
Tiltable pannini grill
Juan Fernandez, Towaco, N.J. (US); Paul Mc Grath, Towaco, N.J. (US); and Raymond Hoi Tak Lam, Wanchai (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, The)
Assigned to Products of Tomorrow, Inc., Montville, N.J. (US); and South Asia International, Hong Kong (China)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/471,089.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/779944, filed on Mar. 07, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2006/0213373 A1, Sep. 28, 2006
Int. Cl. H05B 3/06 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 219—524  [219/525; 219/386; 99/372; 99/373; 99/376; 99/377; 99/378; 99/380; 99/349] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric grill, comprising:
a support structure;
a top heating section having a top cooking surface and a bottom heating section having a bottom cooking surface, said sections being connected to the support structure and at least one section being pivotally associated with the support structure to move between a closed position at which the cooking surfaces are facing one another and an open position at which the surfaces are at an angle to one another that is approximately 180 degrees; and
said support structure including a tilting mechanism, said tilting mechanism supporting and retaining said sections in a plurality of angular positions, one of said plurality being between 0 and 90 degrees.