Patent ID: 7571887
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: B60B,F16M

Abstract:
1. A height adjustable support for supporting food service equipment at different elevations above a supporting floor, the height adjustable support being adapted to be mounted to the bottom end of the food service equipment, and which comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper portion having a tubular body and an externally threaded stud fixedly mounted concentrically within said tubular body, said stud having a top section and a bottom section opposite said top section, said lower portion having a foot with a channel therein having a channel first portion adjacent a top end of said foot with a select internal diameter and a channel second portion spaced from said top end and extending from said channel first portion, said channel second portion having an internal diameter less than said channel first portion internal diameter, the height adjustable support lower portion also including an internally threaded insert adapted to be threadably coupled to said stud bottom section, said insert having an insert first portion with a first select external diameter configured to be received tightly within said foot channel first portion and an insert second portion with a second select external diameter smaller that said channel first portion first select external diameter and configured to be received tightly within said foot channel second portion, wherein said foot channel also includes at least one projection and wherein said insert second portion contacts said at least one projection, whereby the support may be coupled onto a food service equipment by threading the top section of the stud into the equipment and whereby the height of the equipment may be adjusted by threadably positioning the lower portion along the bottom section of the threaded stud.