Patent ID: 6192788
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A grilling appliance having a first and a second housing section each provided with a heating plate and heating means for heating the heating plates, which heating plates extend substantially parallel and face one another in an active grilling position, which housing sections are connected to one another both pivotably and slidably by means of two slidable hinge constructions which are situated at some distance from one another and which each have a substantially vertical slot in the first housing section and a trunnion connected to the second housing section and engaging in the respective slot of the first housing section, wherein a common parallel guiding mechanism has been provided, which mechanism comprises a substantially U-shaped rod formed by a central portion and two upright arms of the same length, said trunnions being carried by free ends of the arms, which hinge constructions each have a further, second slot in the first housing section, which second slots are each inclined with respect to the respective first-mentioned vertical slots, the central portion of the U-shaped rod engaging in both second slots.