US1527007A - Griddle greaser - Google Patents

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Feb. 17, 1925.

- c. l. OTT

GRIDDLE GREASFR Filed April 14. 1923 Patented Feb. 17, 1925. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES I. OTT, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GRIDDLE Application filed April 14.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that 1, CHARLES T. OTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Oolumbla, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Griddle Greasers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient tool or implement for holding grease, and particularly grease in solid form, for use especially in greasing griddles, pans and other utensils where a thin coating of grease is desired, the device being so des gned and proportioned as to prevent the operators hand from coming into contact with the hot utensil when the device is used with ordinary care.

The invention consists of a frame, preferably of wire, folded upon itself and its limbs wrapped or twisted together to form a handle, one end of the frame being offset and adapted toreceive greasing material supported by or contained in a textile or fabric strip folded longitudinally about and secured within the offset portion. When this folded strip holds grease in solid form, the grease is liberated by the contact of the device with the hot griddle or other utensil. But, of course, the textile material may be soaked in a fluent grease or oil or melted fat of any sort suitable for the purpose, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating the invention with the textile strip in place. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing in dotted lines the strip clamp turned off to one side as it will be to provide for the introduction and release of the textile strip. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the offset portion with the strip clamp entirely removed.

While the invention is not limited to the material of which the device is constructed, present experience is that it may be economically and practically formed of wire, and without limiting the invention to the use of wire, or the particular manipulations of the wire hereinafter set forth, I will proceed to explain the invention as embodied in a wire construction.

As shown, the frame is composed of a sin- GREASER.

1923. Serial No. 632,129.

gle wire doubled upon itself to form an open grip or end 1, the limbs of which are twisted together to form the shank 2 of the handle. These limbs are spaced apart at the end of the shank opposite to end 1, the limb 3 being formed with an eye 4 and then continued at 5 on one side of the hereinabove referred to offset portion and then continued transversely to form the end 6, and again bent back to form the opposite side member 7 and the opposite end 8 which is doubled upon itself at 9 and has its end 10 closed about the side 7. The limb 11 diverges from the limb 3 and is formed with the eye 12 and is then continued to form an inside side member 13 and an inside end member 14, an inside opposite side member 15 and then its end 16 is brought up and closed down over the parts 3 and 8 where they cross. 1

The sides 5 and 15 on one side and the sides 7 and 13 on the other side may be connected by cross-pieces 17 and 18 and these cross-pieces 17 and 18 are connected by a longitudinal stay-piece 19.

All of the parts so far described may be conveniently made of wire, and all of the parts numbered 1 to 16 may be formed from a single strand of wire.

The eyes 4 and 12 are adapted to receive the strip clamp 20, which may comprise a straight bar 21 adapted to engage the eyes and an operating element or lever 22, preferably curved to be sprung around the handle -or shank 2, and by its resilience lock the strip clamp in closed position.

In order to prevent the escape of the strip clamp from the eyes, the straight bar 21 may be provided with any suitable detent, such as a loop 23 therein. This loop may be replaced by a bend in the wire, or it may have an attached detent. V

I prefer to use as the grease holder an ordinary lamp wick 24. This lamp wick may be applied to the offset portion of the device by passing the wick lengthwise underneath the offset end and with one end carried up over the end bars 8 and 9 and then down between the bars 9 and 18 and underneath the said bars and beneath the stay-piece 19, the other end of the wick being carried up over the end bar 6 and between that bar and the end bar 14 and underneath the latter and then over the crossbar 17 and rearwardly toward the handle shank where this end is engaged by the strip clamp 20 which serves to put a bight or depressionin the w ck or strip sniiicient to hold the Wick or strip in place.

The grease, if of solid nature, may be interposed between theunderncath portion of the textile strip or wick and the bottom of the offset portion. Instead of using grease in solid form to be melted by contact with the hot griddle or other utensil, the wick or strip may be saturated with a fluent or liquid grease.

The handle or shank portion of the device and the offset portion containing the grease in the textile strip stand off from one another su'fiiciently to remove the operators hand from coming into contact with the hot griddle or other utensil when the implement is used with ordinary care.

h The textile strip may be applied to and removed from the ofiset portion of the device quite readily. XV hen said strip is applied to the device it. is not readily displaced by ordinary use, no matter how hard, and if in use it develops any slackness, this -slaokness may be taken up by opening the strip clamp and pulling on the strip lengthwise.

Variations in the details of construction are permissible within the spirit and scope ofthe invention as hereinafter claimed.

As already stated, the inventionis not limited in its use to greasing 'griddles, and hence the title in the specification and in the claims is to be understood as illustrative.

\Vhat I claim is l. A griddle greaser, having a frame made of wire doubled upon itself to form a shank having "diverging limbs one of which is formed with an upstanding eye and thence extends away from said eye length'ivise with relation to said shank to form anoutside side member, a cross member, 'ar'i'opposite outside side member, another cross member and a returned cross member the end of which is fastened to the first-named side member, and the other limb likewise formed with an upstanding eye and continued thence to form an inside side member, a cross-bar and the opposite inside side member the end of which last is secured to the first-named limb adjacent to the shank. and a clamp engaging the said eyes and having an operating lever to effect a looking engagement with the shank. I

2. A griddle greaser, comprising a handle and an offset portion provided with laieraL ly arranged eyes, a strip of fabric folded over upon and engaging said offset portion, and a strip clamp movably mounted in said eyes and provided with an intermediate detent to prevent the loss ofthe clamp, the clamp having a lever member adapted to be "sprung aroundthe handle member to lock the clamp in place.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of April, A. D. 1923. H

CHARLES I. OTl. \Vitnesses:

LoUIsN. 'S'rLaN'eLnn, CHAS W. THoMrsoN.

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