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    Ergonomic Grill Scraper
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    To satisfy an urgent request from one of their customers, Prince Castle enlisted DiMonte Group Inc. to develop an improved grill scraper.

    Challenge
  • Protect employees burning hand on upper grill.
  • Improve cleaning quality and reduce damage to grill surface by insuring proper blade angle throughout stroke.
  • Use manufacturing process with low tooling investment.
  • Unit compatible with existing blade sharpening and tool storage bin.


    • Development
  • After exploring the problem with 2-D sketching and 3-D massing models, a flexible test rig was constructed to evaluate ergonomics. As the design progressed, durable models were produced to prove concepts in restaurant tests.


    • Design for Manufacture
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software was employed to develop strong geometry that satisfied the ergonomic, functional, & aesthetic criteria.


    • Quick response to change
  • Near the conclusion of the project the customer mandated a change from a disposable blade to a re-sharpenable one. The scraper had to be altered to fit several existing blade sharpeners without any adjustment in deadline.

All product images designed exclusively for Prince Castle by DiMonte Group Inc.

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