| 摘要 |
A condiment mill for grinding pepper, rock salt and other condiments has a base member with a grinder receptacle formed therein in which a grinder head is rotatably mounted. Also, mounted on the base member is a casing member forming a compartment for storing the condiment to be ground. A shaft extends from the grinder head and through the top of the casing member, a manipulator device for rotating the shaft being attached to the end thereof. The grinder head is resiliently retained in the base member by spring means positioned between the grinder head and the base member. This same spring means also resiliently retains the base member to the casing member; the base member thus can be manually manipulated rotatably and brought into several positions: one position for filling the compartment with condiment; another position for providing a coarse grind for the condiment and a third position for providing a fine grind for the condiment. In the last two positions, the vertical spacing between the grinder head and grinder receptacle is made different for each of such positions by means of detents formed in the base and slots formed in the lower edges of the compartment which cooperatively operate to change the grinder spacing for each of these positions.
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