Barbecue apparatus

• US 20140261377A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kiosky Chung
• Original Assignee: Kiosky Chung
• Inventors: Chung, Kiosky
• Application Number:
  US13/833,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20140261377A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 126/25.R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0704 with horizontal fire box
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 45/07 of detachable type separate handles, devices for gripping hot cooking utensils A47J45/10
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 45/085 Heat shields for handles
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 45/10 Devices for gripping or lifting hot cooking utensils, e.g. pincers, separate pot handles, fabric or like pads

Abstract

A barbecue apparatus includes a casing, a cover, two cooking grills, two handles, two warming grills, an axle and two supporting elements. The casing includes two lateral walls, a rear wall formed between the lateral walls, and two hooks formed on the rear wall. Each lateral wall includes a recess defined therein. The cover is pivotally connected to the casing. Each cooking grill includes an aperture for receiving a corresponding hook so that the cooking grills are pivotally connected to the casing. Each handle extends out of a corresponding recess from a corresponding cooking grill. The axle is used to pivotally connect the warming grills to the cover. Each supporting element includes a beam pivotally connected to a corresponding warming grill, a pivot pivotally connected to a corresponding cooking grill and a post extending to the pivot from the beam.

Claims

1. A barbecue apparatus including:

a casing including two lateral walls, a rear wall formed between the lateral walls, and two hooks formed on the rear wall, wherein each of the lateral walls includes a recess defined therein;

a cover pivotally connected to the casing;

two cooking grills each including an aperture for receiving a corresponding one of the hooks so that the cooking grills are pivotally connected to the casing;

two handles each extending out of a corresponding one of the recesses from a corresponding one of the cooking grills;

two warming grills;

an axle for pivotally connecting the warming grills to the cover; and

two supporting elements each including a beam pivotally connected to a corresponding one of the warming grills, a pivot pivotally connected to a corresponding one of the cooking grills and a post extending to the pivot from the beam.

2. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the handles includes a rod extending out of the corresponding recess from the corresponding cooking grill and a grip placed on the rod.

3. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the grip includes arched strips connected to the rod.

4. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the grip includes two rings fit on the rod, wherein each of the arched strips includes two ends connected to the rings.

5. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, including at least one hinge for connecting the cover to the casing.

6. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the hinge includes a lower element secured to the casing, an upper element secured to the cover, and a pin inserted in the lower and upper elements.

7. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the lower element is formed with a stop for abutting the upper element when the cover is lifted from the casing.

8. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the upper element is abutted against the stop when the cover is separated from the casing by an angle larger than 90°

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9. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the warming grills includes:

middle bars substantially extending parallel to one another; and

two lateral bars substantially extending parallel to the middle bars and each including a J-shaped portion formed at an end, wherein the axle is placed on the J-shaped portions of the lateral bars and beneath the middle bars and connected to the cover.

10. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the axle includes a flat middle portion for abutting the J-shaped portion of one of the lateral bars of each of the warming grills.

11. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 10, including two rings each placed between the flat middle portion of the axle and the J-shaped portion of the corresponding lateral bar of the corresponding warming grill.

12. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 9, wherein each of the lateral bars includes a U-shaped portion, wherein the beam of each of the supporting elements is placed on the U-shaped portions of the lateral bars of the corresponding warming grill and beneath the middle bars.

13. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the cooking grills includes an upper lug for receiving the pivot of the corresponding supporting element.

14. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 2, wherein each of the cooking grills includes a lower lug for receiving a tip of the rod of the corresponding handle.

15. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, including a connector for connecting the cooking grills to each other.

16. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 15, wherein each of the cooking grills includes a lower lug for receiving the connector.

17. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the connector is a butterfly screw.

18. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 1, including at least one resilient lock connected to the casing, wherein the cover includes at least one lateral wall placed against the resilient lock when the cover is laid on the casing.

19. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the resilient lock includes an abutting portion secured to the casing and a guiding portion extending from the abutting portion.

20. The barbecue apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the guiding portion extending in a slat manner from the abutting portion that extends vertically.