Outdoor grill

• US 3,101,080 A
• Filed: 07/29/1960
• Issued: 08/20/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alton G. Lorbacher
• Original Assignee: Alton G. Lorbacher
• Inventors: Lorbacher, Alton G.
• Application Number:
  US04/046,142
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• US Class Current: 126/25.00A
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0704 with horizontal fire box

Claims

3. A COOKING GRILL COMPRISING, A RECTANGULAR BOX OPEN AT THE TOP, A RECTANGULAR OPEN FRAME FITTING SAID BOX FOR VERTICAL TRANSLATION THEREWITHIN, SAID FRAME COMPRISING SIDE AND END CHANNEL ELEMENTS, BOTH SAID END ELEMENTS AND A FIRST SIDE ELEMENT OPENING DOWNWARDLY, THE SECOND SIDE ELEMENT OPENING UPWARDLY, THERE BEING A SERIES OF EQUALLY-SPACED BORES THROUGH THE INNER WALL OF SAID FIRST SIDE ELEMENT AND A SERIES OF EQUALLY-SPACED NOTCHES IN THE TOP EDGE OF THE INNER WALL OF SAID SECOND SIDE ELEMENT, EACH SAID NOTCH BEING OPPOSITE A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID BORES, A PLURALITY OF GRILL RODS EACH HAVING ONE END INSERTED INTO A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID BORES AND ITS OTHER END RESTING IN A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID NOTCHES AND WITH ITS ENDS IN SUBSTANTIALLY ABUTTING RELATION WITH THE OUTER WALLS OF SAID SIDE ELEMENTS, RESPECTIVELY, AN ELONGATED COVER BAR CONNECTED AT ITS ENDS TO THE CORRESPONDING ENDS OF SAID SECOND SIDE ELEMENT, FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT AN AXIS PARALLEL WITH SAID BAR AND SECOND SIDE ELEMENT, FROM A FIRST POSITION EXTENDING OVER AND ACROSS THE CONTIGUOUS ENDS OF ALL SAID RODS TO SECURE EACH IN ITS RESPECTIVE NOTCH, TO A SECOND POSITION SIMULTANEOUSLY FREEING ALL SAID RODS FOR LIFTING FROM SAID SECOND SIDE ELEMENT AND REMOVAL FROM SAID FRAME, SAID COVER BAR BEING AT LEAST AS WIDE AS SAID SECOND SIDE ELEMENT AND, WHEN IN ITS SAID FIRST POSITION, COMPLETELY COVERING THE UPWARDLY-OPEN CHANNEL OF SAID SECOND SIDE ELEMENT, A PAIR OF BRACKETS EACH FIXED WITH AND DEPENDING FROM THE CENTRAL PORTION OF A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID SIDE ELEMENTS, WITHIN SAID BOX, A NORMALLY HORIZONTAL BEAM SECURED AT ITS ENDS TO AND INTERCONNECTING THE DISTAL LOWER ENDS OF SAID BRACKETS, A LIFT ROD EXTENDING UPWARDLY AND SLIDABLY THROUGH AN OPENING IN THE BOTTOM OF SAID BOX AND ENGAGING SAID BEAM CENTRALLY THEREOF TO SUPPORT SAID FRAME, AND MANUALLY-OPERABLE MEANS CARRIED BY THE LOWER SURFACE OF THE BOTTOM OF SAID BOX AND ENGAGING SAID LIFT ROD, TO VERTICALLY ADJUST SAID FRAME IN AND RELATIVELY TO SAID BOX.