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• US 3,152,586 A
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• Issued:
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: N/A
• Original Assignee: N/A
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 126/9.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0718 with vertical fire box

Claims

1. UNITARY COMBINATION PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR OUTDOOR USE IN PREPARING AN ENTIRE MEAL INCLUDING ROASTING, BAKING, STEWING, FRYING AND BOILING, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION MEANS INCLUDING A SELF-CONTAINED FIREBOX OF THE SHAPE OF A RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED FOR SUPPLYING A SOURCE OF RADIANT AND CONVECTION HEAT, SAID FIREBOX BEING OPEN AT ONE SIDE THEREOF TO EMIT SUCH HEAT BY DIRECT RADIATION AND BY CONVECTION THROUGH THE NATURAL UNFORCED OUTWARD AND UPWARD FLOW OF COMBUSTION GASES, SAID FIREBOX BEING CLOSED IN ON ITS REMAINING FIVE SIDES FOR THE MOST PART, SAID MEANS INCLUDING SAID FIREBOX PROVIDING FOR SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT EMISSION THROUGHOUT THE AREA OF SAID OPEN SIDE, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID FIREBOX UPON ONE OF ITS ANGULAR EDGES AT AN ANGLE TO THE HORIZONTAL OF LESS THAN 90* SO THAT THE OPEN SIDE THEREOF FACES DIAGONALLY OUTWARDLY AND UPWARDLY, SAID OPEN SIDE BEING FREE OF ANY ENCLOSURE, THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE MEANS INCLUDING SAID FIREBOX AND SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE BEING SUCH THAT THE EMISSION OF HEAT BOTH BY RADIATION AND CONVECTION ESTABLISHES A RESULTANT SUBSTANTIALLY STRAIGHT DIAGONAL PLANE OF UNIFORM HEAT DISTRIBUTION WHICH STANDS ABOVE SAID FIREBOX AND AT AN ACUTE ANGLE WITH THE PLANE OF THE FIRST MENTIONED OPEN SIDE OF SAID FIREBOX;

AND A BROILER GRID HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR SURFACE AND ADAPTED TO CONTAIN MEAT OR THE LIKE TO BE COOKED BY THE HEAT FROM SAID FIREBOX AS DESCRIBED, AND MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID GRID IN CLOSE COOPERATING PROXIMITY TO SAID FIREBOX, AND WITH ITS PLANE SURFACE AT AN ACUTE ANGLE TO THE PLANE OF THE OPEN SIDE OF THE FIREBOX WHICH ANGLE IS SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AS THE ANGLE OF THE PLANE OF UNIFORM HEAT DISTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO SAID OPEN SIDE, SAID SUPPORTING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR ADJUSTING SAID GRID TO POSITIONS IN PLANES PARALLEL WITH ITS ACUTE ANGLED PLANE AND AT VARIABLE DISTANCES THEREFROM FOR CONTROLLING THE DEGREE OF HEATING SUPPLIED TO SAID GRID FROM SAID EMISSION.