Portable grill

• US 3,182,585 A
• Filed: 08/21/1962
• Issued: 05/11/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene F. Rensch, Joseph T. Rensch
• Original Assignee: Eugene F. Rensch, Joseph T. Rensch
• Inventors: Rensch, Joseph T., Rensch, Eugene F.
• Application Number:
  US04/218,256
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• US Class Current: 99/340
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0731 with a fire box movable between different positions, e.g. horizontal, vertical, inclined

Claims

1. A PORTABLE GRILL COMPRISNG A FIRST AND SECOND FUEL PAN, EACH HAVING A BOTTOM WALL, SIDE WALLS, A PERPENDICULAR END WALL AND AN INCLINED END WALL JOINED TOGETHER TO ENCLOSE AN OPEN TOP FUEL CHAMBER, A METAL GRATE SECURED TO EACH FUEL PAN TO COVER A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE OPEN TOP OF THE FUEL CHAMBER INCLUDING THAT WHICH IS ADJACENT THE RESPECTIVE PERPENDICULAR END WALL, A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR FRAME HAVING SIDE FRAME MEMBERS TO ENCLOSE A CENTRAL OPENING, MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SIDE FRAME MEMBERS AND CONNECTED TO SAID FUEL PAN SIDE WALLS ADJACENT EACH CORNER PORTION OF A PERPENDICULAR END WALL, AND BOTTOM WALL FOR SLIDABLY HINGEDLY MOUNTING SAID PANS FOR MOVEMENT TO A FIRST POSITION WITH THE PAN GRATES ADJACENT ONE ANOTHER A SECOND POSITION WITH THE GRATES IN NEARLY THE SAME PLANE, AND A THIRD POSITION WITH THE GRATES SUBSTANTIALLY SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER AND EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION OUTWARDLY FROM THE FRAME AND TO LOCK SAID FUEL PANS IN ANY ONE OF SAID POSITIONS, AND A PAIR OF FOLDABLE FRAME SUPPORT MEANS FOLDABLY CONNECTED TO THE FRAME ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE FROM SAID PANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID FRAME IN AN ELEVATED CONDITION.

10. IN A PORTABLE GRILL, A FIRST FUEL PAN HAVING SIDEWALLS, END WALLS AND A BOTTOM WALL TO ENCLOSE A CHAMBER HAVING A TOP OPENING, A METAL GRATE MOUNTED ON THE FUEL PAN TO CLOSE A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THE TOP OPENING, A PAIR OF RISERS PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON THE SIDE WALLS IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP, EACH RISER HAVING A WEB PORTION PARALLEL TO THE BOTTOM WALL AND TO THE WEB PORTION OF THE OTHER RISER, MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO EACH RISER FOR MOUNTING SAID RISER WEB PORTIONS IN MOVABLY PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP AND HANDLE MEANS CONNECTED TO A RISER FOR ADJUSTING THE POSTIONS OF THE RISERS AND SELECTIVELY RETAINING THE RISER WEB PORTIONS IN SELECTED SPACED RELATIONSHIP TO THE BOTTOM WALL, SAID HANDLE MEANS INCLUDING A HAND GRIP PORTION, A WEB PORTION JOINED TO SAID HAND GRIP PORTION, MEANS FOR PIVOTALLY CONNECTING THE HANDLE AND RISER WEB PORTION, AND MEANS JOINED TO THE HANDLE WEB PORTION FOR EXTENDING INTO A GRATE APERTURE TO COOPERATE WITH THE RISERS FOR RETAINING SAID RISERS IN AN ADJUSTED POSITION.