PORTABLE GRILL

• US 3,611,912 A
• Filed: 07/10/1969
• Issued: 10/12/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anton Choc
• Original Assignee: Anton Choc
• Inventors: Choc, Anton
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilhite, Billy J.
• Application Number:
  US04/840,760
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 99/339,340,393,400,421,449,450,390,391 126/9B,25
• US Class Current: 99/340
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0718 with vertical fire box

Abstract

A portable grill comprising a hinged carrying case openable to form an elongated planar grill base or counter top, legs swingable out of the case to support the base at an elevated horizontal position, sidewall forming members fitting in the case and attachable to the top of the base to form supports for hot coal holding racks also fitting in the case and selectively mountable on the sidewalls either parallel to the base or perpendicular thereto for grilling or rotisserie operation.

Claims

1. A portable grill comprising:

a storage member having a top and a bottom and a hollow interior, said storage member openable to form a base member with said top and bottom in side-by-side coplanar relation forming the top of the base member, a plurality of sidewall defining members, means detachably attaching said sidewall defining members to the top of said base member, said sidewall defining members forming side and end walls of a grilling area on top of said base member, a plurality of hot coal holding members, said hot coal holding members having a solid backwall, a vented front wall spaced from the backwall and side and at least one end wall, means for detachably positioning said hot coal holding members adjacent the top of said area parallel to the said base and means for detachably positioning said holding members in said area perpendicular to said base.

2. The portable grill of claim 1 wherein the said base member has attached thereto foldable legs for positioning the said base member off of the ground and the said legs, sidewall defining members, and hot coal holding members storageable interior of said storage member.

3. A portable charcoal grill and rotisserie comprising a carrying case with hinged together halves opening into a flat base, legs carried by each half extensible from the interior of the case to support the base in an elevated horizontal position, a pair of wall units having folded-together positions fitting in the case and opened U-shaped positions, means detachably mounting the wall units upright on the base in spaced opposed relation to form two open top shields on the base with a central open gap therebetween, charcoal holding racks fitting in the case and selectively mounted horizontally or vertically on the wall units to provide flat grills or upstanding rotisserie heaters, skewer supports on the wall units facing the open gap to receive skewers between the vertically mounted racks, said racks being shiftable on said wall units toward and away from the gap to control the heating of the gap area and a drip pan fitting in the case and on the base in the gap between the opened up wall units.

4. A portable combination grill and rotisserie comprising a rigid metal carrying case having a closed compact position and an open extended table position, metal plates fitting in said base, means detachably mounting said plates in upright positions on the table to provide an opened topped rectangular chamber with a central transverse gap on the table, pair of heating racks fitting in the case and selectively mounted horizontally on the plates to cover the top of the chamber to form a flat grill top or vertically on oppOsite sides of the gap to form a rotisserie heating chamber therebetween, and skewer mounts on the plates to support skewers across the rotisserie heating chamber.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein the plates are two units of three hinged-together metal sheets forming U-shaped members in their opened positions.

6. The device of claim 4 including legs pivoted in the case and extensible therefrom to support the base in elevated horizontal position.

7. The device of claim 4 wherein the case is composed of two trays each with a bottom and upstanding peripheral walls abutted together in the closed case position and hinged together along one abutting edge to cooperate in the open position in face-to-face relation to stiffen the table.