PORTABLE BARBECUE OVEN

• US 3,809,051 A
• Filed: 07/10/1972
• Issued: 05/07/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jean Louis Giroux
• Original Assignee: Jean Louis Giroux
• Inventors: Giroux, Jean Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Dea, William F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US05/270,200
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 126/9R,25R,120,121,126,137,142,9B 99/421HV,421V
• US Class Current: 126/9.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0745 with motor-driven food supports

Abstract

This invention comprises a portable barbecue oven in which the firebox cover is separate from the chimney structure, the latter fitting completely inside the firebox and the cover completely enclosing the firebox, so that all the soot coated elements and surfaces are out of sight and out of reach when the oven is in collapsed and packed condition.

Claims

1. A portable barbecue oven comprising:

a. a firebox;

b. a removable cover completely enclosing said firebox, said cover having a pair of foldable legs hinged thereon for said cover to be used as a table when unfolded;

c. a collapsible hood and chimney structure fitting inside said firebox in collapsed condition and comprising;

a vertical rear panel and slanted side and front panels, said front panel being shortened to leave, in use, an access opening;

said panels each having a lower trapezoidal portion and an upper rectangular chimney-forming portion depending from the short base of the trapezoidal lower portion;

tongue and groove joints formed along edges of said panels and firebox to connect them together, the groove portions of said joints being formed by offset flanges adjacent and spaced from the edges of said panels and firebox;

d. a chimney collar adapted to fit over and hold together said chimney-forming rectangular portions when the latter are assembled by said joints and e. oppositely facing perforated spit-bearing cut-in portions on said side panels.

2. A portable barbecue oven according to claim 1, wherein said firebox comprises folding legs foldable against the underside thereof.

3. A portable barbecue oven according to claim 2, wherein said firebox comprises a water tank removably mounted against the underside thereof.

4. A portable barbecue oven comprising:

a. a portable firebox having a front wall, a back wall and two side walls defining a top opening;

b. a removable cover to close said top opening and means releasably locking said cover on said firebox for transportation;

c. a collapsible hood and chimney structure fitting completely inside said firebox when in collapsed condition and formed of a rear panel and side and front panels;

said front panel being shortened to, in use, form an opening for access to said firebox;

each of said panels having a lower trapezoidal portion and an upper rectangular chimney-forming portion depending from the short base of said trapezoidal portion;

all of said panels being of a size to fit fully in said firebox in dismounted condition when separated from one another;

tongue and groove joints formed along edges of said panels and firebox to allow said panels to be readily assembled in hood and chimney form and to be readily severed from one another for packing into said firebox, and d. a chimney collar adapted to fit over and hold together said chimney-forming rectangular portions when the latter are assembled by said joints.

5. A portable barbecue oven claimed in claim 4 including legs at the corners of said cover, said legs being foldably mounted on said cover so as to be folded against said cover when the latter is set over said firebox top opening.

6. A portable barbecue oven as claimed in claim 4 wherein said groove portions of said joints are formed by offset flanges secured inside said panels and firebox walls with parts thereof spaced from the edges of said panels and firebox whereby to form grooves for said tongues.

7. A portable barbecue oven as claimed in claim 4 comprising oppositely facing perforated spit-bearing cut-in portions on said panels, each such portion being provided with outwardly opening slits for the insertion of one end of a spit.

8. A portable barbecue oven as claimed in claim 4 wherein said rear panel of said structure is vertical and said side and front panels are slanted to define, in assembled condition, a generally truncated pyramidal hood, and said upper chimney-forming portions of said sidewalls are hinged to their corresponding trapezoidal portions whereby to have them lie flat over the corresponding lwoer portions for packing in said firebox.