Food preparation device for use with a cooking grill

• US 3,897,722 A
• Filed: 11/19/1973
• Issued: 08/05/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank D. Harris
• Original Assignee: Frank D. Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Frank D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hornsby, Harvey C.
• Application Number:
  US05/417,114
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 99/345 248/226A,282,283,311
• US Class Current: 99/345
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0786 Accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/106 Integrated basting devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/287 Holders for spoons or the like attached to cooking pots plates with integral holders for spoons A47G19/06

Abstract

A food preparation device used for the basting of food is provided whereby the device is pivotally secured to the rim of an outdoor home cooking grill. The device utilizes a basting container that is pivotally engaged with an upwardly extending support rod which is pivotally engaged with the rim of the cooking grill. Movement of the support rod or the pivotally connected container will enable selective positioning of the container for best advantage in basting and heat control of the contents of the container and allow a cook to baste foods with one hand while having the other hand free to turn or otherwise tend the food.

Claims

1. A food preparation device to be used with a cooking means, said cooking means having an interior heated portion at least partially surrounded by a rim in which said device comprises:

a. a main support means;

b. securing means pivotally connecting said support means adjacent to the rim for disposing said support means upwardly from the rim, said securing means being mounted adjacent to the rim;

c. a container means for holding a liquid to be applied to a food pivotally attached to said support means; and

d. means for applying the liquid to food being cooked in the cooking means, said applying means being supported by said support means and at least partially confined by said container and readily removable therefrom;

said pivotally connected support means arranged to dispose said container interiorly and exteriorly of the rim in a plane substantially parallel to a top surface of the cooking means.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said support means comprises a rod having a bent configuration.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein said securing means includes a tube secured thereto, said support means having one end thereof pivotally inserted in said tube.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein said container means comprises a vessel having a handle, said handle being pivotally connected to said rod, wherein pivotal movement of said handle with respect to said rod is defined by a predetermined horizontal arc.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein said horizontal arc is predetermined by the bent configuration of said rod.

6. The device of claim 5 wherein said handle has at least one aperture through which said rod is inserted so that said rod and handle are pivotally connected.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein said securing means additionally comprises a thumb screw having a shank helically secured to a clamping means in which said clamping means is arranged to hold said tube in rigid relationship with respect to the rim when said shank is screwed inwardly against the rim by means of said thumb screw.

8. The device of claim 7 wherein said applying means comprises a brush removably secured adjacent to said handle so that said brush may be soaked with a liquid from said container and removed therefrom.