Convertible grilling devices

• US 3,999,472 A
• Filed: 06/03/1975
• Issued: 12/28/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sini-Tuote Einto & Einto
• Original Assignee: Sini-Tuote Einto & Einto
• Inventors: Einto, Risto
• Primary Examiner(s): Christian, Leonard D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Henderson, Arthur O.
• Application Number:
  US05/583,432
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 99/339, 99/340, 99/421, 99/446, 99/450, 126/9, 126/25, 126/29
• US Class Current: 99/340
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0731 with a fire box movable between different positions, e.g. horizontal, vertical, inclined

Abstract

A convertible grilling device of the type heated by solid fuel, in particular by charcoal, is disclosed comprising a stand, an upper frame and a removable substantially box-or parallelepiped-shaped fuel container. Said fuel container has guide pegs engaged in rigid guides and may be converted from a horizontal to vertical working position and vice versa. The fuel container is supported free of any securing or clamping means and is flush within the frame when in the horizontal working position.

Claims

1. A convertible grilling device of the type described comprising a stand, an upper frame supported by said stand, a pair of spaced substantially horizontal guides, means supporting said guides from said frame, a pair of spaced substantially vertical guides, means for supporting said vertical guides from said upper frame, the bottom end of each of said vertical guides communicating with an end of a horizontal guide, a substantially rectangular fuel container having lateral sides, each of said lateral sides having at least one guide peg extending laterally therefrom, said guide pegs being moveable along and engageable with either of said pairs of guides, said guide pegs also being moveable from a position in engagement with one of said pairs of guides to a position in engagement with the other pair of guides by passing through the point of communication between said vertical guides and said horizontal guides said fuel container having its major plane selectively securely positioned either substantially horizontal or substantially vertical depending upon which pair of guides are engaged by said pegs, and said fuel container being free of any means for securing it in place in either selected position other than gravity whereby said container may at any time be moved manually from one selected position to the other without prior unclamping, loosening of fastenings or the like.

2. The device of claim 1 in which said means supporting one of said pair of guides comprises a pair of side plates, each of said side plates being secured to said upper frame and each of said one pair of guides being secured to one of said plates.

3. The device of claim 1 in which said means supporting said pairs of guides comprises a pair of side plates, each of said side plates being secured to said upper frame, one of each of said pairs of guides being mounted on one of said plates, and the other of said pairs of guides being mounted on the other of said plates.

4. The device of claim 3 in which each of said side plates has therein at least one slot of a pair of aligned slots for receipt of a spit.

5. The device of claim 1 in which said horizontal pair of guides comprise an upwardly opening, generally U shaped channel;

said vertical pair of guides each comprise a pair of facing channel shaped members each having one of their facing legs opposed to and spaced from the opposing leg of the other member to provide a guide slot, and one of each pair of said facing channels having its lower end aligned with and spaced above its respective horizontal guide to provide said communication for said guide pegs between said horizontal guides and said vertical guides.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein there are two pairs of guide pegs extending laterally from said fuel container for selective engagement with said horizontal and vertical guides.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein there are two pairs of guide pegs extending laterally from said fuel container for selective engagement with said horizontal and vertical guides.

8. The device of claim 7 in which said fuel container has a plate removably secured along one of its sides for retaining fuel in the container when the container is in the vertical position.

9. The device of claim 8 in which a back plate is provided, said back plate being removably secured between said side plates in a vertical position.