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Gas fired barbecue unit

  • US 4,089,258 A
  • Filed: 08/29/1975
  • Issued: 05/16/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a portable gas-fired cooking unit having a housing with upstanding walls at the rear and on each side thereof and horizontally extending walls across the top and bottom thereof to define a cooking area and a food holding spit mounted on said housing for rotation within said cooking area adjacent to the front thereof, the improvement which comprises:

  • a. A ledge on each sidewall extending forwardly from said rear wall and projecting inwardly into said cooking area, said ledges being arranged in spaced apart opposing relationship;

    b. An elongated platform having an end adjacent to each of said ledges and suspended longitudinally therebetween in spaced relation to the bottom wall of said housing;

    c. Means for supporting each end of said platform on the ledge to which it is adjacent;

    d. An upstanding panel of refractory material extending longitudinally in spaced relation to the rotational axis of said spit and having one face arranged to radiate thermal energy toward the food holding area of said spit upon heating of said panel;

    e. A gas burner extending longitudinally along said platform and having port means for distributing gas to be burned thereabove;

    f. Support means attached to said platform for detachably mounting said gas burner upon said platform;

    g. Vertical frame means supporting said refractory panel within said frame and above said burner in position to be heated by the burning of gas distributed by said port means, said frame including forward wall means for preventing lateral movement of said panel while passing cooking heat from said radiant face and a rear wall arranged to intercept thermal energy radiated by the other face of said panel;

    h. Upper mounting means mounting said frame upon said rear housing wall with the base of the frame over the platform and the upper portion of the frame in spaced relation to the rear housing wall;

    i. Means for mounting the base of said frame upon said platform comprised of an element on said frame and an element carried by said platform with said elements cooperating to support the base of said frame in spaced relation to the rear housing wall, both of said frame mounting means restraining lateral movement of the frame and said upper mounting being detachable from said rear housing wall and said base mounting means being detachable from said platform upon vertical movement of the frame within the cooking area beneath said top housing wall; and

    j. Conduit means for supplying flammable gas to said burner.

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