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Vertical barbecue

  • US 4,120,237 A
  • Filed: 04/11/1977
  • Issued: 10/17/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A barbecue unit, the outer housing of which is shaped as a carrying case formed of a base section hinged to a cover section, said base and cover sections each shaped as an open box, witha pair of similar burner units each in the form of a box fitted with a grate unit as the face side of the burner unit, said boxes each formed with a side hinged to the remainder of the box,said burner unit boxes of a size so that the two boxes may be contained in side-by-side orientation in the base section of the housing and each of a height to extend beyond the rim of the base section in said orientation,means to fix said boxes in an erect position in spaced relation to each other inside the base section with the face side of each burner unit facing the other, anddetachable means to mount a rotisserie bar to said base unit between said burner unit boxes in the erect position, together with a grill unit formed of a pair of grill plates hinged together, with one of said plates fitted with means to slidably engage the rotisserie bar in a non-rotatable fashion relative to said bar,said grill plates each fitted with first means to detachably latch the two grill plates together when said plates are folded in parallel array to each other, and with each grill plate fitted with second means to alternatively detachably engage each grill plate with the face side of an individual burner unit so that in the unfolded mode of the grill plates, and the side-by-side orientation of the burner unit boxes both grill plates extend in a substantially common plane over the face sides of the burner units, to which they are detachably fastened.

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