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Solar cooker

  • US 4,281,644 A
  • Filed: 06/12/1979
  • Issued: 08/04/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A collapsible solar cooker including a pair of open sided housing halves including corresponding closed and open sides as well as corresponding sets of peripheral sides extending about major portions of said closed sides and extending toward and bounding corresponding major portions of said open side, pivot means pivotally coupling corresponding peripheral sides of said halves for relative swinging of said halves between closed closely juxtaposed positions opening into each other and open positions opening in generally the same direction, the inner surfaces of said closed sides being contoured to reflect sunlight incident thereon from said direction in a concentrated manner into a zone centrally spaced, in said direction, outwardly of said open sides, a pair of support arms having base ends and free ends, said base ends and said halves adjacent said pivot means including coacting recess and projection means telescopingly engaged with each other for removable support of said base ends from said halves at opposite sides of said cooker along a path closely paralleling the pivot axis of relative swinging of said halves and with said free ends of said arms projecting in said direction, said free ends being disposed in opposite ends of a zone substantially coinciding with the first mentioned zone, and an elongated spit removably supported from and extending between said free ends.

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