Slant adjustable grill

• US 4,592,335 A
• Filed: 05/17/1985
• Issued: 06/03/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Belson Outdoors, LLC
• Original Assignee: Belson Manufacturing Company, Inc.
• Inventors: Beller, Frank W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US06/735,479
• Time in Patent Office: 382 Days
• Field of Search: 126/9 R, 126/9 A, 126/9 B, 126/25 R, 126/25 A, 126/25 AA, 126/29, 126/30, 126/220
• US Class Current: 126/25.00A
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0704 with horizontal fire box

Abstract

A slant adjustable grill for use with large outdoor cooking devices is provided. The slant adjustable grill is cooperative with two grill support panels located at opposite ends of the firebox. The grill support panels include slanted slots for the selective engagement with handle means extending outwardly from the grill. The grill is rendered capable of vertical adustment or slant adjustment in either the front/back or right/left mode. Additionally, a domed lid may be used in cooperation with the slant adjustable grill and provides access cut-out means whereby the user may vertically or slant adjust the grill to the desired position. The slant adjustable grill is also fully removable from the device as well as being pivotable to an open position to grant access to the firebox.

Claims

1. A slant adjustable grill assembly for use with an outdoor cooking device of the type having a firebox including opposing end walls, front and rear walls, and a fire bed means for holding charcoal and the like, the slant adjustable grill assembly comprising:

a plurality of longitudinal grill members and transverse grill support members, a pair of opposing handle means, said handle means each including front and rear extending arms being affixed to said transverse support members and extending outwardly from the longitudinal support members, said extending arms joined by a transverse handle portion;

a pair of grill support panels affixed vertically in parallel relationship at said opposite end walls of the firebox, said grill support panels having first slanted slot means formed at a front edge thereof and capable of receiving the front extending arms of each handle means, the grill support panels further having a second slanted slot means spaced from said first slanted slot means a sufficient distance to accommodate the rear extending arms of each handle means, said second slanted slot means being formed with an adjacent vertical passage for accommodating vertical movement of the rear extending arms therein, said grill support panels being substantially identical wherein the first and second slot means of either panel comprises a corresponding number of vertically spaced slanted slots residing in spaced apart horizontal planes passing through the corresponding slots of both panels, the slots of the first and second slot means at one panel residing in a vertical plane parallel to the slots of the first and second slot means of the other panel, said handle means being selectively engageable at said extending arms with said first and second slanted slot means whereby the grill is fully removable and adjustable to be pivotably opened, placed parallel to the fire bed, or slanted in a left/right or front/back orientation, wherein the front extending arms of each handle means may be engaged at said first slot means of both panels at one horizontal plane while the rear extending arms may be engaged at the second slanted slot means of both panels at a second horizontal plane, and wherein both the front and rear extending arms of one said handle means may both engage the first and second slanted slot means of one panel at one horizontal plane while the front and rear extending arms of the other handle means may engage the first and second slanted slot means of the other panel at a second horizontal plane and wherein the front and rear extending arms of both handle means may be engaged at the first and second slot means of both said panels at the same horizontal plane, wherein said slant adjustable grill may be arranged to have the rear extending arms of both handle means engaged at an uppermost slot of the second slanted slot means at both said grill support panels and said slant adjustable grill thereby being capable of being pivotably opened away from said firebox, and said extending arms being fully disengageable from said first and second slot means, said grill assembly further including a lid capable of being opened and closed over the firebox and grill, said lid including opposing access cut-out means therethrough arranged whereby to accommodate the extending arms of said handle means therein and expose said slanted slot means of the grill support panels when the lid is closed, whereby said grill may be adjusted at said grill support panels to be parallel to said fire bed, sloped forwardly or backwardly, sloped downwardly to the left or right, while the lid remains closed over the fire box.

2. A slant adjustable grill as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first and second slanted slot means comprise four corresponding slanted slots, whereby corresponding slanted slots reside in four separate horizontal planes, whereby in each said horizontal plane two slots at one panel reside in the same plane as two slots of the other panel.

3. A slant adjustable grill as claimed in claim 1 wherein the slanted slots slope downwardly toward the rear wall of said firebox.

4. A slant adjustable grill as claimed in claim 1 wherein said firebox is rectangular in plan, and said longitudinal grill members and transverse grill support members form a smaller rectangular configuration in plan being spaced inwardly of the walls of the firebox.

5. A slant adjustable grill assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the lid includes opposite end walls arranged generally above the opposing end walls of said firebox, said opposite end walls of the lid formed to provide said access cut-out means therethrough, the access cut-out means at each end wall comprising a pair of cut-outs of a size capable of exposing the first and second slot means of the corresponding grill support panel and capable of accomodating said front and rear extending arms of the corresponding handle means whereby to facilitate said grill adjustment.

6. In combination, a cooking device having a firebox formed with two opposing long walls and two transversely positioned opposing shorter end walls, a fire bed means formed with said walls defining a bed for the disposition of a source of heat;

a pair of support panels each having a plate-like configuration and being oppositely mounted to the shorter end walls of said firebox, said support panels having a length less than said end walls and including first and second rows of open slots, each row of slots comprising a plurality of vertically spaced-apart slanted slots, the first row of slanted slots being formed along a forward edge of the panels and the second row of slanted slots formed along the panels rearwardly of the first row, all said slots being slanted in the same direction, said first and second sets of slots having a one-to-one horizontal planar relationship at each panel, the first row of slots at both said panels residing in the same vertical plane and the second row of slots of both said panels residing in a parallel different vertical plane, the second row of slots formed with a vertical passage opening upwardly of the panels;

a slant adjustable grill including a grill surface formed by longitudinal grill members supported therebelow by transverse support members and forming a generally rectangular configuration, a pair of opposing handle means extending outwardly of said grill surface, the handle means each including front and rear extending arms affixed to said transverse support members at opposite sides of said grill surface, said extending arms projecting a distance sufficient to extend beyond the end walls of said firebox and being joined by a transverse member forming a handle portion;

said extending arms being circular in section and said first and second rows of slots having circular seat portions cooperatively engageable with the extending arms, said circular seat portions having a diameter no less than the diameter of said extending arms, wherein the spacing between said extending arms of each handle means is substantially the same as the distance between the parallel vertical planes passing through said first and second rows of slots of said support panels, the front extending arms of said handle means the rear extending arms of said handle means being coaxial, respectively, the rear extending arms of said handle means engaging in the second row of slots of the respective panels in a first horizontal plane and the front extending arms engaging the first row of slanted slots of the respective panels in a second horizontal plane, whereby said slant adjustable grill is transversely sloped with respect to the long axis of said rectangular firebox; and

, a removable lid resting atop said firebox to enclose said grill surface, said lid including opposite wall means residing generally above the opposing end walls of said firebox, said opposite wall means of the lid including a pair of access cut-outs of sufficient size to fully expose the first and second rows of slots of the grill support panels, the front and rear extending arms of said handle means projecting through said access cut-outs outwardly of the lid, said access cut-outs being downwardly open toward said end walls of the firebox.

7. In combination, a cooking device having a firebox formed with two opposing long walls and two transversely positioned opposing shorter end walls, a fire bed means formed with said walls defining a bed for the disposition of a source of heat;

a pair of support panels each having a plate-like configuration and being oppositely mounted to the shorter end walls of said firebox, said support panels having a length less than said end walls and including first and second rows of open slots, each row of slots comprising a plurality of vertically spaced-apart slanted slots, the first row of slanted slots being formed along a forward edge of the panels and the second row of slanted slots formed along the panels rearwardly of the first row, all said slots being slanted in the same direction, said first and second sets of slots having a one-to-one horizontal planar relationship at each panel, the first row of slots at both said panels residing in the same vertical plane and the second row of slots of both said panels residing in a parallel different vertical plane, the second row of slots formed with a vertical passage opening upwardly of the panels;

a slant adjustable grill including a grill surface formed by longitudinal grill members supported therebelow by transverse support members and forming a generally rectangular configuration, a pair of opposing handle means extending outwardly of said grill surface, the handle means each including front and rear extending arms affixed to said transverse support members at opposite sides of said grill surface, said extending arms projecting a distance sufficient to extend beyond the end walls of said firebox and being joined by a transverse member forming a handle portion;

said extending arms being circular in section and said first and second rows of slots having circular seat portions cooperatively engageable with the extending arms, said circular seat portions having a diameter no less than the diameter of said extending arms, wherein the spacing between said extending arms of each handle means is subtantially the same as the distance between the parallel vertical planes passing through said first and second rows of slots of said support panels, the front extending arms of said handle means and the rear extending arms of said handle means being coaxial, respectively, the front and rear extending arms of one said handle means engaging the first and second rows of slots at the respective panel in a first horizontal plane and the front and rear extending arms of the other handle means engaging the first and second rows of slots at the other panel in a second horizontal plane, whereby said slant adjustable grill is longitudinally sloped between the support panels with respect to the long axis of the fire box; and

, a removable lid resting atop said firebox to enclose said grill surface, said lid including opposite wall means residing generally above the opposing end walls of said firebox, said opposite wall means of the lid including a pair of access cut-outs of sufficient size to fully expose the first and second rows of slots of the grill support panels, the front and rear extending arms of said handle means projecting through said access cut-outs outwardly of the lid, said access cut-outs being downwardly open toward said end walls of the firebox.

8. In combination, a cooking device having a firebox formed with two opposing long walls and two transversely positioned opposing shorter end walls, a fire bed means formed with said walls defining a bed for the disposition of a source of heat;

a pair of support panels each having a plate-like configuration and being oppositely mounted to the shorter end walls of said firebox, said support panels having a length less than said end walls and including first and second rows of open slots, each row of slots comprising a plurality of vertically spaced-apart slanted slots, the first row of slanted slots being formed along a forward edge of the panels and the second row of slanted slots formed along the panels rearwardly of the first row, all said slots being slanted in the same direction, said first and second sets of slots having a one-to-one horizontal planar relationship at each panel, the first row of slots at both said panels residing in the same vertical plane and the second row of slots of both said panels residing in a parallel different vertical plane, the second row of slots formed with a vertical passage opening upwardly of the panels;

a slant adjustable grill including a grill surface formed by longitudinal grill members supported therebelow by transverse support members and forming a generally rectangular configuration, a pair of opposing handle means extending outwardly of said grill surface, the handle means each including front and rear extending arms affixed to said transverse support members at opposite sides of said grill surface, said extending arms projecting a distance sufficient to extend beyond the end walls of said firebox and being joined by a transverse member forming a handle portion, said extending arms being circular in section and said first and second rows of slots having circular seat portions cooperatively engageable with the extending arms, said circular seat portions having a diameter no less than the diameter of said extending arms, wherein the spacing between said extending arms of each handle means is substantially the same as the distance between the parallel vertical planes passing through said first and second rows of slots of said support panels, the front extending arms of said handle means and the rear extending arms of said handle means being coaxial, respectively, the front and rear extending arms of both said handle means engaging the first and second rows of slots at the respective panels all in the same horizontal plane, whereby the slant adjustable grill is parallel to the fire bed means; and

, a removable lid resting atop said firebox to enclose said grill surface, said lid including opposite wall means residing generally above the opposing end walls of said firebox, said opposite wall means of the lid including a pair of access cut-outs of sufficient size to fully expose the first and second rows of slots of the grill support panels, the front and rear extending arms of said handle means projecting through said access cut-outs outwardly of the lid, said access cut-outs being downwardly open toward said end walls of the firebox.