Portable grill with interchangeable accessories

• US 4,924,844 A
• Filed: 10/05/1989
• Issued: 05/15/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jorge M. Bransburg
• Original Assignee: Jorge M. Bransburg
• Inventors: Bransburg, Jorge M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Larry
• Application Number:
  US07/417,635
• Time in Patent Office: 222 Days
• Field of Search: 126/9 R, 126/9 B, 126/25 R, 126/29, 126/37 R, 126/41 R, 99/385, 99/444, 99/400, 99/339, 99/393
• US Class Current: 126/9.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0718 with vertical fire box

Abstract

A portable grill is disclosed. The grill includes a rectangular volume which encloses a heat source with an ash tray for the burned fuel in the base thereof. A grid covers the open cooking surface of the rectangular volume. The housing forming the unit further includes stair-stepped hinged side panels which serve to support food holding accessories. The unit folds in a closed compact unit including carrying handle.

Claims

1. A portable grill with interchangeable accessories, of the type with a receptacle for the source of heat;

means to put the products to be roasted at the outside of the heat generated;

elements to re-collect the residues of combustion and also the fats of the broiled products;

means to transport the complete appliance; and

means to temporally affix such accessories that hold the products to be roasted;

characterized by;

a mixture of a main receptacle for the source of heat, which is a rectangular volume of flat walls disposed in vertical position, with an ash box that moves transversally in its bottom;

the receptacle being internally covered with a metallic cord on all sides except the upper one;

with a removable cover with two main sides, a small one that closes the top of the receptacle when disposed in a storage or transport position and the other which is bigger and can be used as a roasting surface in the horizontal position;

including two equal lids fixed with hinges to the lateral sides of the main receptacle, which are used to support the accessories which hold the products to be broiled and have their front border stair-shaped in vertical and horizontal alternating sections, with at least one U-shaped notch in the horizontal sections; and

the whole appliance is complemented with a tray to recollect the fats which is disposed at the bottom, between the lateral lids, and connected to the main receptacle by means of wedges, being the aforementioned U-shaped notches to support the dice that the accessories have near their handles.

2. A portable grill as claimed in claim 1, characterized by:

an upper removable cover that has two principal and flat sides that includes slots in its lateral ones, which are to fix the cover in place with the two pins that main receptacle has in the upper part of its lateral walls, over the pivoting axes of the handle to transport the whole appliance.

3. A portable grill as claimed in claim 1, characterized by:

the accessory used to hold the products to be roasted has a dice-shaped device that rests in the U-shaped notches of at least one of the lateral lids and is constituted by a metallic structure with two lateral profiles with a succession of curved sections of support over the same line, being completed with a longitudinal rod articulated at one end, which rod is used to hold the products to be roasted.

4. A portable grill as claimed in claim 1, characterized by:

an accessory that holds the products to be broiled, with dice-shaped notches on at least one of the lateral lids, consisting of one metallic structure in continuity with the handle and including pivoting hooks in both ends and whose free ends contain wedges in the small sides of a metallic grid disposed over the products to be roasted, facing the aforementioned metallic structure.

5. A portable grill as claimed in claim 1, characterized by:

four lateral lids projecting from the sides of the main structure, two for each of the wide sides of the central receptacle, and facing each other in opposed orientations.