Convertible portable cooking apparatus
First Claim
1. A cooking apparatus convertible from a grill to a bake oven comprising:
- a fire box having front and rear walls, a pair of opposing end walls and a bottom;
a grill supported above said fire box;
a closed chamber supported on said fire box and enclosing said grill, said chamber being operable to provide access to said grill; and
a pivotable plate mounted between said front and rear walls and pivotable between a first position substantially parallel to one of said end walls and a second position substantially parallel to and underlaying said grill, said apparatus being operable as a grill when said plate is in said second position.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for cooking includes an apparatus convertible from a grill to a bake oven. The apparatus has a fire box positioned below a grill and incorporates a closed chamber supported on the fire box and enclosing the grill. A pivotable plate is mounted immediately below the grill and is pivotable between a vertical position and a horizontal position. In the horizontal position, the plate is latchable below the grill so as to separate the grill from the fire box. In this horizontal position, the closed grill chamber functions as an oven. When the pivotable plate is dropped into the vertical position, the grill is in direct communication with the fire box and can be used in a normal grill fashion.
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22 Claims
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1. A cooking apparatus convertible from a grill to a bake oven comprising:
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a fire box having front and rear walls, a pair of opposing end walls and a bottom; a grill supported above said fire box; a closed chamber supported on said fire box and enclosing said grill, said chamber being operable to provide access to said grill; and a pivotable plate mounted between said front and rear walls and pivotable between a first position substantially parallel to one of said end walls and a second position substantially parallel to and underlaying said grill, said apparatus being operable as a grill when said plate is in said second position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of grilling food in a cooking apparatus, the cooking apparatus including a fire box, at least one grill supported above the fire box, an enclosable chamber associated with the fire box and encompassing the grill, at least one plate pivotable between a substantially vertical orientation exposing the grill to the fire box and a substantially horizontal orientation isolating the grill from the fire box, a selectively operable vent means for communication with the fire box, and access means associated with the fire box for receiving a combustible material therein, the method comprising the steps of:
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passing the combustible material through the access means into the fire box and igniting the combustible material to create a bed of hot coals in the fire box below the at least one grill; placing the food on the at least one grill; enclosing the chamber to concentrate the heat received in the chamber from the hot coals in the fire box; closing the vent connected to the fire box to force the heat from the hot coals past the at least one grill into the enclosed chamber and cooking the food for a preselected time period; opening the vent after the passage of the preselected time period thereby to allow the heat from the fire box to vent to atmosphere and pivoting the at least one plate to its substantially horizontal position to isolate the enclosed chamber from the fire box; releasably retaining the at least one plate in its substantially horizontal position; and opening the enclosed chamber to provide access to the food on the at least one grill when the at least one plate is in its substantially horizontal position. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A method of operating a cooking apparatus, the cooking apparatus including an internal common chamber predeterminately divided into a heat generating chamber and a cooking chamber, the apparatus including at least one plate movable between a set of preselected positions, the method comprising the step of:
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coupling heat flow directly from the heat generating chamber into the cooking chamber; selectively isolating the cooking chamber from the heat generating chamber and interrupting the heat flow from the heat generating chamber into the cooking chamber in response to the selectively isolating step, the selectively isolating step including selectively disposing the at least one plate in one of its preselected positions thereby to at least in part separate the heat generating chamber from the cooking chamber; and venting the heat generating chamber at least upon the occurrence of the selectively isolating step. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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