Collapsible barbeque grill

• US 5,103,799 A
• Filed: 11/02/1990
• Issued: 04/14/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Star Pipe Products, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Star Pipe Products, Ltd.
• Inventors: Atanasio, Jacinto
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US07/608,478
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 126/9 R, 126/9 A, 126/9 B, 126/25 R, 126/25 A, 126/25 AA, 126/339, 126/29, 126/30, 99/421, 99/449, 99/450, 99/448, 211/181, 211/178
• US Class Current: 126/9.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0694 Broiling racks
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0763 Small-size, portable barbecues

Abstract

A collapsible charcoal grill has two frames pivoted together at one end. One frame is retained in a vertical position by struts and the other frame has folding support means. A broiling grill has hooks at one end for engagement over one of a number of spaced horizontal rods on the second frame and legs at that same end engage a lower horizontal rod to support the broiling grill in cantilever fashion over the other frame which is designed to support a receptacle for burning charcoal.

Claims

1. A barbeque grill comprising first and second frames, each comprising a pair of rigid parallel, laterally spaced side members and a plurality of longitudinally spaced, rigid cross members integrally joined at their opposite ends to the respective side members, said first and second frames being hinged together at adjacent ends for movement between a first collapsed position wherein said frames are substantially parallel to each other and a second raised position wherein said second frame is substantially normal to said first frame, strut means pivoted at one end to one of said frames and releasably connectable to the other of said frames to retain said frames in said second position, and support means pivoted to said first frame for movement between a first collapsed position substantially parallel to the underside of said first frame to a second extended position for engagement with a support surface, and means for releasably retaining said support means in its second extended position.

2. The grill of claim 1 including a third frame comprising laterally and longitudinally spaced rigid members integrally connected together to define an open-mesh food product support grid having opposed sides and ends, laterally spaced, downwardly open hooks fixed to one end of third frame for engagement over a selected one of the cross members of said second frame when in its second open position, and downwardly extending leg means rigidly fixed to said third frame at the same end as said hooks and of a length to engage a cross member of said second frame below the selected one engaged by said hooks to support said third frame in cantilever fashion over and substantially parallel to said first frame.

3. The grill of claim 2 wherein each of said leg means is an integral part of a respective hook.

4. The grill of claim 1 wherein the ends on opposite sides of said first frame of at least some of said cross members have upstanding parts to serve as retaining guides for a charcoal receptacle placed on said first frame after said first and second frames and said support means have been moved to their second positions.

5. The grill of claim 4 wherein the outer ends of adjacent upstanding parts are integrally connected together by rigid bars.

6. The grill of claim 1 wherein said strut means are defined by a pair of arms pivoted at one end to one of said cross members of said second frame and having downturned parts at their opposite ends, and a pair of cross members on said first frame are closely spaced apart a distance to receive frictionally therebetween the downturned end parts of said arms.

7. The grill of claim 6 wherein the downturned end parts of said arms are integrally connected together by a cross bar of a size to pass between said closely spaced cross bars of said first frame.

8. The grill of claim 1 wherein said support means comprises a pair on each side of said first frame of arms, the inner ends of the arms of each pair being pivotally connected at spaced positions to said first frame, a bar rigidly interconnecting the outer ends of each pair of arms and being adapted to engage said support surface when said support means are in their second extended position, said means for retaining said suppOrt means in their extended positions comprising stop means carried by at least one arm of each pair for engaging one of said side and cross members of said first frame to limit the movement of said interconnected arms in an extended direction.

9. The grill of claim 2 wherein the members defining the respective frames are rigid wire welded together at their points of intersection.