Barbeque grill with foldable legs

• US 5,163,414 A
• Filed: 12/03/1991
• Issued: 11/17/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wachovia Financial Services, Inc. (Wells Fargo & Company)
• Original Assignee: Meco Corporation (Unaka Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Haynes, James P. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US07/801,227
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 126/25 R, 126/25 A, 126/29, 126/30, 126/9 R, 126/9 A, 126/41 R, 126/305, 126/306, 126/304 R, 126/304 A, 248/432, 248/164, 248/221.4, 108/119
• US Class Current: 126/25.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0763 Small-size, portable barbecues

Abstract

Barbecue grills, particularly a portable barbecue grill with a snap-in cooking grill and pairs of intersecting and foldable supporting legs. The barbecue grill may be disassembled by folding the legs against the cooking bowl and without the cooking grill falling out of the cooking bowl.

Claims

1. A portable barbecue grill with foldable legs comprising:

a. a fire bowl having a rounded body portion with a top peripheral flange defining an open top including the combination of;

i. a plurality of pairs of inwardly protruding lower dimples defined in the inner sides of said fire bowl, so as to support a cooking grill, and

ii. a plurality of inwardly protruding upper locking dimples defined in the inner side of said fire bowl and superimposed with respect to said pairs of lower dimples, so as to releasably engage a cooking grill;

b. a cooking grill removably supported by snap-fitting within said fire bowl top combination of pairs of lower dimples and upper locking dimples;

c. pairs of inverted U-shaped foldable legs further including;

i. an outer pair of legs joined pivotably connected to the bottom of said fire bowl with the leg free ends depending;

ii. an inner pair of legs pivoted at its shank portion to the shank portion of said outer pair of legs with its free leg ends depending;

iii. a leg clip affixed to the bottom surface of said fire bowl apart from the top of said outer pair of legs, so as to resiliently engage the top pair of inner legs and thereby secure the top portion of said pair of inner legs to said fire bowl with the shank portions of said outer and inner pairs of legs intersecting beneath said fire bowl, as the free ends engage a supporting surface;

said inner pair of legs being releasable from said leg clip and foldable to a position of parallel abutment with respect to said outer legs, such that said pairs of legs abut the bottom of said fire bowl in carry mode.