Barbecue assembly

• US 5,279,214 A
• Filed: 07/05/1991
• Issued: 01/18/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jose V. Lamendola
• Original Assignee: Jose V. Lamendola
• Inventors: Lamendola, Jose V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Simone, Timothy F.
• Application Number:
  US07/729,717
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 99/339, 99/340, 99/419, 99/421 R, 99/421 H, 99/448, 99/449, 99/450, 99/482, 99/444-446, 126/9 R, 126/9 B, 126/25 R, 126/25 A
• US Class Current: 99/445
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 2037/0795 Adjustable food supports, e.g. for height adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0704 with horizontal fire box

Abstract

A barbecue or outdoor grill or cooking assembly structured from a plurality of interlocking and cooperative components which are readily assembled and disassembled at a given site so as to allow the subject assembly to be easily installed and removed from a given location. The plurality of components define a substantially enclosed interior in which a grill assembly is adjustably positioned such that the grill portion thereof may be raised or lowered relative to a platform designed to support a fire bed or other heat generating source so as to regulate the heat applied to the food being cooked which is positioned on the adjustable grill portion of the grill assembly.

Claims

1. A barbecue assembly comprising a plurality of removably attached components enabling selective assembling and disassembling thereof said barbecue assembly comprising:

a) a base disposed on a supporting surface and two vertically oriented, substantially elongated support panels mounted on lower ends thereof to said base and extending upwardly from said base in spaced relation to one another,

b) brace means removably attached in interconnecting relation to said support panels for maintaining said support panels in an upright spaced relation to one another,

c) a platform removably mounted on the interior and between said support panels and adapted to support a heat generating composition thereon,

d) a rear panel removably mounted between said support panels and extending upwardly from said platform in substantially covering relation to a rear opening between said support panels,

e) an at least partially enclosed interior including boundaries defined by said rear and support panels and said platform,

f) grill means for supporting food within said interior and above said platform and removably mounted within said interior and adjustably positionable relative to said platform,

g) said grill means comprising a grill portion and a stanchion means for supporting said grill portion and said stanchion means being removably positioned within said at least partially enclosed interior and extending upwardly from said platform, and

h) canopy means removably mounted above said support panels and adapted for overlying and covering relation to said interior and said grill means.

2. An assembly as in claim 1 wherein said support panels are formed of a masonry like, cementious material of sufficient weight and structure to support and retain a remainder of said components in an operative position.

3. An assembly as in claim 2 wherein said support panels are disposed in an upright, substantially parallel relation to one another.

4. An assembly as in claim 1 further comprising a lining assembly disposed within said interior and positioned and structured to define inner surface portions of said at least partially enclosed interior and formed of a heat resistant material.

5. An assembly as in claim 4 wherein said lining assembly includes two lining panels each disposed in overlying relation to an inner surface portion of a different one of said support panels.

6. An assembly as in claim 5 wherein said lining assembly further includes said heat resistant material secured and defining an exposed surface of said platform.

7. An assembly as in claim 4 wherein said lining assembly further includes said heat resistant material fixedly secured and defining an exposed surface of said platform and said rear panel.

8. An assembly as in claim 1 wherein said canopy means comprises a chimney structure, including an entrance disposed in fluid communication with said at least partially enclosed interior and an exit spaced from said entrance and connected in fluid communication therewith by a substantially hollow interior defining a path of fluid flow for exhaust issuing from said at least partially enclosed interior.

9. An assembly as in claim 8 wherein said chimney structure further includes a cover disposed in overlying relation to said exit and structurally adapted to resist rain flow from passing through said chimney structure into said at least partially enclosed interior.

10. An assembly as in claim 1 further comprising a back panel connected to and between lower, rear portions of said support panels and oppositely and cooperatively disposed relative to said rear panel to substantially cover said rear opening along at least a majority of the length of said support panels.

11. An assembly as in claim 1 further comprising mounting means formed on inner surface portions of each support panel and extending outwardly therefrom and adapted for support of opposite ends of said platform.

12. An assembly as in claim 11 wherein said mounting means comprises two elongated, protruding flanges each integrally formed on a different inner surface of different ones of said support panels, said protruding flanges cooperatively positioned and adapted to support opposite ends of said platform thereon in a substantially horizontal orientation.

13. An assembly as in claim 1 wherein said brace means comprises a plurality of elongated brace members formed of a high strength material and having opposite ends of each member removably connected to one of said support panels, said brace members extending across a front and said rear openings of said support panels in interconnecting relation thereto.

14. An assembly as in claim 1 wherein said grill means further comprises a positioning means supported on said stanchion means and movably connected to said grill portion, said positioning means adapted to selectively raise or lower said grill portion relative to said platform and any heat generating composition disposed thereon.

15. An assembly as in claim 14 wherein said grill means further comprises a support frame disposed in removable supporting engagement with said grill portion;

and guide means movably interconnecting said support frame to said stanchion means.

16. An assembly as in claim 14 wherein said grill portion comprises a plurality of elongated spaced apart and substantially parallel channels disposed insubstantially coplaner relation and collectively disposed in angularly declining orientation from said rear panel toward a front opening and selectively positionable along said stanchion means while in said declining orientation in spaced relation to said platform.

17. An assembly as in claim 16 wherein said grill means further includes a grease catch movable with said grill structure to said stanchion means and comprising an elongated trough disposed transversely along a front end of said channels in liquid receiving relation thereto.