Adjustable grill stand

• US 5,850,829 A
• Filed: 02/05/1998
• Issued: 12/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bob Taylor, Diana Taylor
• Original Assignee: Bob Taylor, Diana Taylor
• Inventors: Taylor, Bob, Taylor, Diana
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US09/019,169
• Time in Patent Office: 320 Days
• Field of Search: 126/29 R, 126/30, 126/25 A, 126/25 AA, 126/9 R, 99/450
• US Class Current: 126/30
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0763 Small-size, portable barbecues
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0786 Accessories

Abstract

A camping fire cooking and utility stand is provided including at least one leg. A cross bar is mounted to a top of the leg and extends therefrom with a plurality of hangers spacedly coupled thereto for hanging various utensils therefrom. Further provided is a grill plate coupled to the leg.

Claims

1. A camping fire cooking and utility stand comprising, in combination:

four legs each having a lower extent which is vertically oriented and has a first length, an intermediate extent which is slanted upwardly and inwardly and has a second length that is three times the first length, and an upper extent which is vertically oriented and has a third length half the first length, each of the legs having a top end coupled to a member such that the legs are spaced with respect to each other and further rested on a ground surface about a camping fire, wherein each extent of the legs is linear;

a horizontally oriented cross bar mounted at a central extent thereof to the member and extending from diametrically opposed points, the cross bar having a plurality of hangers spacedly coupled to a bottom thereof for hanging various utensils therefrom, wherein the cross bar has a length equal to a distance between the bottom extents of the legs; and

a grill assembly including a pulley with a clevis and an eyelet mounted to a hook at a bottom of the member, a circular planar grill having a plurality of secondary chains each having a first end coupled about a periphery of the grill and a second end coupled together, a primary cable having a first end coupled to the seconds end of the secondary chains and a second end with a sphere mounted thereon, and a plurality of hooks spacedly coupled along the intermediate extent of one of the legs, whereby the primary cable is situated about the pulley and the sphere is situated beneath one of the hooks for maintaining the grill at a predetermined elevation, wherein a diameter of the sphere is greater than that of the hooks.

2. A camping fire cooking and utility stand comprising, in combination:

at least four legs;

a cross bar mounted at a central extent thereof to a top of the legs and extending therefrom with a plurality of hangers spacedly coupled thereto for hanging various utensils therefrom, wherein the cross bar has a length equal to a distance between a bottom of the legs; and

a grill plate coupled to the legs;

wherein the grill plate has an adjustable height and is elevated by way of a connector and a pulley;

wherein the connector has a bulb mounted thereon for maintaining the grill at a constant elevation via a plurality of hooks spacedly mounted on one of the legs, wherein a diameter of the bulb is greater than that of the hooks.

3. A camping fire cooking and utility stand as set forth in claim 2 wherein the connector includes a plurality of interconnected secondary connectors and a primary connector.

4. A camping fire cooking and utility stand as set forth in claim 2 wherein the legs are each equipped with a vertical bottom extent and an angled top extent.

5. A camping fire cooking and utility stand as set forth in claim 2 wherein the connector includes a cable.