Combination collapsible barbecue grill and folding table

• US 6,302,097 B1
• Filed: 06/19/2000
• Issued: 10/16/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: George Rivera
• Original Assignee: George Rivera
• Inventors: Rivera, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US09/596,368
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 126/38, 126/9.R, 126/41.R, 126/50, 126/305, 126/304.R, 126/304.A, 126/39.B, 126/25.R, 248/150, 248/151, 312/236
• US Class Current: 126/38
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0763 Small-size, portable barbecues
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0781 Barbecue tables, e.g. central grilling areas surrounded by an eating table

Abstract

A combination barbecue grill and folding table that is adapted to be manipulated from a fully deployed condition, during which food can be cooked on the grill and then served on an adjacent table, and a collapsed condition, during which the grill and table are folded into a compact package that is suitable for transport and storage. The barbecue grill is removably received at the top of a cooking stand, and a plurality of fold-up legs extend downwardly from the cooking stand to support the cooking stand above the ground. According to one embodiment of the invention, a pair of table members are hingedly connected end-to-end one another. The first table member is rotated towards and over the top of the cooking stand, and the second table member is then rotated over the first table member to establish a compact package. In a second embodiment, first and second table members are pivotally connected to opposite sides of the cooking stand. The first table member is rotated towards and over a first half of the top of the cooking stand, and the second table member is then rotated towards and over the second half of the top of the cooking stand to establish another compact package.

Claims

1. In combination:

a cooking stand including a base having a top, a bottom, a back and a front, a barbecue grill removably received at the top of said base to cook food, and at least a first leg pivotally connected to said base and extending below the bottom thereof to support said base at an elevation above the ground; and

a folding table on which to eat the food cooked on the barbecue grill, said folding table having a first table member and at least a first leg pivotally connected to said first table member to support said first table member at an elevation above the ground so as to permit a seat to be located under said first table member and a second table member hingedly connected between said first table member and the base of said cooking stand, said second table member adapted to be rotated towards and over the top of the base of said cooking stand, and said first table member adapted to be rotated towards and over said second table member so that said first and second table members are arranged face-to-face one another across the top of the base of said cooking stand.

2. The combination recited in claim 1, wherein said first leg pivotally connected to the base of said cooking stand is adapted to be rotated towards and into opposite facing alignment with the bottom of said base.

3. The combination recited in claim 2, wherein said first leg pivotally connected to the base of said cooking stand has upper and lower telescoping leg portions, said upper and lower telescoping leg portions adapted to be pushed together prior to said first leg being rotated towards and into opposite facing alignment with the bottom of said base.

4. The combination recited in claim 1, wherein said first leg pivotally connected to said first table member has upper and lower telescoping leg portions, said upper and lower telescoping leg portions adapted to be pushed together prior to said first leg being rotated towards and over the top of the base of said cooking stand.

5. The combination recited in claim 1, wherein the first leg of said first table member is rotated into opposite facing alignment with said first table member so as to lie between said first and second table members when said first and second table members are arranged face-to-face one another across the top of the base of said cooking stand.

6. The combination recited in claim 1, wherein said first and second table members of said folding table are hingedly connected end-to-end one another at the back of the base of said cooking stand, and said first leg of said first table member extending below said first table member to support said folding table at the same elevation at which said base is supported.

7. In combination:

a cooking stand including a base having a top, a bottom, and opposite sides, a barbecue grill removably received at the top of said base to cook food, and legs pivotally connected to said base at each of the opposite sides thereof and extending below the bottom of said base in order to support said base at an elevation above the ground; and

a folding table on which to eat the food cooked on the barbecue grill, said folding table having a first table member pivotally connected to one of the opposite sides of the base of said cooking stand and a second table member pivotally connected to the opposite side of the base of said cooking stand, said first table member adapted to be rotated towards and over a first portion of the top of the base of said cooking stand after said barbecue grill is first removed from said base, and said second table member adapted to be rotated towards and over a second portion of the top of the base of said cooking stand after said barbecue grill is removed, whereby said first and second table members are arranged side-by-side one another across the top of said base, said legs adapted to be rotated along the opposite sides of said base of said cooking stand to which said legs are connected so as to lie below said first and second table members.

8. In combination:

a cooking stand including a base having a top, a bottom, and opposite sides, a barbecue grill located at the top of said base to cook food, and legs pivotally connected to the cooking stand at said base and extending below the bottom of said base in order to support said base at an elevation above the ground; and

a folding table on which to eat the food cooked on the barbecue grill, said folding table having a first table member pivotally connected to one of the opposite sides of the base of said cooking stand and a second table member pivotally connected to the opposite side of the base of said cooking stand, said first table member adapted to be rotated towards and over a first portion of the top of the base of said cooking stand and said second table member adapted to be rotated towards and over a second portion of the top of the base of said cooking stand, whereby said first and second table members are arranged side-by-side one another across the top of said base, said legs adapted to be rotated relative to the base of said cooking stand so as to lie against said base and below said first and second table members.

9. In combination:

a cooking stand including a base having a top and a bottom, a barbecue grill removably received at the top of said base to cook food, and at least one leg pivotally connected to said base and extending below the bottom thereof to support said base at an elevation above the ground; and

a folding table on which to eat the food cooked on the barbecue grill, said folding table having a first table member hingedly connected to the base of said cooking stand, a second table member hingedly connected to said first table member, and at least one leg pivotally connected to said second table member to support said second table member above the ground,

said at least one leg pivotally connected to said base adapted to be rotated towards and against the bottom of said base, and said at least one leg pivotally connected to said second table member adapted to be rotated towards and into opposite facing alignment with said second table member,

said first table member adapted to be rotated towards and over the top of the base of said cooking stand after the barbecue grill has been removed from said base, and said second table member adapted to be rotated towards and over said first table member so that said first and second table members are arranged face-to-face one another across the top of the base of said cooking stand.