Portable oven

• US 6,681,757 B1
• Filed: 06/07/2002
• Issued: 01/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mauricio Rivero
• Original Assignee: Mauricio Rivero
• Inventors: Rivero, Mauricio
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US10/163,921
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 126/9.R, 126/9.B, 126/25.R, 126/9.A, 126/29, 126/38, 126/25.A, 126/152.R, 126/26
• US Class Current: 126/9.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F24B 1/022 easily collapsible or easily removable
• CPC Class Codes: F24B 1/202 specially adapted for travelling

Abstract

A portable oven that is volumetrically efficient when in storage configuration and that can be readily assembled without requiring the use of tools. The portable oven is weatherproof and efficiently cooks the foodstuff placed therein. The portable oven includes two lateral sheets or walls members, a lid, two transversal sheet members, a base assembly, a pan assembly, two supporting members for the pan assembly, two grill assembly supporting members and a heat source. Smaller storage sheet or wall members replace the transversal sheet or wall members to form a storage configuration for all the oven components for their ready storage and transportation. The resulting storage configuration uses the same lateral sheet members used in the oven configuration.

Claims

1. An oven, comprising:

A) first and second wall members having substantially the same rectangular shape and each having first and second coextensive ends and first upper and lower edges, said lower edge resting on a horizontal surface;

B) third and fourth sheet members each having substantially the same rectangular shape and third and fourth ends and second upper and lower edges;

C) means for removably mounting said first and second ends to said third and fourth ends, respectively, thereby defining a space;

D) first and second supporting means removably mounted to said first and second wall members at a predetermined distance from said lower edges;

E) a pan assembly for supporting a heat source, said pan assembly being removably mounted on said first and second supporting means so that said heat source is kept at a substantially horizontal position at a predetermined distance from the plane defined by said horizontal surface;

F) third and fourth supporting means removably mounted to said first and second upper edges; and

G) a grill assembly for supporting foodstuff, said grill assembly being removably mounted to said third and fourth supporting means.

2. The oven set forth in claim 1 further including:

H) a protective base assembly including at least four leg members for keeping said base assembly at a spaced apart relationship with respect to said horizontal surface and below said first and second supporting means.

3. The oven set forth in claim 2 further including:

I) fifth and sixth wall members having substantially the same rectangular shape, and each having fifth and sixth coextensive ends and third upper and lower ends;

J) means for removably mounting said firth and sixth coextensive ends to said first and second coextensive ends thereby defining a storage space; and

K) fifth and sixth supporting means removably mounted between said first and second sheet members at a predetermined distance from said lower edges so that said third and fourth sheet members, first, seccind, third and fourth supporting means, protective base and pan assemblies are supported and housed within said storage space.

4. The oven set forth in claim 3 further including wheel means to facilitate the transportation of said oven.

5. The oven set forth in claim 4 wherein said wheel means includes at least one wheel member mounted to said fifth or sixth supporting means.

6. The oven set forth in claim 5 wherein said means for removably mounting said first and second ends to said third and fourth ends, respectively, include cooperating folded coextensive ends that are slidably mounted within each other.

7. The oven set forth in claim 6 wherein said means for removably mounting said fifth and sixth coextensive ends to said first and second coextensive ends, respectively, include cooperating coextensive ends that are slidably mounted within each other.

8. The oven set forth in claim 1, further including:

L) storage means including fifth, sixth seventh and eighth sheet members having each a substantially rectangular shape with the same height said fifth and sixth wall members being similar to each other and said seventh and eighth wall members being similar to each other with a larger width that said fifth and sixth wall members, and being removably mounted to each other to form a storage space; and

M) fifth and sixth supporting means removably mounted between said first and second wall members at a predetermined distance from said lower edges so that said third and fourth wall members, first, second, third and fourth supporting means, protective base and pan assemblies are supported within said storage space.