Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Convertible
Patent
1997-11-05
1999-03-23
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Convertible
99397, 99449, 99450, 99427, 126 25R, 126 25A, 126 9R, A47J 3700, A47J 3704
Patent
active
058845542
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a barbecue.
In the case of the known barbecues which, for instance, are heated with charcoal, the barbecue food such as sausages, pork chops and the like is turned manually on the cooking grill in order to achieve uniform cooking of the barbecue food. Particularly when too much barbecue food is on the cooking grill, this can be extremely time-consuming and, moreover, it is annoying for the person attending the barbecue to be subjected to the clouds of smoke produced.
It is also well-known that, in order to achieve uniform turning of the barbecue food, a spit is used which can be turned automatically. Such a spit should, for instance, be used for large roasts and the like, but not for small sausages and, especially, not flat barbecue food such as pork chops and the like. This barbecue food requires a flat barbecue food carrier to permit cooking of a large number of smaller barbecue food items simultaneously, or for flat barbecue food such as steaks and the like, and appliances permitting flat barbecue food carriers to be designed suitable for turning, on the one hand, and to remove the barbecue food carrier while turning from the heating device so as to prevent the cooking grill from butting in front of the heating device upon turning of the large area cooking grill, on the other, already form part of the state of the art. After completion of turning the barbecue food carrier is again brought near the heating device in order to achieve a, preferably, full utilization of the heat onto the barbecue food.
A corresponding barbecue is known, for instance, from the generic DE-OS 1 454 157 as well as from DE-GM 75 36 710.
The disadvantage of the barbecue known from DE-OS 1 454 157 lies in the fact that the device for turning and lifting or lowering, respectively, has been designed at great expense, thus making it cost-intensive in manufacture on the one hand, and liable to breakdowns, on the other.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to carry on the development of a generic barbecue so that both the lifting and the rotary movements of a flat cooking grill are performed with a device which can be manufactured at a favorable price and which, moreover, is durable.
In accordance with the the present invention a barbecue is proposed in which a linkage is provided for the lifting and rotary movements of the flat cooking grill, which linkage is substantially composed of a motorized, swiveling lifting arm and swivel arm, with the lifting arm being guided, and of devices for achieving guidance of the swivel arm at the moving lifting arm for at least part of the working range. On the one hand, the use of the lever-type swivel arm and the lever-type lifting arm makes it possible to have the drive designed to a common lifting and rotary movement of the barbecue food carrier, simply and at favorable cost, while the forced guidance of the lifting and swivel arm, which takes place at least temporarily, allows each turn of the barbecue food carrier through 180 .degree. to take place, thereby preventing the barbecue food carrier from turning back again to that side which already had been facing the heating device prior to commencement of the turn.
Preferred embodiments of the invention are explained in the sub-claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
One embodiment of the invention is illustrated below in the drawings in which
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic representation of a barbecue;
FIG. 2 shows the front face of the barbecue illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows the front face of the barbecue with the barbecue food carrier folded up, and
FIG. 4 shows the barbecue food carrier in a further position.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Referring to FIG. 1, a barbecue 1 is illustrated which is substantially composed of a barbecue food carrier 2 which, in this embodiment, is designed as a cooking grill, a bowl 3 for the barbecue charcoal, charcoal briquettes or the like, as well as legs 4a through 4d. The bowl 3 can be easily removed from the barbecue and cleaned.
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