Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-20
2001-03-27
Yeung, James C. (Department: 3743)
Stoves and furnaces
Stoves
Cooking
C126S0250AA, C126S00900B, C099S425000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06205995
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable griddle and more particularly pertains to a new portable cooking apparatus for allowing the user to conveniently cook any types of foods anywhere including outdoors.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a portable griddle is known in the prior art. More specifically, a portable griddle heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,791,368; 5,575,195; 4,321,857; 5,752,497; 3,490,433; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 262,595.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new portable cooking apparatus. The inventive device includes a carrying case having a bottom wall, side walls, a back wall, an open front, and a cover having a back edge which is hingedly attached to the back wall and also having a latch member securely attached at a front edge thereof, and a handle member securely disposed at the open front and being adapted for carrying the carrying case; and also includes a griddle member being securely mounted inside the carrying case; and further includes a heating assembly for heating the griddle member to temperatures capable of cooking foods thereupon; and also includes a receptacle being removably mounted to a first one of the side walls of the carrying case for receiving juices and fats from the foods being cooked upon the griddle member; and also includes a plurality of adjustable leg members threaded in the bottom wall of the carrying case for supporting the carrying case upon a surface when the portable cooking apparatus is being used as such.
In these respects, the portable cooking apparatus according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing the user to conveniently cook any types of foods anywhere including outdoors.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of portable griddle now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new portable cooking apparatus construction wherein the same can be utilized for allowing the user to conveniently cook any types of foods anywhere including outdoors.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which has many of the advantages of the portable griddle mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable cooking apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art portable griddle, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises includes a carrying case having a bottom wall, side walls, a back wall, an open front, and a cover having a back edge which is hingedly attached to the back wall and also having a latch member securely attached at a front edge thereof, and a handle member securely disposed at the open front and being adapted for carrying the carrying case; and also includes a griddle member being securely mounted inside the carrying case; and further includes a heating assembly for heating the griddle member to temperatures capable of cooking foods thereupon; and also includes a receptacle being removably mounted to a first one of the side walls of the carrying case for receiving juices and fats from the foods being cooked upon the griddle member; and also includes a plurality of adjustable leg members threaded in the bottom wall of the carrying case for supporting the carrying case upon a surface when the portable cooking apparatus is being used as such.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which has many of the advantages of the portable griddle mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable cooking apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art portable griddle, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such portable cooking apparatus economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable cooking apparatus for allowing the user to conveniently cook any types of foods anywhere including outdoors.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable cooking apparatus which includes includes a carrying case having a bottom wall, side walls, a back wall, an open front, and a cover having a back edge which is hingedly attached to the back wall and also having a latch member securely attached at a front edge thereof, and a handle member securely disposed at the open front and being adapted for carrying the carrying case; and also includes a griddle member being securely mounted inside the carrying case;
Cocks Josiah C.
Yeung James C.
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