Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Confining – conforming or molding support
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-21
2001-04-24
Alexander, Reginald L. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Confining, conforming or molding support
C099S419000, C099S441000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06220152
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to improvements and devices for use as a barbeque rotisserie enclosure.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Barbeque rotisserie enclosures and tumble baskets for use with barbeque rotisseries are well known in the art. The most common type is a chrome plated wire basket having a generally hexagonal cross-section. Such baskets have identical halves and when assembled on the spit of a rotisserie. The basket is secured on the spit and the spit must be removed to open the basket.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,497,697 dated Mar. 12, 1996 by Lech Promny describes an improved tumbler basket for use with a rotisserie. The tumbler basket described uses a tumbler basket material which is perforated and/or screened.
Similarly in U.S. Pat. No. 5,355,778 titled Hand Held Rotatable Food Roasting Apparatus by Alfred B. Mayfield dated Oct. 18, 1994 describes a Hand Held Rotatable Food Roasting Apparatus which is used for supporting food over campfires or the like. The roasting apparatus described in this patent again uses either a screened or perforated material in which the food is placed on.
The disadvantages of using a perforated and/or screen material for a barbeque rotisserie tumbler basket is that the food first of all is exposed to a great deal of air which increases the likelihood of the food being burned. The second disadvantage with these perforated and/or screened tumbler baskets is that the juices of the food are lost and/or dripped into the barbeque, therefore some of the flavour of the food is lost through the loss of these juices. Accordingly there is need for a tumbler basket which substantially encapsulates or encloses food within the tumbler basket for preventing direct contact with the heat source and also minimizing the amount of air which the food is exposed to.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention a barbeque rotisserie enclosure comprises a means for substantially releasably encapsulating food to be barbequed wherein said encapsulating means being adapted to rotate over a heat source.
Preferably said encapsulating means comprising a hollow vessel having an opening for placement of food therein; a means for releasably closing said opening thereby encapsulating the food within the hollow vessel; a means for venting excess pressure from vessel; and a means for attaching said barbeque rotisserie enclosure to commercially available rotisserie rotating drives.
Preferably said hollow vessel comprises a hollow longitudinal tubular vessel having a first closed end and a second open end said open end for placing food into said longitudinal tubular vessel; and said closing means comprising a closure for releasably closing off said second open end thereby substantially encapsulating said food within said barbeque rotisserie enclosure.
Preferably said attaching means comprising a shaft aligned along a longitudinal axis of said hollow longitudinal tubular vessel which is adapted to connect to commercially available rotisserie drives.
Preferably said hollow longitudinal tubular vessel comprising a hollow cylinder having a first closed end and second open end; and said closure comprises an end cap for sealing off said open end of said hollow cylinder.
Preferably said hollow longitudinal tubular vessel comprising a hollow cylinder wherein said first closed end sealed with an first end cap, and said second open end releasably sealed with a closure being a second end cap; said venting means including a first vent hole in first end cap and a second vent hole in second end cap and said attaching means includes a first shaft connected a said first end cap and a second shaft connected to said second end cap; wherein said shafts are adapted to be connected to commercially available barbeque rotisserie drives; and said hollow vessel further including a baffle housed concentrically within and adjacent to a inner surface said hollow cylinder, said baffle including perforations allowing liquids to pass there through.
A second embodiment of the present invention a disposable barbeque rotisserie enclosure comprises a means for substantially encapsulating food to be barbequed made of disposable material; and said encapsulating means adapted to be mounted on a standard barbeque rotisserie spit.
Preferably the disposable barbeque rotisserie enclosure comprises a first and second hollow body adapted to be joined together, wherein food is placed into one or both of said hollow bodies prior to joining said bodies together, thereby substantially encapsulating said food within said joined together hollow bodies and a means for joining said hollow bodies together including a first flange on said first hollow body and a second flange on said second hollow body, wherein the first and second hollow bodies are joined together manually by crimping the first flange over the second flange.
Preferably said encapsulating means comprises a first and second hollow body adapted to be joined together, wherein food is placed into one of said hollow bodies prior to joining said bodies together, thereby substantially encapsulating said food within said joined together hollow bodies and a means for joining said hollow bodies together wherein the second hollow body fits slidably over said first hollow body thereby substantially encapsulating the contents housed with the hollow bodies.
Preferably said hollow bodies are made from thin foil.
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patent: 4177721 (1979-12-01), Redhead
patent: 4612851 (1986-09-01), McManus
patent: 5355778 (1994-10-01), Mayfield
patent: 5497697 (1996-03-01), Promny
Baldwin Chris
Lobelio Mike
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