Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Diverse cooker types
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-07
2001-03-27
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Diverse cooker types
C099S340000, C099S400000, C099S446000, C099S447000, C099S448000, C099S449000, C099S450000, C099S482000, C126S0250AA, C126S00900B
Reexamination Certificate
active
06205912
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a barbecue grill, and more particularly to a barbecue grill having collapsible and wheeled legs. When the barbecue grill is not in use, components thereof may be disassembled and received in a tray-like ash/grease catcher covered by a cooking grid, so that the whole collapsed barbecue grill can be effortlessly pulled to move.
People living and working in modern cities are frequently under pressure of business and are eager for relaxing outdoor activities on holidays. One of the most popular outdoor activities is barbecue. A barbecue usually needs some appliances designed for this purpose. A simplest barbecue appliance is a single flat grill to be supported on some stones or rocks. It is not always easy to find suitable stones or rocks outdoors for stably supporting the grill. There is developed an improved barbecue grill having a brazier on which a flat grid is supported. With the brazier, people need not to find stones or rocks and therefore save a lot of time and efforts. When the barbecue ends, some people would discard the greasy brazier and grid to save the time and energy for cleaning the same while others would possibly pack the greasy brazier and grid in, for example, plastic bags and bring them home. The brazier and the grid are made of metal material and are therefore very heavy and not easy to convey. The conveying and cleaning of the greasy brazier and grid therefore undesirably forms a burden after the pleasant barbecue.
It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop an improved barbecue grill that includes collapsible legs and an ash/grease catcher adapted to receive therein other components of the barbecue grill, so that the barbecue grill, when it is not in use, can be fully collapsed and conveniently conveyed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a primary object of the present invention to provide a collapsible barbecue grill that can be fully collapsed into a compact body and effortlessly conveyed.
To achieve the above and other objects, the collapsible barbecue grill of the present invention mainly includes a tray-like ash/grease catcher having a predetermined depth. The ash/grease catcher is provided at a bottom surface with a pair of wheeled collapsible legs and a locating means, along two lateral walls of its top surface with two outward bent edges to provide two supporting frames, and along a rear wall of its top surface with an inward bent edge to provide a baffle, such that a cooking grid having front hooks is removably positioned on and between the two supporting frames and below the baffle. The ash/grease catcher is also provided at an outer front surface with a handle, and near middle points of outer surfaces of its two lateral walls with two bar receivers for a suspension grid set to detachably mount thereto. When the barbecue grill is not in use, the suspension grid set may be disengaged from the bar receivers and received in the ash/grease catcher below the cooking grid and the wheeled legs may be folded to the bottom of the ash/grease catcher, enabling effortless pull of the collapsed barbecue grill at the handle thereof.
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Bednarek Michael D.
Shaw Pittman
Simone Timothy F.
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