Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Spit or impaling type
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-22
2001-01-30
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Spit or impaling type
C099S419000, C099S427000, C099S448000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06178879
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable roaster for roasting flesh and meat using heat, and more particularly to, a portable roaster which can make fire with charcoal as well as with gas, has a case for storing extra butane gas container, and can cook the meat evenly by rotating the meat.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, to cook food, portable roasters using a gas range or charcoal have been widely used.
The conventional roasters have a baking pan, which is heated by a separate heating power. As the heating power, butane gas or charcoal is used according to a user's taste.
The conventional roasters cook food such as meat by an indirect heat, that is, the food is cooked by heating the baking pan on which the food is put.
However, the conventional roasters send up smoke when roasting the food, since oil or water generated during cooking directly drops on the fire source. Additionally, the roasters are deteriorated in the efficiency of fire since the fire is not dispersed evenly but concentrated on certain portions.
That is, heat of fire is concentrated only on certain portions of the food which is in contact with the baking pan, and thereby the food cannot be cooked evenly and the food is deteriorated in its own taste. If a user makes the fire stronger to cook all parts of the food, the surface of the food is burnt. In order to cook the food evenly, the user must turn the food over continuously.
Furthermore, the roaster for butane gas requires only the butane gas and the roaster for charcoal fire requires only the charcoal as the fire source. Therefore, the user must prepare various kinds of roasters and fire sources to use according to the user's taste since the roasters cannot use both charcoal and butane gas.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable roaster in which both charcoal and butane gas can be used as a fire source.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a portable roaster which rotates the food to cook evenly.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a portable roaster which cooks the food in the same effect as an oven, thereby preventing smoke from being generated.
To accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides a portable roaster including: a round shaped body having a gas nozzle portion of a bar shape, which extends back and forth at an inner and lower portion thereof, a pair of insertion holes formed at opposite sides of the body, a pair of covers respectively hinged at the front and rear portions of the body to cover the body, the covers having a plurality of ventilation holes, a gas container reception groove disposed at the front portion, the gas container reception groove in which a gas container is inserted to be connected to the gas nozzle portion for providing gas, and a gas control handle disposed at a portion of the gas container reception groove for controlling the volume of gas; and a rotary portion mounted on the rear cover, the rotary portion having a pair of support plates arranged at opposite sides of the rear cover, the lower ends of the support plates being inserted into the insertion holes of the body, a skewer bar rotatably disposed and extending between the opposite support plates, and a power supply portion mounted on one of the support plates to rotate the skewer bar.
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Han Sung Enertec Co., Ltd.
Jacobson Price Holman & Stern PLLC
Simone Timothy F.
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