Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Spit or impaling type
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-18
2001-04-10
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Spit or impaling type
C099S341000, C099S419000, C099S400000, C099S427000, C099S446000, C099S448000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06213004
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a portable broiling device and more particularly pertains to providing heat from above food items so as to properly cook the food items.
Today's health conscious society is always seeking healthier methods of preparing foods. Frying and baking are usually seen as less than healthy preparation methods. The use of outdoor grills provides heat from below the food. Charcoal that is used in these grills tend to emit carcinogens that can be trapped in the foods. The only remaining healthy cooking alternative involves broiling. Most broiling is done indoors in an oven. What is needed is a device that will allow for broiling outdoors such that heat can be directed downwardly on the food items that are being cooked.
The present invention attempts to solve the abovementioned problem by providing a device that will enable outdoor broiling, while providing additional cooking variations to allow food items to be properly cooked.
The use of barbeque devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, barbeque devices heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of cooking food 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.
By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,628,897 to Stanfa discloses a gas broiler for outdoor use comprised of a cooking rack below ceramic burner blocks. U.S. Pat. No. 4,598,634 to Va Horn II discloses a portable broiler apparatus and grease tray utilized with a cooking range. U.S. Pat. No. 5,036,180 to Scott discloses a grill that simulates a broiler, for use indoors.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objective and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a portable broiling device for providing heat from above food items so as to properly cook the food items.
In this respect, the portable broiling device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing heat from above food items so as to properly cook the food items.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved portable broiling device which can be used for providing heat from above food items so as to properly cook the food items. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of barbeque devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved portable broiling device. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved portable broiling device and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a housing having a generally rectangular configuration. The housing has an open upper end, a closed lower end, a front wall, a rear wall, and opposed side walls. The closed lower end has a plurality of legs extending downwardly therefrom. The front wall and the rear wall each have a pair of upper and lower support tabs extending inwardly from inner surfaces thereof to support grilling grates thereon. The front wall has a slotted opening therein upwardly of the closed lower end. The slotted opening removably receives a drip pan therein. The opposed side walls each have corresponding upper and lower apertures therethrough. A dome-shaped lid is hingedly coupled with the open upper end of the housing. The lid has a clear window disposed within a forward portion thereof. A heating element is disposed within an interior surface of the dome-shaped lid. The heating element has a temperature control mechanism disposed outwardly with respect to the lid. The heating element has a power cord extending outwardly therefrom for coupling with an electrical outlet. A handled skewer selectively extends between the upper and lower apertures of the opposed side walls of the housing. A free end of the skewer has a motor coupled thereto. The skewer includes a pair of inwardly extending forks removably coupled thereto.
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, of course, 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.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved portable broiling device which has all the advantages of the prior art barbeque devices and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved portable broiling device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved portable broiling device which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved portable broiling device 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 a portable broiling device economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved portable broiling device for providing heat from above food items so as to properly cook the food items.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved portable broiling device including a housing having a generally rectangular configuration. The housing has an open upper end, a closed lower end, a front wall, a rear wall, and opposed side walls. The front wall and the rear wall each have a pair of upper and lower support tabs extending inwardly from inner surfaces thereof to support grilling grates thereon. The opposed side walls each have corresponding upper and lower apertures therethrough. A dome-shaped lid is hingedly coupled with the open upper end of the housing. A heating element is disposed within an interior surface of the dome-shaped lid. A handled skewer selectively extends between the upper and lower apertures of the opposed side walls of the housing.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, re
Goldstein & Canino
Simone Timothy F.
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