Abstract: An apparatus for cooking food outdoors has features that allow it to be folded compactly and allow it to be permanently mounted to the owner's home. The cooking apparatus includes a housing adapted to be mounted to the wall of the building. The housing has a front opening and pivotally carries a tray. The tray has a grill and an energy source for cooking. The tray is foldable into the housing for storage. A grease container is located in the bottom of the tray. The grease container has a sloping top for catching grease, and also for containing the grease when the tray is tilted into the vertical storage position. A safety lock device prevents the tray from being moved from the cooking position to the storage position when the temperature in the tray is above a selected minimum, and also when the energy source is turned on. The apparatus includes folding doors that fold into a configuration for open cooking, a configuration for smoking, and also into a flat position for storage.

Abstract: A scissors jack is adapted to be mounted permanently to the bottom frame of a vehicle and enclose the working members of the jack in the closed position. Generally, four of these scissors jacks will be mounted on the four opposite corners of the vehicle to level and stabilize the vehicle when the jacks are extended to their open position. The scissors jack has two opposed pairs of channel-shaped scissors arms. Each pair of arms is pivotally secured at a first end of the arms with the second ends having teeth formed therein. The upper arms of each pair are hingedly connected to a mounting member with their teeth intermeshed and the lower arms of each pair are hingedly connected to a baseplate with their teeth intermeshed. The second ends are mounted in the baseplate and mounting plate by rivets and each pair of rivets has a strap secured on the inside thereof to keep the teeth engaged and to relieve the stress on the rivets.