Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Pillsbury

Thomas J. Pillsbury has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5172628
    Abstract: Apparatus for cooking food atop a barbeque grill or the like including a hollow rectangular frame having front and rear walls coupled by adjustable side walls to adapt the unit to different size barbeque grills. A plurality of food receiving skewer blades are rotatably mounted on the front and rear walls and include a pointed end for piercing food and a handle end which can be gripped for removing the skewer blades. One of the skewer blades is rotatably driven via a motor mounted thereon adjacent the front wall. The rotation of the driven skewer blade is coupled to the remaining skewer blades via intermeshing gears rotatably mounted on the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Inventors: Thomas J. Pillsbury, Keith W. Wurst