Abstract: An easily and conveniently portable barbecue grill in which the bowl has an outwardly and upwardly extending flange around its perimeter and the lid has an outwardly extending flange around its perimeter, which flanges cooperate to produce a secure attachment between the lid and the bowl when the lid is placed on the bowl in a certain way. In the preferred embodiment, the bowl flange has two or more indentations equally spaced around its perimeter to form a number of inwardly facing reentrant portions on that flange, and the lid flange has at least one gap in its perimeter.

Abstract: A kettle cooker hinge which comprises two spaced legs joined by a bight section to form an inverted U-shaped member which has fully closed, partially opened and fully opened positions. A first mechanism is provided for pivotally securing the lower end of each of the legs to the inner wall of the kettle at opposite sides thereof. The locations of these first pivot mechanisms lie in a first pair of adjacent quadrants of the kettle. A second mechanism for pivotally securing the bight at the upper end of the inverted U-shaped member to the inner wall of the cover is provided at a location directly above the other two quadrants of the kettle when the cover and the inverted U-shaped member are in their closed positions. This second mechanism extends, for stability, on opposite sides of the vertical plane that divides the other two quadrants of the kettle. The bight lies outside the kettle when the inverted U-shaped member is in its fully opened position.