Abstract: A portable compactly stored outdoor cooking stand can be used either with a self-contained charcoal compartment or over an open campfire, and can cook in many cooking modes including, open flame grilling, frying, steaming, boiling, baking, etc. Thus, a stand for straddling a campfire site vertically arranges one or more of three encompassed cooking utensils, namely a grill cooking surface, a pan for holding food or charcoal, and a vented cover for release of smoke, fumes, or steam. The pan and cover mate to form a portable suitcase-like carrying case with a handle that contains all the other elements for transport and compact storage when not in use.

Abstract: This cooking grill assembly enables full rotation of a grill portion, which is mounted to a sleeve, and the sleeve is also elevatable for bringing food close to the fire, or raising it so as only to keep it warm. The sleeve is also removable for safely taking the grill portion and cooked food away from the fire.

Abstract: A portable, knockdown field stove (10) is formed of a plurality of elongated plates (16a, 16b, 16c) interlocked by triangular notches (30, 32) defined therein. The plates tilt to be downwardly convergent toward the ground to support a portable heat source (14) and a utensil (2) above the ground on the plates. Ventilation for the heat source is established through the notches past the interlocked plates. Various other peripheral shapes for the stove (50, 68, 80) can also be formed.

Abstract: Portable cooking apparatus including a support base, a support column and a grill member. The support column is pivotally attached to the support base for movement from a first position, adjacent the support base, to a second position extending upwardly from the support base. The grill member is selectively positionable on the support column and removable therefrom to allow the support column to assume the first position.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for suspending an object to be cooked in close proximity to a heat source while rotating the object about a vertical axis. The hook upon which the meat or objects to be cooked or hung is rotated by a chain connecting a sprocket on the hook with a sprocket on an electric motor. The chain is sufficiently long so that the motor may be placed far enough from the fire or heat source to prevent damage to the motor. Preferably, the hook and motor is contained within a single frame which has two hooks at the top thereof so that the frame may be suspended from a horizontal pipe.

Abstract: A casserole set includes a gas burner within a portable cooking stove, volcanic stones above the gas burner, and a transparent or semi-transparent pan comprising synthetic resins or heat resisting glass on the cooking stove. Cooking is accomplished by heating the volcanic stones with the gas burner.

Abstract: A portable cooking stand for indoor and outdoor use including a post and at least one grill assembly swingably and slidably mounted thereon. Each grill assembly has a sleeve slip-fittingly mounted on the post, a grill support in the form of a rod bent generally in the shape of a vee and having the nip portion thereof circumscribing the sleeve and rigidly secured thereto and an open grill resting on and secured to the grill support. A grill assembly support means is slidably mounted on the post, below the sleeve of the grill assembly, and includes lock means for securing the same to the post at any position longitudinally therealong.

Abstract: An outdoor park grill of superior strength and resistance to wear, vandalism and deformation stress which is comprised of a firebox, and a grate which covers the firebox which is wholly adjustable. The adjustability of the grate is provided by attachment of the grate to a pair of spaced apart vertically oriented grate posts attached to the bottom of the firebox and extending upwardly out of the box and looping around to engage the back wall of the firebox. The grate extends over the firebox and is defined by a pair of spaced apart grate sidebars and front and rear bars extending between the side bars and a plurality of rack bars, with the grate bars having a front handle portion and a rear eyelet which slidably engages the grate posts and also dwells in a different plane than the rack bars to provide a combination of compression and tension in a truss-like arrangement when downward pressure is placed on the grate handles.

Abstract: A collapsible grill comprises a plurality of rods which are attached at their ends to a pair of flexible cables. A pair of bars are attached by several turns to the respective ends of the first rod and constrained to prevent escape from near the ends by a pair of pins in the first rod near its ends. The bars have hooks which engage detents on the last rod, which may be formed of indentations or the like, so that when assembled for use, the bars are held by the spring action of the last bar and the first bar to place the bars under compression and the cables under tension. The grid is thus spread out for use. One or more additional cables may be attached to the rods. The rods may have handles at the end remote from the turns formed by a simple fold-back of the ends. Forked stakes may be used to support the grill during use.When not in use, the hooks may be disengaged, the bars and rods made near parallel and rolled up held by the chains, and constrained by a hook on the last bar to be retained in a bundle.

Abstract: A portable campfire fireplace for containing a campfire and for providing a cooking surface which is adjustable with respect to the fire, in which side walls form a firebox and are hinged to fold flat, side by side. A post extends upwardly from eyes at one corner of the firebox and a bracket for holding a grill is slidable and rotatable on the post. A collar and set screw hold the bracket in place on the post. All pieces of the fireplace can be attached to one wall of the firebox for storing and transporting the fireplace. A false bottom may be disposed in the firebox for charcoal cooking, to hold the charcoal near the top of the firebox.

Abstract: In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a portable campfire grill assembly includes a support having a flat bracket upper end portion with several side slots cut therein, a handle having a bight with a slot formed in its upper wall adapted to mate with one of the bracket slots when the bight is fitted thereon, and a rectangular lock that is slipped down over the top of the bracket and fitted over the bight to securely lock the handle and bracket to one another.

Abstract: An outdoor cooking apparatus having a collapsible support which is pivotally mounted in the recess of an automotive spare tire rim. The pan of the cooking apparatus is pivotally attached to the end of the support and the pan and the recess form an enclosure for containing the collapsible cantilevered support when the support is collapsed and pivoted about its pivotal mounting and the pan is pivoted about its pivotal attachment to the support. When the support is collapsed and the pan pivoted, the pan's peripheral edge abuts the spare tire rim flange enclosing the support and any attachments on the support between the pan and the spare tire rim. The spare tire rim could, in one embodiment, be replaced by a portable housing having a carrying handle attached to it.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for suspending one or more long-shafted forks in a vertical position for storage and in a horizontal operative position whereby the forks may be used to hold food over an open heat source. The apparatus comprises a base having dimensions sufficient to provide vertical stability, a stand post mounted vertically to the base, an upper bracket adapted to hold the forks vertically at the handles, and a lower bracket having a cradle and hook retaining means for retaining the forks horizontally in the second operative position. The lower bracket is also vertically movable along the stand post, and the hook and cradle retaining means are pivotable about a cross bracket portion of the lower bracket whereby the forks may be adjusted horizontally over the heat source.

Abstract: A ground supported adjustable grill device comprising a single support leg element formed of a plurality of tubular members, the upper member being an inverted L-shape. Suspended from the upper L-shaped member is a grill or cooking utensil removably attached at one end of a flexible element, which in turn attaches to the single support leg member for stability, selective adjustment, and further being horizontally pivotal by means of a support leg member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a support assembly for a campfire cooking utensil in which a horizontal arm may be adjustably positioned along a vertical support member by means of spaced, notch gripping apertures in plates carried by the arm. An adapter member releasably joins the free end of the arm and a cooking implement which is rigidly attached to the adapter. Inwardly directed flanges on the free end of the arm extend into longitudinal slots in the adapter and, adjacent the open, entry end of the slots, abutments are provided. The width of the slots and the abutment height are sized so that the adapter and the arm are locked against separation when the adapter is cocked slightly, under load, with relation to the arm.

Abstract: A portable stove of the type fuelled from a replaceable pressurized combustible gas cartridge which is secured inside a cover member supporting a burner head and having means for connecting the burner head to the replaceable cartridge. A pair of covers, which telescopically fit one into the other have the dual function of serving separately as saucepans or in co-operation as an expandible housing for storing the stove, the covers being selectively telescopable to relatively greater or lesser extents, respectively to store the stove assembled or alternatively disassembled. The stove has arms which are shaped so as to provide, when the arms are extended, upstanding portions which are inscribed in a circle whose diameter is greater than the external diameters of the covers.

Abstract: A fireplace support bracket having an upright, an adjustable slide having a greater inner effective diameter than the outer effective diameter of the upright, a locking surface extending down from the slide parallel to the upright, and a pin or aperture on the slide to receive a grate whose weight locks the locking surface against the upright in any selected position. The upright includes a pair of pins for mounting the bracket to the hinges of a fireplace.

Abstract: A portable barbeque and cooking appliance that includes a tripod and a plurality of suspending members depending from the tripod for supporting a rack or a cooking vessel.

Abstract: A compact, easily assembled barbecue pit hanger including a telescoping support post; a hanger arm that is anchored to the support post, that may be used to set the support post length or to elevate accessories suspended from the hanger arm, and cooking accessories that interlock with the hanger arm and support post for use.

Abstract: An adjustable grill device having at least three legs connected to a head assembly for being disposed adjustably with respect to one another. Suspended from the head assembly is a grill at one end of a flexible element, the other end of which is attached to one of the legs of the device for selective sliding movement along the leg in order to vary the distance of the grill from the head assembly.

Abstract: A portable adjustable outdoor cooking accessory has a stake member with a sharpened point at its lower end and a flange extending substantially normal to the axis of the stake member at its upper end. An adjustment member is rotatably adapted to the upper end of the stake member by adapting means. The adjustment member has a plurality of apertures formed to coact with a pin to adjust the positioning of an elongated arm pivotally secured to the adjustment member. The elongated arm has a handle on one end and a hook suspended from the other end to receive a link chain. The link chain has a hook suspended from its lower end to receive cooking utensils including a bar having means at approximately its midpoint to adapt to the lower end hook. Suspension members are suspended from opposite ends of the bar and have troughs formed along their lower ends to receive the elongated portions of handles secured to a grill suspended therebetween.

Abstract: The invention relates to portable barbecue apparatus of the kind in which the grill member is adjustable in height with respect to the hearth in order to regulate the cooking heat intensity, and has for its object a barbecue of simple, robust construction providing a double adjustment of the grill, in height and transversely, with respect to the hearth. The apparatus comprises essentially a stand member and a grill and a two-way adjustable slide coupling means for positioning the grill with respect to the hearth in two component directions, the coupling comprising two pairs of retaining jaws cooperating respectively with the stand and the grill, each pair of jaws corresponding to one of the component directions.Further features of the barbecue are that it can be used with a fireplace or a wood fire, and it is possible to carry the grill with the cooked food in one hand to serve at table.

Abstract: A pit fire hanger that is removably or permanently mounted adjacent to a barbecue pit so that vessels for food and food items can be suspended over an open fire for cooking purposes. A support arm is vertically adjustable on a support post and swivel hooks are adjustably positioned on the support arm to carry food or food vessels. One of the swivel hooks is also used to positively lock the arm in position on the post.

Abstract: A means to support a rotisserie over an outdoor open fire; the rotisserie being hung from a frame by a chain. An adjusting means is provided to raise or lower the rotisserie relative to the fire, proportional to the heat required. Levelling means is included in order to adjust the level of the rotisserie so as to obtain uniform roasting of the meat mounted thereon. The frame can be disassembled for transportation.

Abstract: A wire rack which fits in a pan within an oven supports poultry and meat during roasting so that grease and fat and particularly water within the body cavity of the dressed poultry runs into the pan. The rack consists of a first member having a round base and preferably eight wire members distributed around the base each in a vertical plane and curving inward and then straight up so that they define a cylinder. A ring prevents the eight members from spreading. A second member comprises a top ring and a plurality of depending wires each about half the length of the first-mentioned wire members and each lying in a vertical plane and extending inward and then straight down, the lower ends of pairs of wires being joined. The lower end of the second member fits into the top of the first member. An annular trough snaps over the top ring and is formed with small holes so that juices placed in the trough baste meat in the rack.

Abstract: A tripod cooking device is of the pyramidal tripod type and contemplates utilization of a grill which hangs from the tripod apex and which is easily assembled and dis-assembled. One of the tripod legs is larger in diameter than the others and is adapted to storingly receive all of the other components of the device. In addition, the said larger leg is formed at one end to have multi-functions, i.e. (1) it provides a guide for the grill hanging cable; (2) it provides a stop for the other tripod legs when the unit is assembled; and (3) it provides a stop to prevent fall-out of all the other components when they are stored therein. Furthermore, a wind guard is provided which selectively protects one lower side of the apparatus or alternately all three upper sides thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for roasting or otherwise cooking wieners and for popping popcorn, said apparatus comprising a support structure having a rotatable arm member extending outwardly therefrom for removably receiving a wiener holder thereon for supporting a plurality of wieners thereon, said extended arm member adapted for supporting the wieners over a fire, or the like, whereby the wieners may be cooked or roasted as the arm is rotated about its own longitudinal axis. Alternately, the arm member may removably receive a suitable cage element whereby popcorn may be popped during rotation of the cage element as the arm member is rotated about its own longitudinal axis. The entire apparatus is particularly designed for portability for facilitating transport from site to site, and for ease of storage when not in use.