Abstract: A grill support is disclosed for supporting a barbecue grill in locations where a table is not available. The grill support may be attached to a ladder or to a balcony rail or similar support structure and includes a support platform supported in cantilevered manner spaced outwardly from the support structure. In addition an adjustment mechanism is provided whereby the support platform may be moved to a level position regardless of variations in orientation of the support structure.

Abstract: A self-contained cooker and grill having quadrilateral doors with a separate cooking grate attached to each door. Closure of all doors provide a conventional barbecue type cooker or smoker with a full sized grate and a common area for support of solid fuels. The multiple door cooker allows the operator to vary cooking times and heating of four different cooking surfaces. Each door can be opened independently allowing the operator to access the immediate cooking surface without disrupting the remaining cooking surfaces. An upper grate is provided in a fixed, movable, or rotational arangement for adaptation to various cooking requirement.

Abstract: Presented is a modular barbeque grill which may be fabricated in modular sub-assemblies for convenient relatively low cost shipping by the manufacturer to retail outlets or distributors for subsequent assembly by the purchaser. The modular barbeque grill includes a monolithic base unit, a monolithic firebox detachably mountable on the base unit and having a detachable grill, and, in one aspect, a detachable apron frame mounted on and surrounding the firebox and on which food products and utensils may be supported.

Abstract: A collapsible picnic cook-stove comprising, in combination with a disposable pan-shaped fuel holding member for burning fuel, a first ring-shaped support defining an opening and to which are pivotally connected three or more circumferentially spaced legs. The legs function in an extended position to support the cook-stove in spaced relation to the surface on which the cook-stove is to be used and in a collapsed position lie substantially parallel with the plane of the opening and radially inwards of said first ring-shaped support. A comestible support is pivotally connected to the first ring-shaped support to overlie in one position the opening for cooking. A second ring-shaped support is constructed and arranged to receive and support the fuel holding member in suspension below the opening of the first ring-shaped support by three or more flexible chains.

Abstract: A smokeless, non-polluting barbecue cooker has a base canister with a centrally located firebox which communicates with a flue to conduct heat, produced from burning fuel within the firebox, upwards to an oven enclosure supported by the base canister. The heat enters the oven enclosure along its central axis. A grill for the support of food stuffs, to be cooked within the oven, prevents the placement of food stuffs directly over the firebox. Thus no drippings from the food can fall onto the hot fuel within the firebox to produce carcinogenic byproducts. A forced air blower provides sufficient oxygen to the firebox so that essentially complete combustion is achieved; and, the barbecue cooker is smokeless in its operation. Various methods for controlling the heat accumulated within the oven enclosure are disclosed.

Abstract: A barbecue device is disclosed, which includes a cooking support member in the form of a slightly concave plate or grid. A support is pivotally connected to the rim of the cooking support member with the support being rotatable from a stowed position, at which the support overlies the upper surface of the cooking support member, to an operating position, at which the support extends downwardly from the cooking support member. A handle is pivotally connected to the rim of the cooking support member with the handle being able to be rotated from a stowed position, at which the handle overlies the upper surface of the cooking support member to retain the support thereon, to an operating position at which the handle extends outwardly from the cooking support member. The handle includes an extension adapted to extend beneath the cooking support member in the operating position, which also acts as a stop against further pivotal movement of the handle.

Abstract: Barbecue grills, particularly a portable barbecue grill with a snap-in cooking grill and pairs of intersecting and foldable supporting legs. The barbecue grill may be disassembled by folding the legs against the cooking bowl and without the cooking grill falling out of the cooking bowl.

Abstract: Barbecue grills, particularly small-size portable grills adapted for picnics, stadium parking lot cooking and the like. The portable grill comprises a hemispherical cooking bowl and a hemispherical hood removably supported upon the top rim of the cooking bowl. A pair of locking brackets is inserted within the cooking bowl rim, so as to engage the hood such, that the hood and cooking bowl are locked together during carrying.

Abstract: A portable cooler stores a knockdown barbecue cooker within. The cooker includes a flat wire mesh grill, a round pan to hold hot charcoal beneath the grill, and three legs to join the pan and grill and support then above a surface. The legs insert through slots in the sides of the pan and clip onto the grill. When disassembled and cool, the legs and grill fit into a recess on the top side of the cooler lid, and are then enclosed by a slide-on cover. The floor of the recess includes protrusions with lips into which the legs snap. The grill and pan share a common perimeter outline; the outline and depth of the recess are adapted to hold them within.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for igniting briquets in a cooking utensil utilizes a solid flammable fire starter. A solid block of fire starter is placed on the base of the utensil and lit. An enclosure with apertures is placed on the base of the cooking utensil over the fire starter. Briquets are placed on the base and over the enclosure. The fire starter flames pass through the enclosure and ignite the briquets. Once the briquets are sufficiently ignited, they are spread over the base. The enclosure remains on the base during cooking.

Abstract: This invention is a small, very lightweight, fuel efficient, collapsible woodburning stove comprising six parts that form a combustion chamber, and four supporting legs, all fabricated from thin sheet metal by cutting or die-stamping, and all held together as a fully functional unit solely and entirely by a system of flanges produced by bending peripheral edges of the six parts and four supporting legs, and by four easily installed and removed pin-spring-chain assemblies.

Abstract: A barbecue grill cart assembly is disclosed, the cart having right and left sets of leg members, each set having a front and rear leg connected by a strut that is normally welded to the legs. Each strut has integral studs for receiving the grill casting and facilitating assembly. The cart also includes a front panel with extended flanges for providing a plurality of contact points between the flanges, legs, struts and control panel for preventing twisting or swaying of the assembly.

Abstract: A collapsible charcoal grill has two frames pivoted together at one end. One frame is retained in a vertical position by struts and the other frame has folding support means. A broiling grill has hooks at one end for engagement over one of a number of spaced horizontal rods on the second frame and legs at that same end engage a lower horizontal rod to support the broiling grill in cantilever fashion over the other frame which is designed to support a receptacle for burning charcoal.

Abstract: A mechanism for supporting a covered cooking pot within the firebox of a barbecue grille so that the side wall of the pot acts as a heating surface rather than a heat-dissipating surface. The support mechanism includes a ledge structure positionable on the rim of the firebox, a pot-support platform depressed below the level of the ledge structure, and a series of struts extending downwardly from the ledge structure to the platform.

Abstract: An outdoor cooking unit in which a pedestal stand supports above the ground a firebox with an inverted, truncated pyramidal configuration. Disposed within the firebox is a fire grate. A cooking grill is disposed above the fire grate. The pedestal stand includes a pillar having an inverted, truncated pyramidal configuration. The firebox is supported by the pillar of the pedestal stand.

Abstract: A portable grill comprising a portable housing, a pair of spaced-apart leg members mounted in opposing relation on the portable housing, a pedestal for supporting the housing on a support surface, and a pair of fastening assemblies each for detachably connecting a corresponding one of the leg members to the pedestal. When detached from the pedestal, the leg members independently support the housing on a support surface. Mounted on the housing may be a hinged lid, and a gas system including a gas burner, control valve, ignitor, pressure regulator, and a connector for connecting the gas burner to either a portable gas container transportable with the housing or a hose from a tank enclosed in a cabinet formed by the pedestal. The lower end of the pedestal may include a wheeled platform for moving the grill when the housing is attached to the upper end of the pedestal.

Abstract: A barbecue grill cart assembly is disclosed having a pair of leg assemblies each including a front leg, a rear leg and a connecting strut permanently securing the front and rear legs together. Connection of the assemblies to one another is accomplished with a bottom shelf, a control panel and the grill itself. The cart assembly is thus characterized by a small number of structural members while exhibiting a high degree of structural integrity.

Abstract: A convertible food preparation/holding apparatus includes an open bottom cabinet supported on legs above the ground. The cabinet is adapted to selectively receive a charcoal pan for charcoal firing and a gas burner assembly for gas firing. The apparatus also includes a hot/cold serving assembly that may be positioned in the cabinet to convert the apparatus to a hot or cold serving table. The cabinet is provided with a series of cooperating F-shaped slots in opposing sidewalls that allow the desired positioning of the charcoal pan in various cooking positions. The lower edge of the cabinet also includes an inwardly directed flange about its entire periphery. When the charcoal pan is moved to its lowermost position the pan rests on this flange cutting off air flow from beneath the cabinet.

Abstract: A cooking device including a deep pan having a funnel located centrally in the bottom thereof through which heat may rise and circulate in the interior areas of the pan. The pan may also include a griddle which acts as a cover, the heat funnel being adjacent the bottom surface of the griddle when the griddle is covering the pan. Heat may channel from the heat source through the heat funnel to evenly heat the bottom of the griddle as it evenly heats the interior of the pan. The invention also includes a novel handle arrangement on the griddle and pan. The handles are lockable in their upright position if desired in order to stabilize and prevent rotation of the griddle or pan when being lifted. A heat cone may also be placed over the heat funnel to somewhat insulate food inside the pan from direct contact with the heat funnel. A cover which will fit over the entire griddle surface, or alternatively, directly over the pan itself, is also included.

Abstract: A convertible burner apparatus includes a primary burner frame having upper and lower parallel rings connected by struts. A burner element is contained within the primary frame that can be connected to a source of fuel gas such as a canister of propane/butane. A plurality of radially spaced grate members are positioned adjacent the upper ring for supporting a pot thereupon during use. A plurality of legs are removably connectable to the primary burner frame for supporting the primary burner frame in an elevated position. Connections are provided for removably affixing each leg to the primary burner frame at positions adjacent the upper ring and at the middle portion of the leg and a plurality of spokes discourages lateral movement of the legs at a position below the lower ring.

Abstract: A portable grill is disclosed for cooking outdoors with charcoal, and cooking indoors on a stove or in an oven. A cooking rack is disposed within a bottom pan having a generally flattened bottom, and a top plan is removably placed over the bottom pan. The bottom pan may be support by placement on a foldable stand.

Abstract: A gas barbeque grill is constructed in a pre-assembled condition and positioned in a shipping carton. A liquid propane (LP) tank is also positioned in the shipping carton at one end. Following purchase, the tank is removed from the shipping carton, without removing the grill, for filling prior to arrival at the user's home. The pre-assembled grill is thereafter removed from the shipping carton for set-up at the user's home including attachment of the filled tank to the grill for immediate operation of the grill, after set-up of same. The grill is removed from the shipping carton by placing spaced leg supports for the grill on a supporting surface and lifting the shipping carton up and away from the grill. Leg supports preferably constitute four spaced leg supports arranged in a rectangular pattern for supporting the grill. The grill is pivotally mounted proximate an upper end of two spaced leg supports along one side of and within the rectangular pattern of four spaced leg supports.

Abstract: A portable apparatus that has an outdoor cooking stove mounted on a cooler. The stove is latched to the cooler to provide an assembled cooking unit and cooler for transporting and storing. When the stove is unlatched from the cooler, the stove is inverted and separated from the cooler for immediate use in the preparation of food.

Abstract: A gas grill briquette basket used to help reduce flame flare-up and unhealthy bacteria growth which can result from a build-up of grease drippings from meat onto briquettes. Briquette basket could be made of metal rods welded together forming a basket (cage) which surrounds the briquettes. After cooking session has ended and food has been removed from food rack, user removes food rack, raises briquette basket with ladles which attached to either end of briquette basket, rotates briquette basket 180 degrees around the horizontal axis with said handles and lower said basket back into position, and replaces food rack. Now the side of the briquette basket which received the meat and the grease drippings during the cooking session is facing the gas burner and the heat from the burner burns the meat and the grease drippings.

Abstract: A tripod stand structured for supporting food holding equipment over a fire pan containing a fire, or an open campfire. The tripod has three support legs, each formed of a plurality of separable sections which snap together. The upper portion of each leg is hingedly affixed to a central collar. The central collar further defines a central bore structured for retaining a vertically oriented center rigid shaft. The lower end of the center rigid shaft is structured for releasably supporting one of several food holding accessories such as a grill, a battery powered rotisserie or a shish kebob apparatus over the fire. The central collar allows the center rigid shaft to be removed or variably adjusted in height over a wide range. Temporary stationary affixment of the center rigid shaft within the central collar is made with the use of a threadably engaged L-shaped handle, one end of which extends through a threaded bore in the sidewall of the central collar.

Abstract: A field barbecue apparatus for preparing large quantities of food. The apparatus includes a rectangular enclosure that maintains a hot air cooking and warming environment around the food. The enclosure in cross section has a height approximately equal to its width.

Abstract: A backpack-transportable, heated sleeping bag ground pad is provided for the hiker/camper which is extremely compact, simple to use and which may incorporate a variety of conventional outdoor heat sources, such as a campfire or simple kerosene or alcohol lamp, for example. The system basically includes a heating reservoir and miniature, battery-operated pump system to circulate heated water through flexible plastic tubing embedded in a standard sleeping bag ground pad.

Abstract: A new type of portable, collapsible wood burning stove that can be easily disassembled and assembled for use with very small pieces of wood or coal and when so used is environmently efficient comprising relatively small front and back metal plates having along both sides a cut out slot extending from the bottom edge, two other plates having along both sides a cut out slot extending from the top edge, the front and back plates being removably joined to the side plates to form a box structure by having the cut out slots of the front and back plates inserted down into the slots of the other plates, the height of the front and back plates being adjust so that their top edges are above the edges of the other plates and air space remains below the bottom edge of the of such plates, a metal grate and ash pan being inserted inside the box structure and held in place by protruding elements from the side plates, and method for using the same.

Abstract: A smoking for use with a patio grill of the type having an open horizontal cooking surface and means therebelow for providing heat such as by burning charcoal, an electric heating element or a gas fire, the smoker being formed of a bottom section having an open horizontal bottom with a peripheral edge dimensioned to rest upon the open horizontal cooking surface of the patio grill, the bottom section having closed sides and end walls and an upper, open horizontal top, a horizontal cooking grill supported by the bottom section adjacent the open top, and the smoker having a removable top section with an open horizontal bottom with peripheral edge dimensioned to rest upon and closely engage the bottom section top peripheral edge and having closed side walls and end walls and dimensioned to provide a closed space to encompass food to be smoked resting on the horizontal cooking grill.

Abstract: A cooker apparatus for simultaneously cooking fajitas in a pan while barbecuing on a grill. The apparatus has an upwardly opening chamber supported at the bottom thereof, and a burner for heating is contained inside of the chamber. The grill is supported inside of the chamber above the burner; and, a special pan that slopes towards the center forms a protective cover when in one position and can be inverted to form a frying pan within which fajitas can be cooked when in another position. The pan is supported at the upper end of the chamber and can be elevated to form an adjustable flue area by which the escape of heat from the chamber is controlled. The pan is pivotally supported for movement towards and away from the chamber to allow access to the interior of the chamber.

Abstract: A cart/table unit includes a top, a base and opposed upright members in pre-assembled pivotal relationship, collapsed for shipping purposes. The unit may be assembled by unfolding to find operating position without requiring tools, and retained in operated position by means of automatically operated latching and stabilizing mechanisms. The unit has particular application for use in connection with gas-fired barbecue grills.

Abstract: An outdoor cooking unit in which an inverted, truncated pyramidal firebox is supported in nested relation on a truncated pyramidal support member. A bendable, disposable and non-combustible liner is disposed along the inner surfaces of the firebox and contoured to conform to the configuration of the interior of the firebox. In another embodiment of the present invention, an outdoor cooking unit comprises an inverted, truncated pyramidal firebox made of bendable, disposable and non-combustible sheet material that is supported in nested relation on a truncated, pyramidal support member. Optionally, the truncated, pyramidal support member can be made of bendable, disposable and non-combustible sheet material.

Abstract: A stove comprising a housing having a grill-covered top opening and one open side and means defining a combustion area internally of the housing below the grill.

Abstract: A grill device or grill kit, having a base, support post, and a cantilevered support arm, adjustably interconnected for wide accommodation of cooking or grilling situations, outdoors or even indoors in a front-loading stove or fireplace. The support arm, and its revolvable connection to the support post, provide for use of the support arm as a rotisserie, and both a motor and a hand crank are provided for the grill-turning function; and diversity is further accommodated by the grill body itself being adjustable for flat-support use, or for meat-clamping use when the grill and support arm are used as a rotisserie.

Abstract: A cooking grill designed to overlie a conventional outdoor barbecue is disclosed having a portable, unitary cooking surface that includes both a griddle section and a charbroil section to allow for the simultaneous and efficient frying and charbroiling of food over the barbecue. Preferably, depending arms are attached to the underside of the unitary cooking surface and are spaced to support the surface when removed from the barbecue such that the surface may be used to serve cooked food. The downwardly depending arms are also located and sized to prevent lateral movement of the cooking surface relative to the conventional barbecue when the surface overlies the barbecue. Additional features of the portable grill include an upwardly extending circumferential lip about each of the griddle section and the charbroil section to facilitate the retention of food on the cooking surface and a unique detachably connectable handle means for moving the cooking surface.

Abstract: A portable grill is disclosed. The grill includes a rectangular volume which encloses a heat source with an ash tray for the burned fuel in the base thereof. A grid covers the open cooking surface of the rectangular volume. The housing forming the unit further includes stair-stepped hinged side panels which serve to support food holding accessories. The unit folds in a closed compact unit including carrying handle.

Abstract: Cookers, methods of cooking and igniting fuel, and packaged fuel. Novel features of the cookers include receptacles and covers having reflective inner surfaces in the shapes of paraboloids. Another novel feature is a novel cooking surface and support which may extend above the top of the receptacle and into the cover. A supporting and stabilizing pan is attached to the receptacle and biased from the receptacle by a biasing means. The biasing means, combustion grate, and cooking surface support are, in combination, resiliently deformable such that the biasing means and combustion grate can be assembled to the cooking surface for storage or transport. The cookers can be readily disassembled from the cooking mode and reassembled for storage with a reduction in volume of up to at least about 50%, all without use of tools.

Abstract: A portable camp cooker having a housing which is collapsible for storage. In use, the device is surrounded by a collapsible barrier so insulation such as earth fill may be placed around the housing. Air is delivered to a burner in the housing through a pipe which also contains a fuel line and the air fuel ratio is adjustable. The cover for the housing may enclose the cooking chamber or may have an opening which will accept a cooking utensil.

Abstract: A collapsible camp stove having a frame supporting a grate therein for cooking meat or other food. A pair of end plates attached to the frame by hinges which allow pivotal movement of the end plates between a collapsed and erected position. A latching means locks the end plates in the collapsed or erected positions. The grate is of expanded metal to provide better gripping of the food items. The frame has a handle for convenient carrying of the camp stove when collapsed. The handle may be recessed flush with the frame when not in use. A removable cooking plate is provided which contains one or more apertures for exposing less than all of a pot or pan seated over the aperture or apertures to direct heat of the camp fire while reducing exposure of the cook or sides of the pots or pans from direct exposure to the camp fire. The bottom edges of the end plates opposite the hinges have crescent cutouts to provide four point footing for the camp stove.

Abstract: A cooker that can be fueled by the oxidation of a number of sheets of newspaper wadded together. The cooker includes a rectangular bottom wall that is horizontal, impervious and supported by legs depending from its corners. The bottom wall together with upstanding side walls, front and rear walls integrally joined at its peripheral edges define an open topped housing. The upper edges of the front and rear walls support a removable grill basket of two hingedly connecting parts for holding food with a sheet of aluminum foil inserted in the basket therebelow, such sheet being of a size substantially to close the open upper end of the cooker. The side walls have heights exceeding the top of a supported basket to constitute wind shields. Hoods are affixed to the outside upper margins of the front and rear walls that have air communication with the interior of the housing through such margins to constitute a convective air inlet for supporting oxidation at the bottom of the housing.

Abstract: A sheet metal constructed modular pack kitchen including utility tables, sinks and cabinetry, along with an airtight wood stove and flue-mounted oven. When disassembled, the components self-store in nested relation within one another. The stove includes an airtight non-warping cook top, hollow double bottom, hinged hot water tank and supports a double-walled, damper-controlled oven and warming shelf. Slip-mounted, interlocking cook top and flue/oven sections provide a knock-down, airtight construction.

Abstract: A stove comprising a housing having a grill-covered top opening and one open side and means defining a combustion area internally of the housing below the grill.

Abstract: A cooker and/or radiant-heating space heater system comprises a plurality of arcuate sheet metal shell segments assembled with overlapping edge portions so as to form a substantially cylindrical inner shell surrounded by a plurality of similarly overlapping arcuate segments which may be spaced selectively relative to the inner shell and to each other so as to vary the spaces thus defined between the inner shell and the outer segments. The inner shell is spaced above a support surface such as the ground, and the outer segments rest on the support surface so that a combustion zone within the inner shell is in communication with the spaces between the inner shell and the outer segments. For highly efficient combustion, air is drawn down such spaces, due to negative pressure induced by convection over a fire within the combustion zone, and preheated through contact with the hot inner shell prior to entering the combustion zone.

Abstract: A pack stove comprises a rectangular stove body formed by upper and lower stove portions each having a flat rectangular base and three upstanding side walls. The sidewalls of the upper stove portion have a plurality of tabs on the inner surface each defining a slot with the inner surface of the sidewall so that the upper edges of the sidewalls of the lower portion are seated within the slots to hold the stove portion apart. A front plate carries the loading door and a controlled air inlet and is attached to fill the open fourth side of the stove container by flanges around the periphery of the front portion. The legs of the stove are seated within sleeve members welded into the interior of the underside. The stove can be collapsed into one or two separate containers for transporting equipment. The stove construction is rugged and resistance to damage in vigorous handling.

Abstract: A cooking stove useful for all types of cooking, having a semi-conical outer housing and an inverted semi-conical firebox inserted therein. The firebox has a set of openings in its periphery towards the bottom portion thereof which the covered by a ring having similar openings which can be rotated to allow air to flow into the firebox or to prevent the flow of air into the firebox. The housing also has openings which allows air to flow into the area between the housing and the firebox. The interior of the firebox contains a fuel rack upon which fuel such as charcoal briquets or the like may be placed and ignited. The stove can be covered with a grill upon which food may be cooked, or other utensils may be placed on the stove such as wok, a Dutch oven, a steamer, etc.

Abstract: The more or less greasy food to be grilled on the barbecue is placed on a grill above the burning coal. The coal is carried by an air-permeable support. Smoke, produced by the grease drops falling on the burning coal, is prevented from reascending and consequently from contacting the food to be grilled by a suction, carried out at the level of the coal support. This suction is carried out by creating a rising gas flow current in the thermally-conducting exhaust conduit. The conduit is heated by the coal itself used for producing the heat under the grill. The conduit communicates with a chamber, where the upper wall of the chamber forms the coal support. The rising gas flow current in the exhaust conduit produces a suction in the up-down sense of direction at the level of the coal support.

Abstract: A portable wind resistant camp stove for use with solid state fuels such as HEXAMINE or TRIOXANE in which the burner is either fixed or adjustable in relation to the cooking vessel. The camp stove, also, provides storage and packaging for the solid state fuels when not being used as a stove.

Abstract: A portable, foldable roaster oven comprising two side plates, a front plate, a rear plate, a bottom plate, a fire net, a roasting net and a food preserving net, movably combined together so that said front and rear plates and said side plates are possible to be folded down to lie on the bottom plate sandwiching said three nets to become a thin flat unit, convenient for carrying.

Abstract: A fire grate is formed with a slot configured to receive a narrow dimensioned section of a briquette. The walls surrounding the slot support the briquette in vertical orientation with the narrow dimensioned section of the briquette extending upwardly. Combustion air or gas flows through the slot for exposing the briquette to the combustion air or gas.

Abstract: The tubular frame of the grill cart forms a laterally extending shelf with opening into which an insulated container removably nests. A heat shield of folded metal with slotted apertures to inhibit heat transfer by conduction protects the container from the intense heat developed by the grill by deflecting radiated thermal energy and by inhibiting air current convection heat transfer. The insulated container may hold either refrigerated or heated items and features opposing carrying handles which rest upon the frame to support the container with its lid in a generally horizontal plane. The lid in this position may be used as a countertop work space while tending the grill. The lid may also be flipped over to expose a contoured surface with recess compartments for holding beverage containers, plates and trays.