Abstract: Multi-purpose cooking tongs that are configured to grasp food and bars of a cooking grate.

Abstract: A food skewer tool for removal of a food article from a skewer includes a flat elongated main body having a head portion disposed at a first end and a handle portion disposed at a second end opposite of the first end. The head portion and the handle portion are generally co-planar with one another. The tool further includes a notch extending inward into the head portion of the main body. The tool optionally includes a grip covering at least part of the handle portion of the main body. The tool further optionally includes an accessory disposed at the second end.

Abstract: Grill accessories and food preparation devices are shown and described. In one embodiment, the grill accessory is used to remove a cooking grate from a grill and retain the accessory in a resting position on a ledge or the like. The accessory may include a handle assembly having an upper handle and a lower lateral support. The accessory typically includes at least one prong extension. Further, a vertical support spaces the lateral support and the prong extension. The result is grilling systems and methods to improve grilling and food hygiene practices.

Abstract: A grill grate removal device lifts and removes grates from a grill in order to clean the grill grates. The device includes a main body. A lifting member is coupled to the main body and is configured to lift grates from a grill. The lifting member has a first portion coupled to and positioned perpendicular relative to a second portion wherein the second portion is configured for positioning perpendicularly between adjacently positioned grates such that a top end of the second portion abuts a bottom edge of the grates wherein upward force on the grates permits removal of the grates from the grill.

Abstract: A grill grate lifting tool that engages the grill at three or more points. The grill lifter hooks between the tines of the grill grate at the rim and/or to a handle of the grill grate. The grill grate lifting tool includes a handle attached to three or more legs, which is generally central above the center of mass of the grill grate to provide a stable lifting point with or without food on the grate.

Abstract: A handle set is used for detachable connection to a grill. The handle set includes a handle and a holding element. The handle includes an arched connecting element, two levers extending from the arched connecting element, and two hooks each extending from a respective one of the levers. The hooks are engaged with a crossbar of the grill in a releasable manner while the levers are in contact with another crossbar of the grill in a releasable manner. The holding element includes a rectilinear connecting element secured to the levers and two hooks extending from the rectilinear connecting element. The hooks can be engaged with another crossbar of the grill in a releasable manner.

Abstract: A grill grate lifting tool that engages the grill at three or more points. The grill lifter hooks between the tines of the grill grate at the rim and/or to a handle of the grill grate. The grill grate lifting tool includes a handle attached to three or more legs, which is generally central above the center of mass of the grill grate to provide a stable lifting point with or without food on the grate.

Abstract: A simple tool for lifting a barbecue grill is described—the grill lifter tool has a handle near its top end and a downwardly depending rod from near its center. The downwardly depending rod terminates near its bottom at a horizontal rod. The horizontal rod is thin enough to fit down between and below the space between adjacent grill bars. Near the top of the downwardly depending rod there is a first washer around and welded to the rod. Near the bottom of the downwardly depending rod, there is a second washer movably resting on the top of the horizontal rod, and held in place by a partially compressed spring constrained between the first top washer and the second bottom washer. The second bottom washer is large enough to not fit down into the space between the grill bars.

Abstract: A grill hook device for lifting a cooking surface grate from a charcoal grill or grill pit is provided. The cooking surface grate has a plurality of cross bars with the cross bars having a top surface and a bottom surface. The grill hook device comprises a center shaft having a first end and a second end. A handle is mounted to the first end of the center shaft. An anchor member extends from the center shaft between the first end and the second end of the center shaft. A hook mechanism is formed at the second end of the center shaft for receiving at least one of the cross bars for the cooking surface grate. Upon positioning at least one of the cross bars within the hook mechanism, the hook mechanism contacting the bottom surface of the at least one cross bar, and the anchor member against the top surface of the cross bars, the cooking surface grate is liftable from the grill.

Abstract: A device for retrieving objects from a grill or an oven. The device uses selectively retractable claws lift the object from the grill grate or oven rack and remove it. The claws retract when they come in contact with a cross beam and re-extend in the intervals between. They are arranged to ensure that enough craws are extended at any given time to support the object being removed.

Abstract: A grill panel removal tool includes a handle that has a first end and a second end. A mount is coupled to the second end of the handle and the mount has a first side and a second side. A pair of holding members extends forwardly from the mount. Each holding member has a proximal end relative to the mount that is attached to the mount. Each of the holding members extends outwardly from the mount away from the handle. Each of the holding members has a curved medial section positioned between a distal section relative to the mount and a proximal section extending from the mount. The holding members engage and lift a grill panel that has spaced parallel bars.

Abstract: A pitch adjustable bi-directional shovel includes a substantially flat blade including a forward edge and a rearward edge. Each edge of the blade includes a contact surface. A pivot is secured to the blade. A handle is provided including a first end and a second end, the first end being rotatably mounted to the pivot. An adjustable retention assembly is secured to one or more of the pivot, the blade, or the handle, wherein the pivot and the adjustable retention assembly cooperate to alter the pitch of the blade with respect to the handle so as maintain the blade in general parallel orientation with the associated debris laden surface. The contact surface of the forward edge slideably engages the associated debris laden surface when urged in the forward direction and the contact surface of the rearward edge slideably engages the associated debris laden surface when urged in the rearward direction.

Abstract: A heat shield having at least one shield portion, a grip having a proximal end and a distal end, and a collar located proximal of the grip and adapted to receive the shaft of a tool is provided herein. The at least one shield portion is rotatable with respect to the grip and may be weighted such that it remains pointing downward when the grip portion is rotated about a longitudinal axis therethrough. The at least one shield portion may include a main shield and at least one secondary shield rotatably connected to the main shield. The heat shield may also be provided as part of a cooking tool having a shaft with a proximal end and a distal end and a cooking element attached at the distal end of the shaft.

Abstract: A barbecue device for spreading and manipulating charcoal within a grill. The barbecue device includes a raking portion and a handle portion. The raking portion comprises a pair of pronged portions. Each of the pronged portions is integrally coupled together. The handle portion includes a rod and a handle member. The rod is elongate having a first and second end. The second end of the rod is integrally coupled to the raking portion. The handle member has a first end and a second end. The first end of the handle member is fixedly coupled to the first end of the rod.

Abstract: An ash and debris collector, particularly, but not exclusively, for a fireplace is comprised of a scoop body defined by an elongated open-ended channel member having a forward neck shovel portion and a rear discharge portion. At least a forward end of the shovel portion has a flat bottom wall with a straight front edge and opposed side walls. A skirt is provided in a front portion of the top wall of the shovel portion and projects outwardly of the top end of a front edge of the opposed side walls to prevent ashes from rising to the top wall of the scoop body during the scooping movement. A bag holder is secured to the rear discharge portion and extends rearwardly of a rear discharge opening defined by the rear discharge portion whereby to support a bag in an open condition. An open mouth of the bag is secured about the rear discharge opening by a band and a handle is provided on the rear discharge portion to manipulate the scoop.

Abstract: The wire rack handling tool of this invention has a handle, a hooking element, and a stabilizing component. The preferred embodiment is made of formed wire and therefore the entire tool is rigid. The hooking element is at the bottom of the handle stem and is advanced onto a wire rack while the stabilizing component extends further below the hooking element. As the hooking element is engaged onto a wire rack, the entire tool is allowed to rotate about the hooking element where it is attached to the rack and the stabilizing component comes to rest against the underside of the the rack across several of the rack's parallel rib wires. This pivoting action about the fulcrum in the hooking element provides the leverage for the stability and handling of the wire rack. The width of the stabilizing component provides rotational support and stability of the rack when it is being lifted.

Abstract: A compound hand held tool for use with the round pot belly type of barbeque grills that have circular grills made of heavy wire. While the primary purpose of the invention is to operate as a handle for such grills, it is also designed to be used to scrape grills to help clean them, to open and close hot air vents normally found on barbeque grills and to manipulate hot charcoal briquets. In the preferred embodiment this tool is made by machine working stainless steel and is provided with a heat resistant handle.

Abstract: An implement for receiving and containing ashes during cleaning of a stove or fireplace. The inventive device includes a collection box for scooping and receiving ashes. A closure is pivotally mounted to the box for containing the ashes therewithin. A handle assembly extends from the box for facilitating manual manipulation of the box and operation of the closure.

Abstract: A barbecue coal and ash removing scoop, comprising a scoop formed in a planar configuration with a front edge, a rear edge and two side edges. Each side edge has a side wall extending upwardly therefrom. The rear edge includes generally rectangular shaped hinges affixed thereto. Each hinge includes a generally circular shaped aperture. A spreader shaft is formed in a generally cylindrical configuration with two slanted end regions and a linear central region therebetween. At least one of the end regions includes a slot. The linear central region of the spreader shaft is positioned through the apertures in the hinges of the scoop. The spreader shaft and handle are adapted to permit one hundred and eighty degree rotation of the scoop. A handle is formed in a long generally cylindrical configuration with a first end affixed to the center point of the spreader shaft. The handle has a second end which includes a generally cylindrical shaped hand grip affixed therearound.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a tool comprising a pair of hand grasping juxtapositioned rods which are clamped together for movement under spring bias one relative to the other. A pair of heads are mounted one on each of the common ends of the rods for grasping therebetween the grid of a barbecue grill.

Abstract: An apparatus wherein a carrier member is arranged for positioning a fireplace log thereon for projecting and positioning the fireplace log within an associated fireplace hearth. The carrier member is arranged for positioning upon a support member to space the carrier member relative to combustible material. A modification of the invention includes the carrier member arranged to pivotally mount support legs thereon to accommodate logs of various sizes.

Abstract: A grate handle includes a handle body having a longitudinal axis. The handle body has a first slot formed therein being wider than a bar of a grate and being elongated in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, whereby a bar of a grate may be inserted in the first slot for pushing a grate. The grate handle also has a second slot formed therein being wider than a bar of a grate and being elongated in a direction substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis, whereby a bar of a grate may be inserted in the second slot for pulling a grate.

Abstract: A portable ash auger including a heat and fire resistant housing with an attached handle and with a fireproof tube that opens into and projects from the housing while surrounding an auger having a tip end extending beyond the tube and drive means for the auger.

Abstract: A new wood stove and fireplace residue removal tool and temporary storage device having a shovel member nestable into a tubular structure which is closed at one end for the temporary disposition of ashes and other waste products from a fireplace. The device includes a shocker, for urging the ashes rearwardly from the shovel component to the storage component. An optional poker for stacking the fire may be removably secured to the device for ready access by the user. A handle to enhance portability especially when the device is warm may be disposed upon at least the storage component. The storage component can also have a one way flap, to prevent material already disposed within the storage compartment from escaping when the device is angularly tipped for the collection of additional waste materials.

Abstract: A receptacle for removing ashes from a fireplace or stove has a box-like receptacle body strongly constructed of relatively thin gauge sheet steel with a top opening and hinged cover therefor. A long handle is secured to a front panel wall of the receptacle body midway of the width thereof be a relatively narrow, weight-distributing plate to which it is secured adjacent the upper end thereof. The ash-filled receptacle is cantilevered at a distance from a person carrying the same by holding the remote end of the handle.

Abstract: There is disclosed a shovelling device for removing ashes from an ash-pit. The shovel comprises a box-like casing, including top and bottom walls, two side walls, a rear wall, and a front flap door hingedly secured to the top wall. A handle projects outwardly from the rear wall of the casing. A closure member is mounted on the outer face of the casing top wall, so as to releasably close by the outside the casing flap door.

Abstract: An ash remover having a cover movably secured to a main body. The cover of the ash remover is movable between an open and a closed position by means of a handle connected to the cover and protruding through the top of the main body remote from the cover.

Abstract: A fireplace loading tool for loading logs or coal into a stove or fireplace including a pair of parallel, laterally spaced arm members and a lever arm downwardly depending from the arm members adjacent their effective longitudinal midpoint for pivoting the arm members to obtain a mechanical advantage in the loading of juel into a fireplace. The arms are preferably in the form of tines adapted to hold a log longitudinally placed thereon. Several floor supports are provided for use on fireplaces having varying characteristics. A coal tray with slide plate may be moveably mounted on the tines for the placement of coal into a fireplace.

Abstract: A manually handled shovel assembly having a scoop at one end of an auger and an enclosed container at the other end. Operating the auger conveys scooped material into the container to be safely transported to a point of discharge. The bottom of the container quickly opens to dump out the contents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chute shaped tool having a handle and an integral stop attached thereto, all of which is made of noncombustible material except, in some instances, for the wooden handle. The chute portion of the tool may be placed into the firebox of a typical woodburner stove or furnace for the purpose of guiding and physically supporting the loading of wooden logs or other similar solid fuels thereby assisting the stove user in the proper restoking of the fire and maintaining a safe bodily distance from hot stove surfaces. The integral stop rests against the firebox door thereby preventing the tool from completely entering the firebox during the fuel loading process. The chute further prevents damage to the firebox grate or firebrick by preventing dropped logs from impacting upon said firebox grate or firebrick.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pizza oven utensil comprising generally a handle, a rod and a guiding element. The rod comprises a first end, a second end, a protrusion and a stop. The guiding element comprises an apex, a first leg having a first end and a second end, a second leg having a first end and a second end, and a concave base having an innermost portion. The first leg and the second leg abut one another at their respective first ends disposed at the apex. The concave base adjoins the first leg and the second leg at their respective second ends. The handle is disposed at the first end of the rod and the guiding element is disposed at the second end of the rod. In use, a pizza pan is inserted into or retrieved from a conveyor oven or a conventional deck oven with the aid of the pizza oven utensil of the present invention. The guiding element abuts a pizza pan when inserting it into the oven.

Abstract: An ash separating shovel is provided and consists of a tapered body member that has a diagonal ribbed reticulated middle portion. The body member is folded along two lines with inwardly diagonal ribs of the reticulated middle portion to form side walls and a bottom wall.

Abstract: A scoop for ashes and debris includes a receptacle, open at one end and having a generally flat bottom wall. A door is attached by hinge to the top of the opening in the receptacle to move between a closed position, where the door covers the opening, and an open position, where the door is swung upwardly and away from the opening. A spring located exteriorly of the receptacle biases the door normally to the open position. An elongate pull rod is attached at one end to the underside of the door to extend through the receptacle and through a rear wall thereof. The portion of the pull rod extending through the rear wall is formed into a grasping element for grasping by hand to enable pulling the rod rearwardly to thus pull the door to the closed position. A handle extends from near the opening in the receptacle upwardly, rearwardly, and then downwardly to a point on the rear wall below the grasping element.

Abstract: A firewood carrier which includes a pair of elongated rigid rods interconnected by a pair of spaced handle bars. The rods are projected through holes in the handle bars and retained against rotation about their longitudinal axes by fasteners projected into opposite ends of the handle bars. The fastener arrangement permits the rods to be axially rotated to selected positions in which an elongated stick of firewood may be supported in longitudinal alignment with the carrier for placement in a wood burning stove, or alternatively, may be supported in a transversely extending position on the carrier for loading into an open fireplace.

Abstract: A shovel for removing ashes from the ashpit of a wood stove has a scoop portion and a hinged lid thereon. The scoop portion has bottom wall with upturned lip, side and rear walls and an open front. The lid portion has a downwardly depending extension for overlying the open front of the scoop when the lid is in its closed position. A pair of shortened, horizontally spaced handles are attached to the outer surface of the rear wall. Additionally, an auxiliary handle may be provided for use when carrying the shovel from one place to another. The auxiliary handle is flexible and falls clear of the open lid when released and the shovel is inserted into a stove. Lid control means, in a preferred embodiment, is an elongated tab attached to and extending rearwardly from the edge of the lid, at a midpoint between the handles.

Abstract: There is disclosed a wedge and a T-shaped placement tool therefor. The wedge is used to separate logs placed in a fireplace or stove, thereby improving the flow of air around them and facilitating their burning. The placement tool can be locked to the wedge by a locking means after insertion thereinto, whereupon once the wedge is properly positioned the placement tool can be disengaged. When removal of the wedge from between the logs is desired, a hook member provided on the placement tool can be hooked through a loop provided on the rearwardly extending surface of the wedge.

Abstract: A loading device for manually inserting wood logs into a wood fire stove or fireplace comprises a load support surface and a pair of spaced handle members placed behind the load support, each of the handle members being inclined upwardly with respect to the load support. The load support surface includes two parallel holding members which are spaced to either support the log for loading from one end or for loading the entire body portion of the log at once. The handle members are preferably inverted U-shaped members inclined upwardly from a pair of parallel and spaced frame members secured to the load support.

Abstract: A fireplace ash cleaning shovel having a generally rectangular base chamber with a sloping ash receiving front and a flat lid hinged thereto and having a downwardly depending angled front for hingedly closing the base chamber. An elongated hollow handle, attached to the rear wall of the base chamber and projecting at right angles therefrom, receives an elongated operating rod with bent extremities thereon so that manual rotation of the bent rear end causes the bent forward end to engage with and elevate the lid against spring pressure. When opened, the shovel may be inserted into a fireplace and filled with ashes, after which the lid is lowered to permit removal of the shovel and emptying and disposal of the ashes exteriorly of the fireplace.

Abstract: A log handling device having a pair of log supporting tines and a rearward extending handle portion connected to the tines by a raised intermediate handle portion including a transverse handle member spaced behind and above the rear ends of the tines, the raised intermediate portion forming a stop to limit the rearmost position of a log carried by the tines.

Abstract: A unitized convenient and durable log lifter includes coaxial tube and rod members with the tube slotted longitudinally from one end to receive and guide a projecting jaw carried by the rod member which is freely movable axially of the tube throughout the length of the slot while being constrained against rotation. Coacting jaws are carried by a crosshead on the end of the tube having the slot and parallel transverse handles on the tube and rod provide easy manipulation of the device.

Abstract: An ash remover having an ash rake which cooperates with a bracket on the cover of the ash remover to hold the cover closed when transporting ashes.

Abstract: A wood scoop comprised of a body portion having an open rear and open front end. The bottom body portion consists of a bottom section which is a segment of a section of a cylinder and parallel side walls extending upwardly from the bottom section. A rear handle is fixedly attached to the side walls across the open rear end. A center handle is fixedly attached to the side walls across the top of the body portion at a first point which is located at least about one-half the length of the body from the front end. Two legs are each fixedly attached to each side wall at a second point which is located at least about one-half the length of the body from the front end. Each leg extends to about level with the bottom section. The scoop permits the efficient and hazard free loading of a wood burner with wood logs.