Portable cooking grill

• Main Author: CONNELLY; WILLIAM L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.03.1984
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; BLASTING; COFFEE MILLS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES FOR SOLID FUELS; FURNITURE; HEATING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; RANGES; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; VENTILATING; WEAPONS

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. For supporting the stand in the open front wall of a fireplace there is provided anchoring means that includes a first plate slidably mounted on the post and projecting outwardly therefrom, a second plate slidable on the post and frictionally lockable at any position longitudinally therealong and a member threaded through the second plate and abutting the first plate to press the latter against the undersurface of the lintel extending across the fireplace opening.