Compact outdoor cooking unit
US5495845A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 1994 |
| Grant date | Mar 5, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 21, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF24C1/02
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A compact outdoor cooking unit having a cooking mode and a transport and storage mode. The outdoor cooking unit has a foldable stove. In the cooking mode, the stove is in the extended state. A base plate of a firebox has a hook flange and the foldable stove has a releasable locking flange along the lower end of an end wall thereof. The locking flange of the stove is releasably secured to the hook flange of the base plate when the foldable stove is in an extended state for the cooking mode. The outdoor cooking unit also includes a base, a pan, and a griddle. In the transport and storage mode, the pan is seated on the base within the upstanding walls of the base. In the transport and storage state, a griddle seats on the pan with the depending walls of the griddle surrounding the pan. The base, the pan, and the griddle, respectively, have vertically aligned handle hooks. In the transport and storage state, a strap surrounds the base, the pan, and the griddle and passes through the vertically aligned handle hooks of the base, pan, and griddle for maintaining the outdoor cooking unit in a compact mode.
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