US20020189603A1

US20020189603A1 - Barbecue smoking grill

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Publication number: US20020189603A1
Application number: US10/107,455
Authority: US
Inventors: Josephine Hsu
Original assignee: Test Rite International Co Ltd
Current assignee: Test Rite International Co Ltd
Priority date: 2001-06-13
Filing date: 2002-03-28
Publication date: 2002-12-19
Also published as: CN2481259Y

Abstract

The invention relates to a barbecue smoking grill comprising a grill body and two grill lids; the grill body is divided into two areas, and each area thereof has its upper part wide-open to contain grill grids, whereon both grill lids fully cover, with charcoal placed inside the grill and burned at the bottom of the grill lids' covered space. The barbecue smoker grill can be installed with a porous separator between two areas of the grill body, and charcoal can be placed in either of the two areas, thus allowing the user to grill the food items at one side of the grill and smoke other food items at the other side of the grill simultaneously. Therefore, with the design of forming heat-preserving spaces by using the grill lids respectively in the invention, the grill can prevent heat from dispersing, improve the grill efficiency, and enable the user to cook the food items with multiple ways simultaneously.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The invention relates to a barbecue smoking grill comprising a grill body and two grill lids; the grill body is divided into two independent areas through a separator, with the upper part of the two independent areas being wide-open so as to contain a grill grid respectively, whereon both grill lids fully cover. Charcoal placed inside the grill body can be burned at the bottom of the covered area covered by the grill lids. When a solid separator is placed between the two grill lids, two closed heat-preserving spaces are formed with two grill lids covering the two spaces respectively. The invention enables the two separate areas of the grill body to be operated independently, thus preventing heat from dispersing and improving the efficiency for smoldering food items. In addition, when a porous separator is placed between two grill lids, charcoal is placed at the bottom of the lower grill body under either of the two grill lids, with the other area in which no charcoal is placed enabling to be used for smoldering food items by utilizing smoke generated from charcoal placed in the first area, thus achieving the object of providing both functions of smoldering and smoking food items.

DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART

Holding barbecue parties has already become one of the most popular outdoor activities for people during the holidays, and the most commonly used barbecue tool is the grilling grid, for it is easy to carry; yet the user still needs rocks or bricks to prop up the grilling grid with the purpose of air convection. Therefore, it is often tedious and troublesome searching for useful rocks or bricks. Besides, with no covering function, the grilling grid is unable to effectively keep the heat from dispersing, and keep the food items from exposing to the outside environment, thus causing sanitary problems. Even if the grilling grid is used indoors, the stains caused by directly burning charcoal on the floor are difficult to clean, and the smoke and dust permeating in the interior also raise concerns to people's health. Therefore, with the purpose of improving the inconvenience and defects of the grilling grid, the prior art provides the design of a barbecue smoking grill, wherein a chamber-like structure is formed to contain burning charcoal, thus keeping the environment clean and containing the burned ashes. The design of grill lids also prevents the heat from dispersing and keeps the food items from being exposed to the outside environment. However, according to the grill design of the prior art, the grill and the grill lid are of separate structure, and the user can only open the grill in full or cover the grill in full; so when in use, the user has to open the grill lid in full to turn the food items over, while causing heat-dispersion for other food items, like corns and yams, that need to be smoldered for a period of time. In addition, with the design of the grill and the grill lid being of separate structure, it is difficult to keep the grill lid intact through numerous storage processes. Moreover, since different food items call for different cooking methods, the conventional grill can only provide the user with the way of using charcoal for grilling, thus not able to provide user with other proper cooking methods to process different food items.

FIG. 1 shows the frontal side view of a

common barbecue grill

1. Based upon the prior art, the barbecue grill 1 comprises a grill body 10, grill grid 11, and a grill lid 12, wherein the grill body 10, forming a chamber-like shape with the top wide-open, is supported by three supporting

legs

101, 102, and 103 to stabilize the grill body 10 for easy operation, on top of which the grill grid is installed for the user to place food items on, and charcoal can be placed underneath the grill grid inside the grill body to be burned. The grill lid 12 can be used to cover both the grill body 10 and the grill grid 11, so that the food items can be efficiently cooked without dispersing the heat.

Nevertheless, the

foregoing barbecue grill

1 of the prior art only contains a single grill lid 12 with only two functions, fully open and fully close. As a result, when the user tends to cook different kinds of food needing various periods of time to cook, the user has to open the grill lid 12 to turn over certain kinds of food items needing only shorter periods of time to cook, while the heat kept inside the grill body 10 shall be dispersed because of the grill lid 12 being opened. Thus other kinds of food items that need more time to cook shall not be timely ready. Consequently, with the user opening and closing the grill lid 12 repetitiously, the purpose and function of the grill lid 12 are totally unfulfilled. Furthermore, since the grill body of the barbecue smoking grill 21 of the prior art can only provide method of using charcoal to grill food items, it is out of the question to provide cooking methods other than directing heating by fire to process different food items (like smoking), thus the user is not able to taste food items prepared through other different cooking methods, and it is also a huge waste on quantity of charcoal.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary object of the invention is to provide a barbecue smoking grill with grill lids, comprising a grill body and two grill lids; the grill body is divided into two independent areas through a separator, with the upper part of the two independent areas being wide-open so as to contain a grill grid respectively, whereon both grill lids fully cover. Charcoal placed inside the grill body can be burned at the bottom of the covered area covered by the grill lids. A solid separator can be placed inside the grill body to divide the grill body into two independent and closed areas, thus enabling the user to smoldering food item in one area and grilling food items in the other; with the two grill lids covering respectively, two closed heat-preserving spaces are formed to prevent burning heat from dispersing, and enables the user to smolder on one side the kinds of food items that need more time to cook, and grill on the other side the kinds of food items that need less time to cook, thus preventing the heat from dispersing, and at the same time expediting the process of preparing different kinds of food items that need various periods of time to cook, and also with the design of dividing into different areas, different food items are able to be prepared simultaneously.

Furthermore, a porous separator can be placed in the grill body of the invention, thus charcoal can be placed in one area to direct grill the food items, with the other area not placing charcoal therein. With both grill lids covering the two areas respectively, smoke and heat generated by burning charcoal are not to be dispersed out of the grill body; and also the smoke and heat generated can flow through the porous separator to the area without charcoal placed and burned therein to smoke food items, thus achieving the object of providing different cooking methods for different food items.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with regard to the following description, appended claims and accompanying drawings where: [0008]
FIG. 1 shows a frontal side view of a barbecue smoking grill of the prior art; [0009]
FIG. 2 shows a structural perspective view of a barbecue smoking grill of the invention; [0010]
FIG. 3 shows another structural perspective view of a barbecue smoking grill of the invention; [0011]
FIG. 4 shows a left side view of a barbecue smoking grill of the invention; [0012]
FIG. 5 shows a top plan view of a barbecue smoking grill of the invention; [0013]
FIG. 6 shows a frontal side view of a barbecue smoking grill of the invention; and [0014]
FIG. 7 shows a side view of a porous separator in further embodiment of the barbecue smoking grill of the invention. [0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

As shown in FIGS. 2, 3 and [0016] 6, which show the structural perspective view, top plan view and frontal side view of the barbecue smoking grill 2 of the invention, wherein the barbecue smoking grill 2 comprises a grill body 20, a grill grid 21, grill lids 221 and 222 and separator 213; the separator 213 is of a solid separator; the grill body 20 is formed as a chamber-like shape with the top wide-open, whereon the grill grid 21 is installed as food-supporting operational platform, and charcoal is placed underneath the grill grid 21 at the bottom of the inside of the grill body 20. At the lower part of the grill body 20, four supporting legs 231, 232, 233, and 234 are joined with the grill body 20 to stabilize the barbecue smoking grill 2, thus the food items placing on the grill grid 21 are not to be accidentally moved.
Please continue refer to the top plan view of FIG. 3 and the frontal side view of FIG. 6 in accordance with FIG. 2, wherein the [0017] grill body 20 and the grill grid 21 are to be divided by the solid separator 213 into at least two sections, forming the cooking section 211 and 212, shown by drawings, with at least one section covered by grill lid; as drawings have shown, the cooking sections 211 and 212 are respectively covered by grill lids 221 and 222. The food items can be sorted and placed according to various periods of cooking time. For example, the food items that need more time to cook or need to be smoldered are to be placed and smoldered on the grill grid 217 in the cooking section 211 covered with grill lid 221 without dispersing the heat needed, and at the same time, another cooking section 212, with the grill lid 222 opened, can be used to cook food items like tempura, dried bean curd and other food items that need shorter periods of time to cook, on the grill grid 218, such that the user can continue turn the food items over regularly to avoid overcooking the food items; later on the grill lid 221 is to be opened when the time needed for smoldering the food items in the cooking section 211 are up. As a result, the heat-preserving effect in the cooking section 211 shall not be decreased by the repetitious opening of the grill lid 222 of the cooking section 212, thus increasing the smoldering efficiency of the smoldering area, and various food items needing different periods of time to cook can be cooked at the same time.
In the further embodiment of the invention, the [0018] separator 215 is of a separator with porous design. Please refer to FIG. 7 in accordance with FIG. 3, charcoal is placed at the bottom in the cooking section 211 of the grill body for cooking food items, and no charcoal is placed at the bottom in the cooking section 212 of the grill body, for food items that are needed to be grilled can be placed on the grill grid 217 in the cooking section 211, and food items that are needed to be smoldered can be placed on the grill grid 218 in the cooking section 212. Because the separator 215 is porous, the grill body in the barbecue smoking grill 2 of the invention is to be divided into the grilling section 211 and the smoldering section 212 with both areas functioned as non-closed areas, and the smoke and heat generated by burning charcoal in the grilling section 211, not to be dispersed outside the grill body 20 with the two grill lids 220 and 221 covering the opening of the grill body 20, are to flow through the porous separator 215 to reach the smoldering section 212 so as to smolder food items, thus achieving the object of implementing different cooking methods with single grill body.
The detailed description of the [0019] grill lid 221 is as follows, as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, wherein a handle 220 is installed at the front side of the grill lid 221, preventing the user from being burned by opening and closing the grill lid 221. The grill lid 221 is pivotally jointed to the grill body 20 by the pivot portions 223 and 224, which are used as rotating pivots when the grill lid 221 is opened and closed. An air hole 227 is installed on top of the grill lid 221, so that the heat generated by burning can be emitted via the air hole 227 and the pressure can be released, thus preventing the interior of the grill lid 221 from being over-pressured.
The structural designs and functions of the [0020] grill lid 222 are identical to those of the grill lid 221.
FIG. 3 and FIG. 6 show the details of the [0021] grill body 20 in the barbecue smoking grill 2 of the invention; at the outer bottom of the grill body 20 an ash-collecting vessel 203 can be further formed, wherein a retrieving drawer 204 is pivotally installed inside the ash-collecting vessel 203 and can be pulled and retrieved from the front side of the grill body 20. In addition, at the inner bottom of the grill body 20, a burning grid is installed, whereon fuel like charcoal can be placed and burned, with all the ashes after fuel being burned falling directly into the retrieving drawer 204 inside the ash-collecting vessel 203, and then the user can pull out the retrieving drawer 204 from the front side of the grill body 20 and dispose the ashes.
As shown in the dotted portion of FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the tables [0022] 206 are further installed on both left and right sides of the grill body 20 in the barbecue smoking grill 2, and a rack 207 is installed in the space surrounded by the four supporting legs 231, 232, 233, and 234, with the purpose of placing food items and barbecue sauces, etc. In addition, the invention can further embody the features of two wheels 235 and 236 installed at the end of two supporting legs, like supporting legs 231 and 232 with the purpose of moving the barbecue smoking grill 2 conveniently.
Please refer to FIG. 7, a [0023] porous separator 215 can be installed between the two grill lids in the barbecue smoking grill 2 of the invention; such separator 215 enables the smoke and heat generated by burning charcoal in the grilling section to reach the smoldering section wherein no charcoal is burned, thus achieving the object of smoldering food items.
Although the present invention has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, those skilled in the art can easily understand that all kinds of alterations and changes can be made within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the preferred embodiments contained herein. [0024]

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A grill, comprising:

a grill body, forming a chamber-like shape with the top wide-open, wherein a porous separator is installed to divide;

two grill lids, pivotally jointed to the edges of the opening of said grill body, and respectively covering the top of said grill body, thus forming two separate areas for said barbecue smoking grill;

while fuel can be placed in one of said separate areas, the other said separate area can acquire smoke for smoldering through said porous separator.

2. A grill as in claim 1, wherein at least one grill grid is further included to be installed on the edges of the opening of said grill body, so that food items ready to be cooked can be placed thereon.

3. A grill as in claim 1, wherein the concave portion in the inside of said grill body is to be used as burning chamber for fuels like charcoal, so as to provide the thermal energy needed for grilling and smoldering food items.

4. A grill as in claim 2, wherein each of said grill lid can cover one of said grill grid and said grill body respectively, thus forming the grilling or smoking space; with said porous separator, smoke generated from the area having fuel burning can reach the other area not having fuel burning, thus the thermal energy can freely flow between the grill body areas covered by said two grill lids.