Foldable bracket assembly for supporting a grill or table
OwnerRandall E. Arnallinventor
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Abstract
A bracket assembly is put to use in a cooking apparatus or else a food service table support system for attaching to a rail of a balcony or deck, or a tailgate of a pickup truck (or other vehicle, even the tailgate of a UTV or trailer, tube inserted inside the hitch receiver of a motor vehicle, or hung off the side of a passenger door of a motor vehicle.
Claims20
A cooking apparatus/food service table support system for hanging off the side of a land or marine vehicle having a hook-over structure including a sill of a passenger door window opening of a motor vehicle or a gunwale of a boat hull, comprising:
- a spaced pair of inverted-J shaped vertical hangers which have columnar vertical runs terminating in upper hanger provisions which hook over the respective hook-over structure;
- a cross member (164) connected to and horizontally spacing the inverted-J shaped vertical hangers;
- a pair of spaced outboard projecting horizontal runs (166) extending out from bases affixed to either the cross member (164) or the inverted-J shaped vertical hangers;
- a framework affixed to either the cross member (164) or the inverted-J shaped vertical hangers supporting an array of spaced ball mounts (238);
- said ball mounts (238) comprising elongated externally threaded rods (238) and project horizontally inward in the direction of the side of the land or marine vehicle;
- a plurality of elastomeric balls (240), each embedded with an elongated internally-threaded tubular socket (242) for screwing onto the ball mounts (238) whereby the elastomeric balls (240) can abut the side of the land or marine vehicle without damage;
- wherein the elastomeric balls (240) are adjustable in or out for truing the level of the horizontal runs (166) by screwing the elastomeric balls (242) with the embedded elongated internally-threaded tubular socket (242) therein on the respective elongated externally-threaded rod ball mount (238).
A cooking apparatus/food service table support system for hanging off the side of a railing or the side of a land or marine vehicle having a hook-over structure amenable to being hooked over by hanger provisions, comprising:
- a spaced pair of inverted-J shaped vertical hangers which have columnar vertical runs (256) terminating in upper hanger provisions which hook over the respective hook-over structure;
- a cross member (164) connected to and horizontally spacing the inverted-J shaped vertical hangers;
- a pair of spaced outboard projecting horizontal runs extending out from bases affixed to either the cross member (164) or the inverted-J shaped vertical hangers;
- a counter-balance beam (252) and a spaced pair of fasteners (266) connecting the columnar vertical runs (256) and counter-balance beam (252) together;
- wherein the counter-balance beam (252) is disposed inboard of the columnar vertical runs (256) and the cross member (164);
- wherein the railing has a relative inward side relative the columnar vertical runs (256) and cross member (164) and a relative away side;
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- wherein the counter-balance beam (252) is sized and disposed to clamp the relative away side of the railing with the cross member (164) on the inward side, or abut the relative inward side of the railing or side of the land or marine vehicle and thereby stabilize the pair of spaced outboard projecting horizontal runs in more or less a horizontal plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.