Collapsible camping stove
OwnerTimothy Hipp, Jaicie Wilsoninventors
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Abstract
A collapsible camping stove is described that is lightweight and quick to assemble for cooking and putting away for storage. The collapsible camping stove includes telescoping rings with tabs of concentric rings inserted into slots of adjacent rings. The slots include horizontal and vertical portions so that the rings can be fastened in an expanded position by moving the tabs to the horizontal portions of the slots. A cooking grate is placed on top of an innermost telescoping ring. The outside cover covers the collapsible camping stove while fully collapsed. Methods of constructing the collapsible camping stove and methods of using the collapsible camping stove are also described.
Claims11
A collapsible camping stove comprising:
- a plurality of telescoping rings, wherein the plurality of telescoping rings comprises an innermost ring, one or more internal rings, and an outermost ring;
- each of the one or more internal rings has an exterior surface, an interior surface, one or more tabs extending from the exterior surface, and one or more slots in the interior surface, wherein each of the slots has a horizontal portion and a vertical portion;
- the innermost ring has an exterior surface and one or more tabs extending from the exterior surface, and said one or more tabs of the innermost ring are inserted in said one or more slots of an adjacent internal ring;
- the outermost ring has an interior surface and one or more slots in the interior surface, wherein each of the slots has a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, and said one or more tabs from an adjacent internal ring are inserted in said one or more slots of the outermost ring;
- wherein the horizontal and vertical portions of each of said one or more slots of the outermost ring and the internal rings form a plurality of ┐-shaped or ┌-shaped slots, whereby the collapsible camping stove can be fastened in an expanded form through lifting the innermost ring and the internal rings and rotation of the innermost ring and the internal rings in one direction, whereby said one or more tabs of the innermost ring are inserted in the horizontal portions of said one or more slots of the adjacent internal ring and said one or more tabs of the internal rings are inserted in the horizontal portions of said one or more slots of one of the adjacent internal rings or of the outermost ring, and whereby the collapsible camping stove can be collapsed by rotation of the innermost ring and the internal rings in a direction opposite said one direction, and
- a cooking grate extending across a top opening of the innermost ring.
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