Dutch oven cook station apparatus and method
AssigneeTodd Wilson
InventorsTood G. Wilson, Andreas Robert Haase
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Abstract
A fire pan provides a table-top or ground-supported pan or tray to hold a source of heat such as charcoal, burning wood, gas burner, and so forth. The pan places the heat source away from a surface, thus not damaging lawns, tabletops, parking lots, sidewalks, or other supporting surfaces. The pan may support one or more Dutch ovens, thus providing a “fire pit” of modest size, foldable into a very small envelope. Handles are extendible away from the pan for handling or moving, even when hot coals are present. The legs below are curved to fold up along the contour of the bottom surface of the pan.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a pan;
- providing legs pivotably connected to the pan and moveable between a deployed position and a storage position;
- providing handles secured to the pan;
- the providing the handles, further comprising providing attachments securing the handles to the pan to be moveable in translation with respect thereto;
- deploying the legs from a storage position to a deployed position;
- extending the handles from a retracted position to an extended position, wherein a grip portion of each handle is spaced away from the pan a greater distance than in the retracted position;
- providing a heat source on a top surface of the pan;
- providing a cooking surface above the heat source;
- cooking a foodstuff on the cooking surface;
- removing the heat source;
- waiting while the pan cools to a temperature sufficiently low to permit safe handling;
- moving the handles to the retracted position;
- folding the legs from a deployed position to a stowed position.
A method comprising:
- providing a stand;
- the providing a stand, further comprising
- providing a pan formed to contain a heat source,
- providing handles permanently secured to the pan to remain permanently therewith, the handles being translatable between a first stowed position wherein grips of the handles are positioned proximate the pan, and a second deployed position wherein the grips of the handles are positioned away from the pan,
- providing legs, each pivotably secured to the pan to move between a first, stowed, position proximate the pan and a second, deployed, position distal from the pan;
- extending the legs to the deployed position thereof;
- extending the handles to the extended position thereof;
- providing a source of heat on the pan;
- placing a Dutch oven on the source of heat;
- placing a lid of the Dutch oven on one of the handles in the deployed position;
- and
- placing utensils on the other handle opposite the lid.
An apparatus comprising:
- a pan formed of a material selected to hold a material burning thereon;
- the pan, further comprising brackets integrated therewith to extend downwardly therefrom;
- the pan, having rails, homogeneously and monolithically formed with the pan to extend downward therefrom;
- legs, pivotably connected to the brackets;
- handles, each formed in a “U” shape, having a grip at the bottom of the “U,” and having an extension extending as each of the legs of the “U”;
- keepers securing each of the handles to respective ones of the rails to move in translation with respect thereto;
- and
- locks positioned with respect to the legs and the brackets to control and limit motion of the legs between a first, stowed position and a second, deployed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.