Portable gas grill

A portable gas grill comprising a cart of generally rectangular configuration and consisting of a plurality of tubular members arranged to define an upper rectangular opening, a one-piece cast housing having first and second opposed pairs of walls and having opposed outwardly-directed ledges integral with a pair of opposed walls and defining a chamber having a cover, said chamber having a plurality of tubular burner units, a plurality of sear bars covering said tubular burner units and adapted to receive and vaporize grease drippings thereon and prevent uncontrolled flare-ups, and a removable grease collector unit defining the interior bottom wall for said chamber.

In a gas grill including a cart having a fuel tank supported thereon and an indicating device for indicating the amount of fuel in the tank, said indicating device including a first element fixed to said cart and a second element movable relative to said first element with biasing means between said elements, said second element having tank support means for suspending said tank from an upper end thereof, anti-friction means on said cart below said elements engageable by said tank to accommodate vertical movement of said tank on said cart and an indicator arm pivoted on said first element and having an intermediate portion supported on said second element and positioned as a function of the weight of said tank to indicate the amount of fuel in said tank.

A gas grill comprising a generally rectangular cart defined by a plurality of tubular members and defining a rectangular opening;

• a cast rectangular housing defining a chamber, with said housing having ledges in opposed walls supported on said tubular members to support said housing in said rectangular opening, said housing having a cooking grid supported adjacent an upper edge;
• a gas burner assembly supported in said housing and including first and second elongated burner tubes, each having a flattened end portion with a slot extending from a free end and said housing having a pair of ledges at opposed corners with abutments on upper surfaces received into said slots so that said burner tubes can be assembled in a housing by manipulation of said tubes;
• and a plurality of inverted V-shaped elongated sear bars in said chamber extending generally parallel to said burner tubes to define a sear grid between said cooking grid and said burner tubes so that grease drippings from said cooking grid are vaporized on said sear bars and uncontrolled flare-ups are prevented.

A gas grill comprising a rectangular housing having upper and lower edges and a first pair of corner ledges at opposed corners with abutments on upper surfaces and openings in an opposed end wall aligned with said abutments, at least two elongated burner units of substantially identical construction, each burner unit consisting of an elongated tube having at least one row of apertures and a flattened portion on one end, said flattened portion having a slot extending from a free edge with said slot being offset from the center axis of said elongated tube and receiving an abutment so that said tubes can be inserted axially through said openings and be supported on said corner ledges and said opposed wall end with said apertures of both burner units directed towards the center of said housing;

• a plurality of sear bars in said housing above said burner units, each sear bar consisting of an elongated inverted V-shaped member formed of heat-conductive material to define inclined grease-evaporating surfaces extending generally parallel to said burner units, said rectangular housing having opposed ledges on opposite end walls for supporting said sear bars and a second group of sear bars of generally inverted V-shaped members extending generally perpendicular and above said sear grid.