Adjustable tube assembly for a gas barbecue grill

A flexible and length adjustable gas/air feeder venturi tube assembly for use as a replaceable connection between a gas burner element and gas controls on diverse types of gas fired barbecue grills, said assembly comprising:

• a flexible conduit section having means for mounting on said gas burner, said flexible conduit section including internal cavities;
• a straight cylindrical substantially rigid venturi tube section telescopically and slidably engaged inside said flexible conduit section;
• resilient projecting means extending from said venturi tube section for reception in said internal cavities of said flexible conduit section to provide temporarily locked positions, the reception of said projecting member in said internal cavities being hidden from external view;
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• air inlet and air regulation means on said venturi tube section near the end thereof away from said flexible conduit section.

An adjustable gas venturi tube assembly for a gas burner element comprising:

• a first tubular member defining at least one aperture;
• an air regulator member received by said first tubular member at one end thereof to control the flow of air entering through said aperture;
• an opening defined by said first tubular member at said one end for receiving a gas supply means;
• a second tubular member connected to said first tubular member at another end of said first tubular member in a telescoping and slidable relationship;
• means for securing said second tubular member to said gas burner element at an end opposite the connection to said first tubular member;
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• internal adjustable securing means operatively associated with said first and second tubular members defined by one of said tubular members having a multiplicity of internal cavity portions and the other of said tubular members having projecting means, said tubular members constructed and arranged with said projecting means to effect a resilient fitting of said projecting means within said internal cavity portions to retentively maintain said tubular members in various extendable and temporarily locked positions with respect to each other, said internal adjustable securing means being hidden from external view.