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AN OPEN-AIR BARBECUE COMPRISING A FIRST ELEMENT CONSTITUTING A COOKING ASSEMBLY AND FURTHER ELEMENTS CONSTITUTING SUPPORT MEANS FOR THE COOKING ASSEMBLY, THE COOKING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A BODY HAVING A LONGITUDINAL WALL PORTION AND TWO LATERAL WALLS, A GRILL SUPPORTED BY THE BODY AND IN SPACED RELATION TO THE LONGITUDINAL WALL PORTION SO AS TO DEFINE A HEARTH, MEANS FOR MOUNTING A ROTARY SPIT LOCATED ADJACENT THE GRILL, SAID SUPPORT MEANS COMPRISING TWO INDEPENDENT PARALLEL SUPPORT UNITS, EACH OF SAID SUPPORT UNITS COMPRISING A FLAT VERTICAL SHEET METAL PLATE; TWO PIVOT MOUNTING MEANS EMBODYING A LONGITUDINAL PIVOT AXIS AND PIVOTALLY MOUNTED IN THE CORRESPONDING FLAT METAL PLATES, SAID PIVOT AXIS INTERCONNECTING THE COOKING ASSEMBLY AND THE SUPPORT MEANS; ABUTMENT MEANS ALLOWING THE COOKING ASSEMBLY A LIMITED FREE PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT SAID AXIS, THE ABUTMENT MEANS COMPRISING A LUG FIXED TO SAID FIRST ELEMENT AND TWO ABUTMENTS STRUCK OUT OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID TWO FLAT METAL PLATES AND FIXED THERETO, SAID ABUTMENTS BEING IN SUCH SPACED RELATION TO EACH OTHER AND IN SUCH POSITION AS TO BE ENCOUNTERED BY THE LUG IN THE PIVOTING OF THE COOKING ASSEMBLY ABOUT SAID AXIS AND THEREBY LIMIT THE FREE PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF THE LUG AND OF THE COOKING ASSEMBLY BETWEEN A FIRST LIMIT POSITION IN WHICH THE GRILL IS SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL AND A SECOND LIMIT POSITION IN WHICH THE GRILL IS SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL, AND RAPID RELEASABLE LOCKING MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE COOKING ASSEMBLY AND THE SUPPORT MEANS FOR LOCKING THE COOKING ASSEMBLY TO THE SUPPORT MEANS.