Cooking-grill construction (skewer arrangement)

Claim 1

A cooking grill, comprising, an open top receptacle, a cooking grate supported in the receptacle above the level of the bottom of the receptacle, means for heating the cooking grate and food placed thereon, the receptacle being provided with a bottom wall and four sidewalls consisting of a rear wall, a front wall and two end walls to form a well shape in the receptacle, both the rear and front walls to form a well shape in the receptacle, both the rear and front walls being provided with skewer supports above the level of the cooking grate to support skewers of a type having enlarged handle ends for facilitating manual gripping and manipulation thereof and slender body portions with a sharpened forward end to facilitate impaling of food and retaining it thereon, said skewer supports being aligned to support the skewers approximately horizontally above the cooking grate level, the supports in the rear wall being recesses for supporting the outer ends of the skewers and the supports in the front wall being recesses for supporting the skewers adjacent their opposite handle ends, each skewer having an enlarged collar portion spaced slightly from its handle end to act as a restraint for axial movement of the skewer when it is positioned in its supports, thereby preventing accidental displacement of the skewer from its position on its supports while manipulating the skewer when food impaled thereon is being cooked on the grill, said cooking grill having a plurality of spaced channel-shaped troughs which are positioned to receive melted fat from food cooking on the skewers, said troughs sloping downwardly toward one sidewall of the receptacle so that the melted fat caught in the troughs travels toward said sidewall by force of gravity, said sidewall being provided with grooved means for receiving the melted fat from the troughs, the groove means being aligned for directing the melted fat to a confined path region down the sidewall to the back of the receptacle, said bottom being provided with a drain and being sloped so that melted fat reaching the bottom wall pours by gravity toward the drain.