Outdoor cooker with reusable cartridge-type grill unit

Claim 1

A hand-portable outdoor grill unit comprising, an open-top container body having side and bottom walls, the upper section of said sidewalls being vertically disposed, a reusable cooking grill cartridge pack and means for positioning the pack in the upper section of said body, said pack comprising a layer of noncombustible briquets arranged in substantially flat panel form having a pair of open metalwork members holding said briquets sandwiched therebetween, and an upper cooking grill surface held in elevated relation to said briquets, a pair of rectangularly shaped bars providing end frames for said pack having rods connected between the upper bar portions of the frames to form said cooking grill surface and rods connected between the lower bar portions of the frames to form the lower of said pair of briquet-holding members, the upstanding legs of said frames supporting said grill surface in spaced relation above the layer of briquets, said lower section of the body having a gas-fired burner element mounted centrally in spaced relation below said cartridge pack with a burner inlet extending outwardly of the body and having control means and a fuel source connector means.