Cooking apparatus for pickup trucks

Claim 1

The combination with a pickup truck having a bed, of a pivotal mounting unit and a cooking apparatus comprising; a base supporting plate secured to said truck bed, a vertically extending support member comprising a hollow tubular member having one end attached to said base supporting plate and its other end open and extending vertically therefrom, a pivot member comprising a smaller tubular member having one end extending downward into said open end of said support member and the opposing end extending upwardly therefrom, said smaller tubular member removably received within said open end with sufficient clearance to permit rotary motion relative thereto, a bracket secured on said upwardly extended end of said smaller tubular member, a pair of support members each having one end secured on said bracket in a fixed position and the opposing ends extending horizontally outward therefrom in fixed parallel relation, and a box shaped cooking enclosure having one wall provided with openings therethrough slidably received said horizontally extending parallel support members for removably supporting said cooking enclosure thereon and movable to and from an extended position supporting said cooking enclosure away from said support bracket.