Patent ID: 6499479
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
In a barbeque grill having a heat source and a food support grill that has a number of parallel oriented grill wires equally spaced apart to form a grill gap of equal distance between each pair of adjacent grill wires and wherein the food support grill is positioned above the heat source, the improvement comprising:providing an inverted V-shaped metal burner cover having a centrally positioned vertex and drip channels formed along opposed side edges thereof that are each formed to channel drippings toward a first end of the burner cover; and two support members each including a threaded end portion threadably engaged with a respective one of two internally threaded hole formed through the vertex of the burner cover and an elongated head portion connected to a top end of the threaded end portion and being of a width less than the grill gap and of a length longer than the grill gap such that when the head portion is lengthwise oriented in parallel with two adjacent grill wires, the head portion is positionable through the grill gap there between and when the head portion is lengthwise oriented perpendicular to two adjacent grill wires, the head portion is not positionable through the grill gap there between; each of the two support members extending upward from the vertex of the inverted V-shaped metal burner cover and through a grill gap such that the inverted V-shaped metal burner cover is supported by contact between the head portions of the two support members the two respective pairs of spaced apart, adjacent grill wires of the food support grill and suspended between the heat source and the food support grill; the distance between the vertex of the inverted V-shaped metal burner cover and the food support grill being adjustable by rotation of the head portion.