Patent ID: 6895958

Claim:
Apparatus for cooking food within a fireplace having a space for building a fire, wherein said apparatus comprises: a food grill including a food support surface and an elongated handle extending from a proximal end of said food support surface; and a frame including a coupling portion, a support portion, and a base portion, wherein said coupling portion removably accepts a distal end of said food grill to hold said food grill to extend horizontally outward from said coupling portion, wherein said coupling portion holds said food grill in a plurality of vertically spaced-apart positions above said space for building a fire, said coupling portion comprises a pair of slotted members and an upper crossbar, each of said slotted members has a slotted portion including a plurality of vertically spaced apart slots extending between flat sides of said slotted portion from a narrow edge of said slotted portion, each of said slots engages a portion of said distal end of said food grill, said upper crossbar holds said slotted members horizontally spaced apart to engage said distal end of said food grill in spaced apart positions, each of said slotted members includes a twisted portion extending between said slotted portion of said slotted member and a lower portion of said slotted member having a flat side attached to said upper crossbar, said support portion extends downward from said coupling portion to be disposed behind said space for building a fire, and said base portion extends outward from a lower end of said support portion to be disposed along a floor of said fireplace below said space for building a fire.