Patent ID: 6899094

Claim:
A cooking assembly comprising: a cooking device formed with a first tube; a gas supply formed with a second tube; a coupling unit including first and second coupling members, said first coupling member being formed with a pair of diametrically disposed openings and being formed on one of said first and second tubes, said second coupling member being formed with a retention groove and being formed on the other of said first and second tubes, the other of said first and second tubes extending co-axially into said one of said first and second tubes in such a manner that said retention groove in the other of said first and second tubes is aligned with said openings in said one of said first and second tubes; and a retaining clip extending in a first transverse direction relative to said first and second tubes, and including a U-shaped segment disposed at one side of said one of said first and second tubes, two clamping segments extending respectively from two opposite ends of said U-shaped segment in said first transverse direction through said openings in said first coupling member and said retention groove in said second coupling member in such a manner that said clamping segments engage releasably said retention groove so as to prevent removal of the other of said first and second tubes from said one of said first and second tubes, and two operating segments disposed at an opposite side of said one of said first and second tubes opposite to said one side of said one of said first and second tubes, extending respectively from said clamping segments, crossing each other, and resiliently movable toward each other in a second transverse direction relative to said first transverse direction and said first and second tubes upon application of an external force thereto so as to move said clamping segments away from each other to disengage from said retention groove, thereby permitting removal of the other of said first and second tubes from said one of said first and second tubes; wherein said cooking device includes a casing and an inverted U-shaped cover, said one of said first and second tubes projecting outwardly from said casing, said inverted U-shaped cover being fixed to said casing, and having an upper curved section disposed above said one of said first and second tubes, and left and right side sections extending respectively and downwardly from two opposite ends of said upper curved section and disposed at said sides of said one of said first and second tubes, said right side section being distal from said U-shaped segment of said retaining clip and being formed with an elongated guiding slot that permits extension of said clamping segments therethrough, said left side section being disposed adjacent to said U-shaped segment of said retaining clip and being formed with two spaced-apart limiting holes that respectively permit extension of said clamping segments therethrough so as to prevent untimely removal of said retaining clip from said cover.