The present invention generally relates to gas stoves, and more particularly to a portable gas stove assembly that provides a stable and secured stove even when the stove is set on a rough ground.
In recent years, competition has become more severe, and thus the pace of our life and work have become faster. Whenever there is a holiday, people often take their families and invite their friends for outdoor activities such as hiking or camping to release pressure from their life and work. Therefore, various different outdoor activity appliances are introduced.
Among various different outdoor appliances, a portable gas stove for boiling water for tea or coffee is the most popular appliance, since the stove is convenient to carry and easy to use. Consumers usually carry this kind of stove with them for outdoor activities, so that they can make tea or coffee on the spot, which provides drinks for the participants and gives more fun to the activity.
A common portable gas stove set is described as follows:
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The stove stand 16 comprises: a placing section 161 for containing cooking utensils such as a tea pot or a coffee pot; a plurality of support stands 162 extended downward from the periphery of the placing section 161 for securely supporting the stove stand 16, and the space formed between the placing section 161 and the support stands 162 precisely accommodates the gas stove 10, and the burner 13 of the gas stove 10 is disposed at a position corresponding to the placing section 161, such that the foregoing gas stove assembly allows users to cook by the utensils placed on the placing section 161, when a user lights up the fuel coming out from the burner 13.
However, the size of the stove stand is very large and occupies much space and is inconvenient to carry during the use of the gas stove. If the ground for supporting the stove is rugged and rough, one of the support stands 162 will be lifted and shaky, and the stove stand 16 is not secured or stable on the ground. Therefore, the utensils placed on the placing section 161 are not secured and will topple over and will cause accidents easily. Since the supporting surface of the stove stand 16 is not even, the relative heights of the placing section 161 and the burner 13 will be affected, and the burning position of the utensil will be uneven. As a result, the burning efficiency is lowered, which is a problem for users to cook or boil water.
In summation of the description above, the quality of the gas stoves produced nowadays are almost the same, and the features of improving the foregoing shortcomings becomes an advantage for manufacturers to gain market share. Therefore, it is an important subject for manufacturers to design a more practical stove assembly so as to improve the competitiveness of the products of this sort.
In view of the prior art gas stove, the gas stove and the stove stand are two separate parts, and thus the structural relation of the stove stand causes inconvenience for users to carry, and even causes the utensils placed on the placing section unstable and easy to topple over or cause accidents if the ground is rough. It also will cause an uneven burning due to the positions of the burner and the utensil, and thus affecting the burning performance.
To effectively solve the existing problems and meet the actual market and user requirements, the inventor, based on years of experience and conducting extensive research and experiments, has designed a portable gas stove assembly. Therefore, it is a primary objective of the present invention to effectively overcome the foregoing shortcomings by providing a portable gas stove assembly that includes a gas stove and a stove stand, wherein the gas stove comprises a fuel tank for storing fuel, a flow regulating valve disposed at the top of the fuel tank for regulating the fuel flowed out from the fuel tank, a fuel nozzle disposed at the top of the flow regulating valve for guiding out the fuel from the flow regulating valve, a burner installed at the top edge of the fuel nozzle, an adjusting rod disposed on one side of the flow regulating valve for controlling the flow of fuel passing through the flow regulating valve, a knob disposed on another end of the flowing regulating valve for turning the adjusting rod to control the fuel of the fuel tank passing through the flow regulating valve and the fuel nozzle to the burner; a first connecting device disposed proximate to the burner. The stove stand comprises a placing section for placing a cooking utensil and a second connecting device disposed on the placing section corresponding to the first connecting device for integrally coupling the stove stand with the first connecting device.
The first connecting device is a circular ring structure with a thread disposed externally around, and the second connecting device is a hollow circular ring structure with a thread disposed internally around. The first and second connecting devices could be of different structural designs, such as the first connecting device being a circular ring structure with an embedded member or an embedded groove disposed externally around and the second connecting device is a hollow circular ring structure with an embedded groove or an embedded member disposed internally around, and the placing section of the stove stand is a hollow disc stand comprised of a plurality of racks.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings.
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With the foregoing components, it is clear that the design of integrally coupling the first connecting device 27 disposed at the neck section of the opening 25 with the second connecting device 32 disposed at the stove stand 30 not only keeps a specific distance between the cooking utensil on the placing section 31 from the burner to prevent uneven burning and avoid an adverse influence to the cooking performance, but also gives a better condition for the stove stand 30 without being restricted by uneven supporting surfaces. As long as there is a placing surface on the gas stove 20, the gas stove 20 can be coupled integrally with the stove stand 30 by the first connecting device 27 and the second connecting device 32 for a stable application. Further, the present invention also can overcome the shortcomings of the oversize of the stove stand 30 that occupies much space and is inconvenient to carry.
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While the invention has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
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