Smoker conversion kit

• US 20100269713A1
• Filed: 03/15/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frank P. Foster
• Original Assignee: Frank P. Foster
• Inventors: Foster, Frank P.
• Granted Patent: US 8,464,702 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 99/482
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0704 with horizontal fire box
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/0781 Barbecue tables, e.g. central grilling areas surrounded by an eating table

Abstract

This invention is to be used primarily to convert a traditional charcoal grill into a multifaceted smoker with wet and dry smoking capabilities. Furthermore, novel racks within the invention allow the user to utilize all of the space within the smoker providing for more food cooked over a given time frame. The invention also included a removal tray allowing access to the fuel and liquid pan with only negligible heat loss and no risk of damage to the contents of the smoker or the surface upon which the smoker is placed when removed from the primary heat source.

Claims

1. A smoker conversion apparatus consisting of:

an upright smoker chamber having an open top and bottom;

the chamber being fitted with corresponding support brackets around its interior surface and heat resistant handles on its exterior surface;

the chamber being able to position in a sealable fashion between the bottom portion of an existing grill and the grill lid or top portion of an existing grill;

a dome rack having horizontal support structures attached in a fixed manner to vertical support structures;

a top horizontal support structure being smaller in diameter than the other horizontal support structures;

the vertical support structures being contoured to attach to the horizontal support structures of varying diameters and being further contoured to conform to the shape of the existing grill lid or top portion;

one or more grill racks of corresponding size and shape to the existing grill;

a large tray of corresponding size and shape to the chamber;

a heat resistant pan having a lip around its upper peripheral edge;

a pan support rack having horizontal and vertical support structures with the top horizontal support structure being smaller in diameter than the bottom support structure;

the top horizontal support being of a corresponding diameter to the pan to hold the pan in place in a secure fashion when the pan is place on the pan support rack;

multiple meat hooks removably attached to the top horizontal support structure of the dome rack;

a tray with folding legs to accommodate the apparatus when removed from the existing grill;

a telemetry port with an accompanying plug or stopper in the side of the smoker chamber;

a plurality of durable heat tolerant extension clips that securely attached to a grill rack and support brackets;

a grill basket rack having raised edges around its peripheral edge;

a hook and skewer combination comprising a u-shaped portion having rounded eyelets at the bottom tips of the u-shape and a hook in the top center portion of the u-shape of sufficient diameter to attach to the dome-shaped rack, and further having a skewer which is pointed on one end and blunt on the other, the skewer of sufficient diameter to fit within the rounded eyelets of the u-shaped portion;

a heat ring of cylindrical shape having open bottom and top portions; and

a mounting adaptor comprising concurrent rings, one of slightly smaller diameter than the other, fixably attached to one another with the mounting adaptor having structural components facility secure attachment to a fixed surface and attachment to a grill or the smoker chamber by way of loops or holes attached to the inner and outer concurrent rings.

2. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the chamber being cylindrical in shape.

3. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the chamber being rectangular in shape.

4. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the chamber being square in shape.

5. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the dome rack and the pan support rack correspond in shape to the chamber.

6. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the dome rack and the pan support rack are comprised of a heat resistant substance that is tubular in structure.

7. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the chamber is coated in a heat resistant paint or finish.

8. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the pan support is of sufficient vertical clearance within the framework of the pan support to accommodate fuel and smoker chips.

9. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the pan support can be rotated onto its upper surface and utilized in conjunction with the heat resistant pan in moist grilling applications.

10. The apparatus as in claim 1, further wherein:

the heat ring is perforated.