Removable ash clean out assembly
AssigneeDansons US, LLC
InventorGlen Meadows
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Abstract
Disclosed is an ash clean out mechanism including a burn pot removable from the remainder of the appliance to allow easier cleaning of the auger or other functional components within the appliance. The burn pot can include a handle that a user can pull to remove the burn pot from an adapter collar located within the interior of the appliance. The user can then clean the interior of the appliance and thereafter insert the burn pot into the appliance. For example, the user can push the burn pot by guiding a lower plate of the burn pot along a lip of the appliance and into a landing area where a body of the burn pot can rest on the adapter collar. The burn pot can also form a flow channel around the burn pot body to provide improved airflow during the cooking process.
Claims16
An appliance comprising:
- a mechanism housing including:
- a hopper that receives fuel to be combusted;
- an auger that dispenses the fuel according to a control;
- an adapter collar forming a mating area;
- a landing area;
- and
- a hot rod that combusts the fuel when distributed by the auger;
- and
- a burn pot extending in an axial direction and removable from the mechanism housing in the axial direction, the burn pot including:
- a burn pot body that receives the fuel dispensed from the auger and that includes an auger opening that receives the auger extending through the burn pot in the axial direction when the burn pot is coupled to the mechanism housing;
- a lower plate coupled to an underside of the burn pot body, the lower plate resting on the landing area during use of the appliance;
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- a burn pot support plate from which the burn pot body extends, and wherein the burn pot support plate extends around a partial circumference of the burn pot body, and wherein a remainder of the circumference of the burn pot body rests within the mating area of the mechanism housing when the burn pot is coupled to the mechanism housing.
An appliance comprising:
- a mechanism housing including:
- an auger that dispenses fuel according to a control;
- a heat source that combusts the fuel when distributed by the auger;
- and
- an adapter collar forming a mating area;
- a landing area;
- and
- a burn pot extending in the axial direction and removable from the mechanism housing in the axial direction, the burn pot including:
- a burn pot body that receives the fuel dispensed from the auger, the burn pot body including an auger opening that receives the auger extending through the burn pot in the axial direction when the burn pot is coupled to the mechanism housing;
- and
- a lower plate coupled to an underside of the burn pot body, the lower plate resting on the landing area during use of the appliance;
- and
- a burn pot support plate from which the burn pot body extends, and wherein the burn pot support plate extends around a partial circumference of the burn pot body, and wherein a remainder of the circumference of the burn pot body rests within the mating area of the mechanism housing when the burn pot is coupled to the mechanism housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.