Cooking devices with secondary smoke generation
AssigneeLogan Outdoor Products, LLC
InventorsBrett Petersen Bennett, Ryan Tighe Anderson, Mason Jake Larsen, Max Ryan Messerli
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Abstract
A cooking device including a cooking chamber comprising at least one cooking surface, a wood pellet burner positioned below the cooking chamber and configured to combust wood pellets and provide a first source of smoke, a wood pellet hopper configured to store a supply of wood pellets, an auger configured to feed wood pellets to the wood pellet burner, and a secondary solid fuel combustion unit removably inserted into the cooking device below the cooking chamber and configured to combust a second solid fuel and provide a second source of smoke.
Claims13
A wood pellet grill with secondary smoke generation, the wood pellet grill comprising:
- a cooking surface comprising one or more cooking racks;
- a wood pellet burner positioned below the cooking surface and configured to combust wood pellets and provide a first source of smoke;
- a wood pellet hopper configured to store a supply of wood pellets;
- an auger configured to feed wood pellets to the wood pellet burner;
- a secondary solid fuel combustion unit removably inserted into the cooking device below the cooking chamber and configured to combust a second solid fuel and provide a second source of smoke, wherein the secondary solid fuel combustion unit is removably inserted into a receiving aperture integrated into the cooking device and configured to receive the secondary solid fuel combustion unit;
- a hot rod tube integrated into the cooking device and configured to ignite the second solid fuel within the secondary solid fuel combustion unit.
A cooking device, comprising:
- an external housing;
- a cooking chamber within the external housing;
- a wood pellet burner positioned below the cooking chamber and configured to combust wood pellets and provide a first source of smoke;
- a wood pellet hopper configured to store a supply of wood pellets;
- an auger configured to feed wood pellets to the wood pellet burner;
- a secondary solid fuel combustion unit removably inserted into the cooking device below the cooking chamber and configured to combust a second solid fuel and provide a second source of smoke, wherein the secondary solid fuel combustion unit is removably inserted into a receiving aperture integrated into the cooking device and configured to receive the secondary solid fuel combustion unit;
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- a valve disposed above the wood pellet burner and below the secondary solid fuel combustion unit, wherein the wood pellet burner is further configured to combust the second solid fuel in the secondary solid fuel combustion unit when the valve is in the open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.