Patent ID: 9585518
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A47J

Claim:
1. A cooker, comprising: a cooking chamber having a first end and an opposite second end, a firepot mounted beneath the cooking chamber adjacent to the first end of the cooking chamber, the firepot operable for receiving and burning fuel to supply hot combustion gases for heating the cooking chamber, an exhaust stack mounted to the opposite second end of the cooking chamber operable for conveying hot gasses from the cooking chamber, a heat management plate which divides the cooking chamber into an upper cooking portion and a lower fire pit portion, the heat management plate having an array of hot gas convection openings which begin at a first location and extends to a second location, the second location being more distant from the first end of the cooking chamber than the first location, the hot gas convection openings providing open areas for the passage of hot gas from the lower fire pit portion of the cooking chamber to the upper cooking portion of the cooking chamber, the open areas provided by the hot gas convection openings increasing in area between the first location and the second location.