Patent ID: 8997639
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A23B,A47J

Abstract:
1. A smoker box for holding food flavoring wood chips or the like and for use with a cooking grill having burners, a removable cooking grate above the burners, and parallel heat deflector bars between the burners and the cooking grate, and wherein the heat deflector bars have an apex and deflector spread walls that spread down and away from the apex whereby adjacent spread walls of adjacent heat deflector bars form a trough region between adjacent heat deflector bars, said trough region having a top at the apex of the adjacent heat deflector bars and a bottom, wherein the trough region progressively narrows from the top to the bottom thereof, said smoker box comprising: an at least partially open top having top longitudinal edges defining the maximum width of the smoker box, said maximum width being wider than the bottom of the trough region of adjacent heat deflector bars of a cooking grill on which the smoker box is used, and side wall structures extending downwardly and progressively inwardly from said top longitudinal edges to form a container body for holding wood chips or the like, wherein said container body is sized and shaped to fit substantially entirely within the trough region between adjacent heat deflector bars of a cooking grill on which the smoker box is used, whereby, when the smoker box is placed bottom down between adjacent heat deflector bars of the cooking grill, the smoker box sits between and is supported by said adjacent heat deflector bars and presents a relatively large area top that faces food placed on a cooking grate above the smoker box, said container body having a bottom centered between the longitudinal edges of the open top of the container body, wherein said bottom defines the deepest portion of the container body, and wherein the downwardly extending sidewalls of the container body extend progressively inwardly to the centered bottom of the container body.