Patent ID: 8800542

Claim:
An automatic temperature control device for solid fuel fired food cooker, comprising: a blower box having an inside and an outside and a single variable speed air blower within said inside as an integrated unit; and said blower box having a discharge port connected with a first end of a substantially flexible air tube; and a second end of said air tube connected to an air manifold; and said air manifold attachable to and detachable from a cooker having a solid fuel at any point on the cooker designed for an ingestion of a combustion air; and said air blower capable of ingesting an atmospheric air from said outside of said blower box and directing the atmospheric air to said discharge port and through said air tube and air manifold and into the cooker; and an electronic controller within said inside of said blower box and connected with said air blower; and a cooking temperature sensor placable within the cooker and having a first end of a sensor cable attached therewith and a second end of said sensor cable attached with said electronic controller; and one or more blower speed control or blower time proportioning algorithms embedded within said electronic controller which is capable of varying an airflow of said air blower and substantially adaptively sensing and learning the thermal parameters of the cooker and adjusting the airflow of a combustion to match a thermal reaction time of the cooker and meet a temperature setpoint and thereby varying the atmospheric air directed into the cooker and at the solid fuel in response to a temperature signal from said cooking temperature sensor within the cooker and meet said temperature setpoint within the cooker whereby said electronic controller in conjunction with said single air blower is capable of automatically adapting and controlling a temperature within substantially any size cooker; and an adjustable damper over said air blower where said air blower is capable of ingesting an atmospheric air; and said damper capable of allowing or restricting airflow caused by convection currents whether said air blower is operating or not; and a hanger connected with said blower box whereby said blower box may be hung with an extending element of the cooker; and said cooking temperature sensor having a retaining clip capable of attaching with an internal portion of the cooker and said retaining clip capable of retaining said cooking temperature sensor in the vicinity of a food to be cooked; and said substantially flexible air tube having one or more corrugations.