Patent ID: 8464702

Claim:
A smoker conversion apparatus consisting of: an upright smoker chamber having an open top and bottom; the chamber being fitted with corresponding support brackets around its interior surface and heat resistant handles on its exterior surface; the chamber being able to position in a sealable fashion between the bottom portion of an existing grill and the grill lid or top portion of an existing grill; a dome rack having horizontal support structures attached in a fixed manner to vertical support structures; a top horizontal support structure being smaller in diameter than the other horizontal support structures; the vertical support structures being contoured to attach to the horizontal support structures of varying diameters and being further contoured to conform to the shape of the existing grill lid or top portion; one or more grill racks of corresponding size and shape to the existing grill; a large tray of corresponding size and shape to the chamber; a heat resistant pan having a lip around its upper peripheral edge; a pan support rack having horizontal and vertical support structures with the top horizontal support structure being smaller in diameter than the bottom support structure; the top horizontal support being of a corresponding diameter to the pan to hold the pan in place in a secure fashion when the pan is place on the pan support rack; multiple meat hooks removably attached to the top horizontal support structure of the dome rack; a tray with folding legs to accommodate the apparatus when removed from the existing grill; a telemetry port with an accompanying plug or stopper in the side of the smoker chamber; a plurality of durable heat tolerant extension clips that securely attached to a grill rack and support brackets; a grill basket rack having raised edges around its peripheral edge; a hook and skewer combination comprising a u-shaped portion having rounded eyelets at the bottom tips of the u-shape and a hook in the top center portion of the u-shape of sufficient diameter to attach to the dome-shaped rack, and further having a skewer which is pointed on one end and blunt on the other, the skewer of sufficient diameter to fit within the rounded eyelets of the u-shaped portion; a heat ring of cylindrical shape having open bottom and top portions; and a mounting adaptor comprising concurrent rings, one of slightly smaller diameter than the other, fixably attached to one another with the mounting adaptor having structural components facility secure attachment to a fixed surface and attachment to a grill or the smoker chamber by way of loops or holes attached to the inner and outer concurrent rings.