Apparatus for cooking and smokeflavoring food

Claim 1

FOOD COOKING AND SMOKE-FLAVORING APPARATUS, COMPRISING: MEANS HAVING A SURFACE FOR SUPPORTING A BED OF BURNING FUEL; A GRILL DISPOSED IN RELATIVELY CLOSELY SPACED RELATION DIRECTLY ABOVE SAID SURFACE TO SUPPORT FOOD TO BE COOKED BY SAID BURNING FUEL BY RADIANT HEAT AND CONVECTION; HEAT RESPONSIVE SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS; MEANS SUPPORTING SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS SPACED ABOVE SAID SURFACE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SAID BURNING FUEL, WHEREBY THE HEAT OF SAID BURNING FUEL CAN ACTIVATE SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS; AND COVER MEANS REMOVEDLY SUPPORTED ON SAID GRILL AND OVERLYING SAID GRILL AND SMOKEPRODUCING MEANS, SAID COVER MEANS HAVING A CHAMBER FORMED THEREIN, AND CONSTITUTING AN ENCLOSURE FOR FOOD ON SAID GRILL AND FOR ACCUMULATING SMOKE FROM SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS IN A ZONE DIRECTLY ABOVE SAID GRILL, SAID GRILL HAVING AN OPENING, SAID MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS BEING VERTICALLY ALIGNED WITH SAID OPENING, SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS INCLUDING A PROFORATED RECEPTACLE CONTAINING HEAT-RESPONSIVE SMOKE PRODUCING MATERIAL, SAID OPENING BEING LARGER THAN SAID RECEPTACLE TO PERMIT THE RECEPTACLE TO BE PASSED THROUGH SAID OPENING ONTO THE MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID SMOKE-PRODUCING MEANS.