US 11,985,985 B2
Outdoor cooking station for smoking food and method thereof
Paul J. Simon, Elizabethtown, KY (US); and Michael R. Giebel, Joplin, MO (US)
Assigned to North Atlantic Imports, LLC, Logan, UT (US)
Filed by North Atlantic Imports, LLC, Logan, UT (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/385,881.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/057,235, filed on Jul. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046937 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A23B 4/052 (2006.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01); A47J 37/07 (2006.01)
CPC A23B 4/0523 (2013.01) [A23L 5/17 (2016.08); A47J 37/0704 (2013.01); A47J 37/0786 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outdoor cooking station configured to be heated with smoke, the outdoor cooking station comprising:
a main body extending to define a front side, a rear side, a left side and a right side each extending from a lower end to a cooking chamber, the cooking chamber being an upper portion of the main body, the cooking chamber having a cooking surface, the main body including a heat generating portion sized and configured to burn fuel to provide heated smoke to the cooking chamber, the main body including a radial wall extending above and at least partially over the cooking surface, the radial wall of the main body extending between a left wall and a right wall and the radial wall defining a central axis extending between the left and right walls; and
a hood with a radial hood wall extending between hood ends, the hood rotatably coupled to the main body about a pivot axis, the pivot axis being co-axial with the central axis of the main body, the radial hood wall of the hood corresponding with the radial wall of the main body so that the radial hood wall is movable over an external side of the radial wall of the main body as the hood moves between an open position and a closed position, the hood including a rear edge having a vent portion with openings defined therein, the vent portion sized and configured to facilitate venting smoke from the cooking chamber,
wherein the rear edge comprises a surface with the openings defined therein such that, upon the hood being in the closed position, the surface extends in a substantially vertical orientation,
wherein the substantially vertical orientation of the surface comprises an angle of about 1 to 15 degrees relative to the vertical.