Don L Davis

US Patent:

53688724, Nov 29, 1994

Filed:

Aug 31, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/114456

Inventors:

Don M. Davis - Austin TX

International Classification:

A23L 131
A23B 4044

US Classification:

426281

Abstract:

A combination pressure and vacuum smoker is described that includes separate compartments for the creation of a fire, the pressurized smoking of foods, and the smoking of foods in a partial vacuum. In operation, a user creates a fire in the fire compartment and places the foods to be smoked in the other compartments. The unique design to the device allows a user to pressurize the fire compartment with air and to transfer the pressurized and smoke filled air to the pressure smoking compartment to smoke the foods therein contained under pressure. The design further allows a user to create a partial vacuum within the vacuum smoking compartment, to then draw smoke filled air from the fire compartment into the vacuum smoking compartment, and to maintain a partial vacuum in the vacuum smoking compartment. Such a design allows the user to regulate the temperature, smoke concentration, and pressure within the pressure and vacuum smoking compartments using only the fire contained in the fire box as a source of smoke and heat. The present invention also includes a method for the pressurized and vacuum smoking of foods.