US3651596A - Fuel element, in particular for grilling and smoking food - Google Patents
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- US3651596A US3651596A US799030A US3651596DA US3651596A US 3651596 A US3651596 A US 3651596A US 799030 A US799030 A US 799030A US 3651596D A US3651596D A US 3651596DA US 3651596 A US3651596 A US 3651596A
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10L—FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
- C10L5/00—Solid fuels
- C10L5/40—Solid fuels essentially based on materials of non-mineral origin
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E50/00—Technologies for the production of fuel of non-fossil origin
- Y02E50/30—Fuel from waste, e.g. synthetic alcohol or diesel
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- the present invention relates to a fuel element, in particular for grilling and smoking, and aims at producing a fuel element of that kind which is easier to handle and use than ordinary crushed charcoal, which is the most common fuel used in outdoor grills and open hearths.
- the fuel element according to the invention is also easier to use than wood cuttings or sawdust, which are used for smoking food and makes the grilling or smoking simpler and more comfortable than crushed charcoal or other kinds of fuel.
- the invention provides a fuel element of the kind described above which ischaracterized in that a fuel quantity is enclosed in a housing in the nature of apackage to be discarded after use and consisting essentially of refractory material and being sufficiently tight to retain the fuel quantity before, during and after combustion as well as combustion residues, if any, enclosed in the casing, at the same time as it is sufficiently permeable to air to permit air to enter the fuel quantity in a volume necessary for its combustion.
- FIG. 1 shows a plan view of the fuel element with the casing v wall partly broken away
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the fuel element.
- the fuel element according to the invention comprises a tubular, in cross section almost oval casing which is flattened and sealed in each of its ends so as to form a fin 11 there.
- the casing there is enclosed a quantity of fuel l2 which may consist of pieces of varying sizes, in such a way that the casing is rather well filled.
- the casing at the same time serves as a package for the fuel and is meant to be discarded after use. It must be of such kind that it is air-permeable to a sufficient degree to permit the air which is required for burning the fuel to pass through the casing, at the same time as it must be sufficiently tight in order to retain fine fuel particles or finegrained combustion residues inside the casing.
- a suitable material for the casing is unwoven felted fiberglass held together by means of a bonding agent containing starch, said material being available on the market (fiberglass felting). Other materials, such as fine-mesh metal netting or fiberglass fabric may also be used but would hardly be used to any considerable extent because of their relatively high price.
- the fuel 12 may consist of crushed charcoal and into the charcoal there may be mixed a fragrant material, e.g., juniper twigs. It is also possible to press the charcoal into a briquet in a conventional manner and to enclose the said briquet in the casing.
- the fuel element described having charcoal filling may be used as a heat radiation element for grilling meat, fish etc., in outdoor grills or on the open hearth.
- the fuel element may in that case be used in a horizontal position and is ignited by means of a conventional igniting liquid. Due to the fact that the fuel element is arranged in combination with a reflector it may be located beside or above the food to be grilled, which gives certain advantages. As a matter of fact it is thereby possible to avoid grease dripping down onto the fuel element from the food to be grilled and being ignited when coming into contact with the fuel element, whereby the grilling may be done without disturbing smoke.
- the ignition of grease which has dripped onto the food should also be avoided because the burning grease will coat the grilled food with soot, which is not only unappetizing but also unhealthy according to certain research results as it is considered to give rise to cancer. Even if the fuel element is placed beneath the food to be grilled the risk of such soot formation as a result of the combustion of grease dripping down is insignificant when using a fuel element according to the invention since the drops of grease will become distributed on the casing and will evaporate quickly without being ignited.
- the fuel element according to the invention may also be used as a smoke cartridge for hot or cold smoking of food, in
- the fuel 12 may consist of wood cuttings (sawdust or chippings) of a suitable wood quality, or of any other fuel generating smoke at combustion.
- the casing 10 will form a soot and ash filter so that soot and ash particles will not adhere to the smoked food and make it unappetizing.
- the fuel element according to the invention as a smoke cartridge it is consequently possible to simpler smoke furnaces than those now in use, since the furnace does not have to contain a special hearth; the fuel element may be placed in a horizontal position or may be suspended with simple means in the same room where the food is to be smoked.
- the casing forms a controlling factor with respect to the combustion of the smokegenerating material since among other things the thickness of the fuel element determines the heat development at the combustion and, together with the length of the fuel element, infiuences the combustion time of the fuel element (heat generation and combustion time will of course also become dependent on the draft in the furnace).
- the fuel element may contain a fuel quantity l2 carefully composed for certain kinds of smoking and its size may be adapted to different furnace sizes.
- the use of the fuel element may be facilitated by incorporating into the fuel element an ignitor which may be enclosed at one end of the casing 10 in the portion located between the tin 11 at that end and the dash-and-dot line 13.
- the ignitor may consist of e.g., paper or chippings.
- a pyrotechnical ignitor may also be used and does not, of course, have to be provided at one end of the fuel element but may extend as a string over the whole length of the fuel element or be mixed with the fuel. It is possible to provide a plurality of fuel elements in a grill, open hearth or furnace in such a way that they will be ignited one after the other, whereby it is possible to obtain almost any desired combustion time by using smaller fuel elements which are easy to handle.
- the fuel element described will probably be used as a grill element or smoke cartridge in the first place it also makes it possible to use for instance charcoal as fuel for heating tents and other similar spaces, or it can be used as a heating element in an oven for field use and for camping in a considerably simpler and cleaner manner than has been possible so far.
- the fuel element may preferably be used in a suspended state and be allowed to burn from one end. in an oven the element may be used in a horizontal position just as when used for grilling or smoking, and it is then possible to put a plurality of fuel elements together in a suitable pattern in order to obtain an even distribution of the heat over a certain area.
- a fuel element for cooking and/or smoke flavoring food comprising a porous noncombustible glass fiber casing; and a combustible fuel in solid form enclosed within the casing; the fiberglass casing having pores in sufficient number and size to permit the entry of the volume of air necessary to support combustion of the fuel, while retaining therewithin the fuel and substantially all of the combustion residue therefrom.
- a fuel element in accordance with claim 4 comprising in addition wood chips for generating smoke during combustion to produce a smoked flavor in the food.
- a fuel element for cooking and/or smoke flavoring food comprising a porous noncombustible glass fiber casing, a starch-containing bonding agent holding the glass fiber material together, and a combustible fuel in solid form enclosed within the glass fiber casing, the casing having pores in sufficient number and size permitting the entry of the volume of air necessary to support combustion of the fuel, while retaining therewithin the fuel and substantially all of the com- 5 bustion residue therefrom.
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SE1483068 | 1968-11-01 |
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US (1) | US3651596A (es) |
JP (1) | JPS4943081B1 (es) |
AT (1) | AT302241B (es) |
CH (1) | CH520766A (es) |
DK (1) | DK122613B (es) |
FI (1) | FI51821C (es) |
GB (1) | GB1274009A (es) |
IE (1) | IE33359B1 (es) |
NL (1) | NL163557C (es) |
NO (1) | NO124998B (es) |
Cited By (8)
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US4095957A (en) * | 1977-03-22 | 1978-06-20 | Orsing J H | Fuel element |
US4102653A (en) * | 1976-01-14 | 1978-07-25 | Charles T. Simmons | Aromatic wood fuel briquette and method of making and using the same |
US4857074A (en) * | 1988-01-25 | 1989-08-15 | Hickory Specialties, Inc. | Flavor-imparting permanent briquette for gas and electric grills |
US5520940A (en) * | 1992-10-19 | 1996-05-28 | Tirkkonen; Tapani | Bag for curing food |
US6102028A (en) * | 1999-08-11 | 2000-08-15 | Weber-Stephen Products Co. | Smoker attachment for a barbecue grill |
US6257130B1 (en) | 2000-08-11 | 2001-07-10 | Weber-Stephen Products Co. | Ducted smoker for barbecue grill |
US7059318B2 (en) | 2003-04-24 | 2006-06-13 | Randall Cornfield | Multi-purpose stovetop grilling and cooking device |
GB2525291A (en) * | 2014-02-27 | 2015-10-21 | Martin Christopher Abram | A disposable food smoking apparatus, a food smoking cake, and a method of forming a food smoking cake |
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US2916365A (en) * | 1957-06-25 | 1959-12-08 | Charles R Smith | Barbecue fuel and preparation thereof |
US2967023A (en) * | 1957-11-19 | 1961-01-03 | Thad T Huckabee | Means for smoke-flavoring food |
US3124432A (en) * | 1964-03-10 | Fuel igniter | ||
US3347148A (en) * | 1966-06-20 | 1967-10-17 | Theodore M Williams | Smoke flavoring device |
US3454377A (en) * | 1967-02-20 | 1969-07-08 | Charles S Renwick Jr | Packaged fuel supplement |
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- 1969-01-13 DK DK18069AA patent/DK122613B/da not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1969-01-15 FI FI690111A patent/FI51821C/fi active
- 1969-02-13 US US799030A patent/US3651596A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1969-10-24 CH CH1587069A patent/CH520766A/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1969-10-27 GB GB52500/69A patent/GB1274009A/en not_active Expired
- 1969-10-28 AT AT1014169A patent/AT302241B/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1969-10-28 IE IE1474/69A patent/IE33359B1/xx unknown
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US3124432A (en) * | 1964-03-10 | Fuel igniter | ||
US2916365A (en) * | 1957-06-25 | 1959-12-08 | Charles R Smith | Barbecue fuel and preparation thereof |
US2967023A (en) * | 1957-11-19 | 1961-01-03 | Thad T Huckabee | Means for smoke-flavoring food |
US3347148A (en) * | 1966-06-20 | 1967-10-17 | Theodore M Williams | Smoke flavoring device |
US3454377A (en) * | 1967-02-20 | 1969-07-08 | Charles S Renwick Jr | Packaged fuel supplement |
Cited By (8)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4102653A (en) * | 1976-01-14 | 1978-07-25 | Charles T. Simmons | Aromatic wood fuel briquette and method of making and using the same |
US4095957A (en) * | 1977-03-22 | 1978-06-20 | Orsing J H | Fuel element |
US4857074A (en) * | 1988-01-25 | 1989-08-15 | Hickory Specialties, Inc. | Flavor-imparting permanent briquette for gas and electric grills |
US5520940A (en) * | 1992-10-19 | 1996-05-28 | Tirkkonen; Tapani | Bag for curing food |
US6102028A (en) * | 1999-08-11 | 2000-08-15 | Weber-Stephen Products Co. | Smoker attachment for a barbecue grill |
US6257130B1 (en) | 2000-08-11 | 2001-07-10 | Weber-Stephen Products Co. | Ducted smoker for barbecue grill |
US7059318B2 (en) | 2003-04-24 | 2006-06-13 | Randall Cornfield | Multi-purpose stovetop grilling and cooking device |
GB2525291A (en) * | 2014-02-27 | 2015-10-21 | Martin Christopher Abram | A disposable food smoking apparatus, a food smoking cake, and a method of forming a food smoking cake |
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DE1902757B2 (de) | 1977-05-26 |
NO124998B (es) | 1972-07-03 |
JPS4943081B1 (es) | 1974-11-19 |
NL6900387A (es) | 1970-05-06 |
IE33359L (en) | 1970-05-01 |
NL163557C (nl) | 1980-09-15 |
NL163557B (nl) | 1980-04-15 |
AT302241B (de) | 1972-10-10 |
FI51821C (fi) | 1977-04-12 |
DE1902757A1 (de) | 1970-07-16 |
FI51821B (es) | 1976-12-31 |
CH520766A (de) | 1972-03-31 |
DK122613B (da) | 1972-03-20 |
IE33359B1 (en) | 1974-05-29 |
GB1274009A (en) | 1972-05-10 |
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