Inventors:
Douglas Fielding - Oakland CA
Charles S. Adams - Oakland CA
Assignee:
Charcoal Companion - Berkeley CA
International Classification:
F23J 100
Abstract:
An ash collector for the collection of ashes from a kettle-type grill. The ash collector is inverted, is frustoconical with a large top opening, and it tapers down to a smaller bottom opening. It has a large horizontal slot about half the width of the ash collector and a small slot opposite the larger slot. It has a non-combustible disk slidable in the large slot, and the disk effectively closes the bottom opening, when the disk is inserted fully into the large slot. The disk has a locking tab for engagement with the small slot to hold the disk horizontally in place and to close off completely the bottom opening. Preferably the ash collector is used with a supporting assembly and a kettle-type grill resting on the supporting assembly. The assembly has legs to which the collector is secured, so that when ashes fall through vent holes at the bottom of the kettle-like grill, the ashes fall into the conical ash collector and onto the disk.