Patents by Inventor Cory Thomas

Cory Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8997639
    Abstract: A smoker box for a cooking grill is formed to fit between and be supported by adjacent parallel heat deflector bars of the cooking grill. The open top of the smoker box is preferably covered with a perforated lid that can be removably placed onto or hingedly connected to the top of the smoker box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Adams, Cory Thomas Borovicka
  • Publication number: 20150067961
    Abstract: A shower pan installation kit is disclosed comprising a hexahedrial polymeric curb and a tray having one or more graded or concave panels defining a recess for a drain. The inward surface of the curb is recessed inward and upward. This recess, or groove, is for receiving a waterproof membrane overlaid and overlapping the tray for improvement of the waterproof barrier underlaying the shower pan constructed above the kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kolby Adamson, Cory Thomas
  • Publication number: 20150053707
    Abstract: A cooking utensil has a food container, such as a cooking basket, and a lift bracket attached the sidewall of the food container. The lift bracket includes a riser portion having a catch opening and an outwardly extending upper ledge portion having an insertion opening in vertical plane alignment with the catch opening of the riser portion. A lift handle engages the lift bracket on the food container through the insertion opening in the lift bracket. An inwardly projecting catch tip on the engagement end of the lift handle can be made to catch the catch opening in the riser portion of the lift bracket when the lift bracket engagement end of the lift handle is fully inserted in the lift bracket. When the food container is lifted by the handle, the weight of the food container will maintain the engagement of the lift handle and lift bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Kwame Phillips-Solomon
  • Publication number: 20150053696
    Abstract: A cooking utensil is has a food container for holding food items, a catch mechanism on the outside of the food container at or near the rim of the food container. A handle is provided which has opposed side rods having opposed free ends and oppositely extending catch legs which form an attachment end of the handle. The opposed free ends of the opposed side rods have a normal at rest separation and are capable of being flexed inwardly towards each other from their normal separation by a pinching force applied by hand to the side rods so that they can be inserted into and be disengaged from the catch mechanism on the food container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Jane Rabanal
  • Publication number: 20130276643
    Abstract: A portable baking oven for a pizza or other food item includes a food item heating plate, a base having a heating chamber, and a top cover having a moisture vent and a heat reflector structure extending across the inside of said top cover. When placed on said base, the top cover forms a baking chamber above the heating plate. Heat produced in the base's heating chamber circulates up through air passageways in the base into the baking chamber above the food item heating plate. This circulated heat is reflected back down toward the food item heating plate by the top cover's heat reflecting structure to accelerate baking of the top of a food item placed on the heating plate. The top cover's moisture vent can be located above the heat reflector structure in the top cover, and openings can be provided in the heat reflector structure which allow moisture emitted by a food item being baked in the oven to pass through the reflector structure and out through the top cover moisture vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Robert S. Krolick, Sanford Shapiro, Cory Thomas Borovicka
  • Publication number: 20130213243
    Abstract: A smoker box and humidifier for a barbecue grill has a container body having a top and at least one and preferably a plurality of top opening at its top. Isolated compartments are provided in the container body. At least one of the isolated compartments is capable of holding wood chips or the like for producing a flavoring smoke, and at least one of compartments is capable of holding a liquid separate from but in close proximity to the wood chips or the like. The compartments in the container body are positioned such that, when the smoker box is heated, both the flavoring smoke and moistening vapors produced in the compartments of the container body circulate up through the top openings in the top of said container body. The container body can include a drawer with isolated compartments, which can be pulled out to replenish spent wood chips and fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams
  • Publication number: 20120174799
    Abstract: A utensil 10 for flavoring fowl while cooking it over a heat source such as a barbecue has a pan-shaped base 53 with having an infuser cup 77 extending upward from the center portion 65 of the pan base. The infuser cup is sized to receive a standard beverage can that may be placed therein to provide a desired infusing liquid. The infuser cup can be detachably secured to the pan base by cooperative engagement of downwardly extending key tabs 89 on the bottom end 81 of the infuser cup into key tab receiving slots 69 located in the center portion 65 of the pan base 53.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Sharon Ellen Kallenberger
  • Patent number: D658015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: D658441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams, Richard Alva Lemire, Jr.
  • Patent number: D658942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: D659461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Jane Rabanal
  • Patent number: D663171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Kwame Phillips-Solomon
  • Patent number: D674671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Kwame Phillips-Solomon
  • Patent number: D679133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: D682080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Jane Rabanal
  • Patent number: D684284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventor: Cory Thomas Borovicka
  • Patent number: D693654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: D700438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Kwame Phillips-Solomon
  • Patent number: D707076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventors: Cory Thomas Borovicka, Kwame Phillips-Solomon
  • Patent number: D722250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Charcoal Companion Incorporated
    Inventor: Cory Thomas Borovicka