Abstract:
A heating device for consuming a combustionable fuel, having an internal combustion chamber with top, sides, ends, and a grate forming the bottom; an outer shell, having a top, sides, ends, and a bottom in spaced relation below the grate; a primary air supply adapted to distribute the air beneath the grate; a secondary air supply adapted to preheat the secondary air prior to entering the combustion chamber at a location above the grate; an axis door in one end suitable to pass fuel within the combustion chamber; an exhaust chamber between the combustion chamber and the outer shell adapted to extend across the top and at least partially down a side in fluid communication with the combustion chamber; an exhaust port adapted to exhaust the combustion gases from the exhaust chamber externally of the device; a damper adapted to selectively divert exhausting gases in the exhaust chamber at least partially down one side, to extend the distance travelled by the exhausting gases to improve secondary combustion and thermal heat transfer prior to exiting the exhaust gases from the device. A plurality of baffles adapted to extend at least partially down a side of the exhaust chamber and adapted to serpentine the exhausting gases through an extended path within the exhaust chamber when the damper is closed.
Abstract:
An improved wood burning stove for providing heated air to a room or similar area includes an enclosed fire chamber, a hearth at the bottom of the fire chamber, draft inlet means at the front of the fire chamber and a flue at the rear of the fire chamber. Within the fire chamber is an enclosed air chamber having lower and upper portions; the lower portion communicates at the bottom of the stove with the ambient air and extends upwardly adjacent the rear wall of the fire chamber to a point below the flue, where it joins with the upper portion. The upper portion of the air chamber extends upwardly toward the front of the fire chamber at an acute angle with the horizontal, preferably between five and twenty-five degrees; at the forward end of the upper portion the air chamber communicates with one or more air pipes which extend to the front of the stove and there open to the ambient air. Ambient air is heated by passing it through the air chamber and air pipes after they have been heated by hot gases rising from a fire burning on the hearth; the hot gases contact the air pipes and the bottom surface of the air chamber's upper portion and, because their normal path of travel to the flue is altered by the positioning of the upper portion of the air chamber, contact the top surface of the air chamber's upper portion as well.
Abstract:
A stove having an integral heat exchanger and a fan unit for forcing air through the heat exchanger and into a room where the stove is situated through hot air outlet openings in the stove front which are covered by perforated ceramic decorative cover plates. The heat exchanger extends along the rear and side walls of the stove and comprises a conduit of welded sheet metal construction similar to that of the stove walls wherein portions of the stove side walls also serve as the sides of the heat exchanger conduit. The decorative cover plates are retained in position by elastically deformable wire clips which partially encircle an edge of each cover plate and frictionally engage an outwardly projecting lip surrounding the hot air outlet openings of the heat exchanger conduit.