Brooks Horton Holcombe

US Patent:

42156688, Aug 5, 1980

Filed:

Jul 15, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/815800

Inventors:

Brooks H. Holcombe - Union SC
Homer E. Elwood - Lockhart SC

International Classification:

F24B 102

US Classification:

126 60

Abstract:

A free standing stove having excellent thermal emission and fuel combustion characteristics comprising front, back, base, top and side plates of high strength, heat transmitting metal defining a main body of the stove. The interior of the main body of the stove is provided with a horizontal baffle plate disposed between top and base plates to divide the stove into a lower fuel-receiving and heating compartment and an upper heating compartment. The two compartments communicate by a passageway adjacent a side plate of the stove, and the side plate is provided with an access opening and door to permit insertion of fuel into the lower fuel-receiving compartment. The access door is provided with upper and lower dampers which may be adjusted to circulate air across the stove to retard the movement of combustion gases and by-products through the passageway communicating the upper and lower compartments, and to provide oxygen for combustion of the fuel in the upper and lower compartments, respectively. Flange means surround the top and side portions of the side access door opening and extend inwardly from the side plate to further facilitate direction of the air across the lower compartment and prevent escape of combustion gases and by-products from the access door when the door is opened to refuel the stove. The base plate of the stove is disposed in an upwardly extending plane from back to front of the stove to facilitate forward radiation of heat from the base plate of the stove into the room to be heated.