Highly efficient wood stove/heater
AssigneeLiberator LLC
InventorsSky Huddleston, Phillip M. Huddleston
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Abstract
A highly efficient indoor heating system and device is described. The device is equipped with an internal chimney, as well as vents that are configured to maximize the draft applied to the flame housed within a stove combustion area. The heater is configured to reach temperatures exceeding 300 degrees Fahrenheit in approximately ten minutes. A gravity fed fuel tube, potentially in communication with a wood pellet hopper, is configured to deliver fuel to the stove of the heater. Heat is distributed throughout the structure of the device, and a convection chamber within the device ensures that heat generated is not quickly lost via exhaust.
Claims11
A heater apparatus comprising:
- an outside air intake;
- a heightened gravity-fed fuel chute;
- a combustion chamber;
- heat sinks, said heat sinks disposed on an outside of said convection chamber;
- an exhaust;
- a convection chamber, said convection chamber disposed in communication with said exhaust;
- double-walled insulation, said double-walled insulation lining said combustion chamber;
- an internal chimney;
- a catalytic combustor, said catalytic combustor disposed atop said internal chimney;
- wherein said internal chimney is off-set from a center of said combustion chamber to maximize thermal conduction of heat;
- fuel couplings:
- a heat exchanger;
- a pellet hopper, said pellet hopper disposed atop said combustion chamber;
- wherein said pellet hopper is removable;
- a downdraft burn grate, said downdraft burn grate configured to hold solid fuel within the heater;
- and
- support struts, said support struts are disposed beneath the heater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.