Manufacture of Charcoal
OwnerAndrew Mark Elliottinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for the manufacture of charcoal, comprising a unit having walls defining a primary combustion chamber, and a material inlet for allowing a feed of wood chips though said material inlet into said apparatus. A trough is located at a lower height than said material inlet such that material passing through said material inlet is able to fall into the trough. An air inlet is located below the material inlet such that, when wood chips are located within the trough piled up to said material inlet, air passing from said air inlet passes through said wood-chips and into the primary combustion chamber.
Claims22
Apparatus for continuous manufacture of charcoal, comprising a unit having:
- chamber walls defining a chamber having a trough and a primary combustion space, in which an upper one of said walls defines a ceiling for said primary combustion space;
- a material inlet for allowing a feed of wood chips through said material inlet into said;
- trough, said trough being located at a lower height than said material inlet such that material passing through said material inlet is able to fall into the trough;
- a first air inlet located in a first one of said chamber walls and below the material inlet such that, when wood chips are located within the trough piled up to said material inlet, air passing from said air inlet passes through said wood-chips and into the primary combustion space;
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- a second air inlet providing a flow of air downwards from said ceiling into said primary combustion space;
- wherein said material inlet comprises a downwardly extending passageway defined by a material inlet wall extending downwards from said ceiling, said material inlet wall separating said passageway from said primary combustion space, such that heat generated within said primary combustion space passes through said material inlet wall into said passageway.
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Apparatus for continuous manufacture of charcoal, comprising a unit having:
- chamber walls defining a chamber, an upper one of said walls defining a ceiling of a primary combustion space;
- a trough wall located within said chamber, said trough wall and a first one of said chamber walls defining a trough within said chamber such that said trough is defined to one side of said trough wall and said primary combustion space is defined to the other side of said trough wall;
- a material inlet located above said trough such that material passing through said material inlet is able to fall into the trough, said material inlet comprises a downwardly extending passageway defined by said first one of said chamber walls and a material inlet wall extending downwards from said ceiling, said material inlet wall having a lower edge positioned above said trough and said material inlet wall separating said passageway from said primary combustion space, such that heat generated within said primary combustion space passes through said material inlet wall into said passageway;
- a first air inlet located in said first one of said chamber walls such that, when material is located within the trough piled up into said material inlet, air passing from said first air inlet passes through said material and into the primary combustion space;
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- a second air inlet providing a flow of air downwards from said ceiling into said primary combustion space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.