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US 4,060,396 AGranted
Wafered fuel of compressed wood products
OwnerJames V. Burtoninventor
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Abstract
A fuel made of a major portion of compacted wood particles as a log of an integrated array of interlocking, disc-shaped wafers, which may be separated from the log to be used as individual briquettes. The log may be modified by providing a star-shaped, hollow passage through it and through each wafer, to enhance the burning rate and to make lighting the log a simple, quick operation.
Claims3
A fuel in a cylindrical form of selected length comprising:
- a plurality of relatively thin wafers arranged as an interlocking array of disc-shaped wafers including a major portion of wood particles without binders, with each wafer being a discrete member having one concave end and one convex end arranged to nest with a neighboring wafer,
- each said wafer having a pointed star shaped central passage;
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- the particles of each wafer being compressed together so as to tightly adhere to each other with the wafers only lightly adhered to an adjacent wafer so as to permit easy breaking of the fuel into discrete wafers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.