Solid-fuel burner

A wood burner comprising a casing forming a combustion chamber having a pair of planar bottom wall means for supporting a load of wood to be burned, said planar bottom wall means being inclined downwardly toward the center of said combustion chamber,

• means located adjacent the lower edges of said planar bottom wall means for supplying air to said combustion chamber to form a primary fire zone substantially vertically above said air supply,
• the slope of said planar bottom wall means being gradual enough to provide space within the combustion chamber for said wood outward of said fire zone, while being steep enough to ensure the wood stacked against said bottom walls gravitates into said primary fire zone as the wood in said zone is consumed by the fire, and
• a substantially V-shaped partition disposed in the upper portion of said combustion chamber centrally thereof with the apex of said V-shaped partition extending downward into close proximity to said primary fire zone, such that unburned combustion products rising therefrom are deflected outwardly by said V-shaped partition into the upper portions of the combustion chamber on opposite sides of said partition and recirculated as they cool downwardly into said primary fire zone,
• said partition having a restricted exhaust opening adjacent its apex for continuously exhausting combustion products from said combustion chamber.