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US 4,226,363 AGranted
Stove bench
OwnerDana M. Sheldoninventor
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A stove bench comprised of a metal liner forming an interior duct which is covered with tiles or masonry to form the outer face of the stove bench, an inlet to the duct for receiving hot exhaust gases from a stove or furnace, and an outlet from the duct for the exhaust of the gases to a chimney or the like. The bench has a top that is also covered with tiles, masonry, or soapstone, permitting heat conduction thereto, and permitting the top to serve as a seating or sleeping surface. The stove bench is preferably supported on two legs and has a clean-out door, preferably disposed at one end of the stove bench. A damper is disposed at the outlet from the structure for controlling the gases passed through the stove bench. In an alternate embodiment of the stove bench there is further included an insulated bypass duct disposed beneath the first, heat-conducting duct. Control means are associated with the bypass duct so that hot exhaust gases from a furnace which may operate all year are bypassed around the heat-conducting duct in warm weather when space heating is not desired.
A stove bench comprising a hollow elongated structure having walls defining a duct, having an elongated top horizontal seating surface, and having means defining an inlet and outlet, said inlet and outlet being spaced from one another along the elongated duct whereby air or gas flow to the inlet passes through the duct to the outlet, and flow control means associated with said structure including means for varying flow through the duct, said hollow structure also having a substantially horizontal wall sectioning the duct into an upper primary heat duct for supplying heat to the seating surface and a lower bypass duct that is disposed on the opposite side of the primary heat duct to the seating surface, said upper and lower ducts both extending substantially in parallel and along the bench seating surface, said flow control means including damper means associated with one of said inlet and outlet and means associated with said upper and lower ducts adapted to be either open or closed.
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