Stove apparatus

Stove apparatus comprising a firebox, a heat-exchange housing enclosing said firebox and spaced therefrom to provide air circulating passages, said firebox having a top, lateral sides and a rear end, said housing also having a bottom, top, lateral sides and a rear end respectively spaced in substantial parallelism from the corresponding parts of said firebox, a front closure on said firebox having an access door, said spaced lateral sides of said firebox and housing defining air inlet passages having at the front ends thereof air inlet ports, said spaced tops defining an air outlet passage in communication with said inlet passages and having at the front end thereof an air outlet port, means connected to said inlet ports for supplying a flow of air to said inlet passages, means for admitting combustion air to said firebox, and means for venting smoke from said firebox in by-passing relation to said housing and said top air outlet passage, said firebox projecting beyond the front portion of said housing, said top of said firebox being in the form of a plate having a flat horizontal portion which projects forwardly of said housing and is exposed thereby providing a stove top, said top plate of said firebox engaging at the lateral edges thereof said housing sides thereby further defining said inlet passages, the space between said housing and firebox rear ends serving to connect said inlet passages to said outlet passage.