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US3877886A
US3877886A US357172A US35717273A US3877886A US 3877886 A US3877886 A US 3877886A US 357172 A US357172 A US 357172A US 35717273 A US35717273 A US 35717273A US 3877886 A US3877886 A US 3877886A
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10L—FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS
    • C10L11/00—Fire-lighters
    • C10L11/04—Fire-lighters consisting of combustible material
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E50/00—Technologies for the production of fuel of non-fossil origin
    • Y02E50/30—Fuel from waste, e.g. synthetic alcohol or diesel

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  • ABSTRACT A slow and even burning compact package of solid fuel components featuring log slices formed of compressed wood shavings.
  • a centrally arranged igniter piece and two relatively small chips formed of the same material as the larger log slices cause burning to start at the center and bottom of the fuel package and to migrate slowly outwardly until the entire package is consumed.
  • Some of the log slices are chemically treated to produce a color flame.
  • the slices are arranged relative to the igniter and chips to produce a natural chimney effect for the burning fuel package.
  • the fuel components are nested on a pre-formed tray or pallet and the latter is enclosed in a thin transparent plastic wrapper which prevents displacement of the components during handling of the package.
  • Natural logs also have a tendency to burn unevenly and fire kindling with logs can be difficult and there is frequently the necessity for restarting the fire several times due to poor combustion.
  • Coal, coke and like solid bituminous fuels have never been convenient or popular for the home fireplace and are not satisfactory for campfires and the like. These fuels are dirty and give off much smoke and are inconvenient to handle and transport.
  • the object of this invention to improve upon the prior art in general and the above mentioned PRES-TO-LOG product in particular, by the provision of a solid fuel unit. assembly or package, which is ideally suited to use in the home fireplace or for making a campfire or for other similar purposes.
  • the fuel unit is a self-contained uniformly sized package which is totally consummable and meets the Ringleman-l Federal Smoke Emission Standards. Testing of the product by an independent test laboratory has also indicated that the invention is very satisfactory in terms of particulate emission during burning. Additionally, the fuel unit or package is clean and easy to handle and can be produced in various sizes by simply adding to the number of fuel slices while preserving the unique geometric arrangement of slices which causes the efficient, long and slow burning characteristics of the product.
  • the invention includes its own easily ignitable fire starting element and adjacent small chips of the solid fuel, arranged in relation to the surrounding major fuel slices to produce a chimney effect and to cause burning of the product outwardly from the center and bottom of the package gradually and evenly.
  • Two of the interior fuel slices are chemically treated to produce a desirable color flame and this is an optional feature of the invention.
  • the individual fuel slices and components are nested on a pre-formed convenient pallet or tray having an outer wrap of preferably transparent plastic film. The arrangement holds the fuel slices in the predetermined array with respect to one another and to the centrally arranged igniter and chips, and prevents unwanted displacement of components during transportation and handling.
  • FIG. 2 is a similar view of a pre-formed pallet or tray for support of solid fuel slices
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of the fuel package showing the array of slices in relation to a central starter element and kindling chips;
  • FIG. 4 is a vertical section taken on line 44 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a vertical section taken on line 5-5 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 6 is a partly diagrammatic view similar to FIG. 5 illustrating the unique burning process embodied in the invention.
  • the numeral 10 designates a pallet or tray for supporting the cylindrical solid fuel slices and maintaining them in proper assembled relationship to promote the most efficient burning.
  • This pallet may be conveniently molded from foam plastic or may be formed if preferred from pressed kraft paper or fibreboard.
  • the pellet I0 is rectangular and its bottom wall may be formed to provide shallow arcuate recesses 11 or seats for the several cylindrical fuel slices to be described. The seats tend to prevent movement of the slices which is undesirable during the handling or shipment of the package.
  • Pallet 10 also includes a pair of parallel upstanding sidewalls 12, disposed at right angles to the bottom walls. The opposite ends of the pallet may be open as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the interior vertical faces of the two slices l form the sidewalls of a combustion chamber or chimney space inside of the package as will be further discussed.
  • the two slices 15 are chemically treated to produce a colored flame, such as red or green or blue upon burning, but this is an optional feature which may be omitted if preferred.
  • a substantially totally consumable solid fuel package for home fireplaces, orchard heating and the like comprising a burnable tray-like holder for solid fuel having a generally flat bottom adapted to rest on a fireplace floor or the like and having upstanding fuelconfining side wall portions, an array of compressed wood particle fuel log slices of substantially equal size disposed in said holder and having their peripheralfaces resting on the bottom wall of the holder and their end faces disposed vertically, said array of fuel log slices including a first spaced opposing pair of slices located centrally in the holder and a second spaced opposing pair of slices located immediately on opposite sides of the first pair, the interior end faces of said pairs of slices being substantially at right angles and the interior end faces of said second pair being close to the peripheral faces of the first pair, whereby the interior end faces of both said pairs of slices define a top opening substantially rectangular chimney passage extending upwardly from the bottom wall of said holder, a solid igniter element disposed centrally in said chimney passage and extending substantially between said first pair of log slices and resting on the bottom wall of
  • a pair of relatively small and shallow solid fuel kindling elements disposed in the bottom of the chimney passage on opposite sides of the igniter element and being in close proximity to the interior end faces of said first and second pairs of log slices to enable initial burning to migrate outwardly from the center of the fuel package near the bottom thereof.
  • additional fuel log slices arranged on opposite sides of the first and second pairs in said array of log slices and having exterior vertical end faces terminating at the opposite ends of said package. the interior end faces of the last-named slices substantially abutting the exterior end

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FR2449121A1 (fr) * 1979-02-14 1980-09-12 Dg Shelter Prod Co Briquette artificielle
US4627854A (en) * 1985-11-04 1986-12-09 Firebox Corporation Self-contained log fire starting kit
US4775391A (en) * 1987-07-08 1988-10-04 Antosko Henry B Fuel package
US4878922A (en) * 1987-03-24 1989-11-07 A And A Realty Company Fireplace starter composition
US4906254A (en) * 1987-04-23 1990-03-06 Antosko Henry B Fuel package
US5112365A (en) * 1991-01-25 1992-05-12 Sebring Forest Industries, Inc. Fuel block
US5958090A (en) * 1998-05-20 1999-09-28 Chandaria; Ashok Velji Artificial fire log with an easily exposed rough ignitable area
WO2000050544A1 (en) * 1999-02-22 2000-08-31 Pasi Kinnunen Heating means
EP1046697A3 (en) * 1999-04-23 2001-11-14 RI.BE.S. S.r.l. Device for carrying and burning charcoal
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US20040222117A1 (en) * 2002-08-07 2004-11-11 Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc., An Ohio Corporation Packaged charcoal briquet product
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US2789890A (en) * 1954-03-08 1957-04-23 Stevens Fireplace Log Corp Artificial fireplace log
US2955029A (en) * 1957-10-25 1960-10-04 Diamond National Corp Charcoal package
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US2789890A (en) * 1954-03-08 1957-04-23 Stevens Fireplace Log Corp Artificial fireplace log
US2955029A (en) * 1957-10-25 1960-10-04 Diamond National Corp Charcoal package
US3269807A (en) * 1963-09-18 1966-08-30 Jr Hobart Key Fuel packages
US3370932A (en) * 1963-11-27 1968-02-27 Johnson Coal Cubing Co Flame coloring product and method of manufacturing same

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FR2449121A1 (fr) * 1979-02-14 1980-09-12 Dg Shelter Prod Co Briquette artificielle
US4243394A (en) * 1979-02-14 1981-01-06 Dg Shelter Products Company Pie segment shaped flammable artificial firelog
US4627854A (en) * 1985-11-04 1986-12-09 Firebox Corporation Self-contained log fire starting kit
US4878922A (en) * 1987-03-24 1989-11-07 A And A Realty Company Fireplace starter composition
US4906254A (en) * 1987-04-23 1990-03-06 Antosko Henry B Fuel package
US4775391A (en) * 1987-07-08 1988-10-04 Antosko Henry B Fuel package
US5112365A (en) * 1991-01-25 1992-05-12 Sebring Forest Industries, Inc. Fuel block
US5958090A (en) * 1998-05-20 1999-09-28 Chandaria; Ashok Velji Artificial fire log with an easily exposed rough ignitable area
US20010054250A1 (en) * 1999-02-22 2001-12-27 Pasi Kinnunen Heating means
WO2000050544A1 (en) * 1999-02-22 2000-08-31 Pasi Kinnunen Heating means
US6855181B2 (en) * 1999-02-22 2005-02-15 Pasi Kinnunen Heating means
EP1046697A3 (en) * 1999-04-23 2001-11-14 RI.BE.S. S.r.l. Device for carrying and burning charcoal
US20040025419A1 (en) * 2002-08-07 2004-02-12 Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc. Packaged stackable charcoal briquest
US6790244B2 (en) 2002-08-07 2004-09-14 Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc. Packaged stackable charcoal briquet
US20040222117A1 (en) * 2002-08-07 2004-11-11 Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates, Inc., An Ohio Corporation Packaged charcoal briquet product
US20070107299A1 (en) * 2002-08-07 2007-05-17 Creative Spark, Llc Packaged charcoal briquet product
US8118887B2 (en) 2002-08-07 2012-02-21 Creative Sparks, LLC Packaged charcoal briquet product
US9131803B2 (en) 2002-08-07 2015-09-15 Creative Spark Llc Charcoal briquet and packaged charcoal briquet product
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USD730275S1 (en) * 2014-07-23 2015-05-26 Enginuity Worldwide, LLC Biomass fuel compact

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