Claims
- 1. In a wood burning stove including an exhaust flue opening, a combustion chamber for primary combustion having an access door, a support for wood to be burned and a primary air inlet means for supplying air to support primary combustion of said wood to produce flue gases containing combustible particulate material, plenum means for directing said flue gases in a direction from said combustion chamber to said flue opening in a preselected path, and secondary combustion means for burning said particulate material in said flue gases before said flue gases pass through said exhaust flue opening, the improvement comprising: said combustion chamber having a flue gas exit opening extending laterally across the top of said combustion chamber and communicating said combustion chamber with said plenum means, an elongated manifold extending laterally across and above said combustion chamber substantially coextensively with said flue gas exit opening, a number of air opening spaced longitudinally along said manifold and facing opposite said direction of said flue gases closely adjacent said flue gas exit opening, and an air inlet means for supplying ambient, secondary combustion air to said manifold for counterflow thereof from said openings into said path of said flue gases in a plurality of distinct jets.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 859,336 filed May 5, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,672,946.
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