Abstract: An improved augering device and an accessible ash and pellet fines collection drawer which function together as a unique combination to remove pellet fines from a wood pellet burning stove, wherein the augering device has a screw mounted in a barrel formed by a tubular wall which also provides the pellet outlet to the firebox. Sieving apertures are formed through the tubular wall and are of a size particularly suited for the sieving of fines from the pellet fuel. The ash and fines collection drawer is adapted for positioning below the apertures in a non-fired portion of the stove, and an access opening is provided through a wall portion of the stove for insertion and removal of the drawer with respect to the stove.

Abstract: A scuttle device for pouring frangible, extruded wood pellets through a slot-like fill port of a hopper of a pellet-burning stove, the device having a wall formed to provide a pellet containment cavity, and having a top cap formed with an opening for filling and emptying the cavity, wherein a fine mesh sieve is supported in the cavity and is spaced from substantially the entire inner surface of the wall to provide a collection space for receiving and retaining pellet fines, and wherein a top rim of the sieve lies closely adjacent the underside of the top cap for preventing spill-over of pellets into the collection space during pouring out of the pellets.