Abstract: A nearly totally consumable clean and slow burning solid fuel assembly for home fireplace or camp fire features a large solid igniter which also serves as a cradle and stabilizer element for fuel log components. Plastic banding straps having low coefficients of expansion and contraction with temperature changes maintain the fuel assembly solidly intact during ignition and the center banding strap provides an excellent carrying handle. The spaced arrangement of log elements provides a built-in chimney effect with induced draft which is maintained during burning.

Abstract: Fine sawdust obtained from compressed wood is homogeneously blended with an equivalent amount of liquid wax at a sufficiently elevated temperature to release substantially all moisture from the sawdust and to induce molecular activity in the wax and sawdust to cause full saturation of the compressed wood particles with wax. The hot blended material is cooled and milled to a highly uniform mix, followed by compaction of the material without adhesive additives into the finished product.