High Wind Bio-Mass Cap
The use of the High Wind Bio-Mass Cap helps with the ventilation of corn or pellet stoves, inserts, or fireplaces in a high or low wind area. You attach a High Wind Bio-Mass Cap to the end of a pellet or corn vent pipe where it terminates at a manufactures specified location. You may attach this cap as low as 12″ to the ground and it can face either horizontal or vertical. The cap increases the flow dynamic by creating a low pressure area at the exit of the vent pipe. By lowering the pressure at the end of the pellet or corn pipe it lowers the pressure on the ventilation motors of any of the units, which will possibly extend the life of the stove/units ventilation motor. Being only 12″ from the ground and facing horizontal this is the only cap that will keep a breeze from creating a possible back draft.
The present invention relates to a product that you attach to the end of a pellet or corn appliance exhaust pipe. As air passes by the cap it lowers the pressure of the exhaust released from a corn or pellet stove or insert and pulls it from the flue from which it is attached. This idea came from having current caps which are placed on the end of a pellet or corn pipe just for a cover but do not help the draft. They do not allow you to put your stove on a very windy side of the house because the wind would flow back into all current caps. Placing the High Wind Bio-Mass Cap on the end of the pellet or corn vent would allow you to vent your stove out any side of a house “windy or not” and would help vent the stoves even on a still side of a house. This is a stainless steel cap made for a pellet or corn appliance. Corn and Pellet stoves have a 3″-4″ chimney pipe that emerges from the outside of a wall or roof. After the chimney pipe comes out far enough to match fire codes you place High Wind Bio-Mass Cap on the end. Using the design shown with 6 bars in different directions it allows the stoves to vent as well and draw exhaust much stronger than any existing corn or pellet cap currently on the market. With 3 bars facing different directions on the inside and 3 bars facing different directions on the outside it makes the slightest breeze that pass work like a vacuum. Circulating air around the end of the cap lowers the pressure of any gasses on the inside helping to draw any units exhaust. This is called the Venturi effect and came about back in the mid 1700's. With six bars the draw is strong enough it allows this cap to sit as low as 12” above the ground and face horizontally as well as vertically.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONAn object of the present invention is to help draft a pellet or corn stove in windy conditions. It uses the Venturi effect to draw emissions given off from a unit to the end of the flue.
Another objective of this present invention is to allow corn and pellet burners to draft easier with less power demand.
A venting cap apparatus in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to
Claims
I. We claim to have invented this cap made for pellet or corn venting pipes
II. Stated in I this cap fits on the end of pellet or corn pipes for ventilation purposes.
III. When attached on the outside of a pipe facing either vertical or horizontal it helps a pellet or corn unit vent by lowering the pressure inside the pipe.
IV. Like stated in III. When facing horizontal the option of a rain cover is offered.
Type: Application
Filed: Jul 25, 2006
Publication Date: Jan 31, 2008
Inventors: Erin Cole Bingham (Stoughton, WI), Ernest Henery Bingham (Stoughton, WI)
Application Number: 11/492,232