Abstract: The removable fireplace cleanout facilitates the chore of cleaning ash and/or other residue from a fireplace. The cleanout device is a relatively wide, low pan or tray configured for placement within a fireplace hearth. Wheels and/or other rolling supports extend beneath the device to facilitate its installation in and removal from the fireplace hearth. One wall of the device includes a dump door, with the weighted door being held closed by gravity until the unit is tilted to dump ash and residue therein. Fillets may be provided to preclude trapping of ash in the corners of the device. An integral grate may be permanently installed atop the floor of the device, thereby precluding need for grate removal and soiling of the area where the grate is placed during conventional fireplace cleanout.

Abstract: A stove having a drying chamber and a combustion chamber wherein fuel is dried in the drying chamber before being burned in the combustion chamber. In one embodiment, the drying chamber is located above the combustion chamber so that after the fuel is dried in the drying chamber it can be dropped into the combustion chamber for combustion.

Abstract: An incinerator includes a peripheral wall having a top end and formed with an inlet at the top end and an outlet below the inlet, a bowl-shaped grate disposed between the inlet and the outlet, a plurality of laterally extending baffles extending from a bottom end of the grate to the peripheral wall, and a plurality of vertically extending baffles disposed between the peripheral wall and the grate.

Abstract: An incinerator includes a furnace with a supporting plate that defines a combustion chamber thereabove and an ash receiving chamber therebelow in the furnace. An ash control unit includes a partitioning member that divides the ash receiving chamber into upper and lower ash chambers and that defines a vertically extending ash channel communicated with the upper and lower ash chambers. A rake is disposed over the partitioning member for stirring and permitting uniform distribution of the high temperature ash on the partitioning member and for moving the high temperature ash into the ash channel. A rotary member is disposed rotatably in the ash channel and is formed with a plurality of angularly spaced apart fins which carry the high temperature ash falling from the upper ash chamber to the lower ash chamber.

Abstract: A variety of essentially circulr-planform fire grates having ash discharge openings therein and intimate-contact preventing means thereon is presented. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuation-free profile in the circumferential direction of the fire grate comprises first fluctuation-free-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuation-free-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuational profile in the circumferential direction of the fire grate comprises first fluctuational-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuational-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile.

Abstract: A waste incinerator including separate burning-, blower-, chimney- and ash-receiving chambers. A suction-discharge port is provided in a wall between the burning chamber and the chimney chamber for discharging gases from the burning chamber through a chimney to the atmosphere. The chimney extends from the chimney chamber for discharging gases to the atmosphere. The chimney receives an air feed pipe from the blower and an ignition sleeve extends into the chimney for burning unconsumed waste gas. A vibrator vibrates an ash receiver in the ash receiving chamber, and a drying chamber may be provided for drying high moisture garbage by combustion gases from the burning chamber.

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: At least one ring-shaped fin is disposed on the upper surface of a variety of circular planform stationary fire grate having a multiplicity of ash discharge openings thereon and for use in combustion chamber of either water jacket or fire brick type cylindrical incinerators. The first version is a circular planform stationary grate having circumferentially fluctuational upper surface contour selectively with at least one fluctuational or fluctuation-free ring-shaped fin arrangements thereon. The second version of the fire grate is a circular planform stationary grate having horizontal and fluctuational concentric rings in combinational fashion in radial direction, the concentric rings being defined by a multiplicity of arc-shaped ash discharge openings.

Abstract: A waste car disposer which includes a plurality of tunnel-like furnaces connected in series and separately controlled to heat waste cars at different temperatures so that plastic, rubber, glass, lead, zinc, nickel, copper, iron and steel parts of waste cars are separately melted and respectively collected for reclamation.

Abstract: Bottom ash is taken out of an incinerator after undergoing a moistening process and is subjected to a drying process to reduce its water content to less than 10 weight % or it is taken out of the incinerator with water content less than 10 weight %. Fly ash is taken out of the discharge gas processing system of the incinerator without going through a moistening process. The bottom ash and fly ash, thus taken out, are separately weighed and discharged to a same transporting device and are transported to a melting furnace while being mixed together.

Abstract: An incinerator for drying then cleanly burning trash. The incinerator includes an upper rotating trash drying tumbler for receiving and drying trash and a lower rotating trash burning tumbler interconnected to the upper tumbler for receiving dried trash therefrom. The lower rotating tumbler includes a meshed screen thereabout for complete combustion of the trash therein. The heat produced from the burning trash in the lower tumbler causes the drying of trash in the upper tumbler. A rotating fire tray is situated below the lower tumbler for collecting and reburning any material falling from the lower tumbler and for retaining combustible material for igniting the dried trash in the lower tumbler. When the interior temperature of the incinerator is high enough, the trash in the lower tumbler is self-ignited and heat produced from burning material in the fire tray is no longer necessary. Air exhausted from the drying and burning of the trash is filtered before being exhausted into the atmosphere.

Abstract: An ash pan assembly for a wood burning or coal burning stove includes an ash pan door permanently attached to the stove and mounted for movement between a closed ash collection position and an open position. An ash pan is mounted to the movable ash pan door. A detachable ash pan cover is easily attached to the ash pan in the open position. The ash pan cover prevents accidental spillage of ashes and hot coals from the ash pan and includes a carrying handle by which the ash pan is lifted from the assembly and taken for disposal. The ash pan door is preferably hinged to the front wall of the stove for swinging to the open position.

Abstract: A portable ash auger including a heat and fire resistant housing with an attached handle and with a fireproof tube that opens into and projects from the housing while surrounding an auger having a tip end extending beyond the tube and drive means for the auger.

Abstract: The invention herein relates to ash catchers for woodstoves of the type adapted to be inserted into an existing fireplace. The ash catcher includes a generally horizontal pan supported along the front edge by a pair of fixed legs. A third leg is pivotally secured to the pan and is biased to a downward position for supporting the rear edge of said pan. When placed in a position for catching ashes from a woodstove, the rear leg is pivoted upwardly against the underside of the pan which rests upon the fireplace hearth.

Abstract: A relatively simple and inexpensive device is provided to assist in the clean and efficient removal of ash from a wood- or coal-burning stove. The device includes a duct which is so configured as to take advantage of the draft of the stove, to thereby prevent the discharge of airborne ash particulates during the cleaning operation.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling ash and slag produced in the combustion of coal or other ash-bearing fuel in the furnace (10) (not shown) of a steam generator, including a submerged scraper conveyor (20) beneath the furnace, and a water seal including plate means (24) extending from the furnace bottom or transition chute into the water (18) in the tank (16) housing the scraper conveyor, which plate means (24) also form a seal at their upper ends (40,42) with the furnace bottom or transition chute, for preventing the atmosphere from being exposed to the furnace interior. A motor (50,52) is provided for moving the plate means (24) upwardly and downwardly, to allow the submerged scraper conveyor (20) and its tank (16) to be quickly removed from beneath the furnace (10) when the unit is shut down for maintenance purposes.

Abstract: This invention is a unique combination of an ash removing container for stove ashes and the like, combined with a cooperative carrier for stove operating and cleaning implements used in connection with the practicing of the method. It features a fireproof container with a unique dust containing cover having means to remain open or closed alternately as desired and wherein the ash container is the base for a stand carrying, in a cooperative relationship, the tools necessary to operate within and clean matter from a stove. The container features a sliding cover with suitable self-operative safety means to hold the cover either closed or opened as may be desired at any given time.