Fireplace cooking range and room air heater

US4207862A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Walter Meyer · Sparks, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 1977
• Grant date: Jun 17, 1980
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F24B1/192
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fireplace cooking range and room air heater, in one embodiment installed in a conventional fireplace and in another embodiment freely standing, has: a bottom fire chamber; a cooking range-air heater having a spaced porous grill and spaced above the bottom fire chamber, surrounding walls extending up from the fire chamber and spaced about surface structures of the cooking range-air heater and then converging for exiting the combustion gases into a flue; a flue for carrying the combustion gases out of a dwelling; non-combustible sealing material, as necessary, positioned about the flue to prevent room air from escaping up and around the exterior of the flue; entry doors to close the cooking range-air heater at its room side; entry doors to close the fire chamber at its room side; a room air intake located below the entry doors of the cooking range-air heater and at the top of the fire chamber; and a draft regulator to control the quantity of room air flowing through the room air intake, then flowing down inside of the closed entry doors to the fire chamber, thereby keeping soot and other particles from collecting on the inside surfaces of the closed entry doors, which are often mad…