Furnaces – Fuel feeders – Shavings and sawdust
Patent
1980-07-02
1981-11-17
Favors, Edward G.
Furnaces
Fuel feeders
Shavings and sawdust
110110, 198616, F23K 300
Patent
active
043004563
ABSTRACT:
A furnace for burning particulate fuels, such as sawdust and the like, and which includes a rotating auger mounted in a rotating cylindrical hopper for feeding the sawdust to a sawdust burner. The hopper is rotatably mounted in a position adjacent a sawdust burner which is located in a housing to form a furnace enclosure. The auger is rotatably mounted in a fixedly mounted conveyor tube which is axially mounted through the hopper. Power means is provided for rotating the auger and the hopper. The hopper has an opening enclosed by a door for inserting sawdust. The hopper has paddles for agitating the sawdust and dropping it onto an open upper side of the auger which then conveys it onto a burner plate in the furnace enclosure which receives induced air for combustion purposes.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1767248 (1930-06-01), Leach
patent: 3117681 (1964-01-01), Seymour
patent: 3279592 (1966-10-01), Kerkvliet
Favors Edward G.
Mentag Robert G.
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