« lessĪ description is given of a stove for household heating, comprising: (A) a stove structure having a floor and side walls including front and rear walls, said rear wall being higher than said front wall, and a top with a front portion at the height of said front wall and a rear portion at the height of said rear wall, and an intermediate top portion which is sloped and which faces generally forwardly, said top portions integrally formed from one piece of sheet steel, (B) an access door for closing an opening in said front wall, (C) air inlet valve more » means mounted in said door for admitting combustion air to the interior of said stove structure, (D) at least one conduit inside said stove structure including an open end lower portion for receiving room air outside of said stove structure and an upper portion having a forward end communicating with an opening in said sloped top portion, (E) means for introducing room air into the open end of said lower portion so that this air is heated in the stove structure and returned to the room through said opening in said sloped portion of said top, (F) adjustable means in said top opening for controlling the direction of the heated air returned to the room through said top opening, (G) a shroud provided in an opening of said stove rear wall, said shroud having one end portion projecting inside the rear wall of the stove and defining a radially inwardly projecting flange, which flange defines a flue opening, an opposite end of said shroud projecting outside the rear wall of the stove structure, and (H) a flue duct segment mounted in said flue opening and cooperating with said shroud to define a heat exchange cavity for receiving a fluid heat exchange device. A self loading wood burning stove is described which comprises: (a) a fire box having an air intake vent for supplying a flow of combustible air therin an an exhaust conduit in flow communication with the fire box for exhausting combustion gases therefrom: (b) a storage bin for retaining a plurality of logs, the storage bin having a generally zig-zag vertically arranged compartment for holding a zig-zag row of the logs, the storage bin having a log entry opening at upper portion and a pair of pivotable doors at lower portion for dispensing the logs individually therefrom and (c) means more » for delivering the logs from the doors of the storage bin to the fire box of the stove, wherein the delivering means comprises: (d) a conveyor for receiving the logs from the doors of the storage bin and conducting the logs upwardly in a substantially angular fashion and (e) means for placing the logs from the conveyor into upper portion of the fire box wherein the conveyor comprises: (f) a plurality of rollers (g) an endless belt formed around the rollers, the belt having a plurality of push lugs and (h) a motor to driven one of the rollers to operate the belt so that the push lug will drive the log upwardly wherein the placing means comprises: (i) a housing having a plurality of legs mounted to the upper portion of the fire box, the housing having a log guide roller in rotatable contact with the belt of the conveyor and a pair of spring loaded trap doors that are opened by weight of the log so that log will far therethrough and (j) the first box having an inclined top and a pivotable top door that is opened by weight of the log so that the log will roll therein.
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