Lightweight collapsible woodburning stove
First Claim
1. A lightweight collapsible free-standing woodburning stove that can be easily and quickly assembled or collapsed without the use of any tools whatsover is formed entirely, except for four pin-spring-chain assemblies which serve to preserve the structural integrity of the assembled stove, of simple planar parts cut or die-stamped from lightweight thin sheet metal, six of the said simple parts, namely a stove base, two stove sides, a stove front, a stove back, and a stove top, forming a fully functional box-shaped combustion chamber by means of loose fitting narrow interlocking flanges, said flanges formed by bending the vertically positioned edges of the stove sides, stove front, and stove back so that the vertically positioned edges of the stove sides interlock with the vertically positioned edges of the stove front and stove back, the interlocked stove sides, stove front, and stove back all then resting on the stove base within upward projecting flanges of the stove base, and capped by the stove top within downward projecting flanges of the stove top, said flanges of both the stove base and stove top formed by bending narrow margins of the peripheral edges of the stove base and stove top 90 degrees to the planar surfaces of the stove base and stove top, said combustion chamber thus formed as above then maintained in its structural integrity together with four supporting legs by means of four pin-spring-chain assemblies, the pin of each pin-spring-chain assembly holding each leg in place on the stove bottom, the spring of each pin-spring-chain assembly extended in tension between each pin and each chain connected to the stove top at positions near the stove top corners, so that the stove base and stove top are held securely against the bottom and top edges respectively of the stove sides, stove front, and stove back.
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Abstract
This invention is a small, very lightweight, fuel efficient, collapsible woodburning stove comprising six parts that form a combustion chamber, and four supporting legs, all fabricated from thin sheet metal by cutting or die-stamping, and all held together as a fully functional unit solely and entirely by a system of flanges produced by bending peripheral edges of the six parts and four supporting legs, and by four easily installed and removed pin-spring-chain assemblies.
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- 1. A lightweight collapsible free-standing woodburning stove that can be easily and quickly assembled or collapsed without the use of any tools whatsover is formed entirely, except for four pin-spring-chain assemblies which serve to preserve the structural integrity of the assembled stove, of simple planar parts cut or die-stamped from lightweight thin sheet metal, six of the said simple parts, namely a stove base, two stove sides, a stove front, a stove back, and a stove top, forming a fully functional box-shaped combustion chamber by means of loose fitting narrow interlocking flanges, said flanges formed by bending the vertically positioned edges of the stove sides, stove front, and stove back so that the vertically positioned edges of the stove sides interlock with the vertically positioned edges of the stove front and stove back, the interlocked stove sides, stove front, and stove back all then resting on the stove base within upward projecting flanges of the stove base, and capped by the stove top within downward projecting flanges of the stove top, said flanges of both the stove base and stove top formed by bending narrow margins of the peripheral edges of the stove base and stove top 90 degrees to the planar surfaces of the stove base and stove top, said combustion chamber thus formed as above then maintained in its structural integrity together with four supporting legs by means of four pin-spring-chain assemblies, the pin of each pin-spring-chain assembly holding each leg in place on the stove bottom, the spring of each pin-spring-chain assembly extended in tension between each pin and each chain connected to the stove top at positions near the stove top corners, so that the stove base and stove top are held securely against the bottom and top edges respectively of the stove sides, stove front, and stove back.
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