Portable Fire Kindler Plate With Venturi Airflow for Windy Ignition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fire-kindlers are bulky, heavy, and awkward, making them uncomfortable to carry, and they often fail to efficiently ignite wood fires in adverse conditions like wind and rain due to dispersed heat and reliance on user expertise.
Innovation Solution
A compact, portable fire-kindler with a plate of combustible material and vertically arranged air-flow apertures that create a venturi effect, producing a strong, solitary flame resistant to crosswinds and capable of igniting wet wood.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If traditional bulky fire-kindlers are used to provide sufficient fuel and prolonged burn duration, then the burn duration is extended, but the portability and ease of carrying are significantly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The fire-kindler is designed as a flat plate with multiple vertical air-flow apertures segmented throughout its structure. This segmentation allows air to flow through multiple channels simultaneously, increasing oxygen supply and combustion efficiency without requiring a larger bulk of material, thus maintaining portability while extending burn duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical parameters of the fire-kindler by creating a flat plate geometry with optimized thickness and multiple apertures. This parameter optimization allows the kindler to achieve prolonged burn duration through efficient air-fuel mixing and combustion surface area maximization, rather than increasing mass or volume.
2Duration of action of moving object
If air-flow passages are added to facilitate self-consumption and prolonged burn, then the burn duration is extended, but the heat dispersal increases and ignition reliability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The fire-kindler features localized quality variations with different aperture distributions and orientations in different regions of the plate. The vertical apertures are strategically positioned to create concentrated upward air flows that enhance combustion at critical ignition zones, ensuring reliable ignition while maintaining prolonged burn through localized oxygen supply enhancement.
3Weight of moving object
If the fire-kindler is made compact and portable, then the portability is improved, but the fuel quantity is reduced and burn duration is shortened
Solution Approach 1:
The fire-kindler plate incorporates a porous structure with multiple vertical air-flow apertures that allow air to penetrate and flow through the combustible material. This porous design increases the surface area for combustion and oxygen supply efficiency, enabling a compact plate to deliver extended burn duration comparable to much larger traditional kindlers.
4Quantity of substance
If traditional bulky kindlers are used to provide sufficient heat, then the fuel quantity is adequate, but the heat is dispersed across large surfaces and ignition efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention transitions from a three-dimensional bulky form to a two-dimensional flat plate configuration with vertical apertures. This dimensional change concentrates the combustion process into a more compact footprint while the vertical aperture arrangement creates focused upward air flows that concentrate heat delivery, significantly improving ignition efficiency without sacrificing fuel quantity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The fire-kindler delivers focused heat consistently, increasing ignition speed and reliability, even in adverse conditions, and is suitable for both outdoor and indoor use.
Implementation Method 1
With interior structure which will produce a venturi effect in air-flow velocity. So to produce a hotter, stronger, and enhanced solitary flame velocity
Implementation Method 2
a plate of combustible material having. a proportional thickness and geometrical shape
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment of a fire-kindler which produces a solitary flame cone comprised of pre-mixed air and fuel gases and an increased flame velocity. Comfortably portable in ones' back pocket, a conveniently accessible product of easy use. More reliable in and resistant to adverse outdoor conditions when igniting a woodfire. Comprised of a geometrically shaped plate of combustible material, body of fire-kindler 8 of FIGS. 1,2 and 3 has a multiplicity of air apertures 14A-16A18A, thru, 14F-16F-18F of FIG. 2 passing therethrough. Working co-operatively to produce a strong increased flame velocity in a more neutral solitary flame. Thus establishing a more intense heat output in a more persistently sturdy flame that remains more consistently focused among adverse winds. Thereby, increasing the application of heat and the speed and ease of firewood ignition.