Spiraled Fuel Coil Fire Starter Reducing Kindling Needs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fire starting devices require large amounts of kindling and do not efficiently produce intense heat, making it difficult to start a fire with minimal materials.
Innovation Solution
A spiraled cylindrical coil made of paraffin wax or beeswax-coated cloth with a wick extending across the diameter, allowing for efficient ignition and prolonged burning, reducing the need for kindling by creating a larger surface area and trapping combustible gases for enhanced heat intensity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional fire starting devices are used, then large amounts of kindling are required, but this increases the quantity of material needed and reduces efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The fire starter is divided into multiple thin layers of fuel material wound in a spiral configuration, creating many small fuel sections that ignite sequentially. This segmentation allows the fuel to burn more efficiently and transfer heat to kindling more effectively, reducing the total amount of kindling needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The fuel material is arranged in a three-dimensional spiral cylinder rather than a flat or linear configuration. This dimensional transformation increases the surface area and creates radial spacing between fuel layers, improving air circulation and combustion efficiency while reducing kindling requirements.
2Temperature
If conventional fire starters are used, then intense heat is not produced, but this worsens the ability to ignite kindling quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The fire starter uses composite fuel material consisting of multiple layers with different fuel compositions and properties. This layered composite structure enables controlled combustion with varying heat intensities at different stages, producing sustained high temperature that quickly ignites kindling.
Solution Approach 2:
The fuel layers are pre-arranged in a specific spiral configuration with predetermined spacing and orientation. This preliminary arrangement ensures that when ignition occurs, the fire progresses through the layers in an optimized sequence that maximizes heat generation and transfer to the kindling, reducing ignition time.
3Volume of moving object
If the fuel material is tightly wound, then the structure is compact, but this reduces air circulation and combustion efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The fuel material is wound into a cylindrical spiral shape with curved layers. This curvature naturally creates gaps and channels between the layers that facilitate air circulation while maintaining a compact overall form. The spiral geometry optimizes both space utilization and combustion airflow.
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 device allows for easy fire starting with minimal fuel, extending combustion duration and intensity, and reducing the amount of kindling needed, making it suitable for campfires, woodstoves, or fireplaces.
Implementation Method 1
a wick having a secured wick end and an opposing free wick end
Implementation Method 2
The coated fuel material is a cloth, or other combustible material, coated with a fire fuel of paraffin wax or beeswax
Implementation Method 3
creating a larger surface area and trapping combustible gases for enhanced heat intensity
Data Source
AI summary
A fire kindling device and method having a wick and a coated fuel material strip. A user loosely rolls the coated fuel material strip into a spiraled cylindrical coil defining and creating a gap between radially spaced sections. The user places the spiraled cylindrical coil in an upright position, presses the wick into a centrally located apex point over the radius of the spiraled cylindrical coil and down the exterior side wall and then stacks combustible kindling material around the spiraled cylindrical coil. The wick is ignited, igniting the fire fuel causing the fire fuel to ignite the coated fuel material strip within the spiraled cylindrical coil, thereby causing a kindling fire. The sections are ignited nearly simultaneously, igniting the combustible kindling material. The fire fuel transforms into a combustible gas within the gap, augmenting combustion of the fire fuel, and increasing the temperature of the kindling fire.