Vented Resinous Wood Fire Kindler for Focused Campfire Ignition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing campfire kindlers are bulky, heavy, and inefficient, making them difficult to carry and use in outdoor settings, with dispersed heat delivery that is easily extinguished by breezes and dampness, and often rely on waxy materials that are environmentally undesirable and prone to malfunction.
Innovation Solution
A compact, geometrically shaped fire kindler made from 100% natural resinous wood with a vertical attitude and variable horizontal apertures that focuses heat into a solitary, steady flame, ensuring reliable ignition even in damp conditions without moving parts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If bulky and heavy fire kindlers are used to combat damp wood and breezes, then reliability in outdoor conditions is improved, but portability and ease of carrying deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical parameters of the fire kindler by using a dense, resinous wood material with high heat output per unit mass, and optimizing the geometric shape to a compact form factor. This allows the kindler to maintain reliability in outdoor conditions while significantly improving portability compared to bulky traditional kindlers.
2Duration of action of moving object
If fire kindlers use waxy materials to sustain bulk and flames, then burn duration is improved, but environmental friendliness and structural integrity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameter from waxy substances to a naturally resinous wood material that is environmentally friendly. The resinous content of the wood provides sustained combustion and extended burn duration without the environmental harm associated with petroleum-based waxes.
3Duration of action of moving object
If fire kindlers have dispersed heat delivery to last longer, then burn duration is improved, but heat concentration and ignition effectiveness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by designing the kindler with a specific geometric shape and orientation that concentrates heat delivery to a localized area rather than dispersing it. The vertical attitude and dimensional proportions are optimized to focus thermal energy where it is most needed for ignition, while the resinous material ensures sustained heat output over time.
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 provides a portable, efficient, and environmentally friendly means to ignite campfires with a consistent heat delivery, effectively combating outdoor conditions and ensuring successful ignition, even with damp wood, while being suitable for indoor use as well.
Implementation Method 1
a compact, geometrically shaped fire kindler made from 100% natural resinous wood with a vertical attitude and variable horizontal apertures that focuses heat into a solitary, steady flame
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AI summary
A fire kindler (8) comprised of a comfortably portable geometrically shaped quartered plate of combustible material having a variable plurality of horizontal apertures therethrough which extract additional evolving gases into immediate combustion for extra heat and which operates in an elevated vertical position between two parallel logs so to present a common lower crest (18A) which bifurcates into a symmetric divergent communal acclivity of surfaces (10), (12), and (14A) which rise into opposite common divergent convergent junctions (16) whereby symmetric surfaces (14B) rise convergently to terminate at vertical height in a common upper crest (18B) so that fire kindler (8) is easy to ignite and will convergently and prominently direct combustion into a hotter and steadier solitary flame whereby potential heat is aimed at a localized area of any intended fuel placed above it. Thus, developing a hot spot on the firewood which increases entropy and rate of ignition.