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Fireplace Grates
Cure
efficiency and smoke problems, boost heat |
Fireplace Grates allow smoke free operation of your fireplace.
They're totally self-feeding, have very low emissions, and have
stove-like heat output. A grate alone can more than double your
fireplace's efficiency, and drastically reduce wood consumption.
Built with a lifetime of durability and coupled with a burn out
proof design. Never again will you have to use a fire poker, tongs
or the like. Fire making with these grates is extremely safe,
effortless and EASY. How it works
The Grate features a unique, patented ember chamber, combined with a
straight on draft feature, which enters at the lower portion of the
fireplace and fans the fire at the rear of the fireplaces firebox.
With this grate no draft enters from beneath the fire, as it does
with all other andirons or grates. This innovative feature is the
key to the effective and efficient operation of this grate.
To understand how this grate works, always remember that the ember
bed is the hottest part of a fire, as is the charcoal of your home
barbecue. Flames are not an effective heat source.
The Grate turns the hottest part of the fire (the embers) towards
you, radiating the heat from the embers toward the living area. The
draft meets the vertical wall of the embers straight on (dotted
lines in diagram) fanning the coals and radiating their heat
outwards. This is just the opposite of basket type grates and
andirons, which fan from the underside, creating an uncontrollable
draft, and burn and radiating most of the heat upwards and out the
chimney.
With the Grate, the narrow column of embers, held at the rear of the
fire of the fireplace is the key to why the fire never accelerates
wildly as fires do in conventional under draft grates where the
complete wood charge usually becomes engulfed and burns quickly and
uncontrollably. The Grate burns complete without fire tending in an
amazing, gravitational, nearly automated fashion. A steady,
predictable, efficient heat emitting fire results. This rear draft
system also dramatically reduces spark-popping fires and wood
consumption.
After the coal bed is achieved in about an hour or two of burning,
you usually will only need to place one hardwood log ever hour or so
on the top of the ember bed to keep a good, cozy fire burning. Two
logs an hour will keep a lively fire going!
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