The Clorox Company

Joshua Long

Donald K Swatling

Stephen S Fisher

Stefan Brown

Joseph W Baumgarte

Robert Prostko

Robert Martens

Brady Plummer

Benjamin J Hopkins

John D Goodwin

Dakota Johnson

Daniel Langenberg

Briquet designs that facilitate close packing and improve burn efficiency are provided herein. Such designs can include scaled down briquet size and close packing shapes, which can include pyramidal shaped portions, such as rectangular pyramids and tetrahedron shapes, as well as oblate spheroid and hexoid shapes, to facilitate closer random packing when the briquets are randomly arranged in a pile when poured from a bag. Some briquet shapes can further include special surface features, such as flattened or rounded portions or depressions, such as dimples, that reduce volume without increasing the bulk density in order to further improve burn performance and efficiency.

Close packing briquet shapes

Combustible briquet

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Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Joshua Long