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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2018
The Clorox Company, Oakland, CA (US);
Joshua Long, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stephen Fisher, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Donald Swatling, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stefan Brown, Pleasanton, CA (US);
The Clorox Company, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
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.