Patent ID: 6883441

Claim:
An incinerator apparatus to burn at least confidential documents, comprising: a room comprised of at least one wall which may be curved with a first end joined to a second end thereof to form a complete perimeter or at least three straight walls joined together to form a perimeter with the enclosed space inside said perimeter being for containing a fire and surfaces of said wall or walls enclosing said enclosed space being referred to herein as hot side(s) and opposite surfaces of said wall or walls being referred to as cold side(s); a floor and a ceiling joined to said one or more walls to form and enclosed space; a door or access port which can be closed and formed in at least one said wall, floor or ceiling; a fireproof material lining the inner surfaces of said one or more walls, ceiling and floor and having sufficient insulating properties to prevent said one or more walls, floor and ceiling from igniting when a fire is lit in said room; at least one reservoir of slow burning, flammable liquid; at least one nozzle for spraying said slow burning, flammable liquid on confidential documents and other items stored in said room; at least one valve means coupling said at least one reservoir to said at least one nozzle, said valve means for controlling fluid flow of said slow burning, flammable liquid to said nozzle; at least one ignition means for generating sparks or open flame on a hot side of one of said walls, floor or ceiling so as to ignite material covered with said slow burning, flammable liquid; an exhaust means for evacuation of combustion gases from said room after a fire is started therein; control means coupled to said valve means, said ignition means and said exhaust means for controlling the sequence of events such that the contents of said room may be soaked with said slow burning, flammable liquid and then ignited and the exhaust evacuated.