Patents by Inventor Jack L. Nitzman

Jack L. Nitzman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Oxygen-gaseous forehearth burner for air-fuel and oxy-fuel forehearth burner block geometries
    Patent number: 6233974
    Abstract: An oxy-gaseous fuel burner for a forehearth system having an oxygen conduit, a fuel conduit disposed concentrically within the oxygen conduit and forming an annulus between the fuel conduit and the oxygen conduit, a precombustor conduit disposed at the oxygen outlet end of the oxygen conduit, and a fuel tip disposed at the fuel outlet end of the fuel conduit. The outlet of the fuel tip is disposed at or upstream of the inlet to the precombustor conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Combustion Tec
    Inventors: Scott Anderson, Jack L. Nitzman, Patrick J. Mohr
  • Simple remotely tuned solid core fuel jet, low NOx fuel gas burner
    Patent number: 6176702
    Abstract: A remotely controllable gaseous fuel burner having a burner body with a fuel inlet, a fuel outlet, and a constricted throat region immediately upstream of the fuel outlet. A concentrically disposed and longitudinally movable fuel conduit is disposed within the burner body forming an annular region between the burner body and the fuel conduit. The fuel conduit having a conduit fuel outlet forms a conduit fuel inlet in a wall of the fuel conduit. The outer surface of the conduit fuel outlet immediately upstream of the conduit fuel outlet is tapered and has an outside diameter larger than the inside diameter of the constricted throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Combustion Tec
    Inventors: Patrick J. Mohr, David S. Neff, Joseph G. Gaddone, Jack L. Nitzman
  • Oxy-liquid fuel combustion process and apparatus
    Patent number: 5567141
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for combustion of a liquid fuel and oxygen which produces a fishtail or fan-shaped flame configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Combustion Tec, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahendra L. Joshi, Lee Broadway, Patrick J. Mohr, Jack L. Nitzman