Liquid Patents (Class 126/93)
  • Patent number: 11725826
    Abstract: The application discloses an infrared stove and an infrared split stove set. The infrared stove includes an outer casing, an inner cover, an ejector tube, a gas nozzle and an infrared reaction layer. The inner cover is nested with the outer casing to form a stove body. The infrared reaction layer is provided on the stove body. A first accommodating cavity is provided between the infrared reaction layer and the inner cover. A second accommodating cavity is provided between the inner cover and the outer casing. The ejector tube is arranged on the inner cover, communicates with the first accommodating cavity and the second accommodating cavity, and has a gas inlet. The gas nozzle is arranged on the outer casing, and is arranged opposite to the gas inlet and at a spacing. The infrared stove adopts flameless combustion, with more stability, more resistance to severe environments, and better windproof property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Deermaple Outdoor Products Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Qiding Lv
  • Patent number: 11199341
    Abstract: A heater includes short and tall cabinet units that are connected together, and an ignition unit. The short cabinet unit has a recess facing upwardly, and a first receiving space spatially communicated with the recess. The tall cabinet unit has a second receiving space spatially communicated with the first receiving space. The ignition unit includes an ignition seat disposed in the recess, an igniter mounted to the ignition seat, and a gas pipe group connected to the igniter and extending from the first receiving space into the second receiving space. A height of the short cabinet unit ranges from 45 centimeters to 60 centimeters; a height of the tall cabinet unit ranges from 65 centimeters to 70 centimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Chia-Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 10634348
    Abstract: Spread of leaking combustion exhaust or the like is suppressed and a thermal fuse is made to operate in definitive fashion. A back flange is made to protrude so as to be directed toward a rear wall of an outer casing from a joint between a combustor casing and a heat exchanger casing to a location in the vicinity of the rear wall. A thermal fuse is arranged about the periphery of the heat exchanger casing so as to extend along a region near a protruding end edge of the back flange. The back flange is provided with a through hole, and combustion exhaust which leaks from the combustor casing is guided to the thermal fuse. A back flange which is similar thereto is installed at an upper location so as to straddle a tubing elbow. The two flanges are made to protrude beyond the tubing elbow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kashihara, Kengo Horiuchi, Toshihiko Hamagami
  • Publication number: 20150107573
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a heating device may comprise a control assembly having a self-contained, on board power supply. A control unit may control the operation of the heater and the power supply may comprise a first power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the first power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device; and, a second power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the second power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: ENERCO GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Brian S. Vandrak, Dennis O'Toole
  • Patent number: 8893706
    Abstract: A heating device may comprise a control assembly having a self-contained, on board power supply. A control unit may control the operation of the heater and the power supply may comprise a first power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the first power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device; and, a second power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the second power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Enerco Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Vandrak, Dennis O'Toole
  • Publication number: 20140209085
    Abstract: A heating device may comprise a control assembly having a self-contained, on board power supply. A control unit may control the operation of the heater and the power supply may comprise a first power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the first power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device; and, a second power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the second power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Enerco Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Vandrak, Dennis O'Toole
  • Publication number: 20130206130
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil combustion method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in which an athermal radiation type oil burner is arranged on a stove. The athermal radiation type oil burner includes a furnace body (1) in which a hearth (2) is placed. The hearth (2) composed of a casing with multiple through holes (3) includes a primary oil supply combustion chamber (21), a secondary oil supply combustion chamber (22) and an obstruction chamber (23). The primary oil supply combustion chamber (21) is a casing (211) divided into an upper layer and a lower layer. An interconnected hole (4) is arranged between the two layers. Multiple through holes (5) are distributed on the casing (211) and communicated with the secondary oil supply combustion chamber (22), which is formed by the interval among the casing (211) of the primary oil supply combustion chamber (21), an isolation plats (6) with multiple through holes (61) arranged on the casing (211) and the hearth (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: King Ching Ng
  • Patent number: 8490615
    Abstract: A field ration packaging assembly includes a ration housing and a food tray. The ration housing includes a lid panel having at least one air exhaust vent and a wall panel having at least one intake vent. The food tray may be positioned above a heat source. The at least one air exhaust vent and at least one air intake vent may be in fluid communication such that upon activation of the heat source, air enters the ration housing through the at least one air intake vent, passes over the heat source and exits the ration housing at the at least one exhaust vent by natural convection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: GHT Global Heating Technologies, GmbH
    Inventors: Eric Cudnohoske, Giampaolo Vacca
  • Patent number: 8434470
    Abstract: An adjustable burn apparatus for a fireplace using a liquid or gel-type fuel. The apparatus includes an elongate housing with an elongate top opening into which an elongate removable fuel container is inserted. The removable fuel container has an elongate open top of a length approximating the length of the elongate housing, and an elongate cover which is hinged to the housing preferably along its long dimension and has an elongate flame opening. The hinged cover itself has a shutter slidably secured at its lower surface that is movable along positions opening, controlling and closing the flame opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Jensen Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Jensen
  • Publication number: 20120080022
    Abstract: The present document describes a multistages combustion furnace system for thermal expansion of mineral particles which comprises: a furnace having an expansion chamber for receiving the mineral particles; a burner head to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the furnace and for operating the multistages combustion furnace system; a furnace device to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the burner head to offset the quenching effect of ambient air normally drawn in the furnace; and a tuyere for thermal expansion of mineral particles to be connected between the expansion chamber and the furnace device; wherein the multistage combustion furnace system is to be connected with an inlet of preheated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventor: Michael SPINO
  • Publication number: 20120037141
    Abstract: An adjustable burn apparatus for a fireplace using a liquid or gel-type fuel. The apparatus includes an elongate housing with an elongate top opening into which an elongate removable fuel container is inserted. The removable fuel container has an elongate open top of a length approximating the length of the elongate housing, and an elongate cover which is hinged to the housing preferably along its long dimension and has an elongate flame opening. The hinged cover itself has a shutter slidably secured at its lower surface that is movable along positions opening, controlling and closing the flame opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: JENSEN METAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Seth Jensen
  • Publication number: 20110265779
    Abstract: A heating device may comprise a control assembly having a self-contained, on board power supply. A control unit may control the operation of the heater and the power supply may comprise a first power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the first power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device; and, a second power source in electrical communication with the control unit, wherein the control unit controls the operation of the second power source to selectively supply electrical power to at least a portion of the heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Enerco Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Vandrak, Dennis O'Toole
  • Publication number: 20110073096
    Abstract: A field ration packaging assembly includes a ration housing and a food tray. The ration housing includes a lid panel having at least one air exhaust vent and a wall panel having at least one intake vent. The food tray may be positioned above a heat source. The at least one air exhaust vent and at least one air intake vent may be in fluid communication such that upon activation of the heat source, air enters the ration housing through the at least one air intake vent, passes over the heat source and exits the ration housing at the at least one exhaust vent by natural convection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: THE WORNICK COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric Cudnohoske, Giampaolo Vacca
  • Patent number: 7789658
    Abstract: A fired heater has two types of burners. The first burner is located in a duct which provides oxygen-containing gas to the heater to be combusted with the fuel provided by the burner. The second burner is located in the heater and provides both air and fuel for combustion. The heater may be located downstream of a gas turbine engine that cogenerates electricity and provides the oxygen-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Gavin P. Towler, Randy S. Stier, Christopher Naunheimer
  • Patent number: 7504026
    Abstract: The ultrasonic solution separation apparatus oscillates an undiluted solution containing a target material at an ultrasonic frequency to produce mist, and collects the mist to collect a target material containing liquid that contains the target material with higher concentration than the undiluted solution. The ultrasonic solution separation apparatus includes an atomization chamber that oscillates the undiluted solution at an ultrasonic frequency by using a plurality of ultrasonic oscillators to produce the mist; and a collection portion that aggregates and thus collects the mist produced in the atomization chamber. The atomization chamber is divided into a plurality of divided chamber sections so that the ultrasonic oscillators are disposed in the respective divided chamber sections. The ultrasonic oscillators oscillate the undiluted solution supplied into the divided chamber sections to produce the mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Ultrasound Brewery
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuura, Fusaisugu Abe
  • Publication number: 20080141648
    Abstract: A fired heater has two types of burners. The first burner is located in a duct which provides oxygen-containing gas to the heater to be combusted with the fuel provided by the burner. The second burner is located in the heater and provides both air and fuel for combustion. The heater may be located downstream of a gas turbine engine that cogenerates electricity and provides the oxygen-containing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Gavin P. Towler, Randy S. Stier, Christopher Naunheimer
  • Patent number: 6478022
    Abstract: Self contained and transportable camp heater with a burner within a casing and a fuel tank operably connected to the burner. A stack is removably mounted on the casing and is positioned on a holder with the casing and the fuel tank after removal for transportation purposes. A regulator is operably connected to the fuel tank and, thence, to the burner. The regulator is conveniently a zero pressure regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: International Thermal Investments Ltd.
    Inventors: Edgar C. Robinson, Leonard Fleming
  • Patent number: 5979432
    Abstract: A portable space heater includes a base suitable for insertion into a cup holder of a vehicle or other inhabitable strcuture. The base carries a post on which fuel containers are carried. A holder at the upper end of the post includes a clamp which retains a burner assembly in place with a heat reflector vertically spaced upward from the base. Fuel lines and suitable valving and fittings provide a controlled fuel flow to the heat reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: David F. Grove
  • Patent number: 5794610
    Abstract: An operable, knockdown flueless fireplace for installation in rooms and buildings not originally intended to accommodate a fireplace. The fireplace has a thin walled, cast metal facade comprising a front face, two sides, a mantel, and a hearth. Each component of the facade has flanges bearing holes formed therein for enabling bolted assembly of the fireplace. At least one of these components of the facade is ornamented to include sculpted features in bas relief of Victorian or antique appearance. The fireplace also has a firebox open to the front of the fireplace and closed at the top, a horizontal grate for supporting artificial logs, a front grate, and a bottom grate. Apparatus for burning gelled alcohol fuel is housed in the firebox within a dedicated holder having a lid for extinguishing combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Inventor: Joan E. Facchina
  • Patent number: 5127822
    Abstract: Provided is an atomizer-equipped combustion apparatus including an atomizing device for atomizing a fuel, a spray chamber for mixing the fuel atomized by the atomizing device with air to form a mixture, and for moving the mixture downwardly toward an opening at a distal end portion of the spray chamber, and a wind box provided so as to surround a lower portion of the spray chamber for forming a combustion space between itself and the spray chamber, the wind box being provided with a plurality of air supply holes facing a lower portion of the spray chamber. A mixture of external air and a fine spray of fuel produced by the atomizer can be ignited instantaneously by means of a comparatively simple structure, odors produced at igition and extinguishment can be greatly suppressed and a high turn-down ratio can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Toa Nenryo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Nakayama, Kiyoe Ishikawa, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hitoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 5098283
    Abstract: The invention provides a combustion device such as a stove which may include a pressurized fuel mixture, such as an aerosol container containing alcohol and a propellant which may comprise a normally gaseous hydrocarbon, such as a liquified petroleum gas. The propellant and air are fed to a combustion zone as a combustion mixture, which is combusted therein in a cold start period to pre-heat the liquid fuel and vaporize it. When the liquid fuel is vaporized by the heat provided by combusting the propellant gas, combustion is continued by combusting the vaporized liquid, e.g., alcohol, fuel. The pressurized fuel composition may comprise a major proportion of alcohol together with a minor proportion of the hydrocarbon propellant starter fuel. The method therefore includes carrying out an initial, cold-start phase of combustion utilizing the propellant as fuel, and a subsequent stage of combustion utilizing the vaporized liquid fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Creative Products Inc. of Rossville
    Inventor: Clarence P. Clapp
  • Patent number: 5033956
    Abstract: Flow of liquid fuel to a vaporization tube of a heating device is controlled by a vertically adjustable float valve, with the vertical height of a surface level of the fuel in a float valve chamber being set to correspond to a desired operating level of the liquid fuel in the vaporization tube. Liquid fuel is permitted to free-flow from the float valve chamber to the lower end of the vertical vaporization tube without metering, the rate of flow and the level of the fuel in the vaporization tube being determined solely by the hydraulic head created by the surface level of the fuel in the float valve chamber. Raising of the float valve chamber produces a corresponding raising of the level of the fuel in the vaporization tube to increase the tube inner surface area which is contacted or wetted by the fuel in the tube, thus causing an increase in the rate of vaporization and a corresponding increase in heat output of the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Teledyne Isotopes, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. Nystrom
  • Patent number: 4919120
    Abstract: A radiant-type heater is disclosed which has a deflection plate in an upper part of a casing, a burner in a lower part of the casing, and a heating element formed of a thin metal sheet. The heating element is suspended from the deflection plate downwardly towards the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Horikoshi, Hisao Naganuma, Minoru Sugimoto, Masanobu Numao
  • Patent number: 4896655
    Abstract: A portable heating system operable in three modes; an under-blanket heating mode, a tent heating mode, and a food heating mode. In the under-blanket heating mode, one or more users cover themselves and the basic heater (2) with a light foil-type blanket (68). Air, warmed by the heater, spreads under the blanket thereby enveloping the users so that they are comfortably warm. An adjustable canopy frame (40), in concert with a heat guard (4) enclosing a heat source (6), promotes gaseous circulation under the blanket without hazard. A thermostat (17) automatically maintains the temperature at a safe level. In a tent heating mode, the invention includes an exhaust guide for guiding combustion gases to the outside of a tent via the tent entry. Means are provided for drawing air from outside the tent into the heater for supporting combustion. Means are also provided for the system to adapt to rough or uneven terrain for high stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Inventor: Charles L. Urso
  • Patent number: 4890600
    Abstract: A unit to produce simulated burning and heat includes a lower enclosure that may be conveniently placed on a hearth of a fireplace, for example. Within this enclosure is a light source and a reflection wheel located over a reflective plate. The reflection wheel comprises a series of reflective strips which are positioned along a length of the wheel and radially spaced thereabout. Above the wheel in a top panel of the enclosure is an opening covered by an amber-red colored lens piece. The unit further includes a grate carried by the enclosure and positioned to a rear of the enclosure top panel opening. On the grate is a fuel cell for cans of gel alcohol. In front of the fuel cell is a set of decorative logs which hide the fuel cell from view. During use alcohol in the cans may be ignited to produce heat. Since the products of combustion from burning alcohol are nontoxic, the fireplace may be vented or nonvented. Additionally, a geared motor connected to the reflection wheel and the light source are energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Genesis Technology
    Inventor: Wayne E. Meyers
  • Patent number: 4774931
    Abstract: A portable heater comprising a double-wall vessel which forms a combustion chamber and encloses a suitable fuel. Air passages provide an airflow through the vessel for supporting combustion. Also included are endless conduits which entrap displaced fuel to prevent it from escaping from the heater through the air passages. Thus, fuel is prevented from escaping from the heater in all positions of the same in the event that the heater is dropped or otherwise upset. A set of cooling fins, encircling a fuel holder, cool the fuel to help maintain an even burn rate. The heater further includes an adjustable flame attenuator for selective heat control. At a low heat setting the invention may be used as a personal or close contact heater wherein an outer wall serves as a guard for preventing contact burns. A modified embodiment of the heater, for use in a tent, includes an air intake tube and a fuel for exchanging gases with the outside of the tent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Inventor: Charles L. Urso
  • Patent number: 4748967
    Abstract: There is disclosed a portable space heater comprised of a base member, a cylindrically-shaped chimney member including means for removably inserting a fuel source therein mounted on the base member and defining therebetween inlet means for combustion air and a substantially planar lid member mounted on said cylindrically-shaped chimney member and defining therebetween an outlet means for combustion gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Inventor: Edward J. Smith
  • Patent number: 4710125
    Abstract: A safety device for an oil burner is disclosed which is capable of carrying out the detection of flame by means of a DC flame current obtained due to the rectification of flame to detect the abnormal combustion in the oil burner. The safety device includes a first flame electrode surrounded by flame of normal combustion in the oil burner and a second flame electrode arranged away from the flame and connected to an AC voltage source in a manner to be in parallel with the first flame electrode, so that the second flame electrodes cooperates with the first flame electrode to detect a failure in the flowing of a flame current through the first flame electrode or a decrease in a flame current flowing through the first flame electrode, to thereby determine any abnormal combustion in the oil burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Toyotomi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuharu Nakamura, Motoki Matsumoto, Akinobu Kondo, Kiyonobu Ito
  • Patent number: 4691688
    Abstract: A portable heater comprising a double-wall vessel which forms a combustion chamber and encloses a suitable fuel. Air passages provide an airflow through the vessel for supporting combustion. Also included are endless conduits which entrap displaced fuel to prevent it from escaping from the heater through the air passages. Thus, fuel is prevented from escaping from the heater in all positions of the same in the event that the heater is dropped or otherwise upset. A set of cooling fins, encircling a fuel holder, cool the fuel to help maintain an even burn rate. The heater further includes an adjustable flame attenuator for selective heat control. At a low heat setting the invention may be used as a personal or close contact heater wherein an outer wall serves as a guard for preventing contact burns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Inventor: Charles L. Urso
  • Patent number: 4643673
    Abstract: A burner system, for example at a heating unit, comprising a burner of evaporation type for liquid fuel, for example Diesel oil, where fuel is intended via an inlet (5) to be supplied into a combustion space, preferably at the bottom (3) thereof, which combustion space preferably is substantially cylindric and open at the end (4) opposite to said bottom (3), and where preferably an ignition member (6), for example a glowing filament, is provided for the initial ignition of evaporated fuel, and where means (9,16,17,18) are provided for the supply of air to the combustion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Inventor: Holger G. Backstrom
  • Patent number: 4614493
    Abstract: An oil burner of the heat radiation type is disclosed which is capable of effectively preventing clouding of the inner surface of a heat-permeable cylinder with moisture, contaminants contained in combustion gas such as soot and tar, and the like during at the ignition and combustion operation.The oil burner includes a communicating means for establishing the communication between an air supply passage and a space between a heat-permeable cylinder and an outer combustion cylinder, which comprises a top plate for a pot having through-holes formed at the portion thereof above the air supply passage and a top plate for a housing having through-holes formed at the portion below the space, to thereby allow air to be introduced directly from the air supply passage to the space and upward flow along the inner surface of the heat-permeable cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Toyotomi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuharu Nakamura, Tooru Yoshino
  • Patent number: 4588371
    Abstract: A safety device for a pot-type oil burner is disclosed which is capable of efficiently and rapidly detecting the decrease of oxygen concentration in a room due to combustion to provide a warning and/or stop the combustion by sensing the decrease in temperature of a bottom portion of a pot. The safety device includes a thermo-sensitive device arranged on the outer surface of the bottom portion of the pot which is apart from the bottom region of the pot in which occurs the vaporization of fuel oil supplied to the pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Toyotomi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuharu Nakamura, Motoki Matsumoto, Tooru Yoshino, Osamu Niha
  • Patent number: 4586485
    Abstract: An heating drum for use in a radiant heater having a burner for the combustion of fuel, which comprises an axially corrugated barrel made of steel material and forming therein a generally cylindrical inner chamber and a plurality of annular chambers communicated with the cylindrical inner chamber and alternating with concave exterior spaces over the length thereof. The cylindrical inner chamber is defined by furrow-defining walls while each of said annular chambers is defined by a ridge-defining wall and opposedly inclined first and second annular side walls on respective sides of the associated ridge-defining wall. The barrel has one end closed and the other end adapted to seat over the burner and also has first circumferential rows of combustion gas outlet perforations, the combustion gas outlet perforations of each row being defined in at least one of the first and second annular side walls for each annular chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Daikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yositaka Koba, Yoshiki Hayashi, Kunikazu Torikoshi
  • Patent number: 4549523
    Abstract: This invention relates to a heating apparatus such as an oil heater, a gas heater or an electric heater generating heat and light, and to provide an arrangement such that at least a part of periphery of a heat source of the heating apparatus is covered with a netlike member and the netlike member is arranged to be wrapped therearound so that the meshes of the net apparently overlap each other at the front and rear sides of the heat source, thus improving both heating and illuminating effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Hirauchi, Kazuhiro Nakano, Toyohei Harada
  • Patent number: 4492218
    Abstract: An improved oil stove of the type including a cylindrical burning wick adapted to be displaced up and down as required is disclosed which ensures that a burning sleeve is entirely disconnected from a hot dish containing the burning wick therein when the oil stove falls forward due to an occurrence of an earthquake or the like. The improvement consists in that a guard comprising a certain number of fence rods is additionally provided with a guide member fixedly secured thereto. The guide member serves to hold the head portion of the burning sleeve when the oil stove falls forward and then the burning sleeve is tilted from the normal position. The tilted burning sleeve is then displaced due to its dead weight in such a direction as to be parted away from the hot dish so that quick extinguishment and prevention of generation of incompletely burnt gas are ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Uchida Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsue Uchida, Takao Adachi
  • Patent number: 4408593
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid fuel combustion apparatus such as oil space heater in which liquid fuel is vaporized by a vaporizer and the vaporized liquid fuel is injected through a first nozzle to a burner. The vaporizer is heated by combustion of fuel gas which is injected through a second nozzle to the burner before the vaporizer has been heated up to a temperature at which the liquid fuel passing the vaporizer is evaporated. The injection of the fuel gas from the second nozzle to the burner is changed to the injection of the vaporized liquid fuel from the first nozzle when the vaporizer has been heated up to a desired temperature. The supply of the liquid fuel to the vaporizer is carried out by a fuel pump which is driven by electric power generated by a thermopile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Nippon Carbureter Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michitake Furumoto, Shinichi Harada
  • Patent number: 4402664
    Abstract: An improved waste oil heater that includes a vaporizer pan having a mounting ring, a replaceable aluminum foil piece mounted on the ring to form the bottom of the pan and a member mounted on the ring to provide threads, a tool threadingly engageable with the threaded ring member for breaking the pan loose from the bottom wall of a burner pot and removing the ring with caked residue thereon for purposes of cleaning, the burner pot having a novel arrangement of apertures for flow of air into the pot, and solid state electronic control apparatus to control the feed of waste oil that automatically compensates for variations in viscosities and caloric values found in a variety of used oils and automatically discontinues the feed in the event the flame in the burner pot goes out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Inventor: Wolfgang A. Kutrieb
  • Patent number: 4385621
    Abstract: An oil stove for burning both waste oil and heating oil has a primary combustion chamber for the initial combustion of fuel and an adjoining secondary combustion chamber of larger diameter in which combustion is completed. The two chambers are located in a housing and a fan is arranged at the bottom of the housing for delivering air to the inside of the housing. The air is warmed by its passage between the walls of the housing and the primary and secondary combustion chambers and is discharged for heating purposes via louvres at the top of the housing.The primary combustion chamber is defined by a pot having air inlet openings in its sidewall, a substantially closed base, a burner ring located towards the upper end of the pot and a closed jacket surrounding the pot spaced from said sidewall. In operation a pool of fuel is formed at the base of the pot and a part of the fan delivery is ducted to the space between the closed jacket and the pot for supplying air for the combustion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Inventor: Walter Kroll
  • Patent number: 4373905
    Abstract: Oil heater for burning of waste oil or other like petroleum liquids through vaporization of the fuel resulting in total fuel burn and maximum BTU. Combustion air enters the center of a combustion chamber enclosure through a combustion air wand resulting in air flow in all directions. The wand includes a plurality of spaced holes in a closed annular air channel allowing for escape of air to the combustion chamber and a diffuser plate circumferentially affixed to the wand including a plurality of spaced holes in the diffuser plate for spreading and mixing resultant vapors and gases for burning at the level of the wand. A submerged pump in a fuel storage tank provides for even fuel flow to a center point above the air wand in addition to even air flow by a blower. A vaporizer pan in the bottom of the chamber provides for boiling of the fuel with its resulting vaporization and total burn of residue and ash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Inventor: Allen J. Hettich
  • Patent number: 4351316
    Abstract: Combustion apparatus for burning waste oils of various viscosities with high combustion efficiency and which can meet strict polution regulations comprises primary and secondary combustion chambers with the secondary combustion chamber located above the primary combustion chamber and the primary combustion chamber located within an outer housing so as to define between the outer housing and the primary combustion chamber a plenum space. An air blower delivers air to the plenum space which feeds air into the primary combustion chamber through air inlet openings in its side wall. The primary combustion chamber has a burner bowl provided at its base and a burner ring disposed above the burner bowl. Oil is supplied at a constant rate to the burner bowl via a positive displacement pump. The burner ring features a central aperture and two concentrically disposed rings of orifices with the orifices of the outer ring being of larger diameter than the orifices of the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Inventor: Walter Kroll
  • Patent number: 4308854
    Abstract: An oil stove for burning both waste oil and heating oil has a primary combustion chamber for the initial combustion of fuel and an adjoining secondary combustion chamber of larger diameter in which combustion is completed. The two chambers are located in a housing and a fan is arranged at the bottom of the housing for delivering air to the inside of the housing. The air is warmed by its passage between the walls of the housing and the primary and secondary combustion chambers and is discharged for heating purposes via louvres at the top of the housing.The primary combustion chamber is defined by a pot having air inlet openings in its sidewall, a substantially closed base, a burner ring located towards the upper end of the pot and a closed jacket surrounding the pot spaced from said sidewall. In operation a pool of fuel is formed at the base of the pot and a part of the fan delivery is ducted to the space between the closed jacket and the pot and supplying air for the combustion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Inventor: Walter Kroll
  • Patent number: 4303055
    Abstract: An oil heater comprises an oil burning section and an oil feeding system for feeding oil from a tank to the burning section. The oil feeding system includes pump means and motor means for operating the pump means. A control system of the oil feeding system consists essentially of relay means situated in a line between the motor means and electric source, combustion detecting means provided in the burning section to detect combustion of oil, and thermoresponsive switch means situated in the line between the relay means and the electric source for operating the relay means and the detecting means after combustion of oil in the burning section. The combustion detecting means is connected to the relay means to allow electric current to pass through the relay means from the electric source to the motor means only when the detecting means detects combustion of oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Inventor: Stanley Fixler
  • Patent number: 4177792
    Abstract: A heater includes a first housing which forms a fuel reservoir and a base support to maintain the heater in an upright position. A first elongated hollow or tubular member is secured to the top of the first housing with its lower end communicating with the interior of said first housing and extends upwardly therefrom. A second housing is mounted on top of the first housing and is provided with opening or port means to communicate the top of the first housing with the second housing. Port means in the second housing also communicates the second housing with the first elongated tubular member. A second elongated, hollow or tubular member is mounted on the second housing and extends upwardly therefrom. Its lower end communicates with the top of the second housing for communicating air to the second housing. Valve means are provided in each the first and second elongated hollow members for selectively controlling communication therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Inventor: Clyde E. Finch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4117826
    Abstract: A wood or coal burning metal stove formed with a base, a top wall, a casing between the two and a lining extending completely around the lower part of the casing, the base having no openings for draft, but the draft openings being thru a casing door and the lower edge of the liner. Bolts between the liner and casing to hold the top wall base and casing in assembled relation. The casing is assembled in sections with an expansion joint for the expansion of the various side wall sections of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Inventor: Joseph A. Bette