Means Forcing Air Into Flame Area Patents (Class 431/300)
  • Patent number: 8702419
    Abstract: An automatic candle blower having a main housing with a base and a back member. The back member has a plurality of vent holes therethrough, each of the vent holes providing an air flow path from the interior of the main housing. A candle support surface is formed adjacent to the back member to support a candle. A blower is positioned to direct air to the vent holes. An air channel is formed within the main housing between the blower and the vent holes. An alternative embodiment of the invention further includes a control circuit, which has a processor, a timer, and a processor-readable medium, is electrically connected to the blower. A user input device is electrically connected to the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventor: Rickey Simpson
  • Patent number: 8641413
    Abstract: A device for producing a stable and augmented flame includes a fluid-inducing assembly and a shield. The fluid-inducing assembly includes a flow-diverting mechanism defining a flow-intake end and a flow-accelerating end and includes a plurality of vanes extending from the flow-intake end to the flow-accelerating end. The plurality of vanes is circumferentially disposed and spaced from one another. Furthermore, two vanes include a space defined therebetween, and the space defines a passage which is spiral-shaped. The flow-diverting mechanism further includes a covering member with an enclosed circumferential edge circumferentially surrounded. Thus, each vane in the flow-accelerating end is encircled by the covering member, and each vane in the flow-intake end is exposed to outside and not covered by the covering member. In addition, the shield is hollow and is disposed above the fluid-inducing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Pro-Iroda Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Long Chen, Jan-Nan Chen
  • Patent number: 5249956
    Abstract: An improved multi-fuel heater using a porous fuel vaporizer in close proxty to an burner cup the improved heater having means to ameliorate the build up of particulate material between the cup and the vaporizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: William H. Chu
  • Patent number: 5056501
    Abstract: A combustion heater includes a burner cylinder defining therein a combustion chamber. The burner cylinder has a peripheral wall thereof having a number of air inlet holes formed therein, one bottomed end thereof having an end wall formed with at least one opening, and another open end thereof having a peripheral edge. A wick is exposed to the combustion chamber for impregnating with liquid fuel. The peripheral edge of the open end of the burner cylinder is disposed in close contact with the wick. The end wall of the bottomed end of same is opposed to the wick. The burner cylinder has a radially extending reflecting portion formed by the end wall of the bottomed end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ida
  • Patent number: 4790746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an outer control cylinder inwards of a vaporizing portion, and accordingly, radical deterioration of the CO/CO.sub.2 characteristic can be prevented. Furthermore, the air control cylinder is divided into plural stages one above the other and has a through aperture in the lowermost stage connecting said lowermost stage with an inner air path, and at the same time, the outer control cylinder is formed with through holes. Therefore, the combustion equuipment of the present invention has a large range of adjustment of the combustion volume, and is safe and comfortable in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Uno, Katsuhiko Ishikawa, Shojiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 4668179
    Abstract: An oil burner of the wick ignition type is disclosed which is capable of effectively preventing the generation of bad odor due to unburned fuel oil gas after the fire-extinguishing operation as well as during the operation. The oil burner includes an air pumping mechanism. The mechanism comprises an air pumping means which is adapted to discharge air to a combustion cylinder construction when it is heated and suck air thereinto from the combustion cylinder construction when it is cooled and an air chamber arranged between the pumping means and the combustion cylinder construction so as to be communicated with the both. The air pumping means may comprise a rigid closed vessel formed of a heat transfer material and arranged to receive heat directly from the combustion cylinder construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Toyotomi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuharu Nakamura, Yutaka Nakanishi