Abstract: A standard smoking lighter slides into a hole on top of a plastic sheath so that only the top of the lighter is exposed. The bottom of the sheath has a hammer like protrusion at one end to stuff tobacco or other herb into a pipe. The opposite end of the bottom has a pivot point for a poker which serves to mix the herb and ash within the pipe and/or clean the debris from the pipe. The poker folds up into the sheath when not in use. Thus, a three function pipe tool provides a lighter, a stuffer and a poker.

Abstract: A fuel-burning cooking burner includes a base defining an outer periphery and an inner open area. The burner further includes a cap coupled with the base around the outer periphery thereof and extending over the open area to define a distribution cavity on an interior side of the cap. The cap further defines a convex outer surface extending opposite the distribution cavity and a plurality of outlets extending through the cap from the distribution cavity to the exterior surface. The outlets are distributed over the entire exterior surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for lighting an oxygen candle within a drum and for sealing the drum of an oxygen candle furnace. The apparatus includes a housing member for positioning the ignition assembly on a lid of the drum. The housing member having an upper portion, a lower portion and a borehole extending through the upper and lower portions. An ignition nail is placed in the borehole and housing member is structured to hold prevent the ignition nail from moving laterally, and to automatically align the nail with the oxygen candle within the drum.

Abstract: A gas burner for a cooking appliance includes a frustoconically-shaped crown having a plurality of gas ports defined therein, a cover positioned above the crown, and a shell secured to the cover and positioned on the crown. The shell defines a hollow chamber positioned between the crown and the cover.

Abstract: SO3 is formed from a replenished circulating inventory of fresh and recycled SO2. Also, a feed stream of replenished SO2 is heated by indirect heat exchange with a hot stream of SO2 and SO3 whereby the hot stream is cooled for separating the two gases. The heated feed stream of replenished SO2 serves as a hot gaseous feed to a sulfur burner. This SO2 feed is divided into two feed streams, one being oxygenated with pure oxygen and the other remains as an SO2 feed. These feeds plus a feed of molten sulfur are concurrently and separately introduced into the sulfur burner where additional SO2 is formed via continuous exothermic reaction. Although heated, the oxygenated feed(s) of SO2 bring in the needed oxygen for the reaction and the feeds of the oxygenated and non-oxygenated SO2 serve as a heat sink in the sulfur burner to reduce the temperature therein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a device for the combustion of sulphur and/or sulphur-containing compounds, via which a sufficient production of SO2-containing gases having a high SO2 concentration is made possible. The combustion preferably proceeds using a combustion gas which has an oxygen fraction at least as high as air, but preferably a higher fraction of oxygen. The process and the device should be suitable, in particular, for providing sulphur dioxide as a source for further production of sulphuric acid or highly concentrated SO3-containing gases. In addition, the device and the process should be suitable for oxidizing hydrogen-sulphide-containing gases, such as occur, for example, in the refinery industry, in high concentrations to SO2.

Abstract: With a method configured to generate process gas that contains hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide for the Claus process, hydrogen-sulfide containing feed gas is burned with pure oxygen by means of several burners opening out into a combustion chamber wherein the pure oxygen is fed into the combustion chamber through a central tube each, the feed gas through a tube arranged coaxially around the central tube and inert gas as purge gas via an annular duct coaxially surrounding the feed gas tube. A favorable option of the method consists in the use of CO2 reclaimed by desorption of laden methanol as purge gas.

Abstract: A method for improving the performance of a radiating burner designed to be supplied during operation by means of a flow (F) comprising a mixture of air and combustible gas. The burner includes a body defining a combustion chamber and provided with an inlet for the mixture; a porous wicking agent closes off the chamber in a non-sealing manner and is arranged downstream of the inlet in the direction of flow (F) of the mixture; and a distribution grid is arranged between the mixture inlet and the wicking agent. The method includes creating an electric field in the combustion chamber by applying an electric potential difference of at least 5 kV between the wicking agent and the distribution grid.

Abstract: A composition comprising: hydrogen; and an oxygenate odorant; wherein the oxygenate odorant has a vapor pressure of about 0.002 psi. or greater at 25° C. and having a smell detectable at less than 1 ppm by a human nose; wherein the oxygenate odorant includes one or more carbonyl groups; and wherein the oxygenate odorant consists only of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygenate odorants may be cyclic or acyclic.

Abstract: A bowl that is configured for containing liquid such as water has a gas distribution apparatus in the bowl beneath the surface of the liquid and a gas source attached thereto. The gas distribution apparatus includes a movable gas distribution conduit that may be controlled to move in a predetermined pattern so that gas bubbles are emitted in a desired and controlled manner, or alternately, includes a gas distribution plate that causes gas bubbles to emit in a random manner. When the bubbles of gas burst at the surface of the liquid they are ignited, resulting in pleasant displays of flame.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a disposable fuel cartridge for use in fireplaces that self regulates the shape, height, width, depth and burn time of the flames produced when the fuel inside the cartridge, such as alcohol gel, is exposed to ambient air and ignited, where the cartridge makes efficient use of fuel so as to produce a desirable, generally rectangular flame pattern without the need for any additional components, such as rectangular “fuel cells” or rectangular damper lids placed over the “fuel cells”.

Abstract: A water-in-fuel emulsion system comprises a reactor device, a fuel intake connected to said reactor device, a water intake connected to said reactor device, a pump connected to said reactor device, and a circulating emulsion reprocessing inline loop connected to said pump and feeding a load as needed in real time, wherein said reactor device comprises a non-vibrating anvil shaped to create cavitation sufficient to emulsify water-in-fuel from said water intake and said fuel intake.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a duration of burn of a stick of incense includes a base and a ferric rod extending away from and over the base. A hole is provided in the base for placement of a bottom end of the incense. A cylindrical portion is adapted to fit over and slide along a longitudinal length of the incense. A magnet is attached to the cylindrical portion and is adapted to secure the cylindrical portion, where desired, along a longitudinal length of the rod. Accordingly, the incense is supported in two locations and is disposed under and generally parallel to the rod. The incense is able to burn until the area of combustion reaches the cylindrical portion, at which time it is extinguished. Two alternate embodiments are described that allow use of modified forms of the cylindrical portion with prior art types of incense burners.

Abstract: Apparatus and processes for the production of a sulfur dioxide-containing combustion gas are provided in which a sulfur-containing liquid is pneumatically atomized with a sulfur gun or lance that utilizes an atomizing gas to form an atomized combustion mixture for combustion in a sulfur furnace. The sulfur dioxide-containing combustion gas may be used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid by the contact process.

Abstract: A portable, self-contained fire and water apparatus for decorative display. A fireplace for outdoor use in aquatic locations such as a pool, pond or lake. A device that produces a gas flame that burns on the waters surface. The device can be further be enhanced with optional ornamental or informational attachments such as a dragon igniting flaming waters or a sports team helmet floating in a pool surrounded by flames. A method of displaying a decorative or informational display employing a gas flame that burns on a waters surface.

Abstract: A device for igniting combustible means, especially solid combustibles such as wood, charcoal, and similar. The device includes a pressurized receptacle that is filled with a combustible medium, a spring-loaded actuating valve which selectively opens and closes a discharge port of the receptacle, preferably by applying pressure with a fingertip, and a top part that is joined to the discharge port and has a tubular extension having an adequate length.

Abstract: An improved system and operating method for a smoke generator machine and control room to be enclosed into a single trailer for the training of personnel in the art of visible smoke opacity compliance monitoring of industrial smoke discharge from smoke stacks by distinguishing the variations of smoke opacity emission based on the requirements set forth by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA said smoke generator is principally used for production of white and black smoke for simulating smoke discharge from industrial smoke stacks by heating various fuels to the flash point in burn boxes to create white or black smoke and venting said smoke through a duct system to a smoke stack by creating a artificial draft by a speed control fan.

Abstract: Nanotechnology methods for creating stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric substances with unusual combination of properties by lattice level composition engineering are described.

Abstract: A combustion liner for a gas turbine combustion system is provided. The combustion liner comprises a combustion zone between an inlet end and an exhaust end. The combustion liner comprises a one-piece casting construction. The combustion liner is formed from a nickel-based superalloy having strength characteristics.

Abstract: A quartz glass burner including a multibranched-tube quartz glass nozzle made up of multiple tubules housed in a quartz glass outer tube, wherein an inner diameter of the outer tube contracted such that an inner diameter of a tip of the outer tube is between 0.65 and 0.90 times the inner diameter of a trunk of the outer tube. The nozzle is structured such that the region from the tubule branching portion to the tip thereof is housed in the outer tube. The outer tube housing the tubules has a length that is greater than or equal to 1.5 times the inner diameter of the tip of the outer tube. Therefore, there is provided a quartz glass burner that causes the flow velocity distribution of gas emitted from outer tube to be uniform at the tip of the burner, thereby enhancing glass microparticle deposition efficiency and also enhancing firepower during flame working.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxygenated fuel composition suitable for use in compression ignition internal combustion engines, equipped with inlet air heater and catalytic alcohol dehydration equipment suitable for chemical equilibrium conversion of methanol and higher alcohol to their associated ether plus water.

Abstract: A method and device of this invention includes a fuel deoxygenator and a heating device for removing dissolved oxygen from fuel and then heating that fuel to a temperature above the temperature that would otherwise produce undesirable insoluble materials from a hydrocarbon fuel. The temperature of the fuel and the amount of dissolved oxygen that is removed from the fuel are adjusted according to the combustion process and optimization of desired combustion characteristics.

Abstract: An incense burner is provided with an upper compartment comprising a bottom, surrounding side wall structure, and an open top. An array of openings is provided in the bottom that permits air to move upwardly through the bottom into a burning chamber defined above the bottom and interiorally of the surrounding side wall structure. A series of legs extends downwardly from the bottom to where they join a base. An open space is defined between the bottom and the base. In addition, there is provided a series of side openings that are formed between the bottom and the base, and between the respective legs. This enables air to move inwardly through the side openings into the space between the bottom and the base, and therefrom upwardly through the array of openings in the bottom into the burning chamber of the incense burner.

Abstract: A device for supporting a burner (20) and a dryer having the same are disclosed, in which a structure for supporting the burner is simplified, thereby decreasing the manufacturing price and fabricating of the device is easy. The device for supporting the burner includes a base (70), a burner generating a hot air, a support member (60) having a main connecting part provided between the base and the burner for being detachably inserted to the base so as to support the burner.

Abstract: An economiser for combustion devices, consisting of a preferably steel tube around which at least two coils set side by side are wound, said coils being traversed by electric current and being capable of inducing an electromagnetic field inside the tube. The coils are enclosed in a preferably metal casing and then possibly resin-potted. The device is preferably designed for improving combustion in engines, boilers, and burners in general.

Abstract: A flame atomization device, especially for an atom absorption spectrometer, is disclosed. The flame atomization device includes at least one mixer chamber and an atomizer leading into the mixer chamber, and a burner head mounted on the mixer chamber's burner connection piece. A slip casing is mounted so that it can slide between a closed position and an open position in relation to the burner connection piece while, in the open position, at least one pressure reduction outlet is opened in the burner connection piece.

Abstract: A heat-emitting burner element, especially for use in a reformer unit of a fuel cell system, consists of two at least essentially parallel and spaced-apart plates and is characterized by the fact that the plates form a reaction gap between them, and as a result of the catalytic combustion of a fuel gas/oxygen mixture there on a catalytic coating facing the reaction gap provided on at least one of the plates, generate heat and emit it by radiation, convection and conduction directly through the coated plates(s) to at least one neighboring endothermic stage and that at least one of the plates displays structural elements having the catalytic coating and also extending into the reaction gap, which structural elements extend in the flow direction and consist, e.g., of fins or bars. A device for introducing diluting air transversely to the flow direction through the reaction gap is preferably provided.

Abstract: A combustion heating device for heating a fluid to be heated includes a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel to the device, and a vaporizing device that burns a portion of the fuel supplied by the fuel supply device, and vaporizes a remaining portion of the fuel by using heat generated through combustion of the portion of the fuel. The combustion heating device further includes a first air supply device that supplies air to be used for combustion of the portion of the fuel by the vaporizing device, and a second air supply device that supplies air to be used for combustion of the remaining portion of the fuel vaporized by the vaporizing device. A fuel reforming apparatus incorporating the combustion heating device as vaporizing section, and a fuel cell system including the fuel reforming apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: The combination lighter and fishing lure includes a body having a feature useful for attracting a fish, a reservoir for holding a fuel, an igniter to ignite the fuel and produce a flame, an outlet at which the flame is produced, means provided on the body for attaching a fishing line, and means provided on the body for attaching a fish hook. The igniter may include a forwardly projecting valve actuator that when used as a fishing lure serves as a spoon or blade to help the lure move through the water and produce the desired lure motion. The invention provides a multipurpose device useful both as a lighter and a fishing lure and an article attractive as a novelty item.

Abstract: Purging of a gas supply line is effected using a serviceman's purging tool having a hose for attachment to the supply line with an opposite end of the hose attached to a burner nozzle carried on a support frame. The burner nozzle is arranged to generate a stream of the gases exiting from the pipe to be purged. The frame carries a receptacle for a propane torch and angles the burner of the torch so as to be directed across the stream of gas from the supply pipe. The burner from the torch thus provides combustion of the purged non-ignitable products from the supply pipe until the ignitable gas reaches the nozzle whereupon the ignitable gas is ignited indicating that the pipe is purged. The receptacle comprises a cylindrical sleeve for receiving the tank of the propane torch and a bracket for guiding the nozzle of the torch across the stream.

Abstract: An oil burner includes a pivotal cover that exposes a unitary gun assembly. The gun assembly is movable longitudinally with respect to the central axis of the air tube of the burner by rotating a cam. A spinner assembly is positioned on the gun assembly. The air cone is divided into various surfaces, some of which are at angles to the axis of the air tube. The burner further includes an adjustable air entry port. A work station for facilitating nozzle replacement is also included. The firing rate is controlled by the air entry port setting, the nozzle used, and the position of the nozzle and spinner assembly in the air cone.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing synthesis gas by partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon-containing fuel in the absence of moderator gas. A hydrocarbon-containing fuel and an oxidiser are supplied through a reactor mix type burner to a gasification zone under oxygen blast conditions. At least the rim(s) of the burner internal(s) separating the fuel from the oxidiser at the rim tip(s) is (are) made of, or lined with, a ceramic material or a noble metal or a noble metal alloy.

Abstract: An oxygen welding apparatus capable of generating its oxygen needs without an external oxygen source from a self-contained solid state electrolytic cell which separates oxygen from the air. The cell employs a flexible, ductile ceramic composite as the solid electrolyte. The ductile ceramic composite electrolyte comprises a continuous, ordered, repeating, interconnected ductile metallic array substantially surrounded by and intimately integrated within a ceramic matrix. The cell is connected to a power supply so when current is passed through the cell, oxygen or nitrogen is separated from the air passing through the cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an incinerator devised to incinerate various kinds of wastes including medical and food wastes. Up to this time, the waste containing an explosive chemical substance like alcohol or the waste containing water in large quantities has been disposed of unsanitarily, requiring a great deal of labor and cost. The present invention is equipped with a primary combustion chamber, a secondary combustion chamber, a communicating means which introudces gases to the secondary combustion chamber from the primary combustion chamber, an exhaust means which discharges waste gas from the secondary combustion chamber and a microwave generation means. It is an incinerator aimed to solve the above problem by a method wherein waste is incinerated after it is desiccated and pyrolyzed by applying microwaves thereto and explosive gas is disposed of. It is an sanitary incinerator which contains no bad smell, no harmful substance and no smoke in the exhaust gas discharged after incineration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the early detection and relief of a closed, pressurized gas charged system, such as an ammonia refrigeration system, wherein a central control system measures and assimilates system and ambient conditions, and responds to alleviate system pressures in excess of design parameters, and, further, combusts system gasses so relieved, breaking such gasses into nontoxic byproducts of combustion.

Abstract: The capital and operating costs of oil burners comprising rotary air compressors are reduced by using compressors that are lubricated with the fuel oil of the burner. Preferably, the fuel oil has the qualities and flow properties of fuel oil No. 2, and the compressor does not require the peripheral equipment of self-contained lubricating systems, e.g. lube oil storage tank, cooling coils, cooling coils fan, etc.

Abstract: A gas supply for feeding at least two components of a combustion mixture to a combustion chamber has gas dosing cylinders (16, 19) respectively for oxygen and fuel of which the gas filling pressures are controllable or adjustable by a pressure regulator (15) and a throttle valve (18) respectively. The mixture ratio of the gases can thus be changed between each filling of the dosing devices by control of the setting motor (35) of the pressure regulator. This setting can also change the filling pressure in the combustion chamber (10). The length of the piston stroke in the dosing cylinders can also be controlled.

Abstract: An improved engine comprises a primary piston and primary cylinder in which air and fuel is precombusted. The piston is reciprocated in the cylinder by an external prime mover. The exhaust of the precombusted air/fuel mixture is controlled by a floating exhaust valve piston which seats against the exhaust port and has its other end pressurized at a set pressure preferably by an inert gas. The precombusted air/fuel mixtures are exhausted to secondary combustion chambers where additional air, fuel and prime mover exhaust gases are added to increase the velocity and pressure of the gas and provide for more complete combustion of the fuel.

Abstract: The combustion of fluid fuel, typically fuel oil in burners or boilers is improved by applying a magnetic field to the fuel at the point upstream of the burner to impart a magnetic flux density of at least 10 gauss to the fuel, and adjusting the magnetic field to reduce to a minimum the dust and residual oxygen contents in an exhaust gas. A magnetizing apparatus is also disclosed which comprises permanent magnets and movable yokes for adjusting a magnetic flux density traversing a pipe for feeding fuel. The magnetizing apparatus is located on the pipe between pumping means and the burner.

Abstract: The invention is a mounting bracket for mounting a flint striker used to ignite an oxyacetylene torch, the bracket connecting the striker to the gas feed hoses of the torch so that the welder knows at all times where the striker can be found.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating liquid fuel in an internal combustion engine. The fuel treating device is connected in the fuel line leading to the carburetor or other fuel/air mixing apparatus and comprises an elongated hollow outer casing made of a magnetic material, an elongated inner casing made of non-magnetic material positioned within the outer casing and a single elongated magnet received in the inner casing, the maget having at least three longitudinally spaced apart sections of alternating, north and south polarity. Means are provided for supporting the inner casing in spaced relation to the outer casing to form an annular chamber therebetween, in which chamber the lines of flux are preferably radial. The device further includes an inlet and an outlet located near opposite ends of the annular chamber for providing fluid flow from the fuel line through the chamber.