Patents Examined by Carl O. Price
  • Patent number: 5104312
    Abstract: An incandescent gas mantle assembly includes a metal coupling member and a mantle supporting sleeve member of thermally resistant material that has a skirt portion to which a metal oxide mantle sock is secured in depending relation. The metal coupling member has a body portion of disc configuration with an outer periphery and an inner periphery, a plurality of inwardly extending first coupling portions integral with and spaced about the body portion for attachment to a cooperating burner head, and a plurality of second coupling portions integral with and spaced about the body portion, the second coupling portions being in coupling engagement with recess structure of the mantle supporting sleeve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: TPV Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Dowst, Brendan P. McFadden, Robert E. Nelson, Jens F. S. Olow