Abstract: A vaporization burner for a heater operated with liquid fuel, in particular an auxiliary vehicle heater with a support that projects into a combustion chamber and on whose front side facing the combustion chamber an absorbent body is located that is supplied with fuel by a fuel feed pipe and on whose back side there is connected an ignition chamber that contains an igniter, for which a passage to the combustion chamber is provided in the support. To achieve improved combustion performance, especially in the start-up phase, with even fuel and heat distribution over the absorbent body, according to a preferred embodiment, a perforated disk is placed between the support and the absorbent body that has a through-hole in the area of a passage in the support and also has a slot-shaped notch which runs from the through-hole up the the edge of perforated disk.

Abstract: A heating device, especially a motor vehicle heating device operated by means of liquid fuel, has a vaporization burner with an absorbent body that can be acted upon by liquid fuel. To effect equalization of heat distribution and fuel pretreatment, there is provided a cover of a high temperature and corrosion resistant sheet steel. The cover has a plurality of openings and covers at least a major portion of that surface of the absorbent body which faces a combustion chamber of the heating device. When the absorbent body has a through-opening to promote vaporization of the liquid fuel, the cover likewise can have a through-opening coordinated thereto, thus exposing the through-opening.