Patents by Inventor Marvin L. Stary

Marvin L. Stary has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4063874
    Abstract: A burner which is capable of burning a very lean mixture of flammable vapors and air, and which preferably also can burn a mixture of varying richness and B.T.U. content, with the burner desirably including a structure forming an upwardly facing recess and an inlet for introducing the vapor-air mixture into a lower portion of that recess in a relation enabling the mixture, when lean, to burn at least partially in the recess in isolation from external air, and when richer to burn at an upper elevation at which external air can mix with the basic vapor-air mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Assignee: Clean Air Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin L. Stary, Edward L. Brown, Eric L. Pridonoff
  • Patent number: 4058147
    Abstract: A vapor recovery system in which gasoline vapors or other flammable vapors are withdrawn from the vicinity of a like, and are disposed of by combustion in a burner system, preferably consisting of two burners selectively usable for burning vapor-air mixtures of different B.T.U. contents. The vapors may be temporarily stored by adsorption onto an adsorbing substance, and then be removed from that substance by conducting a flow of air therepast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1977
    Assignee: Clean Air Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin L. Stary, Edward L. Brown, Eric L. Pridonoff