Gas Patents (Class 126/406)
  • Patent number: 10982847
    Abstract: A gas combustor with function of adjusting combustion angle includes: a handgrip part; a fastening rack, disposed at a top end of the handgrip part, and having at least one positioning disk having an outer circumference annularly disposed with plural positioning slots; and a flame device, wherein one end of flame device has a pivotal part pivoted with the at least one positioning disk, and correspondingly disposed with an elastic buckle mechanism capable of being buckled in each positioning slot at a location corresponding to the at least one positioning disk; with each elastic buckle mechanism being displaced along the outer circumference of the corresponding at least one positioning disk, and buckled in one of the positioning slots according to a desired inclined angle, the flame device is provided with a combustion angle adjusting effect relative to the handgrip part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ROBURN COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 10443843
    Abstract: A safety device for a gas burner includes an ignition-gas unit and a lever is pivotably connected to the installation port. The lever extends beyond a cover on the ignition-gas unit and includes a free end to which a restriction member and a spring are connected. The spring drives the restriction member toward the cover to restrict the lever from being pushed to ignite the gas burner. When the restriction member is moved, the user can push the free end downward to activate the ignition-gas unit to ignite the gas burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rekrow Industrial Inc.
    Inventor: Ta-Jen Ho
  • Patent number: 9879856
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas combustor which includes a gas container having a discharging nozzle, a fuel gas controlling device, and a piston disposed between the gas container and the fuel gas controlling device and capable of being reciprocally moved; through the pressure applied by a second spring provided in the fuel gas controlling device to the piston being greater than the pressure of a first spring and the fuel gas in the discharging nozzle and the pressure applied by the second spring to the piston being smaller than the pressure for vaporizing fuel in a vaporization chamber, the piston is enabled to be reciprocally and axially moved for opening or closing the discharging nozzle, thus the liquid gas can be effectively and fully vaporized and the combustion efficiency can be greatly enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Wei-Ming Tsai
  • Patent number: 8585397
    Abstract: A hot air generator comprising a handle (12), an elongated nozzle (14), flame generating means (6), a venturi (4), a gas conduit (162) intended to bring a combustible gas into the elongated nozzle (14) and at the flame generating means (6), an air conduit (164) intended for bringing compressed air into the elongated nozzle (14) and downstream from the venturi; characterized in that the generator further comprises a servocontrolled pressure regulator (2) controlling a gas pressure (Pd.g) in the gas conduit (162) depending on an air pressure (Pd.a) in the air conduit (164).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Guilbert Express
    Inventors: Yves Guillou, Christophe Le Drappier
  • Patent number: 6986659
    Abstract: A gas burner includes a laminate catalytic device mounted thereon. The gas burner includes a nozzle and an igniter installed in the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device is mounted on the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device includes three separated catalytic nets. The gas burner includes two separators for separating the catalytic nets from one another. The separators are in the form of a ring. Each of the catalytic nets helps burn 80% of gas flowing through it. The gas burner includes a shell for retaining the laminate catalytic device on the nozzle. The shell is in the form of a tube in order to receive the laminate catalytic device and the nozzle. The gas burner includes a bolt inserted in an aperture defined in the shell and an aperture defined in the nozzle, thus securing the shell to the nozzle and retaining the laminate catalytic device in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Inventor: Hwai-Tay Lin
  • Patent number: 6905331
    Abstract: A gas burner includes a laminate catalytic device mounted thereon. The gas burner includes a nozzle and an igniter installed in the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device is mounted on the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device includes three separated catalytic nets. The gas burner includes two separators for separating the catalytic nets from one another. The separators are in the form of a ring. Each of the catalytic nets helps burn 80% of gas flowing through it. The gas burner includes a shell for retaining the laminate catalytic device on the nozzle. The shell is in the form of a tube in order to receive the laminate catalytic device and the nozzle. The gas burner includes a bolt inserted in an aperture defined in the shell and an aperture defined in the nozzle, thus securing the shell to the nozzle and retaining the laminate catalytic device in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Inventor: Hwai-Tay Lin
  • Patent number: 6887072
    Abstract: Igniter with safety unit, the safety unit comprises a push-button that is arranged at the backside of the gun body and partially protrudes out of the gun body, it can be pushed forward and return relative to the gun body; a elastic limit bar that is arranged at the side of the part of the ignition trigger that is towards the backside of the gun body, in natural condition, its end keeps against a barrier block which is integrated with the inner wall of the gun body; a button that is arranged in the push-button and protrudes out of the push-button, it can be pressed into the gun body and return. A protruding part arranged on the button's inner side protrudes towards a mid-portion of the gun body. In natural condition, the protruding part is towards the blank part, but when the push-button is in pushed up condition, the protruding part is near the end of the elastic limit bar and opposite to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventor: Zhang Judeng
  • Patent number: 6874498
    Abstract: A gas powered soldering tool (1) comprising a handle (2) and a tubular carrier member (15) extending therefrom. A combustion chamber (22) is formed in a distal end (19) of the carrier member (15) within which a catalytic combustion element (23) of cylindrical construction is located. Fuel gas/air mixture is supplied to the combustion chamber (22) through the carrier member (15). A receiving member (30) is crimped onto the carrier member (15) at the distal end thereof and releasably carries a soldering tip tool (18). A spigot (40) extending from the soldering tip tool (18) into the combustion chamber (22) conducts heat from the combustion chamber (22) to a soldering tip portion (36) of the soldering tool tip (18). A plug member (37) of the soldering tool tip (18) is threaded for engaging corresponding threads in a bore (31) of the receiving member (30) for facilitating replacement of the soldering tool (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Oglesby & Butler Research & Development Limited
    Inventors: Alfred Peter Oglesby, John Paul Oglesby
  • Publication number: 20030108840
    Abstract: A gas burner includes a laminate catalytic device mounted thereon. The gas burner includes a nozzle and an igniter installed in the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device is mounted on the nozzle. The laminate catalytic device includes three separated catalytic nets. The gas burner includes two separators for separating the catalytic nets from one another. The separators are in the form of a ring. Each of the catalytic nets helps burn 80% of gas flowing through it. The gas burner includes a shell for retaining the laminate catalytic device on the nozzle. The shell is in the form of a tube in order to receive the laminate catalytic device and the nozzle. The gas burner includes a bolt inserted in an aperture defined in the shell and an aperture defined in the nozzle, thus securing the shell to the nozzle and retaining the laminate catalytic device in position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventor: Hwai-Tay Lin
  • Patent number: 6119681
    Abstract: A cordless tool which includes a glue gun function and may include other functions includes a sleeve for receiving a stick of hot melt glue for sliding through the sleeve and a tip at the forward end of the sleeve for discharging the glue when melted. A butane heated gas burner heats the sleeve using gas permeable catalytic heater which surrounds or lies in intimate contact with the sleeve to communicate heat to the sleeve. The arrangement can be modified by closing off the catalytic heater for use to provide multi function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Inventor: Harvey Lilke
  • Patent number: 6113585
    Abstract: A new hair removal system for removing hair from the body. The inventive device includes a housing having a perimeter side wall and a top surface. Extending from the top surface of the housing is a nozzle having an open terminal end. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the interior of the housing. A flame generating device is provided in the housing for generating a flame from the terminal end of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Inventor: Carla J. Caparrelli
  • Patent number: 6095801
    Abstract: An torch having a configuration for having a plurality of self sustaining positions is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a flexible torch sleeve including a plurality of pivotable elements in combination with a torch tip that reduces or eliminates thermal conductivity by the plume to the torch sleeve, thus enabling the adjustment of the sleeve to a variety of self sustaining positions during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventor: John Spiewak
  • Patent number: 6065959
    Abstract: A handy gas torch includes a fuel container, a fuel gas control device, a piezoelectric device, a securing plate, a supporting frame, a burning, and a top cover. During operation, a knob of the fuel gas control device is turned so that fuel in the fuel container is drawn up by a suction tube of a gas supply device. The fuel gas passes through a tube neck of the fuel gas control device, a guide hole, a gas output tube to a fuel gas nozzle of the burning device and then fills a channel. By turning an adjusting knob to bring a knob hole into alignment with an air intake hole, air is induced into the channel to mix with the fuel gas. The fuel mixture is ejected by a fire nozzle of a fire ejecting device. Upon the user's pressing a press handle of the piezoelectric device to cause a boss on a press plate to press against a piezoelectric means, sparks are generated by a lead wire on one side of the fire nozzle to ignite the fuel mixture for burning purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 5921231
    Abstract: A handheld soldering tool has a fuel reservoir or tank (10), a tip (1) heated in use by a catalyst assembly (2), a valve assembly (9) for controlling flow of gaseous fuel from the reservoir (10) to the catalyst assembly (2), and a piezo-electric ignition device (7) for igniting gas released from tank (10) for combustion during an initial warm-up period to bring the catalyst to its operating temperature. A spring member (19) mounted on a rocker member (17) serving to transmit an actuating force from a switch member (18) to the piezo device (7) is arranged to momentarily interrupt the flow of gas from valve assembly (9) through Venturi (16) to combustion region (15), to terminate the initial combustion period, during reverse movement of the rocker member (17) from an ignition disposition to a non-active or gas-flow disposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: BS Technology Limited
    Inventor: Derek Butler
  • Patent number: 5810579
    Abstract: A palm top hot air gas spray pistol including a base case for accommodating gas and an upper cover containing a gas guide and ignition mechanism. The upper cover includes a nozzle formed by a spray tube and an outer cover. Ignition is controlled by pressing a push-button. A hot air tube is fitted onto the outer cover. The hot air tube has a front end portion of a smaller diameter, which is provided with a ceramic block resembling a honey-comb. The ceramic block is mounted between a front end of the hot air tube and the spray tube. The intense heat of the flame of the pistol is used to generate hot air which is ejected through the hot air tube. The spray pistol has good portability and may also be used as a hot air pistol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
  • Patent number: 5800154
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a gas-heatable appliance for personal use as, for example, a curling iron, a curling brush, a hair dryer, an epilating appliance, a domestic appliance, or the like, including a fuel gas reservoir, a combustion chamber, and a valve assembly disposed between the fuel gas reservoir and the combustion chamber for controlling and/or regulating the amount of fuel gas supplied, in particular in dependence upon temperature. There are further provided a valve housing (4) with a gas passageway (5, 15, 16) and a sealing element (6) associated with the gas passageway (5, 15, 16), as well as an actuator (7) for actuating the sealing element (6). The element is configured as a control member actuatable by a user and/or as a temperature-responsive actuator (7). In this arrangement, the sealing element (6) is actuated directly by the actuator (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Braun Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Henninger, Dieter Liebenthal, Michael Stolper, Anne Tregoning Miller
  • Patent number: 5776131
    Abstract: A flammable gas heated cauterizing device for use in cauterizing the horn stumps in older cattle as well as removing the horn buttons from young calves. A propane torch having a burner tube is utilized to heat a cauterizing device fabricated from surgical stainless steel. A first embodiment, for cauterizing larger horn stumps, comprises a torch attachment tube spot welded to a cauterizing tip having a flat cauterizing face with rearwardly extending frustoconical tubular sidewalls. A second embodiment, for cauterizing horn buttons, is identical to the first embodiment but utilizes a concave cauterizing tip. The invention heats up much faster and to a much higher temperature than the prior art devices, thereby making the cauterizing process much quicker and less painful for the animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Inventor: Donald C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 5667377
    Abstract: A gas torch including a butane container having a top side mounted with a flame adjustment wheel and a gas lever and a holder frame, the holder frame having two outward mounting flanges at two opposite sides respectively secured to the top side of the butane container and holding a flame tube on the outside and an electronic igniter on the inside, a control button mounted on the holder frame above the top side of the butane container and depressed to trigger the electronic igniter, the control button having a backward extension frame, an actuating strip mounted on the backward extension frame of the control button and moved to lift the gas lever in releasing fuel gas from the butane container, and a transverse control bar mounted in the outward mounting flanges of the holder frame and controlled to hold the control button and the actuating strip in the depressed position or to force them back to stop fuel gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
  • Patent number: 5573393
    Abstract: A burner including a storage tank, a gas outflow means, a pressure regulating means, a control means, a hood, a selectively replaceable gas ejecting base, a gas diffusion burner head and/or a firing means. When in use, a control knob is firstly turned so that fuel gas flows along a gas path to escape from the gas diffusion burner head and/or the firing means. Then a push-button is pressed so that a piezo-electric device generates electrostatic sparks to ignite fuel gas escaped from the gas diffusion burner head and/or the firing means. The intensity of the fire may be adjusted by means of the control means. A handle is also provided to facilitate carrying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 5537989
    Abstract: A device for extracting and positioning an embedded ignitable end of a candle wick includes a coupling element mountable at the flame discharge end of candle lighter, a working element adapted to be maneuvered to extract the embedded ignitable end of the candle wick from candle wax and to reposition the extracted ignitable end of the candle wick at a position free from the wax, and an elongated support member with the coupling element attached to one of the opposite ends of the support member such that the support member extends along a flame exiting from the flame discharge end of the candle lighter. The working element is attached to the other of the opposite ends of the support member such that the working element is spaced forwardly of the flame discharge end of the candle ligher and positioned in proximity to flame so that the working element is heated by the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Inventors: Ray A. York, Jr., Shelley Dukes
  • Patent number: 5476089
    Abstract: A hot-air generating tool for use with heat-shrink tubing in electrical wiring applications device includes a heat source such as a disposable butane lighter, a body member having a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion adapted for releasable capture of the heat source, and the top portion including an exhaust nozzle oriented over the heat source and adapted to direct a stream of air over the heat source. A heat reflector member is connected to the body member by a reflector arm and is adapted to deflect the heated air stream from the heat source and exhaust nozzle to a target area. A mouth piece member is connected to the exhaust nozzle by a length of tubing, so that when a user ignites the heat source and delivers a stream of air through the mouth piece, the air is delivered through the exhaust nozzle, over the heat source, and towards the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Inventor: James D. Rose
  • Patent number: 5476376
    Abstract: A butane burner for personal care appliances includes a receptacle at one end for a gas canister. Upon insertion of a canister, a probe presses against the canister valve, opening it; and it thereafter remains open. Gas then flows to the input end of the control stem and, depending upon the longitudinal positioning of the control stem, flows into the stem through a gas inlet orifice in one side of the stem and travels in a channel within the stem to an outlet orifice at the other end. There it enters a Venturi, is mixed with air, passes from there through a mixing chamber and to a burning chamber within the barrel of the curling iron. The catalytic burner is located in the burning chamber. The control stem is spring-pressed in a direction to keep the gas inlet orifice normally in the open position. Movement of the control stem a slight distance in a direction away from the canister and toward the Venturi blocks the gas inlet orifice and stops gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Conair Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Santhouse, H. Roy Taylor
  • Patent number: 5470226
    Abstract: A fuel combuster such as a torch tip, having means fixed ignition means and means for encapsulating the same. The combustion device comprises a metallic elongated tube having a forward section terminating in a front end, a middle section and a rearward section, the middle section communicating at its respective ends with the forward section and the rearward section. The rearward section is adapted, suitably at its rearward end, for connection to a source of combustible gas, and is suitably provided with axially positioned fuel jet means for injecting combustible gas into the tube and with apertures for intake of combustion supporting gas to be mixed with the combustible gas. A spring-loaded piezo crystal is affixed to the middle portion and is activated by grasping a cap assembly encapsulating the piezo crystal and applying a downward force thereto. The device can be ignited regardless of the orientation of the torch tip on the gas supply source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Uniweld Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Pearl, II, Frank G. Smith
  • Patent number: 5462431
    Abstract: A fuel enriched ignitor for a fuel gas burner appliance wherein a fuel enricher tube is provided with a coupling having a threaded insert which, by way of a metering orifice, matches the enricher tube to the particular fuel gas being used. By both two-element and three-element ignitors are disclosed. The ignitor is also illustrated in a gas supply system having a single main valve which serves both the enricher tube and the primary appliance burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Solaronics
    Inventor: Farshid Ahmady
  • Patent number: 5460520
    Abstract: A gas torch including a containing, which holds a disposable gas lighter, a casing detachably connected to the container at a top thereof to hold an electric ignition device, the casing having a horizontal partition wall to hold a gas flow guide and a flame nozzle, and a trigger turned about a pivot inside the casing and controlled to depress the gas lever of the disposable gas lighter and the control lever of the electronic ignition device, causing a flame produced at the flame nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Inventor: H. T. Arlo Lin
  • Patent number: 5313931
    Abstract: A one hand coating stripping device and a method of stripping coating in which operator required control of the angle of flame impingement, flame intensity, speed of movement and removal of stripped material is reduced to the single operator mandated parameter of control of speed of movement of a stripping device which automatically orients the center line of the flame at the most effective angle of impingement and the scraper blade at the optimum angle of attack following a single adjustment of a gas-air mixture compatible with the fixed and constant angles of impingement and attack, the stripping action being carried out by the use of only one hand of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: Richard D. Coulcher, Jr., Alan A. Hyde, Michael L. Ridley
  • Patent number: 5215456
    Abstract: A gas combustion method and apparatus for performing such comprises supplying a fuel gas, generating a gas mixture composed of the fuel gas and external air, diffusing the gas mixture through a diffusion member to lower a flow velocity of thereof, putting the gas mixture to flaming combustion in a cylindrical combustion chamber thereby elevating the temperature of a combustion catalyst disposed to the downstream end of the combustion chamber by the heat of the flaming combustion, then ceasing the diffusion of the gas mixture to increase the flow velocity thereof in the combustion chamber, thereby extinguishing the combustion flame and directly supplying the gas mixture to the combustion catalyst. The gas mixture is put into and out of diffusion by an actuating mechanism that brings a diffusion member into and away from the entrance of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Nakajima Copper Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Akinobu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5178530
    Abstract: A heating device with a catalytic burner for a fuel gas is equipped with a member for regulating the thermal power. The regulating member includes a metal flap for regulating the flow of the mixture to be burned in the catalytic burner. This flap, for example a heat-sensitive bimetallic strip, can move between two positions, namely a first position in which the mixture to be burned is stored in the device or discharged in the manner of a leakage through an orifice in a wall of the heating device, and a second position which allows a maximum flow rate of the mixture to pass through the catalytic burner. The invention applies to all types of heating devices with a catalytic burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Application Des Gaz
    Inventors: Antoine Roldan, Nino Urbano, Philippe Bottazzi
  • Patent number: 5135389
    Abstract: A handy gas torch controlled by a valve control mechanism to eject gas into a combustion chamber inside a nozzle for burning, said valve control mechanism comprising a valve control sleeve having a bearing plate fastened therein, a gas tube inserted through said bearing plate, said gas tube having a valve attached thereto at the bottom and stopped at a valve port through which gas is discharged out of a gas tank, a screw nut screwed up with said gas tube at the top above said bearing plate, a guide member mounted on said screw nut at the top, and spring means constantly forcing said valve to stop at said valve port. Moving said valve control sleeve causes said valve to disconnect from said valve port for discharging gas out of said gas tank into said nozzle for combustion. Releasing upward pressure from said valve control sleeve causes said valve to stop said valve port again. Said nozzle comprises a combustion tube having a commutator fastened therein through which a very hot flame is produced for welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Inventors: Tony J. J. Dai, Jeh W. T. Lin
  • Patent number: 4920951
    Abstract: A gas-fired heating device suitable for burning animal horns comprises a burner body and an external casing which is part of the burner body. A heating tip is heated by a flame in the burner body and the external casing is arranged and adapted to prevent flames escaping from the burner body and foreign bodies entering the burner body. The device is held by means of a handle which may be adapted to accommodate a replaceable gas storage reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Guilbert-Express
    Inventors: Alain Le Marchand, Francis Moumaneix
  • Patent number: 4716885
    Abstract: A portable solder iron includes a hollow barrel having a free tapered end; first and second burners positioned in a free tapered end; a burner having separate, independently controlled gas supply paths positioned in the barrel, the supply paths including first and second tubes, each tube having a free end; a single junction tube joining together the free ends of the first and second tubes, the junction tube having a free end adajcent the tapered free end of the barrel for heating the same; a fuel supply cartridge which supplies fuel to the first and second tubes and which controls the flow of fuel from the cartridge; an ignitor assembly for igniting the fuel escaping from the free end of said junction tube; a plunger which applies a force to the valve in response to user actuation, to start fuel flow; a regulator including a diaphragm which maintains a substantially constant flow rate of fuel to the first and second tubes; a valve stem through which the fuel travels from the cartridge to the second tubes; a b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: The Schawbel Corporation
    Inventor: Thaddeus Zaborowski
  • Patent number: 4641632
    Abstract: A heating iron utilizing the heat obtained through complete catalytic combustion of liquefied gas comprises a catalyst combustion chamber having an inner gas flow channel confined therein and in direct connection with a gas mixture generating means and a pre-heating zone disposed to the outer circumferential surface of the catalyst combustion chamber, in which the pre-heating zone is heated upon start of the catalytic combustion to heat the catalyst layer in the catalyst combustion chamber to a temperature sufficient for starting the catalytic oxidizing reaction in a flameless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1987
    Assignee: Nakajima Dokosho Company Limited
    Inventor: Masahiko Nakajima
  • Patent number: 4329197
    Abstract: A portable, flame powered sealer including a sleeve-like body portion receptive to a standard, throw-away type cigarette lighter, a pair of upwardly extending brackets, a heating element held over the flame of the lighter by the brackets, and a compression member pivotally attached to one of the brackets for pressing a portion of the bag proximate its mouth against the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Inventor: Leon G. Robles