Coaxial Patents (Class 431/284)
  • Patent number: 8245703
    Abstract: A burner ring for a gas burner, the burner ring including an outer circumference and an inner circumference, a distribution chamber having gas outlets to the outer circumference of the burner ring, a transfer ignition groove that is outwardly open on one side and extends between the inner circumference of the burner ring and the outer circumference of the burner ring, a gas conducting channel into which the transfer ignition groove opens at least partially, and at least one gas supply opening between the distribution chamber and the gas conducting channel, wherein the gas conducting channel and the transfer ignition groove are arranged mutually symmetrically, and wherein the at least one gas supply opening is offset in a region of the gas conducting channel at an angle relative to the transfer ignition groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Cadeau, Jörn Naumann
  • Publication number: 20120208133
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for multi-stage burners. The burner may accept a variable input fuel stream, which may be divided into a plurality of output fuel streams. The fuel stream may be divided by a pressure-actuated flow separator that may distribute an increasing amount of fuel to a secondary flow stream as the input flow rate of the input fuel stream increases. One or more of the output streams may be conditioned to provide a desired flame characteristic. The multi-stage burners may be decorative burners, and may be used for theatrical displays or other fire displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Mike THIELVOLDT
  • Patent number: 8241034
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a control valve for regulating fuel flow. The apparatus can include a burner and a valve assembly. In some embodiments, the valve assembly includes a housing, which can define a first fuel input for receiving a first fuel from a first fuel source and a second fuel input for receiving a second fuel from a second fuel source. The housing can define a first fuel output for directing fuel toward the control valve, and can define a third fuel input for receiving a portion of either the first fuel or the second fuel from the control valve. The housing can define a first egress flow path and a second egress flow path, each for directing fuel to the burner. In certain embodiments, the apparatus includes a valve body configured to selectively permit fluid communication between the first and second inputs and the output and between the third input and the egress flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Appliances Inc.
    Inventor: David Deng
  • Patent number: 8235708
    Abstract: A heater can be configured to operate with either a first fuel at a first pressure or a second fuel at a second pressure and can include an elongated tubular combustion chamber, a first combustion chamber nozzle outlet, a second combuston chamber nozzel outley, and a fluid flow controller. In some embodiments, the fluid flow controller is configured to direct the first fuel to the first combustion chamber nozzle outlet and then to the second combustion chamber nozzle ourlet when the controller is in a first position. In a second position, the fluid flow controller is configured to direct the second fuel to the second combustion chamber nozzle outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Appliances, Inc.
    Inventor: David Deng
  • Patent number: 8221116
    Abstract: Gas burner provided with a plurality of concentric flame crowns, and comprising a first central burner to supply a peripheral flame ring, a second annular burner surrounding the central burner at a defined distance and able of supplying at least a respective peripheral ring, a burner body apt to be mounted on the surface of a cooking hob, a first gas inlet in communication with the body, a first vertical gas injector, the central burner being provided with a first chamber for the diffusion of the air/gas mixture, a second gas inlet in communication with the body, wherein the second annular burner is provided with two separate chambers for the diffusion of the mixture, wherein the second gas inlet is in communication with the two separate chambers through suitable injection and conveying means, which comprise two distinct injectors in communication with the second gas inlet, and two respective horizontal Venturi pipes each of which being able of supplying with the air/gas mixture a respective of the two diffus
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Nico Biagioli, Piero Armanni, Marco Starnini, Cedric Catalogne
  • Publication number: 20120167583
    Abstract: A method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases is provided. The burner includes first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transferred to the burner is mixed with combusting air and is combusted. In order to start the burner, the second fuel passage is first loaded with a synthesis gas to a predefined burner power at a first starting phase and the first fuel passage is loaded with the synthesis gas at a second starting phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8209971
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a burner for increasing the temperature of a gas stream, such as an exhaust gas stream, to burn particulate matter and unburnt hydrocarbons within the exhaust gas. As well, by heating or increasing the temperature of the gas stream and combustion products exiting the burner, the gas stream is brought into a condition more suitable for additional treatment to further reduce exhaust gas emissions from the engine. The device includes an outer housing and a series of combustion chambers mounted within the outer housing for increasing and further developing combustion of the incoming gases within the series of combustion chambers. A primary application for the device is for use with diesel engines to burn particulate matter and unburnt hydrocarbons within the diesel emissions and/or act as a heat source for activating diesel particulate filters and/or other catalytic components or devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nett Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Keivan Kalantarifiroozabad, Janusz Popik
  • Patent number: 8206148
    Abstract: For cooking appliances, a gas burner presenting externally at least one annular portion (50), characterized by presenting two gas inlets (3, 10), with which at least two injectors (4, 11) are associated respectively; the first gas inlet (3) supplying the air/gas mixture to a first annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and communicating with a series of main ports (24) through which said mixture leaves to form at least one main flame ring (43) in the outer circumference of the annular portion (50); the second gas inlet (10) supplying the air/gas mixture to a second annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and feeding a flame ring (27) which constitutes the only flame ignited in the burner when this is operating at minimum power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Defendi Italy S.R.L.
    Inventor: Carlo Paesani
  • Patent number: 8206149
    Abstract: A description is given of a burner for introducing solid, liquid or gaseous fuel into the burning zone of a kiln, such as rotary kiln for manufacturing cement clinker or “similar materials, said burner comprising a burner pipe (1) which encircles a number of ducts for conveying fuel and combustion air through the burner. The burner is characterized in that the burner pipe (1) is made up of modules (1a, 1b) which are fixed to another by fixing means (9) which will allow non-destructive assembly and disassembly of the modules. Hereby is obtained a burner in which it will be possible in a simple and non-destructive manner to disassembly the burner pipe (1) in modules (1a, 1b) in direction from the free end of the burner (7) or the burner tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Flsmidth A/S
    Inventors: Ib Ohlsen, Lars Skaarup Jensen, Erik Jepsen, Ejvind Rödtnes Jörgensen
  • Publication number: 20120152230
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas burner (10) with a high power burner unit and a low power burner unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION N.V.
    Inventor: Piero Armanni
  • Patent number: 8177547
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases, wherein said burner comprises first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transferred to the burner is mixed with combusting air and is combusted. According to said invention, in order to start the burner, the second fuel passage is first loaded with a synthesis gas to a predefined burner power at a first starting phase and the first fuel passage is loaded with the synthesis gas at a second starting phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8172568
    Abstract: A combustor, in which a flame holding region is formed at a location distant from a pilot burner to avoid burnout of the pilot burner and in which flame holding capability is increased to use a lean pre-mix gas for reducing NOx emission, is provided. The combustor includes a combustion liner having a cylindrical side wall that defines a combustion chamber; and a main burner positioned at a top portion of the combustion liner for injecting an annular pre-mix gas into the combustion chamber to form a reverse flow region at a downstream portion thereof, which region is oriented towards the top portion of the combustion chamber along a longitudinal axis. In this combustor, a pilot burner is arranged at the top portion for injecting a mixture of fuel and air only in a direction confronting the reverse flow region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kashihara, Yasushi Yoshino, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Takeshi Kimura, Junichi Kitajima, Atsushi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 8070484
    Abstract: The invention comprises a combination burner for the gasification of pulverized fuels with an oxidation means containing free oxygen at ambient or higher pressures, as well as temperatures between 800-1800° C., with the ignition device of the pilot burner with flame monitoring and the pulverized fuel burner being integrated as a combination burner and all operating channels being routed separately from each other up to the mouth of the burner and the media carried by the channels only being mixed at the mouth of the burner. When the pilot burner is dismantled the eddy bodies 14 attached to its sleeve in the main burner oxidation means supply 17 can be exchanged quickly and easily and thus the main burner flame adapted in the optimum way to the reaction chamber contour of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tino Just, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 8007274
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle assembly is provided. The assembly includes an outer nozzle body having a first end and a second end and at least one inner nozzle tube having a first end and a second end. One of the nozzle body or nozzle tube includes a fuel plenum and a fuel passage extending therefrom, while the other of the nozzle body or nozzle tube includes a fuel injection hole slidably aligned with the fuel passage to form a fuel flow path therebetween at an interface between the body and the tube. The nozzle body and the nozzle tube are fixed against relative movement at the first ends of the nozzle body and nozzle tube, enabling the fuel flow path to close at the interface due to thermal growth after a flame enters the nozzle tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Johnson, Willy Steve Ziminsky, Benjamin Paul Lacey, William David York, Christian Xavier Stevenson
  • Patent number: 8001957
    Abstract: A gas cooking hob comprising at least one gas burner, a main pipe for supplying gas, a main nozzle on the gas burner, and a control device for adjusting the heating power of the gas burner between a minimum power and a nominal power. In order to further develop said gas cooking hob, a timing member is provided which allows the heating power to be increased beyond the nominal power during a certain interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Stéphane Clauss, Martin Oberhomburg
  • Publication number: 20110185952
    Abstract: To provide a burner structure in which a burner is capable of highly precisely controlling the flow rate of the air for combustion within itself. An air flow passage (11) in a wind box (12) for injecting the air for combustion into a furnace (1) has a bent portion (13) just before joining with the furnace, and one or a plurality of guide vanes (14) are provided in the air flow passage (11) in the bent portion (13), and also in the bent portion (13), a drift control damper (16) is provided for varying the ratio of flow passage resistances of each of the air flow passages (11) divided by the guide vanes (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuhei Takashima, Takuichiro Daimaru, Shinya Hamasaki
  • Publication number: 20110186037
    Abstract: A top burner and a cooker having the top burner are provided. The top burner includes a first burner provided with a plurality of flame holes that form flame by combusting mixed gas and a second burner provided with a plurality of flame holes that form flame separated from the flame formed by the flame holes of the first burner by combusting the mixed gas. An arrangement of the flame holes of the first burner is realized in a different shape from an arrangement of the flame holes of the second burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jung Wan Ryu, Dae Bong Yang, Jea Hyuk Wie, Yong Ki Jeong, Jae Bum Lim, Young Soo Kim, Yang Ho Kim, Dae Rae Lee
  • Patent number: 7901205
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gas burner (1) with multiple concentric flame rings, comprising: a central burner (2) with a central ring of flame orifices (5), and axial central gas injector (6) and convergent-divergent means (7) forming venturi; and an annular outer burner (3) coaxially surrounding the central burner and provided with at least one annular ring of flame orifices (9), gas injecting means (10) and convergent-divergent means (12) forming venturis; the gas injecting means (10) include several radial gas injectors (11) around the central injector (6); the convergent-divergent means (12) include several radial convergent-divergent conduits (13) forming tubular venturis coaxial respectively to the radial injectors (11) and emerging in the annular outer burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Burner Systems International (BSI)
    Inventor: Christophe Trochou
  • Publication number: 20110053102
    Abstract: An air nozzle provided on the outer side of a fuel nozzle of a solid fuel burner is divided into a plurality of regions, and has means for regulating air flow rates in nozzles divided in the upper and lower direction. The nozzles (regions) are connected to only the nozzle wall and have obstacles in the circumferential direction, dividing the inside of the nozzle into a plurality of regions, and by changing air flow rates in the respective regions in the outermost peripheral air nozzle, a deviation in momentum is caused in the vertical direction of the burner, a flame forming position is changed, and a combustion gas temperature at the furnace outlet, temperatures of a heat transfer tube installed on the furnace wall surface and a fluid flowing in the heat transfer tube or temperatures of heat transfer tubes provided in the furnace and a flue on the downstream side and temperatures of fluids flowing in the heat transfer tubes are controlled to be constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Kenji Kiyama, Yusuke Ochi, Kouji Kuramashi
  • Patent number: 7878797
    Abstract: A burner assembly including a housing having an air inlet and a burner end, a motor, and an impeller mounted in the housing. The impeller is in fluid communication with the air inlet, in mechanical communication with the motor, and adapted to direct air from the air inlet towards the burner end of the housing. The burner assembly also includes at least one pre-mix gas injection nozzle mounted in the housing. Each of the at least one pre-mix gas injection nozzle has at least one orifice adapted to direct gaseous fuel into the housing. The burner assembly further includes a spin vane comprising at least one spin vane blade. The spin vane is mounted in the burner end of the housing and adapted to direct the flow of air in the burner end. The burner assembly still further includes a flattening screen located in the housing downstream from the impeller and an igniter mounted in the burner end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Astec, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Swanson, Michael Swanson
  • Patent number: 7878800
    Abstract: A gas burner for cookers of the type fitted to a cooking hob includes a central body having a first flame distribution ring and at least one external body, fluidly separated from the central body and substantially concentric with it, having at least one second flame distribution ring. In addition, structure is provided for separately feeding the mixture of primary air and gas to the central body and to the external body. This structure includes at least one horizontal mixing chamber with a radial Venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sabaf S.p.A.
    Inventor: Angelo Bettinzoli
  • Publication number: 20100304314
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion method for glass melting, in which a flame is created both by a liquid fuel pulse and a single gaseous fuel pulse, characterized in that the fraction of the total power due to the liquid fuel varies between 20 and 80%, and in that the specific gaseous fuel pulse is limited to a value that is sufficiency low so that the NOx content of the flue gases produced does not exceed 800 mg/Sm3 for a cross-fired furnace and 600 mg/Sm3 for an end-fired furnace; an injector for implementing this method; a burner comprising one or more such injectors; a furnace comprising at least one such burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: Saint-Gobain Emballage, Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Patrice Rouchy, Laurent Garnier, Joseph Vernaz, Carlos Mazzotti De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 7833011
    Abstract: A method of igniting and monitoring a high speed burner with which a fuel/oxygen-mixture exits at high velocity from a burner head, wherein the length of the flame is governed by the exit velocity of the mixture. The invention is characterized by placing an electrically conductive pipe in and concentrical with the burner channel for the fuel mixture, by causing a first end of the pipe to terminate close to the fuel mixture outlet of the burner head, by electrically isolating the pipe and by causing the detection of light of the group ultraviolet light, visible light and/or infrared light to be detected at the other end of the pipe, and by causing a spark to be generated between the first end of the pipe and the surrounding burner head by application of a voltage, in igniting the burner. A burner is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Bo Jönsson, Kari Korhonen, Pauli Mäenpää, Thomas Lewin
  • Patent number: 7819657
    Abstract: A burner has a pot provided with an inlet for a gas mixture to be burned and a cap that sits on top of the pot. The pot and the cap define both a central zone for combustion of the gas mixture, and a peripheral chamber that extends around the central zone and communicates with the gas inlet. A plurality of passageways allow the gas mixture to flow from the peripheral chamber into the central zone. A deflector separates, in a non-leaktight manner, the chamber into a lower subchamber, located substantially in the extension of the inlet, and an upper subchamber adjacent said passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: GDF Suez
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Molla
  • Publication number: 20100233643
    Abstract: Gas burner provided with a plurality of concentric flame crowns, and comprising a first central burner to supply a peripheral flame ring, a second annular burner surrounding said central burner at a defined distance and able of supplying at least a respective peripheral ring, a burner body apt to be mounted on the surface of a cooking hob, a first gas inlet in communication with said body, a first vertical gas injector, said central burner being provided with a first chamber for the diffusion of the air/gas mixture, a second gas inlet in communication with said body, wherein said second annular burner is provided with two separate chambers for the diffusion of said mixture, wherein said second gas inlet is in communication with said two separate chambers through suitable injection and conveying means, which comprise two distinct injectors in communication with said second gas inlet, and two respective horizontal Venturi pipes each of which being able of supplying with said air/gas mixture a respective of said
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Nico Biagioli, Piero Armanni, Marco Starnini, Cedric Catalogne
  • Patent number: 7775792
    Abstract: A combustion head comprising: a pipe, having a central axis of symmetry, suitable for conveying a flow of comburent air in a combustion chamber, and a plurality of gas tubes spaced out along a circumference. Each gas tube has a first portion, having an axis of symmetry parallel to the axis, and a second portion, placed in series with respect to the first portion. The second portion in inclined at an angle with respect to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Riello S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco De Boni, Roberto Marchetti, Flavio Pastorato, Lorenzo De Fanti
  • Patent number: 7753677
    Abstract: Burners in prior art exhibit combustion instabilities in certain ranges. The operating range of burners is restricted by said instabilities. In an inventive burner, the combustible has a concentration distribution, whereby the concentration of the combustible reduces in a radial direction from the interior to the exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Berenbrink, Malte Blomeyer, Werner Krebs, Bernd Prade, Holger Streb
  • Publication number: 20100154789
    Abstract: An injection flame burner in which temperature of the generated flame itself can be sustained around the flame. A plurality of double structure injection nozzles each consisting of an outer tube and an inner tube provided coaxially with the outer tube, are arranged such that hydrogen gas is ejected from one of the outer tubes and the inner tubes and oxygen gas is ejected from the other tubes, and the injection port of each injection nozzle is located on the injection surface. Each injection nozzle includes at least one main injection nozzle having an inner tube formed to spread toward the injection surface side, another sub-injection nozzle arranged around the main injection nozzle, wherein gas is injected from the inner tube of the main injection nozzle under a higher pressure state as compared with gas injected from the sub-injection nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: OSAMU HIROTA
    Inventors: Osamu Hirota, Yoshinari Kato, Toshihiko Ando
  • Patent number: 7717700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid burner (1) for a combustor (7), in particular of a power plant, comprising a housing (2), in which a full oxidation catalyst (9) and a partial oxidation catalyst (10) are arranged. An inlet side of the housing (2) is connected to at least one oxidizer supply (3) and to at least one fuel supply (4, 5). An outlet side of the housing (2) is connected to a combustion chamber (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Carroni, Timothy Griffin
  • Patent number: 7677236
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of a nozzle are configured to dispense a first gas, liquid, or combination thereof at a first pressure in a first mode of operation and dispense a second gas, liquid, or combination thereof at a second pressure in a second mode of operation. In some embodiments, the nozzle is integrated in a heat-producing device, such as, for example, a heater, a fireplace, or a stove. In some embodiments, the heat-producing device including the nozzle can operate with a first combustible fuel at a first pressure, or alternatively, can operate with a second combustible fuel at a second pressure. In some embodiments, the nozzle is used in applications other than heat-producing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventor: David Deng
  • Patent number: 7677883
    Abstract: The smokeless liquid two-phase burner system of the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for burning a wide variety of flammable liquids using an integrated burner system. The system has both a primary injection path and an alternate injection path for the fuel to be burned, as well as a main air pump or blower. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for selectably injecting a secondary stream of a gas or vapor or volatile liquid into a flare system for the purpose of enhancing combustion. The apparatus is self-contained and self erecting on a transportable trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Expro Americas, LLC
    Inventor: Jerome Harless
  • Patent number: 7661954
    Abstract: This invention describes an improved gas burner assembly that can be adapted to attach to a range top or cooktop, or the floor of the range and can draw air from either above the range top level by external vents or from below range top level through an open style mixing cup. The invention uses a plurality of different flame rings to provide the user a wide variety of temperature settings starting from a low intensity simmer to high intensity cooking heat. The gas burner also utilizes a cover plate of transparent or translucent, heat proof material that allows the user to observe the interior of the burner to see if any of the flame rings have been ignited. The cover plate also transfers heat from the internal flame rings to the cooking utensil which provides a more uniform transfer of heat to the utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Inventor: Uwe Harneit
  • Patent number: 7614877
    Abstract: A gas range having a cook top and a gas burner assembly connected to a source of gas having a variable flow rate. The burner assembly is positioned in the cook top. The gas burner assembly has a burner body with a gas input, the gas input is in a first flow communication with a first chamber and a second flow communication with a second chamber. Each chamber has at least one port in an exterior wall for flow communication to an area external of the burner body for combustion of the gas. The second flow communication has a tripping pin to deflect flow during high flow conditions and to not deflect flow during low flow conditions. A burner cap is positioned on the burner body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul E. McCrorey, Paul Bryan Cadima, Shree Kumar
  • Patent number: 7524186
    Abstract: A low emissions burner includes a diffusion burner surrounded by an annular array of premix burners. The diffusion burner operates at maximum swirl air flow and at a low constant fuel rate to reduce NOx emissions. The diffusion burner provides a stable swirling diffusion flame. An annular array of premix burners surrounds the diffusion burner and provides a non-swirling premix flame about the diffusion flame to advantageously provide a higher heat content about the periphery of the burner flame to facilitate industrial drying processes using the burner. The diffusion burner flame maintains the premixed flame stabilized. Water injection nozzles are provided each of the premix and diffusion burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Gencor Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Brashears, Grover T. Butler, Joseph T. Mollick
  • Publication number: 20090068601
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preheating a furnace during a warm-up phase of furnace operation. The furnace has main burners with a tubular fuel supply surrounded by a main combustion air duct defining an annular space between the supply and the duct that extends in an axial direction of the main burner. A pilot nozzle in the annular space extends in an axial direction of the burner towards an interior of the furnace and discharges readily ignitable fluid fuel jets through orifices in the nozzle toward the interior of the furnace. Combustion air from the duct is directed past the nozzle and is mixed with the fuel discharged from the orifices to form an ignitable mixture that is ignited to form the furnace heating pilot flame downstream of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Coen Company
    Inventors: Stephen B. Londerville, Vladimir Lifshits, Pierre Begin
  • Publication number: 20090061372
    Abstract: The invention comprises a combination burner for the gasification of pulverized fuels with an oxidation means containing free oxygen at ambient or higher pressures, as well as temperatures between 800-1800° C., with the ignition device of the pilot burner with flame monitoring and the pulverized fuel burner being integrated as a combination burner and all operating channels being routed separately from each other up to the mouth of the burner and the media carried by the channels only being mixed at the mouth of the burner. When the pilot burner is dismantled the eddy bodies 14 attached to its sleeve in the main burner oxidation means supply 17 can be exchanged quickly and easily and thus the main burner flame adapted in the optimum way to the reaction chamber contour of the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Tino Just, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Publication number: 20090047611
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a double burner for gas cookers with multiple concentric flames, characterized by high power and compact height, which comprises five Venturi mixing chambers, i.e. one central chamber (5a) with vertical axis that feeds the central burner and four regularly spaced chambers (6a) with inclined axis that feed the external annular burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Piero Armanni
  • Publication number: 20080280237
    Abstract: An oil gasification burner for liquid fuel is proposed which comprises, on a centrally arranged pilot burner part, a number of supply elements arranged outside the annular channel concentrically to the burner axis with pressure atomizer nozzles for introduction of liquid fuel. The pressure atomizer nozzles are embodied such that a fine atomization of the liquid fuel occurs before it comes into contact with the rotated oxidation means. Different liquid fuels can be supplied via the individual supply elements. This enables the nozzle parameters to be adapted to the particular conditions (pressure difference, fineness of droplets, spray angle etc.) of the liquid fuel through a choice of replaceable nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Tino Just, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 7422427
    Abstract: A burner for installation in a furnace having a combustion chamber defined by at least a furnace front wall, two side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall as well as heat transfer pipes through which a heat transfer medium flows and which are arranged on at least one of the top, bottom and side walls. A burner assembly is mounted to the furnace front wall and has a tubular member with an open distal end that is located inside the combustion chamber. The other end of the tubular member is attached to the furnace front wall. Several combustion air ports extend into the tubular member from the other, proximal end thereof and are coupled to a source of combustion air. Several fuel gas discharge nozzles also extend into the tubular member from the other end thereof and are coupled to a fuel source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Coen Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir Lifshits
  • Publication number: 20080213714
    Abstract: In order to create a rotary kiln burner particularly for fine-grained solid fuels such as coal dust, with jet air nozzles which can be adjusted easily and effectively during operation of the kiln in order to change the divergence angle of the high-speed jet air streams to change the flame shape and optimise the combustion, the invention proposes attaching the jet air nozzles (20) with the nozzle openings divergent to the burner axis at the end of jet air pipes (21), and arranging these around the burner axis, with the axes parallel, with the jet air pipes (21) arranged inside an annular cooling air space (22) surrounding the coal dust channel (16) and enclosed on the outside by the burner housing pipe (19), mounted so that they can rotate around the jet air pipe axes, so that on turning the jet air pipes (21) at the cold end of the burner lance, the divergence of the high-speed jet air streams, and thus the angle of the jet air flow cone in relation to the coal dust cone can be changed and adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Alexander Knoch, Ernst Schroder, Karin Kluthe, Wilhem Wenzel, Giovanni Loggia
  • Publication number: 20080202494
    Abstract: For cooking appliances, a gas burner presenting externally at least one annular portion (50), characterised by presenting two gas inlets (3, 10), with which at least two injectors (4, 11) are associated respectively; the first gas inlet (3) supplying the air/gas mixture to a first annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and communicating with a series of main ports (24) through which said mixture leaves to form at least one main flame ring (43) in the outer circumference of the annular portion (50); the second gas inlet (10) supplying the air/gas mixture to a second annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and feeding a flame ring (27) which constitutes the only flame ignited in the burner when this is operating at minimum power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Carlo Paesani
  • Publication number: 20080206697
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gas burner (1) wit multiple concentric flame rings, comprising: a central burner (2) with a central ring of flame orifices (5), and axial central gas injector (6) and convergent-divergent means (7) forming venturi; and an annular outer burner (3) coaxially surrounding the central burner and provided with at least one annular ring of flame orifices (9), gas injecting means (10) and convergent-divergent means (12) forming venturis; the gas injecting means (10) include several radial gas injectors (11) around the central injector (6); the convergent-divergent means (12) include several radial convergent-divergent conduits (13) forming tubular venturis coaxial respectively to the radial injectors (11) and emerging in the annular outer burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Christophe Trochou
  • Patent number: 7367798
    Abstract: An air swirler capable of liquid fuel atomization for a fuel fired burner in a furnace or boiler having a hollow guide pipe supporting several swirl blades at an end adjacent to the furnace. Openings connected by tunnels to the inside of the guide pipe are provided in the trailing edges of each swirl blade. A fuel pipe is concentric with the guide pipe forming an annular space therebetween. Gaseous substances such as oxygen or natural gas are provided through the annular space and liquid fuel is provided through the fuel pipe. The fuel and gaseous substances travel through the tunnels to the openings for liquid fuel atomization and pre-mixing at the burner throat to reduce NOx formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Inventor: Hamid Sarv
  • Patent number: 7291009
    Abstract: A cooktop burner assembly is described. The cooktop burner assembly includes a main burner, and a simmer burner located below the main burner, where a diameter of the simmer burner is greater than a diameter of the main burner. The closer placement of the main burner to a cooking vessel placed on top of the cooktop burner assembly as compared to the placement of the simmer burner from the cooking vessel increases thermal efficiency. Moreover, the farther placement of the simmer burner from the cooking vessel facilitates simmering of items in the cooking vessel and the larger diameter of the simmer burner reduces a possibility of overheating the main burner and the cooking vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Azfar Kamal, Paul Bryan Cadima, Shree Kumar, Sudeep Pradhan Sadananda Rao
  • Patent number: 6951454
    Abstract: A dual fuel burner including an elongated supply pipe and a gas injector for a boiler furnace having a plurality of peripheral openings around a center opening. The peripheral openings are pitched radially away from the longitudinal axis of the gas injector and also pitched either clockwise or counter-clockwise, to impart a swirling motion to gaseous fuel exiting the injector through the openings. A first sleeve member is concentrically spaced about the supply pipe and the gas injector to form an inner annular passageway for conveying a mixture of primary air and pulverized coal to the furnace combustion zone. A second sleeve member is concentrically spaced about the first sleeve member to form an outer annular passageway for conveying secondary air to the furnace combustion zone, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced vanes mounted within the outer annular passageway for inducing a swirling motion to the secondary air discharging from the outer annular passageway into the furnace combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Hamid Sarv, Ronald C. Lenzer
  • Patent number: 6916172
    Abstract: A burner apparatus comprising housing defining a chamber and having an air inlet, a peripherally extending baffle disposed in the housing, a first peripherally extending flow passage being formed between the housing and the baffle, the first flow passage being in open communication with the air inlet, a peripherally extending combustion liner disposed inwardly of the baffle, a second peripherally extending flow passage being formed between the liner and the baffle, the second flow passage being in open communication with the first passage, a reversing diverter disposed in the chamber and positioned to direct air flowing from the first flow passage into the second flow passage, a burner assembly mounting plate disposed in the liner and having a first side and a second side, the mounting plate and the liner at least partially defining a burner barrel on the first side of the mounting plate, at least one burner assembly mounted on the burner mounting plate and a plenum on the second side of the mounting plate th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: L & S Cryogenics, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Steiner
  • Patent number: 6905328
    Abstract: A low NOx burner nozzle assembly for a radiant wall burner includes an elongated hollow burner tube and a discharge nozzle. The burner tube defines a conduit for supplying a mixture of fuel and air to a radiant combustion area of a combustion zone that surrounds the nozzle assembly. The discharge nozzle is mounted on the tube at the downstream end of the conduit adjacent the radiant combustion area and the same is adapted for directing the mixture of fuel and air into the radiant combustion area in an essentially radial direction. The discharge nozzle includes a plurality of flow directing members arranged in an array which extends circumferentially around the discharge nozzle, and the same are arranged to define therebetween a plurality of passageways which extend in a generally radial direction. The passageways are arranged so as to have different respective flow areas. The discharge nozzle also has an end cap to prevent axial flow of the primary air/fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventor: Roger L. Poe
  • Patent number: 6896510
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a sustained flame, comprising: a first reservoir for containing a first flame-fueling liquid; a second reservoir for containing a second flame-fueling liquid; a first wick having a first end disposed within the first reservoir and a second, flame-bearing end generally located above the first end; a second wick disposed substantially adjacent to the first wick, having a first end disposed within the second reservoir and a second, flame-bearing end above the first end; and at least one air channel disposed to supply oxygen to each wick, where a first end of the at least one air channel is generally located near the flame-bearing end of each wick; whereby, when the first and second flame-fueling liquids are supplied to the first and second reservoirs, the first and second flame-fueling liquids are communicated up the first and second wicks to fuel flames emanating from the flame-bearing ends of the first and second wicks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Inventor: Susumu Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 6893255
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to produce a spray burner, starting from a conventional spray burner, for the atomisation and combustion of sulphur-containing residues, comprising a residue nozzle, for the introduction of sulphur-containing residue, which is surrounded by an outer nozzle, for the introduction of an atomising agent, whereby said burner is suitable for a method in which oxygen can be introduced in the cracking oven as additional oxidising agent to increase the capacity and improve the economic efficiency without the above disadvantages and limitations and is also optimised for a variable throughput of residue for atomising. Said aim is achieved whereby the residue nozzle comprises a multiplicity of individual nozzles which may be switched on and off, connected to an input for the residue, an inlet for fuel is provided and the outer nozzle is connected to an inlet for an oxygen-enriched gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignees: Messer Griesheim GmbH, Roehm GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Grob, Heinz Gruning
  • Patent number: 6883730
    Abstract: An atomizing nozzle for a burner, especially for a vehicle heater has a flow guide element (16), which provides a flow guide surface (28) and which has an atomizing lip (36) in an end area (34). A fuel feed device (52, 50) is provided for feeding fuel to the flow guide surface (28) at a spaced location from the atomizing lip (36). Provisions are made for the fuel feed device (52, 50) in the flow guide element (16) to comprise a fuel release depression (50), into which opens a fuel feed channel device (52) in a junction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Eberspach, Walter Blaschke, Michael Humburg, Franz Joos