Flame Holder Having Protective Flame Enclosing Or Flame Stabilizing Structure Patents (Class 431/350)
  • Patent number: 11149946
    Abstract: A system for controlling activity in a combustion chamber. The system does not necessarily need to be mechanically adjusted and yet may provide precise control of a fuel air mixture ratio. A sensing module of the system may have a mass flow sensor that relates to air flow and another sensor that relates to fuel flow. Neither sensor may need contact with fuel. Fuel and air to the system may be controlled. Pressure of the fuel and/or air may be regulated. The sensors may provide signals to a processor to indicate a state of the fuel and air in the system. The processor, with reliance on a programmed curve, table or the like, often based on data, in a storage memory, may regulate the flow or pressure of the fuel and air in a parallel fashion to provide an appropriate fuel-air mixture to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Willem Super, Peter Vermass, Hans M. van der Mei, Roelof Thiewes, Donald J. Kasprzyk, Gregory Young
  • Patent number: 10451283
    Abstract: A sequential combustor arrangement and method are disclosed which can include a first burner, a first combustion chamber, a mixer for admixing a dilution gas to the hot gases leaving the first combustion chamber during operation, a second burner, and a second combustion chamber arranged sequentially in a fluid flow connection. The mixer can include at least one injection opening in the mixer wall for admixing the dilution gas to cool the hot flue gases leaving the first combustion chamber. Further, the mixer can include a damper with a damper volume and a neck connecting the damper volume to the mixer, for modulating and damping pressure pulsations inside the mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Mirko Ruben Bothien, Devis Tonon, Bruno Schuermans
  • Patent number: 10378441
    Abstract: A burner module in an air stream has a feed pipe of substantially circular cross section and an axis, fuel injection orifices situated on the pipe and intended to produce a flame, oxidant injection orifices and fins arranged symmetrically with respect to a plane P of flow of the fuel upstream of the burner module and laterally on the pipe on each side of the fuel injection orifices. There are at least two fuel injection orifices in a section of the pipe and they have an axis that makes an angle ? with the plane of flow P of the oxidant. In this way, gas is injected at several orifices situated in at least two divergent planes. These two planes delimit a space to which fuel and to which oxidant are not supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FIVES PILLARD
    Inventors: Fouad Said, Louis Ricci, Yannick Boudet
  • Patent number: 10151487
    Abstract: The invention refers to a sequential combustor arrangement including a first combustor with a first burner for admitting a first fuel into a combustor inlet gas during operation and a first combustion chamber for burning the first fuel, a dilution gas admixer for admixing a dilution gas to the first combustor combustion products leaving the first combustion chamber, and a second burner for admixing a second fuel and a second combustion chamber. To assure good mixing over a wide operating range, the ratio of the pressure loss of the first combustor to the pressure loss of the dilution gas admixer is in the range of 1 to 6. The invention further refers to a gas turbine including such a sequential combustor arrangement as well as method for operating a gas turbine with such a sequential combustor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Michael Duesing, Ewald Freitag
  • Patent number: 9933163
    Abstract: A combustor arrangement includes a combustion chamber with a front panel, and a premix burner of the multi-cone type, which is connected to the front panel through an elongated mixing zone in an axially moveable fashion by a sealed sliding joint. A wide range of axial variation of the burner with a minimized influence of the leakage air flow on the oxidation process within the flame is achieved by positioning the sealed sliding joint upstream of the mixing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Ennio Pasqualotto, Pirmin Schiessel, Hellat Jaan
  • Patent number: 9291349
    Abstract: Devices and methods for accelerating the combustion of non-gas cooking fuels used in barbequing. The devices include a starting fuel for preparing, or starting, a cooking fuel, such as charcoal briquettes, for use to cook food. The starting fuel is contained in a kindling chamber beneath an upper chamber containing the cooking fuel. A powered air delivery mechanism may provide an airflow to the fuels to increase combustion and heating thereof. In some embodiments, the device is a breach-loading device. In some embodiments, the air delivery mechanism is battery-powered. The device may be configured to provide, and/or may be automated to provide, different operating states responsive to the degree of ignition and/or combustion of the fuels in the device. In some embodiments, the device is adapted to automatically be transitioned between forced-air and natural-draft operating states, which may be controlled responsive to sensed operating parameters of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jon A. Warner
  • Patent number: 9227869
    Abstract: A porous glass base material manufacturing burner comprising a combustible gas emission nozzle having one or more rows of small-diameter combustion assisting gas emission nozzles arranged around a central glass raw material gas emission nozzle. When a cross section of the burner formed by cleaving in a direction perpendicular to a central axis of the burner is divided into four equal regions by two orthogonal straight lines intersecting at a center of the cross section, total flow path surface area of the small-diameter combustion assisting gas emission nozzles included in two of the four regions through which passes a straight line running along the starting member and through the center of the cross section is less than the total flow path surface area of the small-diameter combustion assisting gas emission nozzles included in the other two of the four regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150147708
    Abstract: A surface burner for gas combustion has a burner surface which is fabricated by intertwining or interweaving an elongated flexible element across a distinct burner frame. This fabrication method can be best referred to as braiding, but also plaiting, lacing or another comparable method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Viktor Mykolayovych Kornilov, Savad Shakariyants, Laurentius Philippus Hendrika de Goey
  • Patent number: 9039408
    Abstract: Includes a low flow-rate region (R2) that is disposed on an upstream side of a combustion region (R1) within a second pipe (2), and that has a relatively slow flow-rate of combustion gas (G1) within the second pipe, and a flame kernel formation unit (3a) is disposed in the low flow-rate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Kato, Taku Mizutani, Katsuyoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9028246
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a residual gas burner (13) for a fuel cell system (1) having to educt gas feeds (11, 12) for feeding an educt gas each to a combustion chamber (14) of the residual gas burner (13). An improved operation of the residual gas burner (13) is obtained when the educt gas feeds (11, 12) each comprise outlet openings (22, 27), wherein the outlet openings (22, 27) face the combustion chamber (14) and the outlet openings (22, 27) of one of the educt gas feeds (11, 12) face a first bottom surface (29) of the other educt gas feed (11, 12). In addition, the invention relates to a fuel cell system (1) having such a residual gas burner (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Eberspaecher Climate Control Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Samuel Brandt
  • Patent number: 9011142
    Abstract: A system for providing a combined water and fire display is provided. More specifically, a decorative display comprises a dynamic water and fire display device where fuel/air, water, and fire are integrated. The decorative display provides for unique aesthetic qualities and an appearance wherein flames are positioned at or near the surface of a volume of water. In various embodiments, the decorative display further comprises various safety features including the ability to detect and self-regulate conditions such as the existence and/or absence of a pilot flame, an adequate amount of water, and the temperature of various portions of the system. The decorative display further contemplates the ability to operate without one or more disclosed features, such as when only a water display or only a fire display is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventors: William L. Muff, Timothy C. Muff
  • Patent number: 8986002
    Abstract: A combustor apparatus is provided, comprising a mixing arrangement for mixing a carbonaceous fuel with enriched oxygen and a working fluid to form a fuel mixture. A combustion chamber is at least partially defined by a porous perimetric transpiration member, at least partially surrounded by a pressure containment member. The combustion chamber has longitudinally spaced apart inlet and outlet portions. The fuel mixture is received by the inlet portion for combustion within the combustion chamber at a combustion temperature to form a combustion product. The combustion chamber directs the combustion product longitudinally toward the outlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, Palmer Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Miles R. Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Glenn William Brown, Jr., Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
  • Patent number: 8961865
    Abstract: A torch tip protector is elastically retained to an oxyacetylene cutting torch tip during transport. The torch tip protector in the preferred embodiment has a protector cap having a generally disc-shaped base and a truncated conical side wall that together form a cup or thimble-shaped torch tip cover. This torch tip cover operatively encompasses a torch tip and thereby operatively blocks access and fouling of the torch tip. To ensure that the protector cap stays engaged with torch tip, a hook secures to and is manually removable from at least one of the torch gas lines. A spring couples to the hook and couples with the protector cap to provide an elastic tension force that draws the protector cap towards hook and thereby secures the protector cap onto the torch tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Travis J. Plut
  • Patent number: 8955467
    Abstract: A steam boiler includes a boiler housing. A helical coil for boiling water and superheating the wet steam is disposed within the boiler housing. A burner emits combustion gases which heat a heat emitter which is disposed in the inner space of the helical coil. Combustion gases from the burner enter the internal cavity of the heat emitter and then pass through perforations in the heat emitter before contacting the helical coil. As such, the heat emitter is heated by the combustion gases and serves as a radiant heat source for the helical coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: William Parrish Horne
  • Patent number: 8944809
    Abstract: A tubular combustion chamber including a tubular combustion chamber whose front-end is open; and, fuel-gas spraying nozzles and oxygen-containing-gas spraying nozzles, for spraying a fuel and an oxygen-containing-gas separately and individually, or for spraying a premixed gas; wherein respective orifices of the respective nozzles face toward an inner surface of the combustion chamber, so as to spray the fuel-gas and the oxygen-containing-gas in a neighborhood of a tangential direction of an inner circumferential wall of the combustion chamber; wherein the tubular flame burner is a multi-stage tubular burner that is unified in a body, by using a plurality of the tubular flame burners, and by connecting the front-end of the tubular flame burner with a smaller inner diameter of the combustion chamber into the rear-end of the tubular flame burner with a greater inner diameter of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Okada, Munehiro Ishioka, Hitoshi Oishi, Tatsuya Shimada, Koichi Takashi, Yutaka Suzukawa, Yoshiki Fujii, Takamitsu Kusada
  • Patent number: 8932049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a top burner and a cooker including the top burner. The present invention includes: an outer burner installed on a top surface of a top plate, and provided with a plurality of flame holes to form flames through combusting gas mixture at a perimeter thereof; an inner burner installed on a top surface of the outer burner, and provided with a plurality of flame holes to form flames through combusting gas mixture at a perimeter thereof disposed inward to the perimeter of the outer burner; a plurality of first mixing tubes supplying gas mixture mixed with air inside the outer burner; a second mixing tube supplying gas mixture mixed with air inside the inner burner; and a passage formed through the outer tube, and in which air supplied to combust gas mixture at the flame holes of the inner burner flows. Thus, according to the present invention, the advantages of heating food more efficiently while reducing incomplete combustion of gas mixture can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung-Wan Ryu, Dae-Bong Yang, Yong-Ki Jeong, Young-Soo Kim, Dae-Rae Lee, Yang-Ho Kim, Jae-Bum Lim, Jae-Hyuk Wie
  • Patent number: 8899224
    Abstract: A burner apparatus includes a first tube having a first longitudinal bore and a second tube having a second longitudinal bore. The second tube is disposed within the first longitudinal bore such that an annular space is defined between the second tube and the first tube. The burner apparatus further includes a nozzle formed at a tip of the second tube. A plurality of side holes are formed in the nozzle. The side holes are slanted relative to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle and are in communication with the second longitudinal bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Curtis Richard Cowles
  • Publication number: 20140345541
    Abstract: A burner box includes a housing, a fuel tube and a porous heat dissipating surface. The housing is bounded by a sidewall and has a top and an opposite bottom that are each open so that the sidewall defines an open passage that allows unimpeded vertical airflow. The fuel tube extends into the passage and defines a plurality of spaced apart orifices that distribute fuel into the open passage. The fuel tube is at a distance from the top of the housing so that substantially all of the fuel is entrained by the combustion air before the fuel reaches the top. The heat dissipating surface is disposed across the top of the housing and supports a flame. The heat dissipating surface includes enough open area so that the fuel/air mixture passes through the porous heat dissipating surface unimpeded. The heat dissipating surface dissipates heat from the flame and prevents flashback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: PLUM COMBUSTION, INC.
    Inventors: Yedidia Neumeier, David S. Neff, Michael Pratte
  • Patent number: 8863735
    Abstract: A burner body for use in a gas burner assembly and/or a gas cooking appliance is disclosed. The burner body comprises a sidewall and a main gas conduit, the main gas conduit having an inlet and an outlet; a plurality of primary burner ports disposed within the sidewall so as to be in communication with the outlet of the main gas conduit; a simmer flame port disposed within the sidewall in a spaced relation with the primary burner ports for providing a reignition source therefore; a stability chamber disposed within the burner body for channeling fuel to the simmer flame port; and a divider disposed in the stability chamber to reduce susceptibility to flashback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Cadima
  • Patent number: 8834153
    Abstract: In a flame arrester arrangement having a housing (1) for holding at least two flame arrester inserts (6, 6?) having a large number of axial passage gaps dimensioned for a combustible gas, and having an intermediate layer (7) arranged between two flame arrester inserts (6, 6?), which permits a radial distribution of the gas flow emerging from one flame arrester insert (6, 6?) and entering an adjacent downstream flame arrester insert (6, 6?), the ability of the flame arrester inserts (6, 6?) to be easily assembled and disassembled for servicing purposes without restricting the functional integrity can be achieved by at least one separate closed seal (11, 11?, 15, 17, 17?, 20) being arranged between a flame arrester insert (6, 6?) and the housing (1) or between two flame arrester inserts (6, 6?) in such a way that a flow around the flame arrester insert (6, 6?) in a space (12) located radially outside the passage gaps is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Protego (U.S.A.), Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Helmsen, Christoph Leinemann
  • Patent number: 8801429
    Abstract: A burner arrangement is disclosed with a conical swirler in the form of a double cone which is arranged concentric to a burner axis and which encloses a swirl chamber, and with a central fuel lance which lies in the burner axis and projects from the cone point of the swirler into the swirl chamber, wherein a first stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected radially outwards into the swirl chamber through injection openings which are arranged on the fuel lance, and wherein a second stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected into an air flow, which is guided in the double cone, through injection openings in the double cone. With such a burner arrangement, the gas pressure which is required in the first stage is reduced by the entire premix fuel being injected into the swirl chamber in the first stage through two oppositely-disposed injection openings with increased opening diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Rudolf Lachner, Martin Zajadatz, James Robertson
  • Patent number: 8776777
    Abstract: A gas heater includes a support unit, a burner unit, a venting unit and a frame guider. The burner unit includes an ignition unit, a hollow and transparent radiant unit defining a cavity in which the flame guider is positioned, a heat reflector and a burner top cover. The radiant unit comprises a bottom unit with inlet air passages through which an air flow into the radiant unit cavity is created. Then, the frame guider, which has a preset structure such as a spiral and a cone structure and a plurality of guider through-holes, is arranged for guiding and generating a flame pattern which is visible through the radiant unit. The venting unit, which is connected to the radiant unit in an air-tight manner, then provides an air exit. Accordingly, energy utilization is increased and visible flame pattern assemble to real flame can be seen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventors: Weidong Jin, Weiqun Jin
  • Patent number: 8753111
    Abstract: A torch is provided having a tube having an inside diameter, a body and an orifice tip having a bore, where the diameter of the bore of the orifice tip and the inside diameter of the tube have a particular ratio based upon the type of fuel used for the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd R Nolan
  • Patent number: 8747104
    Abstract: Liquated gas lighter with non-adjustable flame height, comprising a gas reservoir, a burner and a gas flow limiting device consisting of a microporous membrane gripped between a first seating body and a second seating body. First seating body has a through hole that comes out on one side directly into microporous membrane and on the other side into reservoir. Second seating body has a seating surface in contact with membrane, a groove formed in seating surface, an outlet duct and a linking passage between groove and outlet duct. Through hole is facing, at least partially and through microporous membrane, groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Flamagas S.A.
    Inventor: Joan Lucas-Puig-Gros
  • Patent number: 8727768
    Abstract: A burner includes a generally cylindrical casing (1) and a burner head (2) mounted within the casing, the burner head including one or more vanes (9) rotatably mounted on the head and rotatable about the head to sweep through a region between the burner head (2) and the casing (1). The vanes (9) each include one or more gas outlets for introducing gas into an air flow through the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Limpsfield Combustion Engineering Co. Limited
    Inventor: Brendan Kemp
  • Patent number: 8672674
    Abstract: A burner (1) for burning a gaseous oxidant with a gaseous fuel, with a combustion chamber (2), in which the combustion reaction takes place during the operation of the burner (2), has a wall structure (4) which defines the combustion chamber (2) on the inlet side and which has oxidant openings (5) for introducing the oxidant into the combustion chamber (2) and fuel openings (6), which are separate therefrom, for introducing the fuel into the combustion chamber (2). The wall structure (4) has an oxidant distributor space (7), which is fluidically connected with the oxidant openings (5) on the outlet side and is fluidically connected with at least one oxidant feed opening (9) on the inlet side, as well as contains a fuel distributor space (8), which is fluidically separated from the oxidant distributor space (7) and is fluidically connected on the outlet side with the fuel openings (6) and is fluidically connected with at least one fuel feed opening (10) on the inlet side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Kaupert, Markus Münzner, Jörg vom Schloss
  • Patent number: 8641411
    Abstract: A method of operating an emission abatement assembly includes separating the exhaust gas flow entering through the gas inlet port of the fuel-fired burner into a combustion flow which is advanced through the combustion chamber, and a bypass flow which bypasses the combustion chamber. An emission abatement assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Faureua Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Wilbur H. Crawley, Randall J. Johnson, Yougen Kong, John B. Abel, Shoja Farr, Nicholas Birkby, David Pearson
  • Patent number: 8636504
    Abstract: A method for producing a fuel nozzle is provided. In the method a swirl duct is mounted in an outer jacket surface of a pin and/or in an inner surface of a sleeve and the pin is attached in the sleeve so that the outer jacket surface of the pin is connected to the inner surface wherein the pin is disposed in the sleeve. The outer jacket surface of the pin and/or the inner surface of the sleeve includes at least one-swirl duct. A fuel nozzle and a burner are also further disclosed wherein the burner includes the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Krieger, Elmar Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20140011144
    Abstract: A lighter wind protector is disclosed herein which has a lighter hole sized and configured to receive a lighter. The lighter is inserted into the lighter hole until a lighter head is aligned to a flame hole defined by an end wall Sidewalls of the protector block the wind to prevent the wind from blowing out the flame of the lighter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Nathan Hancock, Robert Joseph Howells
  • Publication number: 20130323655
    Abstract: A premixed fuel and air combustion system includes an anti-flashback electrode configured to repel a charge concentration in a combustion fluid and reduce or prevent the flame from flashing back into a mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: IGOR A. KRICHTAFOVITCH, JOSEPH COLANNINO, CHRISTOPHER A. WIKLOF
  • Patent number: 8591222
    Abstract: A gas-fired air conditioning furnace has a cavity burner configured to combust an air-fuel mixture at least partially within an interior space of the cavity burner. A method of operating a gas-fired furnace by flowing an air-fuel mixture into a cavity burner through a perforated wall of the cavity burner, combusting at least a portion of the air-fuel mixture within an interior space of the cavity burner, and flowing at least partially combusted air-fuel mixture into a heat exchanger. A gas-fired air conditioning device has a cavity burner that has a cylindrically shaped body and a cap on a first end of the body, each of the body and the cap being perforated. The device has a cylindrically shaped heat exchanger inlet tube and the cavity burner is at least partially concentrically received within the heat exchanger inlet tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Trane International, Inc.
    Inventor: Lester D. Sherrow
  • Publication number: 20130309620
    Abstract: An open flame control device for weed control. The device includes a substantially cylindrical basket having an open framework including a plurality of substantially equally spaced-apart longitudinal struts attached to a plurality of hoops, struts being inwardly and upwardly bent at the upper end of the basket. A hub is located at the upper end of the basket and is attached to the inwardly and upwardly bent struts. An open flame burner is located within the basket and attached to the hub. A porous metal fabric liner surrounds the inside of the basket and is attached thereto. A metal flame reflector is located at the lower end of the basket and occupies the back side portion of the basket. Means are provided for communicating the open flame burner with a supply of propane. Optionally, means are provided to supply water to the bottom of the basket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventor: GREGORY G. PRULL
  • Patent number: 8573966
    Abstract: To provide a combustion apparatus that has a vaporizer capable of vaporizing liquid fuel completely without complicating the structure of the combustion apparatus. The combustion apparatus has an evaporating part for heating and vaporizing the liquid fuel into combustion gas, and a premixed gas spout part for spouting out premixed gas in which the combustion gas is mixed with primary air, with an inflow port of the premixed gas spout part being provided at a position higher than the evaporating part. By configuring the combustion apparatus like this, a space for accumulating unvaporized liquid fuel is formed between the evaporating part and the inflow port, and sufficient time to completely vaporize the liquid fuel can be afforded. Therefore, unevaporated fuel in a liquid state can be prevented from flowing into the premixed gas spout part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Dainichi Co., Ltd., Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ehara, Akira Goto
  • Patent number: 8573968
    Abstract: A wall structure (21) for a burner (19), with a first wall (40), which has elevations (41) and which defines a first supply chamber (22), and with a second wall (43), which has recesses (44) cooperating with end sections (42) of the elevations (41) and which defines a reaction chamber (20). The first wall (40) has first openings (34), which connect the first supply chamber (23) to the reaction chamber (20). The second wall (43) has second openings (37), which connect a second supply chamber (24) located between the walls (40, 43) to the reaction chamber (20). The first openings (34) are arranged in first rows (35) and the second openings (37) in second rows (38). The mixture formation or homogenization of the gases in the reaction chamber (20) can be improved if at least one second opening (37) is arranged within the first row (35) between two openings (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Kaupert
  • Publication number: 20130288189
    Abstract: A device with a flame bowl for a torch having a torch body containing a fuel supply. A fitting attaches to the flame bowl for interfacing with the fuel supply. A perforated support affixes the flame bowl in an elevated position relative to a portion of the torch body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Lamplight Farms Incorporated
    Inventor: RON WHITE
  • Publication number: 20130288188
    Abstract: Lighting apparatus suitable for use in a gas lantern lighting fixtures and containing a single piece body member with a horizontally oriented gas inlet, a vertically oriented gas outlet, and a fastener along with a valve; an orifice; and a burner tip connected to one another are disclosed. Lighting apparatus which are easy to assemble and capable of efficiently producing an aesthetically pleasing flame along with associated methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130288186
    Abstract: A device having a flame bowl surrounded by a first, inner shroud. The device includes a shell having a second, outer shroud on an upper portion thereof, the outer shroud circumscribing at least a portion of the first shroud, and a support supporting the flame bowl and the first shroud in a fixed relationship with respect to the outer shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Ron WHITE
  • Patent number: 8529249
    Abstract: A flame holder system includes a modified torch body and a ceramic flame holder. Catch pin(s) are coupled to and extend radially out from the torch body. The ceramic flame holder has groove(s) formed in its inner wall that correspond in number and positioning to the catch pin(s). Each groove starts at one end of the flame holder and can be shaped to define at least two 90°turns. Each groove is sized to receive one catch pin therein when the flame holder is fitted over the end of the torch body. The flame holder is then manipulated until the catch pin(s) butt up against the end of the groove(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Henry H. Haskin, Peter Vasquez
  • Publication number: 20130230816
    Abstract: A hot air blower includes a shell including a fan mechanism, a combustion device, a vane mechanism, and a flame protector disposed therein. The vane mechanism includes a clipping seat and a plurality of guiding vanes extended thereon. The plurality of guiding vanes extend obliquely and prevents the air passing through the vane mechanism from generating turbulence. The clipping seat and the flame protector form a half-closed combustion chamber therebetween. Heat in the half-closed combustion chamber causes a thermal expansion of the air and, thereby increasing a speed and a volume of the air passing the guiding vanes of the vane mechanism. The heated air is discharged from an external flow tube and which controls a heating range of an area of the hot air blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Pro-Iroda Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Long Chen
  • Patent number: 8523561
    Abstract: A combustor of a water heater includes a burner member and a flame cover. The burner member has a passageway therein with an inlet and an outlet. The flame cover has a plurality of flame holes. The character of the present invention is that the burner member is provided with a room at a top thereof communicated with the passageway. A separating device is put in the room, and the flame cover is connected to the burner member to cover the separating device The separating device has a main outlet and two side outlets right under the flame holes of the flame cover to generate main flames and side flames respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Grand Mate Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Chin Huang, Chin-Ying Huang, Hsin-Ming Huang, Hsing-Hsiung Huang, Kuan-Chou Lin
  • Patent number: 8522559
    Abstract: There is described a heat shield element comprising a hot side which is turned towards the hot medium, a cold side which is turned away from the hot medium, peripheral sides which connect the hot side to the cold side and a material volume which is defined by the hot side, the cold side and the peripheral sides, wherein the material volume comprises at least two material areas which are made of different materials. The materials are different from each other at least in respect of their resistance and/or thermal expansion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Grote, Andreas Heilos, Marc Tertilt
  • Patent number: 8517721
    Abstract: A burner for fabricating an optical fiber preform, which can suppress the adhesion and deposition of glass particles to the front end of the burner without enlarging the burner diameter, is provided. The burner has a first tube, a second tube and a third tube coaxially arranged and define a glass raw material gas port, a sealing gas port, and a burnable gas port by the front end portions thereof, and a plurality of small diameter nozzles arranged between the second tube and the third tube, each of the nozzles arranged on a concentric circle relative to the glass raw material gas port and defines a combustion assisting gas port by the front end portion thereof, the front end portion of the second tube protrudes ahead of that of the first tube, and the front end portion of the third tube protrudes ahead of those of the second tube and each of the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130196270
    Abstract: A jet micro-induced flow reversals combustor is used to reduce NOx emissions. The combustor has a nozzle disposed at the head end of the combustion chamber. The nozzle includes a plurality of jets for injecting a fuel and oxidant mixture stream into the combustion chamber. A combustion liner is disposed within the casing on one side of the nozzle and a plenum chamber is disposed on another side of the nozzle and configured to provide an input of a fuel and oxidant. The nozzle and the combustion liner are sized and shaped to input the fuel and oxidant mixture stream into the combustion liner at a high velocity ratio wherein a jet velocity is greater than a combustion mean velocity within the combustion liner, to increase turbulence within the combustion liner and reduce combustion emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bassam Sabry Mohammad Abd El-Nabi, Ahmed Mostafa ElKady, Gary Lee Leonard
  • Patent number: 8490398
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a burner for a single combustion chamber or first combustion chamber of a gas turbine, with an injection device for the introduction of at least one gaseous and/or liquid fuel into the burner, wherein the injection device has at least one body which is arranged in the burner with at least one nozzle for introducing the at least one fuel into the burner, wherein the at least one body is located in a first section of the burner with a first cross-sectional area at a leading edge of the at least one body with reference to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner, wherein downstream of said body a mixing zone is located with a second cross-sectional area, and at and/or downstream of said body the cross-sectional area is reduced, such that the first cross-sectional area is larger than the second cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Madhavan Poyyapakkam, Anton Winkler, Khawar Syed, Andrea Ciani
  • Publication number: 20130174837
    Abstract: A burner body is disclosed for use in a gas burner assembly. The burner body includes a sidewall and a main gas conduit, the main gas conduit having an inlet and an outlet; a plurality of primary burner ports disposed within the sidewall so as to be in communication with the outlet of the main gas conduit; a simmer flame port disposed within the sidewall in a spaced relation with the primary burner ports for providing a reignition source therefore; and a stability chamber disposed within the burner body, wherein the stability chamber comprises at least a first expansion region and a second expansion region, wherein the second expansion region has a greater volume than the first expansion region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Paul Bryan CADIMA
  • Patent number: 8479721
    Abstract: In one aspect the invention discloses an improved gas burner with a high turn-down ratio. The improved burner includes first and second gas flow passages, a flame front locator in one of the passages of the burner cap. Fuel gas is injected into an end of one of the passages and is ignited to establish a flame at the flame front locator. Secondary combustion air is provided through the other of the passages which on a high setting enables secondary combustion and on a low setting may mix with the hot gases and cool them resulting in a lower temperature at the cooking vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited
    Inventors: Lindsay George Graham, Simon Denzil Brown
  • Patent number: 8469702
    Abstract: A system for providing a combined water and fire display is provided. More specifically, a decorative display comprises a dynamic water and fire display device where fuel/air, water, and fire are integrated. The decorative display provides for unique aesthetic qualities and an appearance wherein flames are positioned at or near the surface of a volume of water. In various embodiments, the decorative display further comprises various safety features including the ability to detect and self-regulate conditions such as the existence and/or absence of a pilot flame, an adequate amount of water, and the temperature of various portions of the system. The decorative display further contemplates the ability to operate without one or more disclosed features, such as when only a water display or only a fire display is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Inventors: William H. Muff, Timothy C. Muff
  • Patent number: 8464703
    Abstract: A top burner and a cooker having the top burner are provided. A flame transfer slit for guiding the flame formed by the combustion of the mixed gas at an outer burner to an inner burner. A shielding member is provided to shield the flame transfer slit. Therefore, the object to be heated is uniformly heated and the flame transfer from the outer burner to the inner burner can be effectively realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung-Wan Ryu, Dae-Bong Yang, Jae-Hyuk Wie, Yong-Ki Jeong, Jae-Bum Lim, Jun-Ho Seok, Young-Soo Kim, Yang-Ho Kim, Dae-Rae Lee
  • Publication number: 20130119588
    Abstract: A cutting and welding torch includes a base. The base is provided with a chamber. Oxygen and a fuel gas are introduced and mixed in the chamber. A mixing pipe is connected to the chamber. The other end of the mixing pipe is connected to a burner nozzle. The interior of the chamber is provided with a check ring. Both sides of the check ring are provided with a sealing gasket respectively. The check ring is made into a hollow cylindrical body by powder alloys. The inside of one end of the mixing pipe adjacent to burner nozzle is provided with a guiding piece. The guiding piece is an elongate metallic piece and twisted to form a spiral piece. A mixed gas of the oxygen and the fuel gas flows along a spiral path of the guiding piece. By this arrangement, a backfire is prevented and the efficiency in operation is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventor: FU-TI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20130089823
    Abstract: A combustor includes a combustion chamber and at least one group of at least two burner jets disposed circumferentially about the combustor. The at least two burner jets within a group are generally coplanar and are spaced about equal distances circumferentially. Each of the at least two burner jets within a group is oriented to direct a flow of a fluid at a corresponding tangential point of an associated imaginary circle within the combustion chamber to induce a generally cyclonic flow pattern within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Wei Chen