Abstract: There is provided an improved fuel burner of the type having an air blower and blast tube. The improvement involves placement of an air-deflecting object inside the housing of the air blower or in the blast tube. In one embodiment, the object has a V-shaped cross section, and is attached to a gently tapered cylinder; the object can be held in place by inserting it through a hole of appropriate dimension in the air blower or blast tube, and tapping on the exposed end of the tapered cylinder until the latter is engaged in the hole. There is also provided a method of improving a fuel burner by mounting a air-deflecting object of the type described in the air blower housing or in the blast tube.

Abstract: The specification discloses a bunsen burner guard formed by an arcuate, black shield mounted on the burner by a generally U-shaped clip in a position enabling the flame of the burner to be seen. The shield is of aircraft aluminum and is riveted to the clip. Aligned tabs are pushed out of the clip and the shield to lock the clip and the shield rigidly together.

Abstract: A flameholder of a burner for a gas turbine engine includes a discrete pattern of judiciously shaped apertures having projectiles in the form of cusps formed on the upstream face facing the airstream so as to improve the flameholder with a consequential reduction in the concentration level of gaseous pollutants.

Abstract: The device is a metal coil, formed of high conductive material, and designed to fit on the pilot light thermocouple of gas fired appliances. Its purpose is to extend the sensitivity of the thermocouple, thus precluding erroneous gas shut off when air currents drift the pilot flame away from the thermocouple tube. This is accomplished by forming a heat gathering ring completely around the pilot flame and transmitting the heat directly to the thermocouple by conduction.

Abstract: A burner in which steam is utilized to atomize fluid fuels such as natural gas and fuel oils. The burner includes a first tubular housing having a first outlet defined at one end; and a second tubular housing fixedly mounted within the first housing having an end which defines an exit adjacent and enclosed by the first outlet and so mounted to define an annular space between the housings. The burner further includes a plurality of fuel nozzles mounted within the second housing wherein an initial mixture of steam and a fluid fuel is formed and from which the initial mixture is emitted toward the exit and a confluence with air flowing in said annular passage so that a combustible mixture is formed; and a turbulator ring mounted within and at the exit to define a sharp-edged orifice and a narrow annular orifice.

Abstract: A burner which is capable of burning a very lean mixture of flammable vapors and air, and which preferably also can burn a mixture of varying richness and B.T.U. content, with the burner desirably including a structure forming an upwardly facing recess and an inlet for introducing the vapor-air mixture into a lower portion of that recess in a relation enabling the mixture, when lean, to burn at least partially in the recess in isolation from external air, and when richer to burn at an upper elevation at which external air can mix with the basic vapor-air mixture.

Abstract: The present invention provides gas turbine reheat combustion apparatus for aircraft propulsion. The apparatus includes means for producing a flame stabilization zone in a stream of combustion supporting gas flowing in a duct, said stabilization zone having a recirculatory flow region therein, an injector for introducing a fluid comprising an inert diluent such as, for example, nitrogen, into the recirculatory flow region, and means for supplying the fluid to the injector.

Abstract: This is an improved smokeless flare powered by air supply to the burner at substantial velocity. The flare includes an air flow-operated damper for the purpose of preventing the back flow of flame and hot gases under adverse wind conditions. The damper consists of two semicircular plates which are hinged along the diameter of the air supply pipe and are held in a closed (transverse) position by means of tension springs. Another feature of this flare is that in the sectors between the spider arms of the burner there are baffles which are triangular in shape and have substantial longitudinal dimension. There are narrow passages between the baffles and each of the adjacent spider arms so that the air flow from the blower must pass through these restricted passages and therefore will move at a higher velocity.

Abstract: A cooking system includes a frypot comprising heat transfer walls which are spaced to facilitate cleaning of the frypot. Each heat transfer wall comprises a lower vertically extending portion and an upper outwardly curved portion shaped to cause wastes to flow to the bottom of the frypot. A plurality of burners are provided for maintaining combustion in zones adjacent to the vertically extending portions of the heat transfer walls. This causes heated products of combustion to flow upwardly along the vertically extending and outwardly extending portions of the heat transfer walls, whereby heat transfer is effected through the walls to cooking oil in the frypot. Each burner comprises two or more orifices for discharging mutually interacting gas jets and a target for deflecting the gas jets and entrained air toward the heat transfer walls and for reflecting heat into the combustion zone and through the heat transfer walls.

Abstract: In a combined cycle power plant, gas turbine exhaust gas is passed through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) wherein it may be reheated upstream from a boiler tube section prior to passing through the boiler tube section in a non-contact heat exchange relation with a feedwater supply to produce steam for driving a steam turbine. A plurality of air-atomized, liquid fuel wall burners are utilized, each in combination with a "vee"-shaped flameholder to heat the gas turbine exhaust gas. Each wall burner may be disposed in a recessed opening in the HRSG duct wall and each wall burner has a nozzle portion which may be directed upstream relative to the exhaust gas flow. Each flameholder is approximately parallel to its respective wall burner nozzle axis having one end fixed to the duct wall, upstream from the nozzle axis, and a free end disposed within the HRSG duct.