Mixer And Flame Holder Patents (Class 431/354)
  • Patent number: 6905329
    Abstract: A torch lighter includes a fuel nozzle assembly provided for vaporizing the fuel released therefrom to a high-pressured gaseous fuel to emit to the ignition chamber, wherein the vaporizer assembly includes a torch head, which is provided at an emitting end of a nozzle body and supported within a combustion housing, having a root chamber having a size larger than the size of the emitting end of the nozzle body to form a gas stabilizing reservoir to ensure a collective and stable flow of the mixture gas, and two or more elongated nozzle ducts each having an ignition end and a root end extended to a ceiling of the root chamber, wherein a mixture gas ejected from the two ignition ends is ignited in the ignition chamber to form two torches soaring away from the two ignition ends of the two nozzle ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
  • Patent number: 6889685
    Abstract: Atmospheric gas burner for a cooking appliance comprising: a burner head with a lateral perimeter wall defining a distribution chamber provided with flame orifices; a gas injector; means for conveying primary air to downstream of the injector; and a venturi directing the gas/air mixture towards the distribution chamber; at least one region of the lateral wall, free of flame orifices, is pierced with a through-aperture and a passage isolated from the distribution chamber is established in the burner head to connect the aperture to the injector, this aperture and this passage having cross sections which ensure a stream of primary air from the outside of the burner head with a flow rate appropriate to the operation of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Burner Systems International (BSI)
    Inventor: Bernard Dane
  • Patent number: 6889686
    Abstract: A single burner, heat exchanger combination for particular use in a hot air furnace, includes a plurality of spaced heat exchangers, each heat exchanger having an inlet port for receipt therein of combustion gases. A unitary burner for producing combustion gases includes a burner face defined by a plurality of spaced fins for passing therethrough a combustible gas. The inlet ports of each of the heat exchangers are disposed adjacent to and in fluid communication with the passages defined by the burner face fins. A hot air furnace comprising the single burner, heat exchanger combination also includes a blower adapted to blow air over the heat exchangers and an induction blower in fluid communication with the outlets of the heat exchanger adapted to draw the combustion gases through the heat exchangers and to discharge such combustion gases outwardly from the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.
    Inventor: Werner Specht
  • Patent number: 6887069
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for the monitoring of the combustion process within a combustion system. The apparatus comprises; a combustion system, a means for supplying fuel and an oxidizer, a device for igniting the fuel and oxidizer in order to initiate combustion, and a sensor for determining the current conducted by the combustion process. The combustion system comprises a fuel nozzle and an outer shell attached to the combustion nozzle. The outer shell defines a combustion chamber. Preferably the nozzle is a lean premix fuel nozzle (LPN). Fuel and an oxidizer are provided to the fuel nozzle at separate rates. The fuel and oxidizer are ignited. A sensor positioned within the combustion system comprising at least two electrodes in spaced-apart relationship from one another. At least a portion of the combustion process or flame is between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Jimmy D. Thornton, George A. Richards, Keith A. Dodrill, Roy S. Nutter, Jr., Douglas Straub
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6881056
    Abstract: A combustion heater comprising an induction chamber provided with an inlet, a combustion chamber in fluid communication with the inlet of the induction chamber, means for moving an oxydizer from the inlet of the induction chamber to the combustion chamber, a fuel reservoir, a frame defining a fuel passageway, means for moving a fuel from the fuel reservoir through the fuel passageway to the combustion chamber, means in fluid communication with the fuel passageway for shearing a fuel prior to combustion, means in fluid communication with the fuel passageway for heating the fuel prior to combustion, and means for combusting a fuel oxydizer mixture within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Thermal Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward L. Simonds
  • Patent number: 6880548
    Abstract: A warm air furnace system has a valve for controlling the flow of fuel, and a mixing component for receiving fuel from the valve and mixing the fuel with air to form an air-fuel premix. The warm air furnace system also has a burner assembly for receiving the air-fuel premix from the mixer, and an inducer for pulling the air-fuel premix through the burner assembly. The air-fuel premix drawn from the burner assembly is ignited into a flame by an ignition element. The flame transfers heat to a heat exchanger in communication with and positioned between the burner assembly and the inducer. The heat exchanger, in turn, transfers heat to air being passed over the heat exchanger by a circulation fan. The heated air passed over the heat exchanger then provides heat to a user of the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Schultz, Rolf L. Strand
  • Patent number: 6881052
    Abstract: A device for heating hydrogen storage canister includes a canister containing chamber for accommodation of at least one hydrogen storage canister, a catalyst bed arranged in the canister containing chamber for catalysis. A blowing device provides an air flow through an air flow leading pipe to a nozzle section which is connected with a heating gas drawing pipe to the catalyst bed. A heating fuel storage tank supplies heating fuel which is conveyed to the nozzle section through a heating fuel supplying pipeline, a coiled pipe and a heating fuel conveying pipe in sequence. When the air flow flows through the nozzle section, the heating fuel is drawn into the nozzle section to mix with the air flow, forming a heating gas. The heating gas is atomized by the nozzle section and flows to the catalyst bed where the heating gas is catalyzed to burn to generate a hot gas to heat the hydrogen storage canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jefferson Y S Yang, Yingjeng James Li
  • Patent number: 6875008
    Abstract: An improved burner assembly and process for operating same using a burner design that produces very low levels of undesirable nitrogen oxides is provided. The burner assembly premixes primary fuel and air in a venturi system and recirculates combustion gases back to the burner through a plurality of recirculation conduits where it is mixed with the premix of fuel and air and secondary air prior to combustion in a primary combustion zone. Rapid premixing of the primary fuel and air in the venturi system and the dispersion of the recirculated furnace gases is believed to result in lower peak flame temperatures and therefore minimizing the formation of the pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Callidus Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard R. Martin, Doyle C. Bishop, Paul M. Rodden, Kurt E. Kraus
  • Patent number: 6866504
    Abstract: A burner has a nozzle formed of generally concentric inner and outer pieces. The inner piece defines a fuel conduit, and the outer piece defines an annular gas conduit which tapers down towards the outlet end of the nozzle. The inner piece has a rounded edge near the outlet end. The inner piece is longitudinally translatable, within a limited range of movement, relative to the outer piece, and can be locked into a desired position. The nozzle promotes efficient mixing of fuel and air (or oxygen) outside the burner. The stream of air creates a partial vacuum in the vicinity of the outlet end, serving to draw fuel out of the fuel conduit. Longitudinal adjustment of the inner piece allows the shape of the flame to be optimized. The burner can be used with virtually any fuel that can be provided in fluid form, whether solid, liquid or gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: MG Industries
    Inventors: Richard R. Masi, Michael R. Thibou, Terry R. Schartel
  • Patent number: 6862889
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine facilitates reducing an amount of emissions from a combustor. The combustor includes a mixer assembly including a pilot mixer, a main mixer, and an annular centerbody extending therebetween. The method comprises injecting at least one of fuel and airflow into the combustor through at least one swirler positioned within the pilot mixer, and injecting fuel into the combustor through at least one swirler positioned within the main mixer, such that the fuel is directed into a combustion chamber downstream from the main mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy James Held, Mark Anthony Mueller, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 6860734
    Abstract: An inshot gas burner having an overall length of less than four inches that is capable of delivering between 5,000 and 5,800 Btus per unit length of burner per hour. The burner venturi section with a flame retainer positioned at its outlet that produces a firing rate of at least 9,900 Btus per inch of diffuser length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Ninev Karl Zia, Chi Ming Ho, Brian A. Reeves
  • Publication number: 20040253559
    Abstract: A burner assembly for use in a warm air furnace. The burner assembly has a cooling air box for receiving air and a premix burner for receiving air-fuel premix positioned within and spaced apart from the cooling air box. The burner assembly also has a burner face assembly defining a front end of the premix burner. The burner face assembly includes a first plate positioned on top of a second plate, and a third plate positioned underneath the second plate. Each plate of the burner face assembly has a plurality of aligned burner openings. In the burner assembly, air-fuel premix is pulled through the premix burner, air is pulled through the cooling air box to cool the premix burner, and flames are projected from each of the burner openings of the burner face assembly for transferring heat within the warm air furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Schultz, Rolf L. Strand
  • Patent number: 6830045
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a gas burner module having a base structure upon which is secured at least a gas burner element and a gas orifice defining member in a predetermined alignment. The base structure is preferably formed from stamped steel. The burner module also preferably includes a gas igniter. The gas burner module is adapted to be mounted to heat an oven cavity of the cooking appliance. With this arrangement, tolerance build-up leading to misalignment between critical components is greatly reduced thereby improving manufacturing and combustion repeatability, as well as enhanced field replacement. In this manner, the cooking appliance will consistently operate within prescribed agency limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Maytag Corporation
    Inventors: Eddie Max Brock, Christopher A. Larsen, Gerald R. Place
  • Patent number: 6827573
    Abstract: A micro gas burner is provided that generates a stable, pre-mixed flame that produces little to no soot or unburned hydrocarbons. The gas burner includes a fuel inlet, nozzle, oxygenation chamber with at least one air inlet, a mixing chamber having a frustoconical inner wall, at least one permeable barrier and a flame holder. The gas burner thoroughly mixes fuel and entrained air to form a nearly stoichiometric mixture prior to combustion. The gas burner mixes the fuel and air so thoroughly that it requires a lower fuel flow rate than would otherwise be necessary to produce a stable, pre-mixed flame. The gas burner may include an optional flame tube in which a flame is contained and sequestered from diffusing air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Kelley St. Charles, Kayyani C. Adiga
  • Patent number: 6827572
    Abstract: A torch lighter includes a fuel nozzle assembly provided for vaporizing the fuel released therefrom to a high-pressured gaseous fuel to emit to the ignition chamber, wherein the vaporizer assembly includes a torch head, which is provided at an emitting end of a nozzle body and supported within a combustion housing, having a root chamber having a size larger than the size of the emitting end of the nozzle body to form a gas stabilizing reservoir to ensure a collective and stable flow of the mixture gas, and two or more elongated nozzle ducts each having an ignition end and a root end extended to a ceiling of the root chamber, wherein a mixture gas ejected from the two ignition ends is ignited in the ignition chamber to form two torches soaring away from the two ignition ends of the two nozzle ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
  • Publication number: 20040241604
    Abstract: A gas burner assembly for connection to a source of gas includes a burner body including at least one receptacle, a burner cap positioned on the burner body, at least two isolation walls coupled to the burner body, and at least one projection extending from the burner cap. The projection is configured to allow substantially uniform gas distribution through a plurality of burner ports at a first gas input rate, and configured to limit the gas distribution to at least one burner port at a second input rate greater than the first input rate input rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Cadima
  • Publication number: 20040234915
    Abstract: A burner assembly has a ring generally centered on an axis and defining an array of outwardly open holes and a compartment at the axis. A gas/air mixture is fed to the ring to project jets of the mixture from the holes so that, when ignited, the jets form a main annular flame centered on the axis. A relatively small burner in the compartment is generally centered on the axis, and a horizontal plate on the ring overlies and covers the compartment and the burner. A gas/air mixture is supplied to the burner to the burner to form in the chamber underneath the plate a small flame centered on the axis. The cover plate is a generally circular disk having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the small burner. The disk outer diameter is greater than an inner diameter of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: ISPHORDING Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Koch, Robert Zink
  • Publication number: 20040224274
    Abstract: The present invention provides a burner capable of recovering more reliably a flame going out at one flame port via the transfer of flames from other flame ports when the burner is turned down. The burner according to the present invention is formed of two metal plates 10, 20 having substantially wave-shaped ends and superposed with the wave phases shifted. The burner comprises plural flame ports 12, 22 vertically alternately disposed along the ends of the metal plates 10, 20, and plural gas channels 14, 24 for supplying gas to the flame ports 12, 22. The burner further has a first deformed portion 16 where one metal plate 10 is deformed toward the other metal plate 20 at the flame port portions of one of the upper and lower flame ports 12, 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tomiura, Masanobu Inomata, Kazuyuki Akagi
  • Publication number: 20040224273
    Abstract: A burner capable of reducing manufacturing costs by attaching upper and lower flow regulating plates to a metal plate rationally from the viewpoint of costs is provided. A burner 100 comprises a metal plate, having formed thereto a plurality of flame ports 102 disposed along the inner circumference of an opening 101 and alternately protruding in the upper and lower directions, and an annular mixture pipe 106 disposed outwardly of the opening 101. Substantially annular upper and lower flow regulating plates 200 and 300 are respectively disposed above and below the burner 100 with a clearance therebetween. The burner 100 has an integrally disposed flange portion 120 extending outwardly from the annular mixture pipe 106.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventor: Masanobu Inomata
  • Patent number: 6814570
    Abstract: An improved combustion assembly including a venturi mixer and a combustion tip attached to the discharge end of the venturi divergent section. The improvement comprises eliminating abrupt contractions and sudden expansions of the interior flow passage at the venturi mixer and combustion tip interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Zeeco, Inc.
    Inventors: Darton J. Zink, John McDonald, Rex K. Isaacs, Cody L. Little
  • Publication number: 20040202978
    Abstract: A lighter nozzle system includes a diffusion body having a receiving opening adapted for communicating with a liquefied fuel storage of a lighter, an emitting opening, at least an air inlet provided thereon, wherein the air inlet is positioned adjacent to the receiving opening to define an elongated mixing chamber axially extended between the air inlet to the emitting opening, wherein a flow of air is capable of inletting into the mixing chamber through the air inlet to mix with a fuel releasing through the receiving opening to form a mixture gas at the emitting opening of the diffusion body. A nozzle assembly includes a nozzle head provided at the emitting opening of the diffusion body and a torch diversion arrangement provided at the nozzle head for radially diverging the mixture gas to produce a stylish torch when the mixture gas is ejected and ignited at the nozzle head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Ming King Wong
  • Patent number: 6796302
    Abstract: A mixture fitting for use in a combustible gas system, for example, a fireplace. The mixture fitting may include a first portion configured to be coupled to a combustible gas source and a second portion configured to be coupled to a burner assembly. The first and second portions together form a gas passage. The mixture fitting also includes an air orifice extending from an exposed surface of the mixture fitting to the gas passage. The air orifice is configured to allow primary air to travel through the air orifice and into the gas passage to facilitate mixing of air with the combustible gas. Alternatively, the air orifice may be angled, and multiple air orifices may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: HON Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Lee Butler, Thomas J. Bachinski, Robb Edward Bennett
  • Patent number: 6793483
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes an air supply case connected to an air supply mouth a position at a position on the air supply case from a rear end part to a tip portion thereof, which supplies air from air supply equipment; a nozzle body attached so as to cover a tip portion of the air supply case, and having a jet nozzle formed in a center part of the nozzle body; a fuel nozzle in the nozzle body so as to supply air from the air supply case through an air jet hole, placed between the tip perimeter part of the fuel nozzle and the jet nozzle, having a frusto-conically shaped fuel supply passage, and which supplies air from a tip portion thereof; a plurality of air guide holes provided between an outer circumferential portion of the fuel nozzle and the nozzle body so as to supply air from the air jet hole in a spiral pattern; a fuel supply support member in the fuel supply passage, which supplies fuel from at least two fuel supply holes in an opposite spiral pattern from the tip end of the fuel nozzle; and at lea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventor: Masahiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040177840
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a gas burner module having a base structure upon which is secured at least a gas burner element and a gas orifice defining member in a predetermined alignment. The base structure is preferably formed from stamped steel. The burner module also preferably includes a gas igniter. The gas burner module is adapted to be mounted to heat an oven cavity of the cooking appliance. With this arrangement, tolerance build-up leading to misalignment between critical components is greatly reduced thereby improving manufacturing and combustion repeatability, as well as enhanced field replacement. In this manner, the cooking appliance will consistently operate within prescribed agency limitations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Eddie Max Brock, Christopher A. Larsen, Gerald R. Place
  • Publication number: 20040175665
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for mixing fuel and an oxidant for use in an autothermal reformer that provides hydrogen to a fuel cell. The apparatus includes a mixing vessel (10) , a first inlet (4) to the mixing vessel for movement of gaseous fuel or oxidant therethrough, a second inlet for movement of gaseous fuel or oxidant therethrough, and an exit (60) from the vessel adjacent the autothermal reformer. The discharge ends of the inlets are spaced apart from each other and from the exit which is near a POX reactor (61) that combusts the mixture of fuel and oxidant exiting from the mixing vessel. The first inlet is comprised of a plate (26) with a plurality of tubes (24) extending therefrom through which fuel or oxidant passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Steven G. Goebel
  • Publication number: 20040173200
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas burner such as for use in a barbecue grill with at least one row of burner ports in a linear arrangement along the burner and a flame stabilizing structure having a flame stabilizing port with an extent transecting the linear arrangement of the burner ports. The present invention further provides a flame stabilizer structure that is adapted as a standing pilot for relighting the burner port area in the event of extinguished flame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Mohammed Shoeb
  • Patent number: 6786717
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus (1) is generally composed of a principal part (5), a supplementary part (6) and a burner port assembly (3). Four metal plates (7,8,10,11) constituting the principal and supplementary parts (5,6) are pressed to have in them several protuberances and recesses. These metal plates are laid one on another to form in them some hollow spaces and sealed regions. These hollow spaces communicate with each other to form a thin gas passage (22) together with a thick gas passage (73) in this combustion apparatus (1) in such a manner that its condition of thick and thin fuel combustion is rendered more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Noritz Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Shimazu, Yasutaka Kuriyama, Takao Morigaki, Takashi Hasegawa, Hidenori Hata, Masaaki Matsuda, Shingo Kimura, Masahiro Iguchi, Takashi Akiyama, Yasuhiko Sato, Koji Shimomura, Toshikazu Miki, Shuji Kameyama, Keiichi Miura
  • Publication number: 20040170938
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a gas burner capable of bringing artificial “fuel” disposed thereon to incandescence, known as a “living-flames” gas burner, for use in a single-heating appliance, comprising a multi-panel element made of rigid gel-cast molded ceramic fibers or of bio-soluble ceramic fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventor: Timothy Teague
  • Patent number: 6780008
    Abstract: A gas stove burner has a base defining an axis and a ring assembly sitting on the base, forming therewith an annular outer compartment and a central inner compartment, and formed with an array of outwardly open lower passages open radially inward into the outer compartment. A generally imperforate cover disk overlying the ring assembly has an outer edge, upwardly closes the inner compartment, and forms with the ring assembly an array of upper passages open radially inward into the inner compartment and radially outward at the disk outer edge. Inlets on the base feed respective gas/air mixtures to the compartments and form a main flame at the edge from the mixture exiting the lower passages and a simmer flame at the edge from the mixture exiting the upper passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Isphording Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Koch, Robert Zink
  • Patent number: 6780009
    Abstract: A burner head and a burner cap each being generally disc shaped are fixedly attached to each other creating an improved burner head assembly and creating a distribution chamber therebetween. The burner head has main and secondary flame holes that communicate with the distribution chamber and the environment. The burner head assembly has feet that positively locate and position the burner head assembly onto a burner base, where the burner base has provisions to integrally mate with the burner head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Inventor: Uwe Harneit
  • Publication number: 20040161720
    Abstract: A gas combustion apparatus of a laundry dryer is provided, by which an initial ignition power is improved to enhance an ignition property. The gas combustion apparatus includes a gas supply; a mixing pipe, having a mixing passage extending from an inlet end to an outlet end, for mixing the supplied gas with primary air, the primary air and gas entering the mixing passage at the inlet end and a gas-and-air mixture exiting the mixing passage at the outlet end; and a flame holder, disposed at the outlet end of the mixing pipe, for separating the gas-and-air mixture exiting the mixing pipe into a complex plurality of jetted streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: In Hee Han, Seong Hai Jeong, Soo Won Park
  • Publication number: 20040157180
    Abstract: A combustion system for a portable forced air heater having two frusta-conical sections attached to a circular burner tube, wherein each frusta-conical section has pre-determined vent hole patterns that allow the gas heater to have a variable burn rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Topp Construction Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel P. Topp
  • Patent number: 6769903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating a burner, which comprises at least one first fuel supply conduit (5) with a first group of fuel outlet openings (6), essentially arranged in the direction of a burner longitudinal axis (3), for a first premix fuel quantity and one or a plurality of second fuel supply conduits (7) with a second group of fuel outlet openings (8), essentially arranged in the direction of the burner longitudinal axis (3), for a second premix fuel quantity, it being possible to admit fuel to the second fuel supply conduits (7) independently of the first fuel supply conduit (5). In the method, both fuel supply conduits (5, 7) are operated with the same fuel. By means of the present method of operating a burner, optimum mixing conditions can be set even in the case of different loads, gas qualities or gas preheat temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Alstom Technology LTD
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Jaan Hellat, Peter Stuber
  • Patent number: 6769906
    Abstract: A fire effect appliance which utilizes a bowl to which is to be supplied a flammable gas. The internal chamber of the fire bowl includes a diffusing device which is to function to evenly distribute the gas throughout a particulate matter contained within the internal chamber of the fire bowl. The fire bowl can be placed on a freestanding stand or mounted within a table. A fan and shroud can be mounted in conjunction with the fire bowl for the purpose of propelling the heated air exteriorly of the fire bowl so the appliance can also function as a heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Inventors: James E. Grove, Vong Siew Fun, Raymond M. Carter
  • Publication number: 20040146826
    Abstract: A burner arrangement includes a venturi cluster including a plurality of venturis arranged for parallel flow. The multi venturi arrangement utilizing pressurized fuel as the inducing fluid to induce a flow of air enables the provision of an ultra fuel lean premix of fuel and air. A central burner tube which extends outwardly beyond the delivery end of a primary burner tip and mounts a relatively small capacity nozzle at a substantial distance from the delivery end of the burner tip enabling the ultra fuel lean mixture to expand and slow down such that its linear speed does not exceed the flame speed of the mixture prior to by the flame of the spaced nozzle. A deflector may be positioned adjacent the nozzle to assist in stabilizing the flame after the expansion and slowing process has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetris T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel
  • Patent number: 6767205
    Abstract: A torch and mount assembly wherein the torch, which has a plurality of gas receiving nipples is carried in a housing through which it extends. The housing has a plurality of walls forming a substantially air tight enclosure. In at least one wall of the housing are one or more leakproof fittings which are connected to similar leakproof fittings for the nipples by means of preferably flexible gas conduits within the housing. In the system, gaseous mixtures are applied from a source or sources to the fittings in the housing wall remote from the high temperatures of the torch, while the conduits within the housing are protected from mechanical and thermal stresses. An inert gas from a suitable source is introduced under pressure into the interior of the housing to reduce leakage from the torch into the housing. The atmosphere within the housing is heated, and the constituents of the housing atmosphere are monitored to aid in detecting leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Fitel USA Corp.
    Inventors: Hodge E. Jenkins, Lazhar Mazlout, Tadeusz Olewicz, Fred P. Partus
  • Patent number: 6764302
    Abstract: An atomizing nozzle for a burner, especially for a heater that can be used on a vehicle includes a first flow guide element (34), which provides a flow guide surface (40) and has an atomizing lip (48) in an axial end area in relation to a central axis (A) of the nozzle, a second flow guide element (36) defining a first flow space area (30) leading to the atomizing lip (48) together with the first flow guide element (34). A fuel feed device (54) in the second flow guide element (36) is provided for applying fuel through the first flow space area (30) onto the flow guide surface (40) of the first flow guide element (34). Provisions are made for the fuel feed device (54) to have at least one fuel feed channel section (58) in the second flow guide element (36), which said fuel feed channel section (58) is open toward a surface area (44; 44′) of the second flow guide element (36) and has a surface normal radial component different from zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: J. Eberspacher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Eberspach, Walter Blaschke
  • Patent number: 6764303
    Abstract: Gas burner for a cooker, with a burner head provided with a frustoconical peripheral side wall and with a multiplicity of slots forming flame orifices, the burner head being topped by a cap, the side wall (2′) being inclined (&agr;) to the vertical by 10° to 20° and the bottom (8′) of each slot (3) being inclined (&bgr;) to the horizontal by 20° to 30°; the ratio of the diameter (A) of the cap to the diameter (B) of the side wall (2) at mid-height of the outlet orifices (11) of the slots (3) is from 1.4 to 1.6; the stand-off (H) of the cap above the top of the burner head is from 1 to 15 mm; and the angle of inclination (&ggr;) of the lower face (9) of the cap to the horizontal is from 3° to 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Sourdillon
    Inventors: Bernard Dane, Siu Hun Pierre Yam
  • Publication number: 20040126727
    Abstract: A combustion gas burner enabling a multi-stage control is provided, which includes a main casing on the bottom surface of which an air blower is mounted so that air can be supplied from the air blower through an air inlet formed in the lower portion of the main casing, a tube-shaped burner mounted on the main casing in which fire hole units each having a number of fire holes formed at a predetermined distance from one another are disposed on the upper end surface of the main casing in order to burn gas and air which are mixed and supplied to the tube-shaped burner, a plate-shaped burner which is detachably disposed between the fire hole units formed on the upper end surface of the tube-shaped burner, and includes fire hole units having a number of fire holes, a number of mixture supply tubes inserted in the tube-shaped burner and disposed at a predetermined distance so that gas and air are mixed and the mixed gas and air is supplied to the tube-shaped burner and the plate-shaped burner, a Venturi tube install
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Seung Beom Cho, Hee Suk Sun, Hyun Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20040121277
    Abstract: A premixed combustion gas burner having separated fire hole units is provided, which includes a tube-shaped burner whose front face is opened and inner portion is of a hollow tubular shape so that the whole fire hole units of the burner can be separated to thus prevent deformation due to thermal expansion, in which fire hole units each having a number of fire holes formed at a predetermined distance from one another are disposed in both edge lines and the inner portion on the upper end face, and loaders each having a predetermined space are formed between the fire hole units; and a plate-shaped burner which is made of a plate-shaped material having a pin structure formed on the bottom thereof so as to be mounted on the loaders formed in the tube-shaped burner, in which fire hole units having a number of fire holes formed at a predetermined distance are disposed in the form of a slit along both the edge lines of the upper end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Seung Beom Cho, Hee Suk Sun
  • Patent number: 6752621
    Abstract: A method for setting the performance of a gas operating cooking device by setting a complete combustion of the fuel gas/air mixture supplied to the gas burner of the cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Stefan Rusche, Thomas Schreiner
  • Publication number: 20040115580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a burner head capable of securing heat resistance and durability characteristics and improving the quality of machining at the same time, capable of easily and stably machining a material into a complicated shape. A second metal primary material of the iron family having high workability and first metal primary materials of the SUS family having high heat resistance are rolled out. Their side plate ends are butt-welded by laser to form a one-piece metal flat-plate material. A press molding machine is operated to press mold recessed portions of a pair of plate members simultaneously with cutting along a contour line. Then, folding is carried out, and they are closely joined together. A gas passage is formed by a recessed portion of the second metal primary material section. A burner port is formed by a recessed portion of the first metal primary material section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Ikuta, Kozo Uehara, Shunji Tanba, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6746236
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus (1) with a burner port assembly (3) comprises an elongated first array of main burner ports (53) for jetting and burning a fuel gas mixture of a concentration to make main flames. The combustion apparatus (1) comprises at least one second arrays of auxiliary burner ports (63) for jetting and burning a further fuel gas mixture of a different concentration to make auxiliary flames, wherein the second arrays of said auxiliary burner ports (63) extend along the first array of said main burner ports (53). The burner port assembly (3) is constructed using inner and outer wall segments (52) together with outermost wall segments (52a,52f) or bands (58). One of the bands (58) faces the corresponding one of said outermost segments (52a,52f) so as to define between them collateral burner ports (61a,61b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Noritz Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Kuriyama, Takashi Hasegawa, Hidenori Hata, Masaaki Matsuda, Shingo Kimura, Masahiro Iguchi, Takashi Akiyama, Yasuhiko Sato, Koji Shimomura, Shuji Kameyama, Itsuo Nagai, Shigeo Sugie
  • Patent number: 6729874
    Abstract: A burner arrangement includes a venturi cluster including a plurality of venturis arranged for parallel flow. The multi venturi arrangement utilizing pressurized fuel as the inducing fluid to induce a flow of air enables the provision of an ultra fuel lean premix of fuel and air. A central burner tube which extends outwardly beyond the delivery end of a primary burner tip and mounts a relatively small capacity nozzle at a substantial distance from the delivery end of the burner tip enabling the ultra fuel lean mixture to expand and slow down such that its linear speed does not exceed the flame speed of the mixture prior to by the flame of the spaced nozzle. A deflector may be positioned adjacent the nozzle to assist in stabilizing the flame after the expansion and slowing process has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetris T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel
  • Publication number: 20040081933
    Abstract: A micro gas burner is provided that generates a stable, pre-mixed flame that produces little to no soot or unburned hydrocarbons. The gas burner includes a fuel inlet, nozzle, oxygenation chamber with at least one air inlet, a mixing chamber having a frustoconical inner wall, at least one permeable barrier and a flame holder. The gas burner thoroughly mixes fuel and entrained air to form a nearly stoichiometric mixture prior to combustion. The gas burner mixes the fuel and air so thoroughly that it requires a lower fuel flow rate than would otherwise be necessary to produce a stable, pre-mixed flame. The gas burner may include an optional flame tube in which a flame is contained and sequestered from diffusing air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Frank Kelley St. Charles, Kayyani C. Adiga
  • Patent number: 6726468
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to apparatus and methods of supplying a diluted process gas into a diffusion furnace for forming an oxide layer on a substrate in the diffusion furnace. One or more inlet gases are supplied into a chamber, and are heated in the chamber to generate an oxidizing gas such as steam. A dilution gas is flowed through a dilution gas line which extends through the chamber to permit heating of the dilution gas by the heat in the chamber without mixing the dilution gas and the oxidizing gas in the chamber. The oxidizing gas and the heated dilution gas are mixed downstream of the chamber prior to entry into the diffusion furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
    Inventors: Kader Ibrahim, Umasangar V. Pillai, Joon Ho Joung
  • Publication number: 20040072115
    Abstract: An inshot gas burner having an overall length of less than four inches that is capable of delivering between 5,000 and 5,800 Btus per unit length of burner per hour. The burner venturi section with a flame retainer positioned at its outlet that produces a firing rate of at least 9,900 Btus per inch of diffuser length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Ninev Karl Zia, Chi Ming Ho, Brian A. Reeves
  • Publication number: 20040072112
    Abstract: A burner head and a burner cap each being generally disc shaped are fixedly attached to each other creating an improved burner head assembly and creating a distribution chamber therebetween. The burner head has main and secondary flame holes that communicate with the distribution chamber and the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventor: Uwe Harneit
  • Publication number: 20040072113
    Abstract: A multi-flame type lighter, comprising a housing, an ignition mechanism mounted in the housing, a supply mechanism mounted in the housing, and a flame outlet seat mounted in the housing. Thus, the supply mechanism only needs to provide a single gas supply pipe to be connected to the flame outlet seat, so as achieve the purpose of a multi-flame source, thereby simplifying the parts and construction of the multi-flame type lighter, thereby decreasing the cost of production and fabrication, and thereby facilitating maintenance of the parts. In addition, the multi-flame type lighter only needs to provide a single gas supply pipe and a single flame outlet seat, so that the volume of the multi-flame type lighter may be greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventor: Chin-Chung Chuan