Mixer And Flame Holder Patents (Class 431/354)
  • Publication number: 20020034713
    Abstract: This invention describes an ignition flame for a gas cooking burner that uses an ignition flame system to reignite a gas burner when the burner's flame is extinguished due to drafts or cross winds, when the gas burner is set on very low settings, even in the presence of a side wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Uwe Harneit, Humberto Delgado
  • Publication number: 20020015930
    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: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Roger L. Poe, Wesley Ryan Bussman, I-Ping Chung, Ralph Robert Hayes, Jaiwant D. Jayakaran, Andrew Jones, Jason D. McAdams, Demetrs T. Venizelos, Richard T. Waibel
  • Publication number: 20020006591
    Abstract: A gas mixing device for use with a combustion burner assembly is disclosed. The gas mixing device includes an elongate gas expansion nozzle adapted to be positioned within a burner housing, the gas expansion nozzle defining a gas expansion chamber therein extending from a first end to a second end thereof. An inlet port and an outlet port are defined at the respective ends of the gas expansion nozzle. At least one oxidizing gas passageway formed separately of the gas expansion chamber extends from the first end of the second end thereof, and has an oxidizing gas outlet at the second end of the gas expansion nozzle. At least one fuel gas passageway is also formed separately of the gas expansion chamber and extends from the first end to the second end of the gas expansion nozzle, and has a fuel gas outlet at the second end thereof. An elongate gas inlet nozzle is also positioned within the burner housing and is spaced from the first end of the gas expansion nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventor: John R. Hugens
  • Publication number: 20020001786
    Abstract: Improved burner performance is achieved by providing an atmospheric gas burner with a spiral-shaped burner body. A plurality of ports is formed in the burner body so as to be in fluid communication with the burner's internal chamber. Preferably, the burner body includes a substantially cylindrical hub section and an arm section that is joined at one end to the hub section and bends around the hub section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Joel Meier Haynes, Victor Caloca, Jeronimo Ramirez
  • Patent number: 6332773
    Abstract: A handle (1) for gas burners, wherein a plug insert is locked in an axial direction by means of a lock (10) and rotation of the plug insert is fixed at a particular position. When the lock (10) is activated, the rotational locking can be released so as to modify the rotational position of the plug insert, without having to remove the plug insert from the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: J. Lorch Gesellschaft & Co. GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Kuhn
  • Patent number: 6331109
    Abstract: A premix burner consisting essentially of a swirl generator for a combustion air stream or another gaseous oxidizing medium and of conduits for injecting fuel into the swirl flow thus generated. As a result of a discontinuous cross-sectional widening at the transition to the combustion space, the swirl flow bursts open and a backflow bubble is formed, which serves for flame stabilization. For use under extreme thermal conditions, the burner front is provided with a heat shield which is fastened to a carrier structure in such a way as to allow, as unimpeded as possible, differential thermal expansions. The carrier structure is preferably provided with orifices, through which cooling air for the impact cooling of the heat shield flows. In a preferred variant, the fuel gas supply is designed as pipes which are led through orifices of the swirl generator without any fixed connection. As a result of this design, thermal stresses in the material of the burner are avoided as far as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd.
    Inventors: Bettina Paikert, Christian Steinbach, Richard Straessle, Dieter Winkler
  • Patent number: 6328556
    Abstract: A cooktop panel having a throughgoing main mounting hole and upper and lower faces has a burner having a holder underneath the panel, engaging the lower face at the hole, and provided with a gas inlet and a gas nozzle and a burner head mainly above the panel, engaging the upper face at the hole, and forming a downwardly extending intake passage into which the nozzle can feed gas. Fasteners engaged through the panel between the holder and the head retain the holder and head against the respective lower and upper faces. A burner cover atop the burner head forms therewith an annular gas-distribution chamber comunicating with the passage and forms with the burner head an annular array of outlet openings. This cover in formed with an upwardly projecting rack-centering collar defining a central seat. A rack atop the cover is formed centrally with a centering pin engaged in the seat. The holder is formed with a radially projecting mounting arm in turn formed with at least one vertically through-going igniter hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Isphording Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz S{overscore (o)}mer
  • Patent number: 6325616
    Abstract: A pulsating combustion unit includes an elongate combustion chamber having an interior cross-section, an intake end and an exhaust end and sides which are parallel from the intake end to the exhaust end. There is an intake portion adjacent to the intake end and an exhaust portion adjacent to the exhaust end. Preferably the combustion chamber has a generally equal cross-section between the intake end and the exhaust end. The combustion chamber may have an intake bulkhead adjacent to the intake end. The intake portion includes a slot in the bulkhead. The intake portion may also include a pair of spaced-apart plates extending outwardly from the slots in the bulkhead. Preferably these plates are spaced-apart closer together than the combustion chamber. The exhaust portion may include an exhaust bulkhead having an opening therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Inventor: John D. Chato
  • Patent number: 6325619
    Abstract: A gas burner with multiple gas rings comprising: a burner body (6) mountable underneath a top plate, with a cut-out section, of an appliance and incorporating a first, upwardly directed gas injector (14) and a second gas injector (9) followed by a horizontal tubular Venturi (10) opening into a vertical well (12); an outer burner head (3) seated on the body (6) through the cut-out section and spaced at a distance above the plate and provided with an annular chamber (22) open above the well (12) and having one or two rows of orifices for flames (4,5); and an inner burner head (1) shaped so as to have a radial divergent (37) coaxially supplied by the first injector through a recess located at the center (31) of the head (3), ports being provided in the head (3) so that all the primary air and the secondary air needed to operate the multiple burner arrives from the top of the top plate of the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Sourdillon
    Inventor: Bernard Dane
  • Patent number: 6318993
    Abstract: Cooking appliances including burners particularly configured to improve heating and reduce exposure of the burner above the cooktop include a burner head defining a chamber enclosed by a peripheral wall and a plurality of burner ports communicating between the chamber and the exterior of the head. A burner cap covers the burner head, and the burner head preferably includes extended fingers to improve the dispersion of the burner flame. Preferably, the burner cap conforms with the shape of the burner head. In addition, the burner includes a base for supporting the burner on a cooktop opening. The burner base and the burner head include openings to form a primary flow passage for drawing the flow of gas to the burner. In addition, secondary flow passages communicate with secondary bypass ports formed in the burner body, preferably in the head or between the burner head and other burner parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventor: Vincent M. S. Huang
  • Publication number: 20010041318
    Abstract: Torch tip for a torch, the tip adapted to be in fluid communication with a fuel gas and oxygen source for generating a flame, the torch tip including a tubular or substantially tubular body having a plurality of flame emitting spaced orifices, wherein the tubular body preferably is substantially U-shaped and includes a pair of spaced substantially parallel elongated legs. The torch tip can be used to simultaneously heat a plurality of closely spaced pipes for ease of removal or attachment to an object such as a reversing valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Applicant: KEVIN S. LEMARK
    Inventors: DAVID S. PEARL, DAVID A. FOSTER, FRANK G. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20010041316
    Abstract: Increased turndown ratio is achieved by providing an atmospheric gas burner having a burner body with a plurality of ports formed therein and a fuel flow divider disposed in the burner body. The fuel flow divider defines a primary fuel chamber and at least one secondary fuel chamber, wherein the secondary fuel chamber is in fluid communication with at least one of the ports and the primary fuel chamber is in fluid communication with the remaining ports. A first mixing tube introduces a fuel-air mixture into the primary fuel chamber, and a second mixing tube introduces a fuel-air mixture into the secondary fuel chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Joel Meier Haynes, Victor Caloca, Jeronimo Ramirez
  • Patent number: 6315552
    Abstract: Increased turndown ratio is achieved by providing an atmospheric gas burner having a burner body with a plurality of ports formed therein and a fuel flow divider disposed in the burner body. The fuel flow divider defines a primary fuel chamber and at least one secondary fuel chamber, wherein the secondary fuel chamber is in fluid communication with at least one of the ports and the primary fuel chamber is in fluid communication with the remaining ports. A first mixing tube introduces a fuel-air mixture into the primary fuel chamber, and a second mixing tube introduces a fuel-air mixture into the secondary fuel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joel Meier Haynes, Victor Caloca, Jeronimo Ramirez
  • Publication number: 20010036610
    Abstract: A radiative heat gas burner is described of the type which may be used to fire a domestic grill. The burner head has an inlet port and comprises a pressing which together with a perforated metal sheet defines a chamber in which a combustion gas flows prior to flowing through the perforations in the sheet and combusting thereon. The sheet of metal sealingly connected to the pressing forms a combustion surface on which the combustion of gas flowing through the perforations occurs, but the invention lies in the discovery that it is not necessary to provide large apertures in the sheet which reveal portions of gauze sheets disposed parallely behind the combustion surface and which glow and thus radiate heat during operation of the burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventor: Graham Wood
  • Patent number: 6303088
    Abstract: A process for the production of hydrogen bromide gas by direct combustion of bromine in hydrogen involves carrying out the combustion reaction in an apparatus chamber made of impregnated graphite and a cooling zone composed of a steel jacket in which are piled blocks of impregnated graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Atofina
    Inventors: Sylvie Daire, Gilles Drivon, Thlerry Nodari, Michel Leydecker
  • Patent number: 6299436
    Abstract: Cooking appliances including burners particularly configured to improve heating and reduce exposure of the burner above the cooktop include a burner head defining a chamber enclosed by a peripheral wall and a plurality of burner ports communicating between the chamber and the exterior of the head. A burner cap covers the burner head, and the burner head preferably includes extended fingers to improve the dispersion of the burner flame. Preferably, the burner cap conforms with the shape of the burner head. In addition, the burner includes a base for supporting the burner on a cooktop opening. The burner base and the burner head include openings to form a primary flow passage for drawing the flow of gas to the burner. In addition, secondary flow passages communicate with secondary bypass ports formed in the burner head or between the burner head and other burner parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventor: Vincent M. S. Huang
  • Patent number: 6293786
    Abstract: A burner fed with a flow of an air-fuel mixture, has a venturi tube arranged at the inside of a tubular burner body provided with through apertures through which said flow passes. The venturi tube is supported and centered in the body at one of its ends. Additional support and centering means of said venturi tube are provided at the inside of said tubular body. The additional support and centering means are provided with control means controlling the distribution of said flow of said air-fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Worgas Bruciatori S.r.l.
    Inventors: Feliciano Lasagni, Giuseppe Fogliani
  • Publication number: 20010023053
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for continuation of combustion with an oxy-fuel combustion system when the supply of oxygen is temporally reduced or stopped. Air or oxygen enriched air and fuel are introduced into the device being heated in place of the oxy-fuel mixture to effect combustion and maintain the heating level in the furnace. Water cooling of the furnace gases is used to reduce the volume of exhaust gases when operating in the air or oxygen enriched air mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Bryan Clair Hoke, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Kevin Alan Lievre, Joseph Michael Pietrantonio
  • Patent number: 6283114
    Abstract: A grill having a bi-level tent configuration, a burner assembly and a grill shell. The lower, first tent has an “I”-shaped configuration. The upper, second tent has a plurality of openings. The burner assembly is formed from stamped metal. The upper piece of stamped metal has a raised or embossed area with multi-level ports. The burner and tent arrangement provides even distribution of heat to the cooking surface and flare-up control. The use of stamped metal for the burner assembly provides for a cost efficient and easy to assemble grill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Sunbeam Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Giebel, Daniel M. Stewart, Don Freber, Robert Minor, Henry Schubert
  • Patent number: 6276926
    Abstract: An injector for water free of external torch external torch gas injector comprising an outer tube, a first inner tube and a second inner tube. The outer tube has a side tube and a plurality of outer tube emission holes. The outer wall of the outer tube joins with a ball-and-socket joint. The plurality of outer tube emission holes is at the front end of the outer tube. The outer tube encloses the first inner tube. The first inner tube has a side tube and an inner tube emission hole. The inner tube emission hole is also at the front end of the outer tube. The outer tube also encloses the second inner tube. The second inner tube has an inner tube inlet and an inner tube emission hole. The second inner tube inlet is at the back end of the outer tube. The second inner tube emission hole is on the wall of the outer tube, near the largest cross-section of the ball-and-socket joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tony Chen, I-Ho Huang
  • Patent number: 6276927
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a gas burner includes a nozzle body having a tip end and an open end in which three netted members and a stop ring are received. An aperture is defined through a periphery of the nozzle body and the aperture communicates with an interior of the nozzle body and the open end. A space is defined between two adjacent netted members so as to provide a space for mixing gas and air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
  • Publication number: 20010014437
    Abstract: A gas burner for cooking areas includes a lower part and an upper part. The upper part has gas repulsion ducts with gas outlet openings for gas flames. The upper part is rotatably mounted on the lower part by a compressed-air bearing configured to apply a compressed-air cushion to pneumatically lift the upper part off the lower part for allowing contactless turning of the upper part in relation to the lower part about an axis of rotation. The gas repulsion ducts are formed to drive the upper part in relation to the lower part about the axis of rotation by gas flowing through the gas repulsion ducts at positive pressure. Such a configuration makes it possible to evenly distribute the heat of the flames in the periphery of the burner and to minimize minimum gas burner output by using less flames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Joachim Damrath, Dieter Brunner, Martin Kornberger
  • Patent number: 6270338
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method for operating a premix burner which has improved operational reliability and functioning during certain types of operation. In addition, it is intended to specify a corresponding premix burner for carrying out the method. According to the invention, this is achieved by the fact that at least one liquid fuel (2) is injected into the inner chamber (9) of the premix burner (4) in a plain jet (26, 26′) with an injection angle &agr; of less than 10°. For this purpose, the liquid-fuel nozzle (17) has a simple injection opening (19) with a guide length (1) and with a diameter (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Jaan Hellat, Jakob Keller, Robin McMillan, Roger Suter
  • Patent number: 6267585
    Abstract: A plate burner for combusting hydrogen with air as an oxidizer forms a wall portion of a combustion chamber for example of a gas turbine. The plate burner is so constructed that air and hydrogen are separately guided to the downstream surface area facing into the combustion chamber for forming a large number of diffusive microcombustion flames, thus achieving a very low mixing scale simultaneously with a high nixing intensity. The number of diffusive micorcombustion flames is so selected that the NOx content in the exhaust gas from the combustion chamber is at the most 10×10−6 cubic foot per cubic foot of exhaust gas. The hydrogen enters the entrance area into the combustion chamber either through a porous wall, and air is injected into the hydrogen environment to form inverse diffusive microcombustion flames or the hydrogen is injected through a multitude of fine holes into high velocity air jets forming regular diffusion flames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Aerospace Airbus GmbH
    Inventor: Friedemann Suttrop
  • Patent number: 6267586
    Abstract: The inventive burner can receive air and fuel and discharge a fuel/air mixture for combustion at a periphery of the burner while limiting NOx emissions. The burner has a central axis and includes first and second plates constructed and arranged so as to form between them a central chamber and a plurality of burner ports extending outwardly of the chamber. The first and second plates have an outer periphery spaced outwardly from the central axis. The second plate indudes an opening for receiving the air and fuel into the chamber. The outer periphery of the second plate extends from the central axis by a greater distance than the outer periphery of the first plate. The second plate has an outer peripheral portion in which a plurality of openings may be formed. Also included is a method for operating the burner so as to limit NOx emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Beckett Gas, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Maricic
  • Patent number: 6263868
    Abstract: A gas stove burner has a base having an annular outer edge and a lower ring sitting on the base, forming therewith a lower compartment, and having an outer edge forming with the base outer edge an outwardly open annular slot communicating with the lower compartment. An upper ring sitting on the lower ring forms therewith an upper compartment and has an outer edge forming with the lower-ring outer edge an array of outwardly open holes communicating with the upper compartment. The upper-ring outer edge has a diameter generally equal to a diameter of the lower-ring outer edge. A gas/air mixture is fed to each of the compartments so that the gas will issue from the holes to form an upper flame and from the slot to form a lower flame of substantially the same diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: AGT Gas Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Koch, Randy Rummel, Dennis Dacey
  • Patent number: 6261089
    Abstract: The burner is a fuel gas burner with low NOx content emissions, of the type having one or more units (1), provided with slits in whose correspondence the combustion develops, each of said units being fed the mixture composed by fuel gas and comburent air through a Venturi tube (2). The main characteristic of the burner object of the present invention lies in that a fan (6) is included that can supply in a continuous manner during the running of the burner, an air volume in the range 1-30% the air volume required as a whole by combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Industrie Polidoro A. SpA
    Inventor: Polidoro Aldo
  • Patent number: 6250913
    Abstract: A burner for combusting gaseous mixture of gaseous fuel with a combustion supporting gas, such as oxygen or air, comprising a burner tube (11) open at one end (11′) and closed at its other end (11″) with a flame holder (30) at which fuel is burnt adjacent the open end (11′), the flame holder (30) being traversed by passageways (52, 54, 56, 58) for the gaseous mixture, the burner (10) having inlets (14, 16) adjacent the closed end (11″) connected to combustion supporting gas and gaseous fuel supply lines, one of said lines having a control valve operable for controlling the size of the flame, the said one line having a pressure or flow transducer and the other line having a variable booster or restricter responsive to the transducer, for balancing air and fuel supplied to the burner (10) to ensure the gaseous mixture remains stoichiometric irrespective of the size of the flame and such that the lowest gaseous fuel mixture flow rate is at least as low as {fraction (1/60)}th the highest f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Graveson Energy Management Ltd.
    Inventor: Maurice Edward George Maton
  • Publication number: 20010004515
    Abstract: A three-stage lean burn combustion chamber (28) comprises a primary combustion zone (36), a secondary combustion zone (40) and a tertiary combustion zone (44). Each of the combustion zones (36,40,44) is supplied with premixed fuel and air by respective fuel and air mixing ducts (54,70,92). The fuel and air mixing ducts (54,70,92) have a plurality of air injections apertures (62,64,76,98) spaced apart in the direction of flow through the fuel and air mixing ducts (54,70,92). The apertures (62,64,76,98) reduce the magnitude of the fluctuations in the fuel to air ratio of the fuel and air mixture supplied into the at least one combustion zone (36,40,44). This reduces the generation of harmful vibrations in the combustion chamber (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas Scarinci, Ivor J. Day, Christopher Freeman
  • Patent number: 6244854
    Abstract: This invention relates to a burner and a method of combustion for producing a flame jet sheet or sheets for various applications in industrial furnaces. The burner has at least one linear or curvilinear flame nozzle having a ratio of width to height of greater than unity in order to produce high velocity and high temperature flame jet sheet or sheets with a well defined geometry. The burner is capable of being scaled to various sizes for various industrial furnace applications due to its geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Prentice Satchell, Jr., Christian Juan Feldermann
  • Patent number: 6244263
    Abstract: A gas cooking burner includes a burner base having a base chamber, a burner head having at least one air and fuel mixture exit port, and a venturi having opposed relatively open ends, the venturi providing a passage between the burner base and the burner head. The base chamber surrounds one of the opposed relatively open ends of the venturi and the base chamber has an inner wall which reduces from a wider portion to a narrower portion with a fuel inlet providing access for fuel into the base chamber and a combustion air inlet being disposed about at least a portion of a periphery of the wider portion of the base chamber. The burner further including a means for securing the burner head to the burner base such that the burner head may be lifted off the burner base for inspection and cleaning of the burner base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Inventors: Erich J. Schlosser, Mohammed Shoeb, Horst Uwe Harneit
  • Patent number: 6213761
    Abstract: A heating apparatus for combusting a fuel-air mixture which includes a combustion chamber with an inlet at one end and a combustion outlet at the other end, a catalyst-containing substrate disposed in the combustion chamber, a fuel supply in communication with the inlet for supplying fuel, and a fuel-air mixing assembly for providing a uniform fuel-air mixture to the combustion chamber. The mixing assembly includes one or more openings for drawing a controlled proportion of primary air which is mixed with the fuel and combusted in the combustion chamber. The use of primary air improves efficiency and reduces the reliance on secondary air. Limiting the proportion of primary air to approximately 15-20% of the stoichiometric mass of air required substantially reduces the emission of hazardous combustion by-products such as carbon monoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: The Coleman Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Franklin T. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6200131
    Abstract: A burner set adaptable to standard commercial ovens that allows for the quick change-out of burners. Sockets, threaded on one end and open on the other end, are installed in existing threaded couplings in communication with a burner manifold. Each socket has a burner guide attached to the open end and receives a burner in the open end. The burners are secured to the oven by a burner support with a pivotally attached gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Recot, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Arnold Birch, Gary Warren Swingle
  • Patent number: 6190163
    Abstract: A burner nozzle includes a burner tube that extends along a central axis and has an inlet end portion for receiving combustible gas and air. At least one body or chamber has a passageway in communication with the burner tube along the central axis which leads to an elongated outlet end portion. At least one flame-shaping opening is located adjacent the outlet end portion. Each flame-shaping opening may be constructed and arranged effective to elongate (broaden the width of) flame resulting from combustion of the mixture transverse to the central axis to produce efficient heat transfer between the flame and air inside a heat-receiving member disposed downstream of the outlet opening. A flame length reducing member may be used instead of or in addition to the flame-shaping opening and the flame shaping opening may itself reduce flame length. A burner assembly may include a combustion tube in which the burner nozzle is disposed and connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Beckett Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Maricic, Thomas F. Hutchinson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6168422
    Abstract: There is provided a gas incinerator having a combustion chamber above a lower chamber and communicating therewith. Combustion air flows into the lower chamber, thence upwardly toward the combustion chamber. Vanes are provided in the lower chamber, to impart a rotational movement to the air as it rises toward the combustion chamber. Nozzles are located toward the bottom of the combustion chamber for injecting the fuel, in the form of gas, into the combustion chamber so as to cause the injected gas to rotate oppositely to the air rotation, in order to provide substantial turbulence and mixing. The injection direction of the gas also lies substantially parallel with a hypothetical plane transverse to the axis of the cyclonic movement of air, thus avoiding an axial component in the injection direction of the gas, and therefore minimizing the expulsion of gas, air and combustion products from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Questor Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Motyka, John K. S. Loh
  • Patent number: 6162045
    Abstract: A burner system is provided which creates standing waves in the gas/air flow within the burner so as to vary the pressure distribution along the length of the burner and thus the heights of the flames produced along the length of the burner. By changing the standing waves, the pressure distributions within the burner are changed, thereby causing the burner to produce changing flame patterns that simulate realistic wood burning flame patterns. In another embodiment, two orthogonal or sinusoidal gas/air flows offset by a phase angle are generated within the burner creating a beat frequency. By varying the phase angle offset, the rate of occurrence of the beats defining the beat frequency are varied resulting in the variation of the pressure distribution within the burner. Consequently, the flame patterns generated by the burner are varied simulating the appearance of realistic wood burning flame patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Superior Fireplace Company
    Inventor: Gary M. Hazard
  • Patent number: 6162048
    Abstract: A pilot assembly for producing a pilot flame including a pilot which includes a housing and a multiple orifice member mounted to the housing. The housing includes a gas flow passageway providing gas fuel from a gas source to the pilot flame. The orifice member positions one orifice in the passageway for metering the rate of gas flowing through the passageway, and hence combusted by the pilot, according to the type of gas. The orifice member can be moved relative to the housing so that another orifice is in the passageway for metering the gas when the pilot receives a different type of gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Howard Griffioen
    Inventors: Robert Howard Griffioen, Randall Raymond Dillivan, Douglas Charles Johnson, Don Alan Weber
  • Patent number: 6155821
    Abstract: A burner assembly for a multi-fuel stove includes a nozzle that is vertically oriented during operation of the stove wherein the nozzle is connected to a number of flanges that extend along and in directions away from the nozzle and have upper portions extending up to a level that is above the nozzle and have channels formed between them for the passage of gas. By this arrangement, different fuels including petrol to photogen and even fuels with higher vaporization temperatures can be effectively vaporized and burned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Optimus International AB
    Inventor: Mads Hellum
  • Patent number: 6155211
    Abstract: A gas water heater including a water container adapted to be heated by a gas burner; and an enclosure surrounding the burner, the enclosure having at least one entryway adapted to allow air and fumes to enter the enclosure without igniting flammable gases or vapors outside of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: SRP 687 Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Zoran Valcic, Geoffrey Mervyn Whitford, Brendan Vincent Bourke
  • Patent number: 6152725
    Abstract: Provided with a nozzle insulator including,: an insulator body formed from an insulator material; a nozzle guider provided in the insulator body; a through hole formed in the wall of the insulator body; and multiple nozzles of a flame generator to provide power of high-temperature flames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: WIN Corporation LTD
    Inventor: Byung Kug Lee
  • Patent number: 6146132
    Abstract: A multi piece gas burner assembly that is machined or cast and having a burner base that contains holes for primary air where the hole dimensions do not exceed the height of a jet mounted therein. The burner base is fastened onto an appliance. The burner head rests upon a boss on the burner base and has a tube that directs a flammable gas-air mixture from the burner base into a cavity created between the burner head and the burner cap. The burner cap rests upon the burner head and contains an outer edge that is turned downwards in order to allow fluid to drip away from the flame. A groove is cut into the burner cap just inside the down turned outer edge and provides a location for a support flame. The location of the groove prevents fluid and dust from collecting inside the groove. The groove captures the flammable gas-air mixture, which provides a constant ignition source for the gas-air mixture through slots in the burner cap when ignited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Inventor: Uwe Harneit
  • Patent number: 6139312
    Abstract: A gas burner comprises an elongated tubular body with a sidewall which has outer end edges between which there are apertures which pass through the sidewall; a flange with a central through hole and an opposite base cap, the sidewall, flange and base cap being attached to one another in such a way that together they define a first mixing chamber, in which a flow of gas and air, received through the flange, exits the tubular body through the apertures in the sidewall; the flange and base cap having opposite guides; the sidewall being wound in a spiral and having juxtaposed longitudinal edges with fluid tight seals and outer end edges inserted in the guides with a play designed to allow the perimeter of the sidewall to expand or contract according to changes in the temperature of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Worgas Bruciatori S.r.l.
    Inventor: Feliciano Lasagni
  • Patent number: 6139311
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for operating a pilot burner apparatus and a main burner apparatus of a gas-fired appliance. The pilot burner apparatus draws combustion air from a first environment. The main combustion apparatus draws air from a second environment. In a shutdown condition, such as when a flammable vapor source is accidentally exposed to the second environment, the pilot burner apparatus draws air containing an undesired flammable vapor which eliminates the pilot flame, triggering a gas valve to close and shut down the fuel gas supply to the main burner apparatus and the pilot burner apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: John A. Bowman, Karen R. Benedek, Stephan E. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6135061
    Abstract: A gas water heater including a water container adapted to be heated by a gas burner; and an enclosure surrounding the burner, the enclosure having at least one entryway adapted to allow air and fumes to enter the enclosure without igniting flammable gases or vapors outside of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: SRP 687 Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Zoran Valcic, Geoffrey Mervyn Whitford, Brendan Vincent Bourke
  • Patent number: 6132205
    Abstract: This invention incorporates a multi-ring burner assembly utilizing at least two flame rings to gently and evenly warm food and a third flame ring in conjunction with the first two flame rings for cooking food.This design has the further advantages of easy replacement of both the igniters and the gas jets from the top of the appliance without having to remove the unit from the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Inventor: Uwe Harneit
  • Patent number: 6126439
    Abstract: In a premix burner, the swirl-stabilized interior space (18) has a conical inner body (13) running in the direction of flow. The outer casing of the interior space (18) is pierced by tangentially arranged air-inlet ducts (11a, 12a) through which a combustion-air flow (16) flows into the interior space (18). The swirl flow (23) forming in the interior space (18) is enriched with a fuel via at least one fuel lance (17). The mixture of the two media is then formed in the downstream mixing tube (21). The mixing tube (21) then merges into a combustion space (31) via a jump in cross section, a backflow zone (32) forming in the region of the plane of the jump in cross section, which backflow zone (32) ensures the stability of the combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: ABB Alstom Power (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: Hans Peter Knopfel, Giacomo Bolis
  • Patent number: 6123543
    Abstract: Flame outlet rail for a gas burner of the atmospheric, pre-mix type. The rail includes a shell defining a plenum closed at one end and open at another end to receive an air/fuel mixture and having a length between the ends. The shell has a longitudinal orifice extending along the length of the shell. A grid made of sheet metal pierced by a series of rectangular slits is positioned over the longitudinal orifice of the shell and communicates an interior of the shell with the exterior thereof to permit the air/fuel mixture to flow therethrough so as to form a flame front upon ignition. The grid has a longitudinal axis in parallel with the longitudinal orifice and a length. The slits which extend perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, are distributed on either side of the longitudinal axis and form a sinusoid extending over the entire length of the grid, which increases a length of the flame front. The slits (2) are spaced apart by a distance, e, constant along the longitudinal axis (3) of the flame outlet grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Sauniter Duval Eau Chaude Chauffage SDECC
    Inventors: Lila Menari, Stephen Daemon Andrews
  • Patent number: 6106276
    Abstract: A gas burner is provided for use on the inlet end of a fire tube, and includes a mixer having attached to it a gas delivery pipe, fuel gas and air being combined in the mixer to provide mixed gas and air. A venturi is secured at its inlet end to the mixer to receive the flow of gas and air, the venturi serving to draw air into the mixer. A burner nozzle is affixed to the venturi outlet end and the burner nozzle and extends within the fire tube. A perforated tube surrounds the mixer/venturi and at least a portion of the burner nozzle. A sound absorbing flame cell housing surrounds the perforated tube. A flame arrestor closes an air inlet opening in the flame cell housing air and serves to permit air to pass into the flame cell housing but prohibits the passage of flame therethrough so that flame is confined within the interior of the flame cell housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: National Tank Company
    Inventors: Gary W. Sams, Merle B. Inman
  • Patent number: 6102692
    Abstract: In a burner for a heat generator, having a swirl generator (100) arranged upstream of the combustion zone (30), fuel injection is connected with the combustion air (115), swirled in the swirl generator, in such a way that the injection angle of the fuel jet (105) belonging to the fuel nozzle (104) corresponds approximately to the setting angle of the sectional bodies forming the swirl generator relative to the axis (60) of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: ABB Alstom Power (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: Klaus Dobbeling, Christian Steinbach, Thomas Ruck
  • Patent number: 6095794
    Abstract: An improved fireplace assembly is described having a folded sheet metal burner manifold divided into three regions, being an upper burner, a lower burner and an intermediate communicating riser. This single manifold chamber is provided with two separate gas inlets, each of which may deliver a different primary air to fuel mix suitable for use with an array of burner ports and an associated set of simulated logs to create different sizes and shapes of flames, or flame patterns. The flame patterns generate hot exhaust gases which heat portions of the simulated logs to glow. The burner ports used in the assembly to generate suitably attractive flame displays may include large or non-circular apertures or slots having local reinforcement to resist deformation of those apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventors: Donald Reginald Jamieson, Susan Leslie Birtch, Claudia Maria Dwyer