Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
431326000 | POROUS, CAPILLARY, PARTICULATE OR SIEVELIKE FLAME HOLDER, E.G., RADIANT SURFACE BURNER, ETC. | 37 |
20090029306 | Ceramic Burner Plate - The present invention relates to a ceramic burner plate for infrared radiators which includes a lithium silicate as a main constituent. The burner plates according to the invention can have a content of lithium oxide within the range of 0.63% by weight to 7.6% by weight and they exhibit a high temperature resistance and are extremely durable. | 01-29-2009 |
20110027739 | Premixing-Less Porous Hydrogen Burner - This invention describes a new porous hydrogen burner that is intended to be installed on different types of furnaces requiring a precise monitoring of the thermal flux, and in particular furnaces for vapor-reforming of natural gas or naphtha. | 02-03-2011 |
20110045425 | MESO-SCALED COMBUSTION SYSTEM - A meso-scaled combustion system. In one aspect, the system has a housing with a housing wall, a top portion defining an exhaust port, and a bottom portion having a bottom surface. A combustion chamber is positioned therein the interior volume of the housing. The combustion chamber wall has a proximal portion adjacent the top portion of the housing and a distal portion spaced from the bottom surface of the housing. In another aspect, there is a lid that is in sealed relation with the housing wall and the combustion chamber wall. An annulus is defined by the lid, the combustion chamber wall, and the housing wall. | 02-24-2011 |
20140093830 | Aphlogistic Burner - A burner which is capable of producing zero NOx and zero CO by passing a thoroughly mixed stream of air and fuel at an appropriate air-to-fuel ratio to maintain a temperature below the NOx forming threshold through a radiant combustion zone. The radiant combustion zone provides the intense radiant energy required to initiate and to complete the combustion process. The burner comprises an Air-Fuel Ratio Attainment Means (AFRAM) and an Air-Fuel Mixing Means (AFMM) in fluid communication with the AFRAM to thoroughly mix the air and fuel to provide a readily combustible mixture, and one or more Radiant Combustion Zone (RCZ), and a Combustion Initiation Means (CIM) located in a combustion-initiation-contact position to initiate the combustion in the RCZ. A high velocity section or a porous flow permeable membrane is used as a combustion guard to prevent flameback from occurring. A second porous flow permeable membrane may be used as a flame trap for containing the infrared radiation within the radiant combustion zone. The burner can be used in commercial and domestic appliances and space heaters. At lower excess air the burner can be operated as an ultra low NOx burner. | 04-03-2014 |
20160186991 | HEAT DISPERSING ELEMENT - A heat dispersing element for a standard propane torch head for the generation of silent heat. This heat dispersing element attaches directly to the head, of a propane torch and operates silently. The heat dispersing element accepts the heat of the torch and silently disperses the heat through the burn plate and directs it outward silently. This is done through a series of openings. | 06-30-2016 |
431328000 | Means supplying fuel for passage through the flame holding structure, e.g., radiant surface burner | 32 |
20080227044 | Metal Foam Radiant Burner - An improved radiant burner which is particularly useful at low flow rates. The radiant burner has a reticulated metal foam with a first face and a second face and a density sufficient for combustion fuel to pass there through. The first face is adapted to be the initial contact for the combustion fuel passing through the reticulated metal foam. The second face is adapted to radiate after the combustion fuel has been ignited. The second face has a plurality of grooves | 09-18-2008 |
20090042155 | High efficiency radiant heater - A radiant tube heater with a burner assembly, a radiant tube assembly and a combustion air pre-heater; wherein the burner assembly comprises: a burner fuel nozzle; a plenum chamber and a pre-mixer chamber; the plenum chamber having a combustion air inlet; wherein in use: combustion air flows from said plenum chamber through an orifice to said pre-mixer where said air is mixed with burner fuel entering said pre-mixer through said nozzle prior to being combusted at a burner head; said pre-mixer being at least partly located within said radiant tube assembly; and where in use at least part of the combustion air supplied to said plenum is preheated in said air pre-heater using residual sensible heat of the hot combustion gas products of the heater. | 02-12-2009 |
20090053664 | Catalytic patio heater - A patio heater is disclosed comprising a cylindrical catalytic heating chamber mounted on a base. The patio heater of the present invention comprises a base to physically support a cylindrical catalytic heater chamber which is mounted inside a fuel vapor cavity. The catalytic heater chamber provides a cylindrical heating zone capable of heating a nearby human form the knee to the face. The fuel vapor chamber surrounds the catalytic heating chamber and acts to accumulate sufficient fuel and air mixture to ignite to provide uniform and sufficient heat to the catalyst surface to attain catalytic ignition on start up. The base offers physical stability for the assembly and storage space for a fuel tank and houses the fuel deliver system and ignitor controls. | 02-26-2009 |
20100255435 | LOW EMISSION AND FLASHBACK RESISTANT BURNER TUBE AND APPARATUS - A burner tube to provide combustible materials to a combustor is provided and includes an annular shroud and a center body, having a cavity defined therein, disposed within the annular shroud to form an annular passage, the annular passage being communicable with a combustion zone of the combustor at an aft portion thereof and including a fore portion in which fuel is injected into the annular passage. The center body includes a surface having a passage defined therein through which air is to be supplied to the annular passage from the cavity at a position, which is downstream from the fuel injection and upstream from the combustion zone. Also provided is a contouring of the centerbody. | 10-07-2010 |
20100273120 | PREMIX BURNER - The present invention provides a gas burner, preferably a premix burner, comprising a support having a central gas inlet port for supply of gas into a gas supply chamber. The gas supply chamber is enclosed by a first metal burner membrane at its side and an end cap opposite to said gas inlet port. The end cap is connected to the top of the first burner membrane. The burner membrane is connected at the bottom to the support through its base section. The end cap is formed by a second burner membrane. The exterior surface of the first burner membrane and the end cap is made of perforated heat-resistant sheet metal plate. | 10-28-2010 |
20110117509 | IMPROVED INSULATION FOR RADIANT BURNER - A radiant burner ( | 05-19-2011 |
20120164590 | Radiant Burner - The invention relates to a burner, in particular a radiant burner, for the combustion of a gas mixture of fuel gas and an oxygen carrier gas, with a burner plate with passage channels for the throughflow of the gas mixture from a mixing chamber side to a combustion side, wherein, on the combustion side, combustion channels with an enlarged cross-section compared with the passage channels connect to the passage channels, wherein flow obstacles for a contact with the combustion flame are arranged in the combustion channels and the flow obstacles are made of a material which has a higher thermal conductivity than the material of the burner plate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120178034 | BARBEQUE RADIANT BURNER - A radiant burner is disclosed that includes a body configured to form a tray having an open top and a perforated ceramic plate configured to fill the open top of the body and coupled to the body to form an enclosed volume. The radiant burner is configured such that the ceramic plate covers at least 90% of a projected top area of the radiant burner. | 07-12-2012 |
20120231402 | Portable Catalytic Drying Apparatus - The present relates to a portable catalytic drying apparatus for use in applications such as drying, curing, polymerisation and cross-linking of organic coatings and compounds. The apparatus comprises a catalytic combustion chamber where a co-current lean mixture of fuel and air is combusted, a casing connecting a fuel supply to the combustion chamber, a regulating valve for controlling the flow of fuel, and an injector for mixing the fuel with air thereby providing a lean mixture of uniform fuel-air concentration. | 09-13-2012 |
20120301836 | PLATE TYPE BURNER - A plate type burner includes a burner main body and burning plates mounted on an opened surface of the burner main body. A flange portion enclosing the opened surface is formed on an upper surface of the burner main body. The outer edge of each of the burning plates is placed on the flange portion with a sheet of packing interposed therebetween. The outer edge of each of the burning plates is pressed downward by a pressing plate. The flange portion is shaped in a stepped shape in which the inner part thereof on the side of the opened surface is formed lower than the outer part thereof. Then, the packing is compressed between the stepped part of the flange portion, the stepped part formed in the vertical direction, and the end face of the outer edge of each of the burning plates. Each of the burning plates is pressed to the inner side in the arrangement direction by the reaction force of the compression of the packing. | 11-29-2012 |
20120301837 | PLATE TYPE BURNER - A plate type burner includes a burner main body and a plurality of burning plates mounted on the open surface of the burner main body. A flange portion enclosing the open surface is formed on the upper surface of the burner main body. The outer edge of each of the burning plates is placed on the flange portion with a sheet of packing interposed therebetween. The outer edge of each of the burning plates is pressed downward by a pressing plate. A clamping plane inclining downward to the outer side is formed on the upper surface of the outer edge of each of the burning plates. Furthermore, an inclined abutting portion contacting the clamping plane of each of the burning plates by a plane of the abutting portion is formed in the pressing plate. | 11-29-2012 |
20130216965 | COMBUSTION-HEATING SYSTEM - A combustion-heating system includes a plurality of combustion heaters connected to each other, a combustion heater including: a heating plate; an arrangement plate; an annular outer peripheral wall; a partition plate; a combustion chamber in which fuel gas collides with a flame-holding part constituting part of the outer peripheral wall, and thereby holding flames; an inflow path through which the fuel gas flows into the combustion chamber; and an outflow path through which exhaust gas flows from the combustion chamber toward the outside thereof, the outflow path to preheat the fuel gas by heat of the exhaust gas through the partition plate. The combustion-heating system includes a communication path communicating combustion chambers thereof with each other. The flame-holding part and the communication path are provided in series in a direction in which the heating plate and the arrangement plate face to each other. | 08-22-2013 |
20130302741 | HIGH-STABILITY BURNERS - Burners for gas boilers are provided. Such burners include those having a diffuser, suitable for diffusing pre-mixed fuel gases in a combustion chamber, the diffuser having a wall provided with a plurality of diffusion openings; and a distributor, suitable for distributing the combustion gases towards the diffuser, the distributer having a wall provided with a plurality of distribution openings; wherein the diffusion openings are positioned at a diffuser portion and the distribution openings are positioned at a distributor portion, in which the diffuser portion and the distributor portion are laterally offset to each other relative to the direction of the fuel gas flow through said distribution openings and diffusion openings. | 11-14-2013 |
20130337390 | Combustion Plate - A combustion plate for use in a totally aerated combustion burner has a ceramic plate body with a multiplicity of flame holes formed therein for ejecting a premixed gas. The plate body is provided, in a lattice shape, with non-flame-hole portions having no flame holes therein. Each of such regions of the plate body as are enclosed by the non-flame-hole portions constitutes a collective flame-hole portion having formed therein a plurality of flame holes. It is so arranged that flame lifting can be effectively prevented in the flame holes on the periphery of the collective flame-hole portions. Along each of such sides of the non-flame-hole portions as are adjacent to each of the collective flame-hole portions, outside flame holes are formed at a predetermined spacing therebetween in a longitudinal direction of the non-flame-hole portions. This predetermined spacing is greater than a spacing, in the longitudinal direction of the non-flame-hole portion. | 12-19-2013 |
20140080079 | DEVICE FOR USE IN BURNER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A device for use in a burner, including a honeycomb body formed from a metal band. The metal band is laminated or coiled to yield a plurality of holes or apertures. The honeycomb body has first and second surfaces which are opposite to each other. The holes or apertures penetrate through the first surface and the second surface, and an outer boundary of the first surface and an outer boundary of the second surface are connected whereby yielding a lateral surface. A through hole is disposed on the lateral surface of the honeycomb body and penetrates inward through multiple layers of adjacent laminated or coiled metal bands, and a metal wire is disposed in the through hole; and/or, a part of the laminated or coiled metal bands on the first surface and/or the second surface are embedded, overlapped and engaged with adjacent metal bands to form an embedded member. | 03-20-2014 |
20140170580 | GAS BURNER - A gas burner | 06-19-2014 |
20140272744 | Stone Burner for a Fragrance Lamp - Provided is a stone burner for a fragrance lamp, which has a first socket and a base detachably connected to the first socket. The first socket has a first wall and a second wall opposite to the first wall. The base has a second socket and a body connected to the second socket. The second socket is detachably connected to the second wall of the first socket and has a hole formed in the second socket at a position proximal to the first socket and an aperture formed in the second socket at a position distal from the first socket. The hole and the aperture of the second socket are not in communication with the first wall of the first socket. | 09-18-2014 |
20150330623 | CATALYTIC BURNER - A catalytic burner includes a porous diffuser member and a porous distributor member. At least one seal extends between the porous diffuser member and the porous distributor member thereby defining an oxidation chamber. Catalyst media particles for catalyzing an oxidation reaction of a fuel stream to produce heat and an exhaust stream is disposed within the oxidation chamber. The catalyst media particles comprise carrier particles. The carrier particles comprise refractory material, and at least some of the carrier particles have thereon an outer coating comprising an oxidation catalyst. The catalyst media particles have a void fraction of at least 0.6. | 11-19-2015 |
20160091200 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED START-UP - A combustion system includes a combustion fluid charge source and a start-up flame holder configured to attract the charge and hold a flame when the combustion system is cool and allow the flame to lift when the combustion system is warmed up. | 03-31-2016 |
20160116160 | COMBUSTION PLATE - A combustion plate is for use in a totally aerated combustion burner in which a plate main body made of ceramic has formed therein a multiplicity of flame holes for ejecting a premixed gas. The plate main body is provided, in a lattice shape, with non-flame-hole sections free of flame holes. Each of those sections of the plate main body which are enclosed by the non-flame-hole sections constitutes a collective flame-hole section having formed therein in a crowded manner a plurality of flame holes. Flame holes formed in those peripheral portions of the collective flame-hole sections which are adjacent to the non-flame-hole sections are smaller in diameter than the diameter of the flame holes formed in those portions of the collective flame-hole sections which are inner than the peripheral portions. | 04-28-2016 |
20160123578 | BURNER - A burner comprises a tubular diffuser wall and an inlet passage a flow of a mixture of gas within the diffuser wall, as well as a first diaphragm arranged in the inlet passage, said diaphragm forming a plurality of through openings and a plurality of guide surfaces delimiting the through openings on a radially outer side thereof so that, when introducing the mixture, said guide surfaces and said through openings direct the mixture towards the inside of the burner and in a radial direction towards the longitudinal axis. | 05-05-2016 |
20160146458 | A HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR A RADIANT BURNER - A head assembly for a radiant burner, an inlet assembly and a method are disclosed. The head assembly is for a radiant burner. The head assembly may include a housing defining a plurality of identical housing apertures extending therethrough, an insulator received by the housing and defining a corresponding plurality of identical, complimentarily-located insulator apertures extending therethrough, and at least one inlet assembly configured to be received by one of the identical housing apertures. Each inlet assembly may include a housing portion configured to be received by the one of the identical housing apertures, and an insulator portion configured to fill the complimentarily-located insulator aperture. In this way, a head assembly is provided which has a number of apertures, any of which may receive an inlet assembly. Given that each inlet assembly is configured to be received by any of the apertures, this provides flexibility for the insertion and removal of the assemblies, without needing to completely disassemble the head assembly from the radiant burner. Also, by forming the inlet assembly with a housing portion and insulation portion, the assembly can be located within the head assembly and the insulating portion prevents heat damage. | 05-26-2016 |
20160161113 | COMBUSTION PLATE - A plate body | 06-09-2016 |
431329000 | Woven screen holds flame | 9 |
20100190123 | Burner Plate Assembly for a Gas Oven - A wire mesh burner plate for use in large, gas burners for large ovens is comprised of spaced-apart wire mesh plates. The spacing between the wire mesh plates defines an air/fuel mixture space. The fuel passes through the lower or first mesh, experiences a pressure drop, mixes with air and passes through a second wire mesh. The gas combusts after passing through the second wire mesh. The fine gauge of the mesh prevents combustion from flowing backwardly into the fuel/air mixture space. Several individual wire mesh burner plates can be flexibly attached to each other such that a very wide space can be covered. Thermal stresses are reduced by being distributed across multiple burners. | 07-29-2010 |
20100266972 | High Temperature Fiber Composite Burner Surface - A burner surface and creation method are provided. The burner surface includes a frame with a compact layer of unsintered metal and ceramic fibers that have been vacuum cast to a surface of the frame. The layer of unsintered metal and ceramic fibers is not greater than 0.5 inches, and is created without using substantial amounts of polymer pore forming or binding agents. The frame and compact layer additionally include a plurality of apertures that form holes through the burner surface plate. The burner surface plate may be formed by attaching a perforated screen to a fixture, inserting pins through apertures in the screen, introducing a suspension of metal and ceramic fibers into a space above the screen, vacuum casting the metal and ceramic fibers onto the screen to form a layer of metal and ceramic fibers, removing the plurality of pins from the apertures to form a corresponding set of apertures through the layer of metal and ceramic fibers, drying the layer of metal and ceramic fibers to remove moisture, applying colloidal silica to the layer of metal and ceramic fibers, and drying the burner surface. | 10-21-2010 |
20100316967 | BURNER, SPECIFICALLY A PREMIX GAS BURNER - What is described is a burner, specifically for gas fuels with premixing, comprising a burner body designed to be housed in a combustion chamber of a heating apparatus, the burner body being provided with a burner head on which an air and gas mixture supplied to the combustion chamber is burnt, in which the burner head has a surface profile in the form of a dome-shaped spherical segment, the height of the dome being less than half of the diameter of the sphere to which the segment belongs. | 12-16-2010 |
20110111356 | IMPROVED RADIANT BURNER - A radiant burner comprises a body defining a premixing chamber and a combustion chamber. The premixing chamber is separated from the combustion chamber by at least one radiant burner plate ( | 05-12-2011 |
20130059257 | BURNER - A gas burner including a burner body having a lower housing, an inlet conduit and a combustion surface element attached to the lower housing. A diffuser/reflector positioned within the body encourages even distribution and mixing of a combustible gas/air mixture. The diffuser/reflector is preferably of a sheet metal construction and includes a plurality of stamped openings with each of these openings having an overhanging guide plate. The combustion surface element includes a plurality of integrally formed rigidizing ribs and is made from a high temperature steel alloy wire cloth. The inlet conduit is secured directly or indirectly to an access door/bulkhead that is used to close off an access opening formed in a water heater wall through which the burner is installed. In one construction, an air scoop shrouds the inlet conduit and at least partially defines a flow path of primary air, substantially isolated from the combustion chamber. | 03-07-2013 |
20130273485 | GAS FIRED RADIATION EMITTER WITH EMBOSSED SCREEN - The present invention relates to a gas fired infrared radiation emitter comprising a burner plate ( | 10-17-2013 |
20140234792 | Evaporator Arrangement - An evaporator arrangement for an evaporator burner for a mobile heating device is provided, having: an evaporator body support into which a fuel supply line for supplying a liquid fuel opens, and an evaporator body for distributing and evaporating the liquid fuel. The evaporator body comprises at least one layer of a metal woven fabric of interwoven metal wires. | 08-21-2014 |
20150147708 | BRAIDED BURNER FOR PREMIXED GAS-PHASE COMBUSTION - A surface burner for gas combustion has a burner surface which is fabricated by intertwining or interweaving an elongated flexible element across a distinct burner frame. This fabrication method can be best referred to as braiding, but also plaiting, lacing or another comparable method. | 05-28-2015 |
20160116161 | INFRARED RAY GAS BURNER WITH WINDPROOF FUNCTION - An infrared ray gas burner with windproof function consisting of a nozzle ( | 04-28-2016 |