Cooking appliance, gas burner for this appliance and method for mounting such a gas burner on such appliance

• US 6,092,518 A
• Filed: 04/09/1999
• Issued: 07/25/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Burner Systems International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sourdillon SAS
• Inventors: Dane, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazarus, Ira S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cocks, Josiah C.
• Application Number:
  US09/284,220
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 126/214 D, 126/220, 126/39 R, 126/41 R, 126/39 B, 126/42, 126/39 E, 239/399, 239/402, 239/402.5, 239/461, 239/463, 239/466, 431/350, 431/354, 431/8, 431/9
• US Class Current: 126/214.00D
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/06 with radial outlets at the burner head
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/58 characterised by the shape or arrangement of the outlet or outlets from the nozzle, e.g. of annular configuration
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 2900/14064 Burner heads of non circular shape
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 3/085 on ranges

Abstract

The invention concerns a cooking appliance comprising devices for cooking of which at least one burner with spiralling flames. The ducts for delivering the fuel mix towards the external part of the burner with spiralling flames are inclined with respect to a peripheral line on which the flame outlets are distributed. The invention is useful for high-powered gas burners for cooking food.

Claims

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

several cooking devices distributed over a cooking hob, the cooking devices including, at the front of the appliance, two front cooking devices separated by a space and at least one of which is a gas burner including in particular a burner head, and having flame outlet orifices distributed around a peripheral line of a flame distributor ring forming part of the burner head, said orifices constituting the outside end of fuel mixture delivery ducts formed in the ring, said appliance further having;

in orthogonal projection in a mean plane perpendicular to the axis of said at least one of said front burners, the longitudinal directions of the ducts at their intersection with the peripheral line all exhibit an inclination to the same side with respect to this line such that the burner is a burner with flames spiralling about the axis of the burner,

the inclination is such that in each said burner generating the spiralling flames, the flames adjacent to the said space separating said two front burners are inclined towards the rear of the appliance such that when at least said two front burners are ignited, the flames are reinforced by convection currents passing between said front burners in the same direction as the flames.

2. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the most powerful gas burner is said burner with spiralling flames.

3. The appliance according to claim 1, further including at least one burner with substantially radial flames, of lower power.

4. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the burner with spiralling flames has a power greater than 3.5 kW.

5. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that said burner with spiralling flames is the only burner with spiralling flames of the appliance.

6. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the two front cooking devices are burners with spiralling flames for each of which the flames adjacent to the space are inclined towards the rear of the appliance.

7. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the second front cooking device is a second burner with spiralling flames, whose flames adjacent to said space are inclined towards the front of the appliance and which is less powerful than the first burner with spiralling flames.

8. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the second front cooking device is a second gas burner with radial flames.

9. The appliance according to claim 7, characterized in that the second gas burner has a power of less than 3.5 kW.

10. The appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one said burner with spiralling flames comprises a flame zone which is at least attenuated on the side facing said space.

11. The appliance according to claim 10, characterized in that the flame zone which is at least attenuated corresponds to a recess for an accessory, located between two of the delivery ducts on the flame distributor ring, and whose presence interrupts the regularity of distribution of the ducts by increasing the distance between said two ducts.

12. A gas burner for an appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the angle of said inclination is less than 40°

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13. The gas burner according to claim 12, characterized in that the angle of said inclination is greater than 20°

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14. The gas burner according to claim 12, characterized in that each block of material separating two consecutive ducts is projected, in a mean plane perpendicular to the axis of the burner, substantially as a quadrilateral having two opposite acute angles and two obtuse angles, each acute angle being adjacent to an obtuse angle and in that said acute angles are rounded.

15. The burner according to claim 12, characterized in that its maximum power is greater than 3.5 kW.

16. A method for mounting a gas burner with spiralling flames on a cooking hob designed for at least two cooking devices at the front and for at least one at the rear, comprising placing the burner with spiralling flames at the front of the cooking hob and on a side such that the flames adjacent to the other cooking device located at the front of the cooking hob are inclined towards the rear of the cooking hob.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising positioning the burner with spiralling flames such that a recess for an accessory of the burner, which causes a local flame attenuation in service, is located on the side facing said other cooking device.

18. A cooking appliance comprising:

several cooking devices distributed over a cooking hob, the cooking devices including, at the front of the appliance, two front cooking devices separated by a space and at least one of which is a gas burner including in particular a burner head, and having flame outlet orifices distributed around a peripheral line of a flame distributor ring forming part of the burner head, said orifices constitution the outside end of fuel mixture delivery ducts formed in the ring, said appliance further having;

in orthogonal projection in a mean plane perpendicular to the axis of the burner, the longitudinal directions of the ducts, at their intersection with the peripheral line, all exhibit an inclination to the same side with respect to this line, such that the burner is a burner with flames spiralling about the axis of the burner;

the inclination being such that the flames adjacent to the said space are inclined toward the rear of the appliance; and

at least one said burner with spiralling flames comprises a flame zone which is at least attenuated on the side facing said space.

19. The appliance according to claim 18, characterized in that the flame zone which is at least attenuated corresponds to a recess for an accessory, located between two of the delivery ducts on the flame distributor ring, and whose presence interrupts the regularity of distribution of the ducts by increasing the distance between said two ducts.

20. A gas burner for a cooking appliance comprising several cooking devices distributed over a cooking hob, the cooking devices including, at the front of the appliance, two front cooking devices separated by a space and at least one of which is a gas burner including in particular a burner head, and having flame outlet orifices distributed around a peripheral line of a flame distributor ring forming part of the burner head, said orifices constituting the outside end of fuel mixture delivery ducts formed in the ring, said appliance further having:

in orthogonal projection in a mean plane perpendicular to the axis of the burner, the longitudinal directions of the ducts, at their intersection with the peripheral line, all exhibit an inclination to the same side with respect to this line, such that the burner is a burner with flames spiralling about the axis of the burner;

the inclination being such that the flames adjacent to the said space are inclined toward the rear of the appliance;

the angle of said inclination being less than 40°

; and

each block of material separating two consecutive ducts being projected, in a mean plane perpendicular to the axis of the burner, substantially as a quadrilateral having two opposite acute angles and two obtuse angles, each acute angle being adjacent to an obtuse angle and said acute angles being rounded.

21. A method for mounting a gas burner with spiralling flames on a cooking hob designed for at least two cooking devices at the front and for at least one at the rear, comprising placing the burner with spiralling flames at the front of the cooking hob and on a side such that the flames adjacent to the other cooking device located at the front of the cooking hob are inclined towards the rear of the cooking hob, and such that a recess for an accessory of the burner, which causes a local flame attenuation in service, is located on the side facing said other cooking device.