Converging flame burner

• US 6,619,280 B1
• Filed: 05/30/2002
• Issued: 09/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dongsheng Zhou, Michael W. Loth
• Original Assignee: Dongsheng Zhou, Michael W. Loth
• Inventors: Zhou, Dongsheng, Loth, Michael W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Basichas, Alfred
• Application Number:
  US10/158,700
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 126/39.R, 126/38, 126/40, 126/9.R, 431/354, 239/552, 239/543
• US Class Current: 126/39.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/085 with injector axis inclined to the burner head axis

Abstract

The burner possesses set of holes capable of directing high pressure combustion flame toward a upper center point concentrating heating power, extremely suitable for heating the bottom of a wok or any round bottom cooking vessel. With an adapter, another set of holes is capable of producing upward and outward spreading flame for flat bottom type cooking vessels. A protection guard can be put around the first wind guard preventing an operator accidentally touching the wind guard during cooking.

Claims

1. A burner for outdoor cooking, comprising:

an outer piece of gradually open up cone shape with hollow center at its bottom, the bottom of said outer piece being connected to a venturi pipe, and said pipe accepting high pressure gas and air mixture during cooking,

an inner piece whose outer perimeter surface is of gradually opening cone shape, lower section of said outer perimeter surface has equally spaced slots joining holes connecting said outer perimeter surface and inner perimeter surface, and

a set of bolt, nut and washer joining said outer and inner pieces tightly to form a small gas/air chamber for maintaining high gas and air mixture pressure,

whereby forced high pressurized gas and air mixture from said venturi pipe through said chamber and holes to form inward, upward and concentrating combustion flame joining at a center point above.

2. The burner of claim 1, wherein the upward and outward cone shape wall of the outer piece is taller than the height of said inner piece, to serve as an additional wind guard.

3. The burner of claim 1, wherein slope of holes connecting said outer and inner perimeter surfaces of said inner piece forms an angle with respect to horizontal plane of 100-85°

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4. The burner of claim 1, wherein said outer piece is lower in height than said inner piece, and said inner piece has an outer stretching edge covering the top perimeter of said outer piece tightly, and said inner and outer pieces can be either outward and upward cone type or simply have vertical perimeter walls.

5. A burner for claim 1, wherein outer perimeter surface of said inner piece further comprises equally spaced slots extending through from bottom to top, and said burner further has an adapter with a flat surface having same number of slots on its outer perimeter as those of said inner piece and inside fins bent to fit the inner perimeter shape of said inner piece, and said adapter is adjustably mounted on said inner piece to cover either holes or slots on said inner piece and never both, and forced high pressurized gas and air mixture through said holes forms inward, upward and concentrating combustion flame joining at a center point above, or through said slots of said inner piece along the inner surface of said outer piece forms outward, upward and spread out combustion flame.