Gas burner and cooking apparatus using such a burner

• US 6,655,954 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2001
• Issued: 12/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Burner Systems International Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sourdillion
• Inventors: Dane, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Basichas, Alfred
• Application Number:
  US09/970,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20020039713A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 431/354, 126/39.R, 126/39.E
• US Class Current: 431/354
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/06 with radial outlets at the burner head
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 2900/14064 Burner heads of non circular shape
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 3/085 on ranges

Abstract

All-gas burner, the shape of the peripheral wall of which is not circular in order to increase the heat exchange surface with the item to be heated. The ejection orifices which cross this peripheral wall are created so as to permit a substantially complete combustion of the gas.

Claims

1. A burner comprising:

a non-circular peripheral wall and orifices provided through said wall in order to eject a primary gaseous mixture along an ejection axis associated with each orifice, said orifices are arranged so that the ejection axis of any first orifice diverges from the ejection axis of a second orifice closest to said first orifices;

a venturi including an annular radial divergence chamber which is defined by a throat;

a recompression chamber for recompressing a primary gaseous mixture, said chamber being defined between said divergence chamber and said peripheral wall of said burner; and

a direct path of said primary gaseous mixture defined between said throat of said venturi and an orifice, said direct path comprising a first partial path through said divergence chamber and a second partial path through said recompression chamber, wherein said first and second partial paths are each longer when said direct path is longer.

2. The burner according to claim 1, wherein a ratio between a radius of a circle circumscribed at said peripheral wall and a radius of a circle inscribed in said peripheral wall is less than three.

3. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said peripheral wall contains at least one neutralized segment.

4. The burner according to claim 3, wherein said divergence chamber is extended up to said at least one neutralized segment of said peripheral wall.

5. The burner according to claim 3, wherein said orifices comprise at least one pair of successive slightly covergent ejection orifices separated by a neutralized segment.

6. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said peripheral wall is partially concave.

7. The burner according to claim 6, wherein said at least one neutralized segment occupies a concave part of said peripheral wall.

8. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said peripheral wall includes at least one convex segment.

9. The burner according to claim 8, wherein a majority of said ejection orifices are provided through a convex segment of said peripheral wall.

10. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said ejection axes are directed away from said peripheral wall.

11. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said peripheral wall is configured so that said wall is reachable at any periphery point by at least one finger of a hand, in particular for cleaning.

12. The burner according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said ejection orifices is connected to at least one neighboring ejection orifice by a flame duct.

13. The burner according to claim 12, wherein all said ejection orifices are connected to each other by a flame duct.

14. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said ejection axes are inclined in the same direction relative to a zone of said peripheral wall from which said ejection axes have respectively issued.

15. The burner according to claim 1, wherein said burner is an all-gas burner.

16. A cooking apparatus including at least one burner according to claim 1.

17. The cooking apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said burners are set in different orientations from each other around their respective vertical axes.