Internal flame gas burner with high compactness

• US 7,083,123 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2003
• Issued: 08/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gdf Suez
• Original Assignee: Gaz de France
• Inventors: Molla, Jean-Claude
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOGAN, JAMES SEAN
• Application Number:
  US10/735,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20040195399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• Field of Search: 239/288.5, 239/544, 239/296, 239/558, 239/567, 239/398
• US Class Current: 239/419.5
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/06 with radial outlets at the burner head
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 3/085 on ranges

Abstract

The invention relates to an internal flame gas burner comprising a gas injector (1), a vacuum tube (2), and an annular chamber (5) formed by a pot (3) covered by a cap (4), the chamber having an internal edge (51) perforated with flame exit ports (510), and the tube (2) having a convergent section open to the ambient air at an inlet end, and a divergent section succeeding the convergent section, ending at the outlet of the tube and opening out into the chamber, the injector being relatively closer to the inlet of the tube than to the outlet.

According to the invention, the tube extends longitudinally along an axis (X) contained in a mid-plane (P) of the annular chamber, this tube having a length (L2) at most equal to twice the greatest distance (R) separating the internal edge (51) of the chamber from the center (50) of this chamber.

Claims

1. Internal flame gas burner comprising a gas injector, a vacuum tube, or venture, ensuring an induction of primary air, a pot, and a cap, the cap covering the pot and together with the pot defining an annular distribution chamber for a fuel mixture of air and gas, the chamber having an internal edge that surrounds the center of this chamber and that is perforated with flame exit ports, and the vacuum tube having an inlet open to the ambient air, first and second longitudinal sections having, respectively, convergent and divergent profiles, and an outlet opening into the annular chamber, the first section originating at the inlet of the tube, the second section succeeding the first section and ending at the outlet of the tube, and the injector being relatively closer to the inlet of the vacuum tube than to the outlet of this tube, characterized in that the vacuum tube extends longitudinally along an axis inscribed substantially in a mid-plane of the annular chamber, and in that this tube has a length at most equal to twice the greatest distance separating the internal edge of the chamber from the center of this chamber.

2. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the internal edge of the chamber is circular.

3. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the length of the tube is at most equal to the diameter of the internal edge of the chamber.

4. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the length of the tube is at most equal to the radius of the internal edge of the chamber.

5. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the tube opens out into the chamber in a radial direction in relation to the internal edge of the latter, and in that this chamber is equipped with a distribution baffle for the fuel mixture, shaped like an arc of a circle and interposed between the outlet of the tube and at least some of the flame exit ports arranged opposite this outlet.

6. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the outlet of the tube has respectively, in the mid-plane and perpendicular to the mid-plane, a width and a height, the height being less than the width.

7. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that, perpendicular to the mid-plane, the second section of the tube has a substantially constant height up to the outlet of the tube.

8. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that, perpendicular to the mid-plane, the second section of the tube and the chamber have substantially equal heights.

9. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the baffle occupies only a portion of the height of the chamber, and is arranged closer to the cap than to the pot.

10. Internal flame gas burner, as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a device for holding the injector, itself including a gas inlet line, a support plate, and a stirrup, the injector being mounted at a free end of the gas inlet line, the support plate being integral with the vacuum plate and supporting the gas inlet line at a distance from the opening of the support plate.

11. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the injector opens out into the first section of the vacuum tube.

12. Internal flame gas burner as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the vacuum tube is formed from two parts that are substantially symmetrical to each other with respect to the mid-plane of the annular chamber.