Premixing apparatus

A premixing apparatus for mixing fuel gas with air to supply thus obtained air-fuel mixture, through a fan, to a burner,

• in which a downstream end of a gas supply passage having interposed therein a flow control valve for supplying fuel gas is connected to a gas suction section disposed in an air supply passage on an upstream side of the fan, the premixing apparatus comprising:
• an air resistance changeover device for changing over, between high and low, a ventilation resistance in that section of the air supply passage which is on an upstream side of the gas suction section;
• and
• a gas resistance changeover device for changing over, between high and low, a ventilation resistance in that section of the gas supply passage which is on the downstream side of the flow control valve,
• wherein the air resistance changeover device is constituted by a butterfly valve rotatably disposed in that section of the air supply passage which is on an upstream side of the gas suction section,
• wherein in that section of the air supply passage which is on the upstream side of the gas suction section, an inner tube containing therein the butterfly valve is disposed while leaving a clearance to an inner circumferential wall surface of the air supply passage, and;
• that a subsidiary passage which is parallel with a main passage inside the inner tube is constituted by the clearance between the inner circumferential wall surface of the air supply passage and an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube, and the main passage and the subsidiary passage supply air to the gas suction section.