Head assembly for a radiant burner

A head assembly method, comprising:

• (a) providing a housing defining a plurality of identical housing apertures extending there through;
• (b) receiving an insulator by the housing, the insulator defining a corresponding plurality of identical, complimentarily-located insulator apertures extending there through;
• and
• (c) receiving at least one inlet assembly within one of the identical housing apertures such that the inlet assembly is removable from the housing without removing the housing from a burner;
• wherein each inlet assembly includes a housing portion configured to be received by one of the identical housing apertures, an insulator portion configured to fill the complimentarily-located insulator aperture and a deformable component located between the housing portion and the insulator portion and configured to be deformably received within the complimentarily-located insulator aperture, wherein the insulator portion comprises a block of ceramic material having an outer surface wherein a surface of the insulator aperture is fit to the outer surface of the ceramic material and in the block of ceramic material are formed a plurality of outlet apertures through which a plurality of outlets at least partially extend and are configured to provide an effluent gas stream.

A head assembly for a radiant burner, the head assembly comprising:

• (a) a housing defining a plurality of identical housing apertures extending there through;
• (b) an insulator received by the housing and defining a corresponding plurality of identical, complimentarily-located insulator apertures extending there through;
• and
• (c) at least one inlet assembly configured to be received by one of the identical housing apertures such that each inlet assembly is removable from the housing without removing the housing from the radiant burner;
• wherein each inlet assembly includes:
• a housing portion configured to be received by one of the identical housing apertures,
• an insulator portion configured to fill the complimentarily-located insulator aperture and comprising a block of ceramic material having an outer surface wherein a surface of the insulator aperture is fit to the outer surface of the ceramic material and the block of ceramic material has a plurality of outlet apertures formed therein and for each outlet aperture, a respective outlet that extends at least partially through the outlet aperture and is configured to provide an effluent gas stream;
• and
• a deformable component between the housing portion and the insulator portion that is larger than the complimentarily-located insulator aperture and is configured to be deformably received by the complimentarily-located insulator portion.