Fire extinguishing device for oil burner
AssigneeToyotomi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuharu Nakamura, Yutaka Nakanishi, Toshihiko Yamada
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Abstract
A fire extinguishing device for an oil burner capable of instantaneously and surely accomplishing the fire extinguishing with ease and without generating any bad odor. A wick receiving chamber has a width larger than the thickness of a wick received therein and an air chamber communicated to the wick receiving chamber is disposed adjacent thereto. The air chamber is adapted to be communicated to an ambient atmosphere during the combustion operation and to be shut off therefrom by means of a valve. The fire extinguishing of an oil burner is accomplished by utilizing an air stored in the air chamber.
Claims5
A fire extinguishing device for an oil burner comprising:
- a wick receiving chamber having a width larger than the thickness of a wick received therein;
- an air chamber disposed adjacent to said wick receiving chamber and having an opening communicated to said wick receiving chamber;
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- a valve means provided at said air chamber, said valve means being actuated corresponding to the movement of said wick so as to allow said air chamber to be communicated therethrough to an ambient atmosphere when raising said wick and to allow said air chamber to be shut off from an ambient atmosphere when lowering said wick.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.