Ribbon-type, gas-fired burner head

Abstract

A ribbon-type, gas-fired burner head usable as a heat source, which head may also be combined with a refractory body to form an infrared radiation heater. The burner head includes a pair of parallel plates having a circular, oblong or other configuration having a continuous contour free of discontinuities, and a stack of continuous corrugated ribbons having the same configuration sandwiched between the peripheral margins of the plates to define an internal fuel chamber. Fed into this chamber through an inlet nipple attached to one of the plates is a mixture of pressurized combustion air and gaseous fuel in a stoichiometric ratio, the mixture being expelled from the chamber through a continuous array of minute jet openings created by the stack of ribbons. By igniting the expelled mixture, there is projected from the head a generally planar, omni-directional flame whose intensity is substantially uniform in all directions.

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