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US 5,899,686 AGranted
Gas burner apparatus having a flame holder structure with a contoured surface
AssigneeGas Research Institute
InventorsPhilip Carbone, Karen Benedek, Michael J. Farina
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Abstract
A burner apparatus for gas-fired appliances, such as gas furnaces. The burner apparatus includes an improved flame holder structure, with a contoured surface, for controlling the shape and contour of the flame.
Claims15
A flame holder apparatus, for use with burner apparatus for gaseous fuels, of the type configured for holding a flame and directing the combustion products of the flame into a heat exchanger plenum, the flame holder apparatus comprising:
- a plate member, having at least one flame holder region having a plurality of apertures,
- the apertures being configured into two regions,
- the apertures of a first region being disposed for directing flow through the plate and in a radially outward direction, relative to the at least one flame holder region,
- the apertures of a second region being disposed for directing flow through the plate and in a radially inward direction, relative to the at least one flame holder region.
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