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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4589843 | Infra-red irradiation Improved techniques for infra-red generating gas-fired burners to heat-treat substrates with or without the added heating effects of the hot combusted gases generated by the burners. Burners can have ceramic fiber mat held over shallow combustion mixture ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4534727 | Liquid fuel burner having an oxygen sensor located in a flame In a liquid fuel burner of the type wherein vaporization of the fuel is sustained by the heat of its own flame, an oxygen sensor is located in the flame to provide a signal when the flame diminishes indicating the occurrence of an oxygen shortage conditio... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4493634 | Kerosene heating stove with temperature and carbonic oxide sensors A kerosene heating stove is equipped with a temperature sensor and a carbonic oxide sensor. The temperature of a space is maintained at a constant level by automatically increasing and decreasing the burning length of a wick in the kerosene heating stove ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4486170 | Liquid fuel combustion apparatus In a liquid fuel combustion apparatus, the upper end of a wick is ready to be ignited when it projects upward from a pan portion, and is extinguished when it is withdrawn downward from the pan portion. The wick moves up and down as a first operating lever... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4482311 | Burner with oxygen shortage sensor An oxygen shortage sensor is placed in a space defined above a burner unit exposed to the atmosphere. When an oxygen shortage condition is detected by the oxygen shortage sensor, an alarm is raised from an alarm unit or combustion of the burner unit is st... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4417870 | Liquid fuel combustion apparatus A liquid fuel combustion apparatus comprises a combustion cylinder for supporting a wick to be vertically movable between a combustion position and an extinguished position, a rotating shaft connected to said wick for raising and lowering said wick, a dri... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4392813 | Combustion appliance with safety device In a combustion appliance with a safety device therein, an inner flame cylinder, a red-heat cylinder and an outer cylinder disposed concentrically on the outer side of the red-heat cylinder are provided to constitute a combustor and an oxygen sensor is di... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4363620 | Fire extinguishing device for oil burner 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 there... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4344751 | Flares Flarestack for disposal of combustible gases having source of flame extinguishing material such as halogenated hydrocarbon connected to the fuel gas supply line at a point upstream of the burner head. The material may be activated remotely to extinguish o... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4255120 | Portable safety flare for combustion of waste gases A portable safety flare for combustion of waste gases is disclosed for the combustion of combustible gas from oil wells, combustible waste gas from oil refineries and chemical plants, and particularly where it is not desired to go to the expense of instal... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4147495 | Waste gas dispersion stack Waste gas dispersion stacks are described, suitable for use on-shore and off-shore, for disposal of combustible gas without combustion by rapid dispersion into the atmosphere to reduce the waste gas concentration to below combustible or explosive levels, ... | 04/03/1979 |
