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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186996 | Combustion apparatus Provided is a combustion apparatus capable of preventing a heat loss from a combustion cabinet without deteriorating a combustion performance thereof. According to the present invention, a part of an inner side surface of a combustion cabinet (1), which enclo... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7878799 | Multiple burner arrangement for operating a combustion chamber, and method for operating the multiple burner arrangement What are described are a multiple burner arrangement and a method for operating such a multiple burner arrangement with a multiplicity of individual burners which are designed as premix burners and which serve for firing a combustion chamber of a thermal engine and ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878798 | Coanda gas burner apparatus and methods A gas burner apparatus for discharging a mixture of fuel gas, air and flue gas into a furnace space of a furnace wherein the mixture is burned and flue gas having a low content of nitrous oxides and carbon monoxide is formed is provided. The burner tile includes at ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7591648 | Burner apparatus A burner assembly includes a fuel nozzle and an air-fuel mixing cone coupled to the fuel nozzle. Fuel is discharged from the fuel nozzle into a mixing chamber formed in the air-fuel mixing cone. Air passes into the mixing chamber through openings formed in the air-f... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7481650 | Direct gas-fired burner assembly with two-stage combustion A direct gas-fired burner assembly is disclosed in which a two-stage flame is produced. A gas manifold is attached to two baffles with apertures disposed therein. The apertures are designed such that a fuel rich zone occurs near the manifold, while a lean zone occur... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7402038 | Combustion method and apparatus A burner has a port facing into a combustion chamber along an axis. A secondary fuel injector structure has secondary fuel injection ports that face into the combustion chamber at locations spaced radially outward from the burner port. A tertiary fuel injector struc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7373778 | Combustor cooling with angled segmented surfaces A combustor liner for a gas turbine includes a body having a plurality of angled strips on an outside surface of the combustor liner. The plurality of angled strips are arranged in an array about the outside surface. A space is disposed between each of said pluralit... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7367798 | Tunneled multi-swirler for liquid fuel atomization An air swirler capable of liquid fuel atomization for a fuel fired burner in a furnace or boiler having a hollow guide pipe supporting several swirl blades at an end adjacent to the furnace. Openings connected by tunnels to the inside of the guide pipe are provided ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357820 | System for converting fuel and air into reformate The invention relates to a system for converting fuel and air into reformate with a reformer which has a reaction space, a nozzle for supplying a fuel/air mixture to the reaction space, and a fuel feed for supplying fuel to the nozzle. In the invention, the air inle... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347086 | System and method for burner-based accelerated aging of emissions control device, with engine cycle having cold start and warm up modes A method for accelerated aging of an automotive catalytic converter under conditions incorporating cold start simulations. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7305829 | Method and apparatus for acquiring heat from multiple heat sources The present invention relates to systems and methods for implementing a closed loop thermodynamic cycle utilizing a multi-component working fluid to acquire heat from two or more external heat source streams in an efficient manner utilizing countercurrent exchange. ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7277801 | Method for testing catalytic converter durability The present application relates in general to methods for testing the performance of an automotive catalytic converter under conditions simulating those which occur in motor vehicles over extended driving conditions. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273366 | Method and apparatus for destruction of vapors and waste streams A burner assembly for the destruction of noxious vapors and other waste streams includes an inner burner element in the form of a sudden expansion burner and an outer burner element that encircles the inner burner element and forms an annular passageway between the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7241138 | Burner with stepped fuel injection In a burner (1) having an interior space (22) surrounded by at least one shell (8, 9) in which burner (1) fuel is injected through fuel nozzles (6) arranged at the burner shells (8, 9) into a combustion air stream (23... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7213348 | Gas burner and air heater assembly for a gas clothes dryer A burner for a gas dryer is made up of a mixing tube having an open end for admission of gas fuel into the mixing tube. At least one other opening proximate to the open end serves to admit air into the mixing tube for mixing the air and the gas fuel. A burner head i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198483 | Burner unit and method for operation thereof Arranged upstream of each swirl-stabilized premix burner (1) of a burner system there is respectively an adjustable distributing device (5) with control valves (V1, . . . , V8) and/or on/off valves (V″1, . . . , V″ | 04/03/2007 |
| RE39425 | Oxygen-fuel burner with integral staged oxygen supply A burner assembly is provided for combining oxygen and fuel to produce a flame. The burner assembly includes a burner block formed to include a flame chamber having inlet and outlet openings, a bypass structure for conducting oxygen outside of the flame chamber to t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7137809 | Method for the production of a burner unit In the case of swirl-stabilized premix burners (1), an axial mass flow distribution of the fuel introduced which has especially favorable values with respect to characteristics such as NOx emission and maximum amplitudes of pulsations occurring is ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7086855 | Apparatus having improved wind resistance that is a synergistic combination of a windshield and a brooder heater pilot assembly The invention is an apparatus that is a synergistic combination of a windshield and a pilot light assembly for a gas burner heater. The apparatus provides reliable operation of the gas burner heater in high air flow conditions, where the air flow would normally caus... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7051956 | Ejector device for direct injection fuel jet Disclosed is a device for increasing entrainment and mixing in an air/fuel zone of a direct fuel injection system. The device comprises an ejector nozzle in the form of an inverted funnel whose central axis is aligned along the central axis of a fuel injector jet an... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7003960 | Method and appliance for supplying fuel to a premixing burner A method and an appliance are described for supplying fuel to a premixing burner for operating a gas turbine, which premixing burner has at least one burner shell (1, 2) at least partially bounding an axially extending premixing burner space, having a premixi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6984124 | High temperature rise makeup air unit A direct-air, gas-fired air makeup heating unit is disclosed which provides reduced nitrogen dioxide emissions with a higher temperature rise. The unit includes a combustion chamber with a protective chamber downstream of the combustion chamber. At high firing inten... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6971235 | Evaporative burner An evaporative burner that includes an igniter assembly, a swirler, an evaporation chamber, and a reverse throat. The reverse throat has raised ends that protrude into the evaporation chamber. The reverse throat in combination with the evaporation chamber and the sw... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968672 | Collar for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine This invention relates to a combustion chamber arrangement for a gas turbine, with a number of individual combustion chambers which open into an annular gap, leading to a turbine chamber, whereby burners are arranged before the individual combustion chambers, connec... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6951454 | Dual fuel burner for a shortened flame and reduced pollutant emissions A dual fuel burner including an elongated supply pipe and a gas injector for a boiler furnace having a plurality of peripheral openings around a center opening. The peripheral openings are pitched radially away from the longitudinal axis of the gas injector and also... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6939130 | High-heat transfer low-NOcombustion system A combustion apparatus comprising a pre-combustor stage and a primary combustion stage, the pre-combustor stage having two co-axial cylinders, one for oxidant and one for fuel gas, in which the fuel gas is preheated and the primary combustion stage having rectangula... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939126 | Gas burner A gas burner (10) includes an internal cavity (20) for receiving a gas and air mixture and an external substantially cylindrical wall (16) surrounding the cavity (20). The wall (16) is provided with through holes (32) for al... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6929469 | Burner apparatus An apparatus includes a furnace structure defining a reaction zone. A burner structure communicates with the reaction zone through a burner port. The burner port is centered on a burner axis and has a radius. A fuel inlet structure communicates with the reaction zon... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6926516 | Combustion method and burner The present invention relates to a combustion method and a burner for forming a flame temperature having a flat temperature distribution which is the same as that in a case of a long furnace length even if a furnace length is short, and performs complete combustion.... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6921261 | Air-heating gas burner A burner (10, 210, 310, 410) including a fuel manifold (12, 212, 312, 412), perforated air-mixing plates (14, 16, 214, 218, 414) coupled to the fuel manifold to define a fuel-air mixing region (22, 473) therebetween above the fuel manifol... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6918194 | Heating configuration for a drier A heating configuration for a drier, particularly for a laundry drier, has a burner with a burner head, a first heating channel with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and a second heating channel with an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The cross-sectional... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6918256 | Method for the reduction of combustion-driven oscillations in combustion systems and premixing burner for carrying out the method A method and a device are described for the controlled damping of combustion-driven oscillations in a turbomachine with a burner system providing at least one burner, into which is introduced, via at least one burner nozzle arranged centrally in the burner, fuel whi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910878 | Oxy-fuel fired process heaters Process heaters operated with a burner that uses high-oxygen oxidant gas instead of air and that recirculates and entrains combustion gases, wherein oxidant gas is injected at an angle to the fuel nozzle. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6773257 | Burner for the production of a hot gas In a burner (10) for the production of a hot gas, which burner (10) opens with a burner outlet (22) edged with an outlet edge (16, 17) into a combustion chamber (23), in which a fuel-air mixture flowing out from the burner outlet (... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6688882 | Gas burner with spaced orifice A gas burner forces a premixing of the incoming gas with ambient air by moving the front face of the gas orifice upstream from the normal location and spacing it from the front face of the venturi portion of the burner. The premix air is pulled through th... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6685463 | Air and fuel staged burner A burner (10) for reducing NOx emissions where supply fuel (16) and supply air (20) are supplied to a combustion tunnel (52) at high and low velocities and secondary air (26) is supplied to a secondary combustion zone (60), wherein products of ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6659762 | Oxygen-fuel burner with adjustable flame characteristics An oxy-fuel burner generates a long, luminous, stable and adjustable flame temperature profile flame by incorporating separate, fuel and oxygen jets oriented in a unique geometry. In one preferred embodiment, the fuel is injected horizontally at medium in... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6558154 | Burner system with staged fuel injection and method for its operation A burner system with staged fuel injection includes a burner with a swirl generator (1) for a combustion air stream and device(s) for introducing fuel into the combustion air stream, wherein the fuel introducing devices include at least two separate fuel ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6526964 | Direct gas-fired burner assembly A gas burner assembly, including its gas intake manifold, in combination with upper and lower tiered baffles, and includes the side chambers for regulation of flow if air through a draw in and through type of burner assembly, to provide heated air for a b... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6499993 | External dilution air tuning for dry low NOX combustors and methods therefor A combustor having a combustion liner and at least one combustor orifice assembly, the combustor orifice assembly comprising a boss, an orifice plate that defines an orifice, the orifice plate having a bottom surface that is adapted to be received by the ... | 12/31/2002 |
