Combustion inventions 07/07

20070172780 - method pertaining to combustion, and a burner: A method and apparatus relating to the combustion of a fuel with an oxidant in a heating furnace, wherein the fuel and the oxidant are delivered to a burner head. In a first method step fuel and oxidant are emitted from the burner head in close proximity to each other,... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070172781 - Staged combustion method with optimized injection of primary oxidant: The invention relates to a fuel combustion method in which one jet of fuel and at least two jets of oxidant are injected. According to the invention, the first jet of oxidant, known as the primary oxidant jet, is injected such as to be in contact with the jet of... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20070172782 - Disposable lighter with safety ignition feature: A disposable lighter with safety ignition unit is comprised of a body and a head, wherein a nozzle, a ring, a wind mask, a lever press plate, a spring, a flint, a bracket and an igniting wheel set with safety ignition unit are arranged on said head. The igniting wheel... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20070172783 - Dual fuel gas-liquid burner: A burner for use in furnaces such as those employed in steam cracking. The burner includes a primary air chamber for supplying a first portion of air, a burner tube having an upstream end and a downstream end, a burner tip having an outer diameter, the burner tip mounted on... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20070172784 - Dual fuel gas-liquid burner: A dual-fuel burner for use in furnaces such as in steam cracking. The burner includes a primary air chamber, a burner tube having an upstream end and a downstream end, a fuel orifice located adjacent the upstream end of the burner tube for introducing gaseous fuel into the burner tube,... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20070172785 - Dual fuel gas-liquid burner: A burner for use in furnaces such as in steam cracking. The burner includes a primary air chamber for providing at least a portion of the combustion air, a burner tube having an upstream end and a downstream end, a fuel orifice located adjacent the upstream end of the burner... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20070166653 - Vacuum level measurement apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for measuring a vacuum level in a fuel oil line for an oil furnace. The apparatus comprises a measurement device, a first indicator, a second indicator, and an input device. The measurement device is for measuring a vacuum level in the fuel oil line. The fuel... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070166654 - Method and device for extinguishing a candle: An apparatus useful for extinguishing a flame of a candle, with preparation of the candlewick for relighting, is single-hand grippable and adapted for use to apply candle wax, or another candle fuel material, to a surface of a burning candlewick. Methods are also provided for extinguishing a flame of a... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070160941 - Lighter: The present invention is to provide a lighter comprising a body including a recess at its forward end; a flame spout received in the recess, the flame spout having both sides in its rear in pivotal connection to both sides of the recess such that the flame spout is adapted... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070160942 - Chip lighter actuation mechanism: A lighter includes a lighter casing, a gas valve, an ignition nozzle, a piezoelectric unit, and an actuation mechanism which includes a chip actuator and an actuating arm. The lighter casing, which is shaped and sized to form a stack of chips, includes an outer chip wall, and an opposed... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070160943 - Monolith for use in regenerative oxidizer systems: A ceramic packing element comprising a monolith structure having a generally block shape and having plurality of equally spaced parallel openings therein extending the length of the block where the openings have generally straight sides and corners which are rounded. The corners are substantially radiused to produce the rounded corners.... Agent: Roetzel And Andress

20070160944 - Automatic gaslight igniter/controller and burners: The physical parameters of the device are also important. The device is sized so that it will fit easily inside of a 3-inch lamppost, or install easily within most gas lamp heads. The device is flexible in configuration to allow the burner/probe to be oriented axially with the igniter, or... Agent: Arnold W. Knight

20070160945 - Foldable ignition gun: A foldable ignition gun includes an ignition gun body and a hiding member, and the ignition gun body includes a gas storage tank, an igniting section, and an electric arc generator, and the gas storage tank has a gas outlet valve, and a switching section is disposed on a side... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070160946 - Combustion type waste gas treatment system: A combustion type waste gas treatment system capable of oxidatively decomposing a hazardous combustible waste gas while heating efficiently with a structure which allows the waste gas to mix with an auxiliary burning gas efficiently without the occurrence of backfire in a waste gas inlet pipe. The combustion type waste... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070154854 - System and method using cool hydrogen flame for destruction of vocs and odorous compounds: A system for using cool hydrogen flame for destruction of VOCs and odorous compounds comprises an existing exhaust system for an industrial process or a factory. The existing exhaust system comprises at least an exhaust duct or a chimney for exhaust gases. The exhaust gases may comprise of odorous compounds... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070154855 - System, apparatus and method for flameless combustion absent catalyst or high temperature oxidants: A system, apparatus and method whereby flameless combustion is precipitated and maintained in a combustion chamber having a surface that is either convex, concave, straight or any combination thereof without the need for catalysts or high temperature oxidants. The apparatus allows the combustion chamber to operate in a conventional combustion... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070154856 - Dual fuel boiler with backflow-preventing valve arrangement: A dual fuel boiler has fuel delivery apparatus coupled to its burner section through a pressure regulator and operative to deliver to the burner section, from sources thereof, a selectively variable one of (1) a first fuel at a pressure greater than the pressure regulation setting of the pressure regulator,... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070154857 - Light emitting melody candle: Disclosed herein is a light emitting melody candle. The light emitting melody candle of the present invention has a sensing means provided around a wick of a candle body to detect whether the candle is lit, so that, when the candle body is lit, a melody is played from a... Agent: Young Kook Cho

20070154858 - Gas burner assembly including inner and outer burners and methods for implementing same: A gas burner assembly for a cooking appliance that includes a cooktop surface includes a gas burner assembly having a first gas burner including a first burner body. The first burner configured to be mounted on, and contact, the cooktop surface, and provide a cooking flame. The gas burner assembly... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)