Combustion inventions 06/08

20080153042 - Integrated oxy-fuel combustion and nox control: The efficiency of selective non-catalytic reduction reactions for converting NOx in a flue gas to molecular nitrogen is improved by producing the flue gas from combustion of fuel with oxidant having an oxygen concentration above that of air.... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080153043 - Method and apparatus for controlling a burning candle flame: A method and apparatus for controlling a candle flame. A candle flame may be provided in a controllable environment, e.g., an enclosed area formed at least in part by an air-tight cover. Air may be forced into the enclosed area by an air movement device (e.g., a fan) to keep... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080153044 - Control valves for heaters and fireplace devices: In certain embodiments, a control valve assembly for gas heaters and gas fireplace devices includes a housing. The housing can define an inlet for accepting fuel from a fuel source, a first outlet for delivering fuel to an oxygen depletion sensor, and a second outlet for delivering fuel to a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080153045 - Control valves for heaters and fireplace devices: In certain embodiments, a control valve assembly for gas heaters and gas fireplace devices includes a housing. The housing can define an inlet for accepting fuel from a fuel source, a first outlet for delivering fuel to an oxygen depletion sensor, and a second outlet for delivering fuel to a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080153046 - Wooden wicks including a booster for a candle and method of making: A wooden wick for use in a wax candle comprising a strip of a predetermined wood having each of a first predetermined length, a first predetermined width and a first predetermined thickness. Such wick further includes a booster member having each of a second predetermined length, a second predetermined width... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080153047 - Heating cooking appliance and burner system of the same: A heating cooking appliance and a burner system of the same are provided. The heating cooking appliance includes a case, a plate that covers the case, a burner system under the plate, and an exhaust unit at a side of the plate. The burner system includes a burner pot providing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080145802 - Method and device for influencing combustion processes: A specific electrode arrangement for a burner already exists with which the flame of the burner is influenced by using electrical fields, whereby these electrical fields pass through only areas of the flame in which a stabilizing and pollutant-reducing action occurs. According to at least one embodiment of the invention,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080145803 - Apparatus and method of detecting igniter type: The invention includes an apparatus and method of determining the type of igniter for a burner at each stage of a boiler. The apparatus includes a controller operable to detect whether a first type of igniter or a second type of igniter is installed in the burner based on whether... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080145804 - Immersed burner with regulated flame: The melting of glass batch materials by at least one sub merged burner generating a flame within the molten batch materials. At least one gas inlet separate from the burner is close enough to the burner to interact with the flame. The separate influx interacts with the flame of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080145805 - Process of using a fired heater: A process is disclosed that uses fired heater having two types of burners. The first burner is located in a duct which provides oxygen-containing gas to the heater to be combusted with the fuel provided by the burner. The second burner is located in the heater and provides both air... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080145806 - Forced air supply combustion apparatus: In a combustion apparatus in which an air supply chamber 4 in a lower part partitioned by a partition plate 3 from an arrangement section of a burner unit and a primary air chamber in a front part that stands from a front end of the air supply chamber are... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080145807 - Flare stack combustion method and apparatus: Apparatus for enhancing combustion of an undesired chemical to minimize the formation of smoke during operation of a flare stack for the discharge of a flare feedstream includes a plurality of high-pressure air nozzles spaced apart below and around the periphery of the stack outlet. Each nozzle is directed toward... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080145808 - Partial acyl glyceride based biowaxes, biocandles prepared therefrom and their preparation: The present invention relates to a biowax comprising a partial acyl glyceride selected from the group consisting of a monoacylglyceride, a diacylglyceride and the combination thereof. The present invention also relates to a biocandle comprising a biowax and a wick, and to a method of producing the same.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080145809 - Gas burner: Gas burner, in particular for domestic cooking appliances, comprising a bowl-shaped body (10) associated with a gas injector, a toothed crown (12) with a plurality of first flame ports (13) circumferentially arranged along the periphery of the crown (12) and an upper cap (14) to close the burner top. A... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080138749 - Multi-gas cooker, with a rotary valve provided with interchangeable regulating means: The cooking appliance (1) having a control panel (2) is equipped with one or more gas flow (Q) regulating valves, wherein the rotary regulating plug (6) is provided with various peripheral through holes (16-19). The control knob (9) being interchangeable for fitting to the actuating shaft (7), is chosen from... Agent: Keith Kline The Kline Law Firm

20080138750 - System and control method for detecting an abnormal burning situation using air pressure sensing and flame detection: Disclosed is a method for detecting a combustion state of a boiler, and more particularly to a boiler and a method capable of exactly detecting an abnormal combustion state of a gas boiler using an air pressure sensor and a flame detection unit, thereby improving efficiency of the boiler. The... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080138751 - Combustion with variable oxidant low nox burner: Heating provided by a burner that combusts hydrocarbon fuel can be provided at a sequence of different heat transfer rates by adjusting the total oxygen concentration of oxidant streams fed to the burner. A burner with which the method can be practiced is also disclosed.... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080138752 - Tightly covered lighter: To provide a tightly covered lighter protected from entering of sand, dust or the like into an internal combustion mechanism or the like in a lighter body, and can be used even in river, sea, rain, or highland, a windshield formed on a top of the lighter body, an ignition... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080138753 - Vegetable lipid-based composition and candle: The present invention is a candle composition containing a vegetable lipid base component and a candle formed from the composition. The candle composition may contain up to 100 percent by weight of a vegetable lipid base component. The candle composition may further contain a plant derived crystal modifier.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20080131824 - Burner device and method for injecting a mixture of fuel and oxidant into a combustion space: A burner device is made available, comprising a combustion chamber with a combustion space and an injection device for injecting a mixture of fuel and oxidant into the combustion space, wherein the injection device has a plurality of nozzles arranged on a circular line, the nozzles each have a nozzle... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, Llc

20080131823 - Homogeous combustion method and thermal generator using such a method: injection, at a rate of 1 to 300 m/s, of a combustion agent at a distance from said axis, encountering the fuel in the vicinity of said wall in order to effect mixing over the entire volume of the combustion chamber before entering into reaction.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080131825 - Candle reshaper: A candle top and reshaper fit snuggly over a candle. The reshaper includes interior and straight tapered, curved or otherwise angled sidewalls that when fitted over a burning candle, the softened candle rim and sides are forced back into the center of the candle, causing the softened rim to reshape... Agent: Global Intellectual Strategies

20080131826 - Lighter with replaceable fuel cartridge: A lighter incorporates with a fuel supply arrangement which includes a replaceable fuel cartridge detachably received in a receiving cavity of a casing for storing a liquefied fuel, and a gas releasable valve extended from the replaceable fuel cartridge for controlling a flow of gas from the replaceable fuel cartridge.... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20080131827 - Gas injector: The invention relates to a gas burner or gas injector having a diffuser, which by control actuations can be modified within wide limits as a free jet burner and is suitable in particular for industrial furnaces with regenerative air preheating, in particular those which have an air supply arranged separately... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080131828 - All primary combustion burner: In an all primary combustion burner, a partition plate that demarcates a mixing chamber between the partition plate and a bottom wall section of a burner main body and a distributing plate that sections a space between the partition plate and the combustion plate into a first distributing chamber and... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP