Combustion inventions 08/08

20080206692 - Device for remotely controlling ignition of a gas appliance by transmitting and receiving rf waves: An ignition control device including a controller section and a remote control section for a gas appliance (e.g., a gas stove or a gas water heater) is disclosed. A signal communication between the controller mounted on a burner of the gas appliance and the remote control section held by the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080206693 - Low nox burner: A low NOx burner for installation on a furnace wall. The burner has an elongated tube connected to a combustion air supply, the furnace side end of which mounts a combustion air spinner that is spaced a substantial distance from the furnace wall. A plurality of typically six elongated air... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080206694 - Child resistant roll-and-press lighter: A child resistant roll-and-press lighter includes at least one abutment surface (32; 41; 45) which engages a corresponding counterabutment surface (33; 42; 44) on the lever (20; 50, 51). The surfaces disengage to release the lever for pivotal movement, when and only when at least a predetermined minimum force is... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080206695 - Computer-controlled pyrotechnic matrix display: A computer-controlled matrix of pixels that emit bursts of fire in a controlled manner to create moving images and text on a plane in front of the matrix. The unit houses a number of pixels in a grid array, with each pixel associated with a solenoid gas valve. The valves... Agent: Klans P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson Pc

20080206696 - Tilt nozzle for coal-fired burner: An improved end housing for nozzle assemblies used to project a stream of particulate coal into a burner housings The improvement includes the addition of vertically-oriented, spaced parallel aiming plates. A four nozzle burner assembly has two sets of diagonally opposite nozzles in which all nozzles are aimed directly at... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080206697 - Gas burner with multiple concetric flame rings: The invention concerns a gas burner (1) wit multiple concentric flame rings, comprising: a central burner (2) with a central ring of flame orifices (5), and axial central gas injector (6) and convergent-divergent means (7) forming venturi; and an annular outer burner (3) coaxially surrounding the central burner and provided... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper Us LLP

20080193886 - Combustion apparatus: A combustion apparatus according to the present invention can positively control and generate burnt gas recirculation with a simple structure. The combustion apparatus has an annular container (12) having an inner cylindrical portion (15) forming an inner circumferential side surface, an outer cylindrical portion (13) forming an outer circumferential side... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080193887 - Catalytic combustor: A catalytic combustor is configured to accelerate the combustion processing of anode off gas in the combustor to reduce the amount of unburned hydrogen discharged to the outside of the combustor. Anode off gas and cathode off gas discharged from the fuel cell are fed into the catalytic combustor and... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP