Gas-fired heater means

Patent · Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6157372

Hall, D O

Improved gas-fired space heater means, comprising in combination: (a) a first duct-like member being provided within an interior and an exterior, the front end being provided with a combustion supporting gas plenum, and plenum having an inlet and an outlet, the outlet being in flow communication with means for receiving, mixing and igniting a mixture of pressurized fuel gas and a combustion supporting gas; (b) a second duct-like member, surrounding the first duct-like member and the exhaust conduit means and having opposite forward and rearward ends, with the forward and rearward ends of the second duct-like member being respectively located adjacent to the front and rear ends of the first duct-like member; (c) the second duct-like member having a fluid inlet opening located proximate to one of the opposite front and rear ends of the first duct-like member and a pressurized fluid outlet opening located between the opposite front and rear ends of the first duct-like member; (d) means for supplying a stream of the pressurized fluid to the inlet opening of the second duct-like member for discharge through the outlet opening of the second duct-like member; (e) combustion supporting gas intake means are provided with an inlet adjacent to the fluid outlet opening of the second duct-like member and positioned adjacent the second baffle plates and between the first and second duct-like members; and (f) temperature-responsive control for the flow of the combustion supporting gas through the combustion supporting gas intake means in inverse proportion to the temperature of the combustion supporting gas, the temperature-responsive control means including a valve means in the plenum outlet, the vale being operable in response to a temperature sensing means.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-89-048194; EDB-89-054539
• Patent Number(s): US 4794908
• OSTI ID: 6157372
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 30 Jan 1987
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
SPACE HEATERS
DESIGN
CONTROL
DUCTS
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID FLOW
GAS FUELS
SPACE HEATING
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
THERMAL EFFICIENCY
WORKING FLUIDS
APPLIANCES
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
EFFICIENCY
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
FUELS
HEATERS
HEATING
320106* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Building Equipment- (1987-)