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Forced air heater

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6874694
A forced air heater is described which comprises: a heating housing; a combustion chamber within the housing; a removable burner module in the housing and comprising a plurality of components, including a gas valve, an ignition means, an elongated burner tube having opposite open and closed ends and having a single burner orifice, and a single mounting means for supporting all of the components; a flame spreader means within the combustion chamber adjacent the single orifice in the burner tube. The single orifice of the elongated burner tube is located in a sidewall of the tube between the open and closed ends of the tube and faces the flame spreader means; burner tube locating-and-orienting means mounted on a wall of the combustion chamber. The locating-and-orienting means has an inverted essentially channel-shaped configuration and the closed end of the burner tube has a flattened configuration and being receivable in the locating-and-orienting means; and a forced air blower means located adjacent to the combustion chamber for drawing heated air out of the combustion chamber and exhausting the heated air into a space to be heated.
Assignee:
Scheu Manufacturing Co., Upland, CA
Patent Number(s):
US 4651711
OSTI ID:
6874694
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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