Combustion – Fibrous wick type flame holder – Liquid fuel container carries wick guide or support
Patent
1979-03-28
1981-06-30
Scott, Samuel
Combustion
Fibrous wick type flame holder
Liquid fuel container carries wick guide or support
F23D 318
Patent
active
042760160
ABSTRACT:
A wick assembly to advantageously supply a flammable fluid from a reservoir at a selected rate including a reservoir means to hold a supply of the flammable fluid and having an outlet aperture in the top thereof, a generally cylindrical elongate dip tube having at least one perforation in the side thereof and adapted to be received in the reservoir and to be secured to the outlet aperture where an open end of the dip tube extends through the aperture of the reservoir so the dip tube is disposed in the reservoir to permit the flammable liquid to be emitted through the perforations to the interior of the dip tube, a wick feed assembly including a cap adapted to be received in the open end of the dip tube and having a first open end tube extending through the cap and adapted to receive first wick means to extend through the length of the first open end tube so the wick is received in the dip tube and the other end of the wick extends out of the first tube, second elongate tube means having one closed end and adapted to be received within the dip tube with an open end received within the cap, a third, cylindrical elongate tube having at least one perforation in the side thereof and adapted to receive second wick means, and further adapted to be received within the second tube, where the first wick means extends from the end of the first tube and into the second tube whereby flammable liquid is conducted, by wicking, from the reservoir by the first wick means through the first tube and second tube means where the flammable liquid is thereby conducted to the third tube through the apertures of the second tube to the third wick means and where the wick feed assembly is received within the dip tube.
REFERENCES:
patent: 467736 (1892-01-01), Fernelmont
patent: 1412704 (1922-04-01), Osborne
patent: 1662058 (1928-03-01), Hargraft
Lockwood Francis R.
Meuse Kenneth P.
Green Randall L.
Scott Samuel
Steutermann Edward M.
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