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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jacques Gouyou-Beauchamps, Ville d'Avray, FR;
Assignee:
Saunier Duval, Rueil Malmaison, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F22B / ; F23N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
122504 ; 431 75 ;
Abstract
The safety device disclosed herein is adapted for use with low power gas burning water heaters which are unvented. In order to limit the duty cycle of the heater, a thermal mass having a preselected thermal inertia is heated from the burner through a probe of limited heat conductivity so that the temperature of the thermal mass rises relatively slowly during operation of the heater and cools relatively slowly in the intervals between operation. If the thermal mass reaches a predetermined threshold temperature, the heater is turned off or sharply throttled back so as to limit the emission of combustion products into the atmosphere.