Direct gas-fired burner assembly

Abstract

In a burner assembly for location within an air supply housing for a heater and disposed for inducing the movement of air through a blower and into and around a burner assembly during heater operation to create a supply of heated air for a space to be warmed, the burner assembly being of the type having opposite side walls, and upper and lower tiered baffles, each having connected thereon an air balancing baffle, forming cavities therebetween, with the combination of the air balancing baffles and tiered burner baffles forming a combustion chamber therebetween for reception and combustion of gas delivered from a gas manifold arranged approximately at the intake end of the burner assembly, with a shroud arranged above and below the upper and lower tier baffles for directing air into an intake at the back of the gas manifold, and for selectively diverting and directing air through the air balancing baffles, and through the burner baffles, into the combustion chamber. A diverter is arranged at the back end of the gas manifold for directing incoming air between the shroud and the upper and lower arranged tiered baffles, and deflectors are arranged at the upper front and lower front of the shrouds, to delay the passage of air into the path of the combusting gases, with the sides of the combustion chamber being flared outwardly, to minimize the development of combusting gas hot spots.