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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1992
Fred Riehl, Greensburg, PA (US);
Robertshaw Controls Company, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
A burner construction and method of making the same are provided, the burner construction comprising a burner body having a chamber therein and a removable cap closing one end of the burner body, one of the burner body and the cap having an annular surface interrupted by a plurality of radially disposed main grooves that are spaced apart by lands of the annular surface and that define a generally repeating pattern of a set of a certain number of the main grooves and the lands separated from the next adjacent set of the certain number of the main grooves and the lands by one of the lands that is not part of the sets and that has an annular length that is longer than the annular length of any one of the lands of the sets separated thereby, the free end surface of each land that is not part of the sets having a small radially disposed and substantially Y-shaped groove therein that is closed on one end thereof by an annular surface of the other of the burner body and the cap to provide small carry-over flames between the sets of main grooves adjacent that respective land that is not part of the sets.