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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Nippon Furnace Kogyo Kaisha, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
432180 ; 432181 ; 165-4 ;
Abstract
An industrial furnace and a burner for regenerative combustion includes a heat storage member, a switching mechanism disposed on one end of the heat storage member, and a burner tile disposed on the opposite end of the heat storage member. The burner tile has a protruding portion extending ahead an air supply and gas exhaust surface. The switching mechanism has a stationary disk and a rotatable disk which slidably contacts the stationary disk. A speed of supply air to the furnace is in operation equal to or higher than a speed of exhaust air therefrom.