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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2001
Nabil George Hamad, Carrollton, TX (US);
Darcy Quentin Easterling, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Glenn William Kowald, Carrollton, TX (US);
Lennox Industries, Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
A burner box assembly for a combustion air furnace includes a back wall, opposed side walls and top and bottom walls defining an interior space for one or more burner nozzles. A combustion air inlet opening is formed in the top wall and is covered by a generally rectangular inverted channel-shaped airflow guide and baffle member. A second generally rectangular box-shaped louvered airflow guide and baffle member is mounted on the interior side of the top wall over the combustion air inlet opening for distributing the flow of combustion air into the burner box assembly and to reduce acoustic emissions from the burner box assembly through the combustion air inlet opening. The combination of the louvered baffle member and the exterior mounted baffle member provides reduced acoustic emissions from the burner box assembly as well as more evenly distributed combustion airflow into and through the burner box assembly.