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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Kenneth J. Hicks, Saraland, AL (US);
Mario Ramos Negrete, Montgomery, AL (US);
Trevor Allen Damron, Marbury, AL (US);
Hector Jose Donastorg, Waverly, AL (US);
Kenneth J. Hicks, Saraland, AL (US);
Mario Ramos Negrete, Montgomery, AL (US);
Trevor Allen Damron, Marbury, AL (US);
Hector Jose Donastorg, Waverly, AL (US);
Rheem Manufacturing Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A fuel-fired water heater is provided with a combustion chamber assembly, representatively a sealed combustion chamber assembly, operative to create from combustion air delivered thereto via a circumferentially limited vertical side portion thereof a flow of primary combustion air to the underside of a centrally disposed fuel burner within the assembly via a first location underlying the burner, a first flow of secondary combustion air delivered to the burner via the first location, and a second flow of secondary combustion air delivered to the burner via a second location outwardly circumscribing the first location.