The present invention relates to a gas combustor, especially to a modularized gas combustor having a rapid assembly function. Furthermore, the present invention provides a safety switch for use in gas combustor.
Fire is a must have element in our lives, with fire, we can cook food, can be provided with lighting, and the fire can also be used for combustion operations such as forging, soldering and welding. Take a gas combustor, e.g. a refillable lighter or a portable stove, as an example, liquid gas is adopted for lighting objects or cooking food. As such, the gas combustor still plays an important role in our lives which cannot be easily replaced.
Take the hand-held gas combustion apparatus disclosed in Taiwan Patent No.M338954 (corresponding to U.S. Pat. No. 7,850,446) as an example, the hand-held gas combustion apparatus comprises a gas storing tank, a gas discharging device, a housing, an ignition device, a safety switch and a flame device. The housing is disposed above the gas storing tank, and the interior of the housing is preformed with a positioning member such as a plurality of accommodation slots allowing a piezoelectric device and a recovery member, e.g. a spring, of the ignition device to be received. When being operated, firstly a user has to release the safety switch which is located below a button and in a locked status, so that the button is enabled to be pressed. During the process of pressing the button, the piezoelectric device and the recovery device are respectively squeezed and pressed, so that static sparks are generated near a flame nozzle of the flame device for igniting a mixed fuel gas ejected from the flame nozzle; on the other hand, a push rod preformed on the button is served to push a gas discharging plate, so a gas discharging nozzle of the gas storing tank is pulled for forming a gas supplying status, and the fuel gas is able to be conveyed to the flame device via a gas conveying pipe for being mixed with air in a mixing pipe and lastly ejected from the flame nozzle.
Moreover, take the conventional safety switch of gas combustor disclosed in Taiwan Patent No.446104 (corresponding to U.S. Pat. No. 6,293,782) as an example, the safety switch of gas combustor includes a fasten member, a press member and a slide member; the press member is moveably and longitudinally disposed at one end of the fasten member, and the slide member is moveably and longitudinally disposed at another end of the fasten member, and an interfere status is formed at adjacent portions of the press member and the slide member. For preventing the slide member from being longitudinally released from the fasten member, the slide member is formed with an elongated sleeve slot sleeved in a positioning pin preformed on the fasten member, then a screw is utilized for locking the positioning pin, so that the slide member can be prevented from being released from the fasten member.
However, the above-mentioned safety switch is formed as an individual unit and arranged below the button for longitudinally locking or unlocking the button. In fact, if the safety switch can be directly installed on the button and synchronously moved with the button, more operation conveniences can be provided, Furthermore, in actual practice, users have different habits for operating a button or switch, for example using his/her right or left hand, this brings more difficulties in the design of unlocking operation, and the button and the safety switch cannot be integrated. Accordingly, the above-mentioned disadvantages shall be improved.
One primary objective of the present invention is to provide a gas combustor, which includes a safety switch cable of being bidirectionally unlocked and pressed for operation, and the safety switch is suitable to be operated by both of a right-hand user and a left-hand user, thereby increasing the operation convenience of the gas combustor.
For achieving said objective, one technical solution provided by the present invention is to provide a gas combustor, which comprises: a gas container with the top end thereof formed with a connection part having a discharging nozzle; a fuel gas controlling device, including a base connected to the connection part, wherein the exterior of the base is formed with a block tenon, and the interior thereof is formed with a fuel gas passageway for receiving fuel gas supplied from the discharging nozzle, an upstream end of the fuel gas passageway is disposed with an air inlet control valve, the air inlet control valve is closed in the normal status, and the front end of the air inlet control valve is axially disposed with an air inlet control rod capable of allowing an opened loop to be formed, so that the fuel gas is able to be discharged from a gas ejecting nozzle disposed at a downstream end of the fuel gas passageway, the gas ejecting nozzle is received in an insertion slot allowing a combustion device to be inserted and positioned; a housing, used for enclosing and fastening the gas container and the fuel gas controlling device, and including a front opening and a top opening allowing the combustion device to be disposed, wherein the interior of the front opening is formed with a fasten slot allowing a piezoelectric device to be disposed therein, and the piezoelectric device includes an electric wire capable of penetrating into the combustion device; and a safety switch, slidably disposed in the front opening and including a slide member, a fasten member and a passive member; adjacent surfaces of the slide member and the fasten member are disposed with a connecting mechanism and a radial sliding mechanism, wherein a rear surface of the slide member is staggeringly arranged with a left support arm and a right support arm, the fasten member is formed with a left wall and a right wall respectively corresponding to the left support arm and the right support arm, a left spring is disposed between the left support arm and the left wall, and a right spring is disposed between the right support arm and the right wall, thereby enabling the slide member to perform a radial sliding motion towards the left or the right at the front end of the fasten member and preventing the slide member from being axially released; the passive member is arranged at the rear end of the fasten member and connected to the slide member via a fastening structure, and a rear surface of the passive member is formed with a lock tenon capable of being abutted against the block tenon, thereby forming a lucked status; when the slide member is pulled towards the left or the right, the passive member is synchronously moved with the slide member, and the lock tenon is released from the block tenon, thereby forming an unlocked status, so that the safety switch is able to be pressed in the front opening, and the piezoelectric device and the air inlet control rod are respectively squeezed and pushed at the same time.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide a safety switch for use in gas combustor, which has a function of being bidirectionally unlocked and pressed for operation, and the safety switch is suitable to be operated by both of a right-hand user and a left-hand user, thereby increasing the operation convenience of the gas combustor.
For achieving said objective, one technical solution provided by the present invention is to provide a safety switch for use in gas combustor, slidably disposed in an opening of a gas combustor and comprising a slide member, a fasten member and a passive member, wherein adjacent surfaces of the slide member and the fasten member are disposed with a connecting mechanism and a radial sliding mechanism, a rear surface of the slide member is staggeringly arranged with a left support arm and a right support arm, the fasten member is formed with a left wall and a right wall respectively corresponding to the left support arm and the right support arm, a left spring is disposed between the left support arm and the left wall, and a right spring is disposed between the right support arm and the right wall, thereby enabling the slide member to perform an elastic radial sliding motion towards the left or the right at the front end of the fasten member and preventing the slide member from being axially released; the passive member is arranged at the rear end of the fasten member and connected to the slide member via a fastening structure, and a rear surface of the passive member is formed with a lock tenon capable of being abutted against a block tenon preformed in the gas combustor, thereby forming a lucked status; when the slide member is pulled towards the left or the right, the passive member is synchronously moved with the slide member, and the lock tenon is released from the block tenon, thereby forming an unlocked status, so that the safety switch is able to be pressed in the opening.
The present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art by reading the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
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The gas container 1 is provided with a function of being repeatedly filled and stored with liquid gas, for example the disclosure which has been disclosed in Taiwan Patent Application No.103108440 (corresponding to U.S. Pat. No. 9,435,486B2). As such, the bottom end and the top end of the gas container 1 formed as a metal cylinder are respectively provided with a filling nozzle 11 and a discharging nozzle 12. The filling nozzle 11 has been disclosed in Taiwan Patent Application No.103113014 (corresponding to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/317,191 which has been granted to the applicant), therefore no further illustration is provided. The filling nozzle 11 is connected to a discharging valve of a canned gas (not shown in figures), then high-pressure liquid gas is able to be filled and stored in the gas container 1. The top end of the gas container 1 is formed with a connection part 13 allowing the discharging nozzle 12 to be connected, wherein in actual practice, the connection part 13 can be formed as a thread segment.
The fuel gas controlling device 2 includes a base 22 connected to the connection part 13, the interior of the base 22 is formed with a fuel gas passageway (not shown in figures due to projection angle) for receiving fuel gas supplied from the discharging nozzle 12. Wherein, the base 22 further includes a fuel gas vaporizing device 21, the fuel gas vaporizing device 21 is connected to the discharging nozzle 12, so that the discharging nozzle 12 is able to be in an intermittent fuel gas supplying status for allowing the fuel gas to be stably vaporized in the fuel gas vaporizing device 21, the fully-vaporized fuel gas is discharged from a gas discharging hole 211 formed at the top end of the fuel gas vaporizing device 21 so as to enter the base 22. Wherein, the fuel gas vaporizing device 21 has been disclosed in Taiwan Patent No.M505591 (corresponding to U.S. Patent Application Publication No.2016/0097530A1), therefore no further illustration is provided.
The base 22 is an integrally-formed seat member, the bottom end thereof is disposed with a hollow supporter 221 connected to the connection part 13, thereby allowing the fuel gas vaporizing device 21 to be disposed in the supporter 221, the interior of the fuel gas passageway of the base 22 is disposed with an air inlet control valve 222, the air inlet control valve 222 is closed in the normal status, and the front end thereof is axially disposed with an air inlet control rod 223, the air inlet control rod 223 is able to be pressed for forming an opened loop for allowing the fuel gas to continuously pass the fuel gas passageway so as enter a discharging adjustment valve 224 disposed in the fuel gas passageway and having a function of adjusting the fuel gas discharging amount, a discharging adjustment rod 225 is provided and rotated in the discharging adjustment valve 224 for adjusting the discharging amount, so that the diameter of the fuel gas passageway can be adjusted with a shielding means. The fuel gas which has been adjusted by the discharging adjustment valve 224 is ejected from a gas ejecting nozzle 226 disposed at a downstream end of the fuel gas passageway. The gas ejecting nozzle 226 is received in an insertion slot 227, and the insertion slot 227 is served to allow the combustion device 6 to be inserted and positioned.
The housing 3 is composed of a left shell 31 and a right shell 32 being engaged with each other and used for enclosing and positioning the gas container 1 and the fuel gas controlling device 2 which have already been combined as one piece. The assembly of the gas combustor is shown in
A connection strip 38 made of an elastic polymer material is connected between the bottom cover 37 and the housing 3, thereby preventing the bottom cover 37 from being released from the housing 3. The bottom cover 37 is connected at one side of the bottom opening 36 via the connection strip 38, thereby avoiding being fallen off or lost. As such, a user can separate the bottom cover 37 from the housing 3 with a sliding means, so that the bottom opening 36 can be exposed and the gas container 1 can be processed with a gas filling operation through the filling nozzle 11.
The front opening 33 of the housing 3 is formed with a fasten slot 332 (as shown in
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The front end of the fasten member 52 is formed with at least one convex rail 521 allowing the at least one rail slot 511 to be received, so that each of the rail slots 511 is able to perform a radial sliding motion towards the left or the right along each of the convex rails 521. However, what shall be addressed is that the arrangement of the rail slot 511 and the convex rail 521 is not limited to the above-mentioned arrangement, the at least one rail slot 511 can be formed on the fasten member 52, and the at least one convex rail 521 can be formed on the slide member 51. In other words, adjacent surfaces of the slide member 51 and the fasten member 52 are correspondingly formed with the at least one rail slot 511 and the at least one convex rail 521 capable of being mutually sleeved, so that the slide member 51 is able to perform a radial sliding motion towards the left or the right relative to the fasten member 52. Accordingly, the at least one rail slot 511 and the at least one convex rail 521 can be defined as a radial sliding mechanism.
The interior of the fasten member 52 is formed with at least one buckle sheet 522 allowing the at least one buckle hook 512 to be buckled, so that the slide member 51 is prevented from being axially released from the front end of the fasten member 52, and the at least one buckle hook 512 is able to perform a radial sliding motion towards the left or the right along the at least one corresponding buckle sheet 522. Accordingly, the at least one buckle hook 512 and the at least one buckle sheet 522 can be defined as a connecting mechanism.
The fasten member 52 includes a left wall 523 and a right wall 524, an inner surface of the left wall 523 is formed with a third positioning part 523a, an inner surface of the right wall 524 is formed with a fourth positioning part 524a, wherein the third positioning part 523a and the fourth positioning part 524a can be a tenon or a recess in actual practice, the other end of the left spring 515 is disposed in the third positioning part 523a, the other end of the right spring 516 is disposed in the fourth positioning part 524a, so that the slide member 51 is able to be in a balanced static status relative to the fasten member 52 via a pushing effect formed through the left spring 515 and the right spring 516 being stretched (as shown in
Moreover, one side defined at the rear end of the fasten member 52, for example the left wall 523, is formed with a sleeve slot 525 allowing the piezoelectric device 4 to be sleeved, and another side defined at the rear end thereof, for example the right wall 524, is formed with a press surface 526 for pressing the air inlet control rod 223.
Furthermore, an outer surface of the left wall 523 and an outer surface of the right wall 524 are correspondingly and axially formed with at least one pair of guide tenons 527, the front opening 33 is formed with at least one pair of guide slots 332 (as shown in
The passive member 53 is arranged at the rear end of the fasten member 52 and connected to the slide member 51 via a fastening structure, the fastening structure includes a connection rod 517 axially extended from the rear surface of the slide member 51 and a lock member 532, for example a screw, axially penetrating the passive member 53 and locked with the connection rod 517, so that the passive member 53 is able to synchronously perform a radial sliding motion towards the left or the right with the slide member 51. A rear surface of the passive member 53 is formed with a lock tenon 531, and the front end of the base 22 is formed with a block tenon 229 corresponding to the lock tenon 531. As such, when the lock tenon 531 is abutted against the block tenon 229, the safety switch 5 is unable to be pressed, thereby forming a locked status.
According to the above-mentioned assembly,
The combustion device 6 includes a combustion pipe 61 and a connection ring 62. The bottom end of the combustion pipe 61 is inserted in the insertion slot 227 located in the top opening 35 and served to enclose the gas ejecting nozzle 226, the bottom end of the combustion pipe 61 is formed with at least one ventilation hole 611 for introducing air from air guiding slots 351 preformed at two sides of the top opening 35, so that the introduced air is able to enter the combustion pipe 61 through the at least one ventilation hole 611 for being mixed with the fuel gas ejected by the gas ejecting nozzle 226 thereby forming a mixed fuel gas.
The connection ring 62 is combined, for example screwed, with the top opening 35 and allows the combustion pipe 61 to pass, a downstream end of the combustion pipe 61 is disposed with a gas guiding unit 612 for guiding the flowing direction of the mixed fuel gas. The electric wire 41 is extended to the periphery of the gas guiding unit 612 for igniting the mixed fuel gas.
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When the combustion operation is finished, the user only has to press the safety switch 5 again, so that the continuous button 39 is no longer buckled by the fasten hole 528, at this moment the spring 391 is stretched (releasing energy) for enabling the continuous button 39 to be released from the fasten hole 528, and the safety switch 5 is recovered to the original location as shown in
Based on what has been disclosed above, advantages achieved by the present invention are as followings: with the slide member being provided with function of capable of being bidirectionally unlocked and pressed for operation, the user can easily operate the gas combustor no matter he/she is a left-hand or right-hand user, so the gas combustor provided by the present invention can be used by any user, thereby increasing the operation convenience. Accordingly, the gas combustor provided by the present invention is novel and more practical in use comparing to prior art.
Many modifications and other embodiments of the inventions set forth herein will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which these inventions pertain having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the inventions are not to be limited to the specific examples of the embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. Although specific terms are employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.
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