1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a gas combustor, especially to a gas combustor having safety mechanism and pressure stabilizing mechanism, wherein when the safety mechanism is not operated, the gas combustor is in a locking state, after the safety mechanism is released and operated, ignition and combustion gas supply can be synchronously processed.
2. Description of Related Art
Gas combustors are commonly seen and used in our daily lives. But for a child, he/she may play with a gas combustor without being supervised because of his/her curiosity or imitating the adults. Therefore, a fire accident may occur due to the careless act and our lives and properties may be in danger. As such, in many cases, fire accidents caused by children playing with fire cannot be ignored. In a conventional gas combustor, the design of ignition switch is easy to be released based on the object of convenient in use, such design give the children a chance to play with the gas combustor, and unpredictable consequences become inevitable.
For the safety reasons, countries like the America and European Union have issued safety regulations regarding to gas combustor, and each gas combustor is required to be installed with a safety actuation device, take the U.S. Pat. No. 6,293,782 (corresponding to the Taiwan Patent NO. 446104), the U.S. Pat. No. 6,296,476 (corresponding to the Taiwan Patent NO. 449018), the U.S. Pat. No. 6,527,543 (corresponding to the Taiwan Patent No. 525749) and the U.S. Pat. No. 6,688,879 (corresponding to the Taiwan Patent NO. 534277) issued to the applicant of the present invention for instances, when a gas combustor is not operated, it is in a locking state; if the gas combustor is desired to be used, the safety actuation device has to be released before being operated. Because the releasing procedure increases the level of difficulty in use, a child could not release the locking state while playing with the gas combustor, thereby occurrences of accidents are decreased.
In fact, for providing the continuity for the combustion operation, a gas combustor may be directly pivoted to a canned gas, such act allows the combustion gas ejected by the gas combustor generate larger flame due to the high pressure releasing, for processing the continuous and large-scale combustion operation. However, when a user is processing a welding, soldering or drying operation, the canned gas is often used in an upside down manner. At this moment, the liquid gas may not be vaporized in time due to the high pressure releasing, so as to be ejected from the flame nozzle in the liquid state, incomplete combustion is therefore generated, thereby the combustion efficiency cannot be increased and accidents may take place.
Moreover, in some locations with lower temperature, because the environmental temperature is low, during the transformation from liquid to gaseous state in a canned gas, an incomplete oxidization may occur, thereby the combustion tool is not easy to be ignited.
As such, how to enable a gas combustor to effectively control the pressure of combustion gas for keeping in a constant pressure is an issue which shall be solved.
One primary object of the present invention is to provide a gas combustor having a safety mechanism, when a latch button of the safety mechanism is pressed, a control button is then enabled to be pressed, and the control button can be used to synchronously supply combustion gas and ignition, for processing the combustion operation.
For achieving the mentioned object, one solution provided by the present invention is to provide a gas combustor, which comprises:
a housing in which a base seat is installed, an engagement pipe at the front of the base seat is connected to a flame device exposed at the front of the housing, wherein the rear portion of the base seat is pivoted with a swing sheet, the inner surface thereof is adjacent to a gas intake control valve fastened in the base seat, and a convey pipe is connected between the gas intake control valve and a pivotal connection device installed at the rear of the housing; and
a safety mechanism, installed at the bottom of the housing and including:
a latch button, longitudinally sleeved with a first resilient member, the top of the first resilient member is abutted in the housing, the top of the latch button is pivoted to one end of a connection rod, a bended portion of the connection rod is pivoted in the housing, and the other end of the connection rod being protrudingly formed with a latch end toward a control button; and
a control button, the top opening is formed with a stop end at the location adjacent to the latch end, the stop end is formed in a locking state due to the interfere of the latch end; the interior of a hollow button chamber of the control button is longitudinally sleeved with a second resilient member, the top end of the second resilient member is abutted in the housing, and the top front of the control button is formed with an extrusion part;
through pressing the latch button, one end of the connection rod is raised, the latch end at the other end of the connection rod is inwardly retracted for releasing the locking state of the control button, so the control button is enabled to be pressed, and the extrusion part extrudes the swing sheet, and the gas intake control valve is formed to an opening state, so the fuel is able to pass through the interior of the base seat for being ejected by the flame device.
a is a cross sectional view illustrating the gas combustor being in the locking state, according to the present invention;
b is partially enlarged view of
a is a cross sectional view illustrating the gas combustor being released for ignition, according to the present invention;
b is a partially enlarged view of
a is a cross sectional view illustrating the gas combustor being in the continuous gas supply state, according to the present invention; and
b is a partially enlarged view of
As shown from
The housing 1 is composed of a left housing shell 11 and a right housing shell 12 being engaged for housing other components, and plural tenons, slots, ribs are installed in the two housing shells for positioning and accommodating the other components. The assembly of the gas combustor of the present invention is shown in
The safety mechanism 2 consists of a latch button 21, a connection rod 22 and a control button 23. The mentioned two buttons are respectively and protrudingly installed at an opening 13 preset at the bottom of the housing 1. The interior of the latch button 21 is longitudinally sleeved with a first resilient member 211 e.g. a spring, and the top thereof is abutted against a block sheet 14 preset in the left housing shell 11, and the top of the latch button 21 is transversally extended with a pivot shaft 212 pivoted in an elongated shaft hole 221 formed at one end of the L-shaped connection rod 22, the other end of the connection rod 22 is protrudingly installed with a latch end 222, a pivot hole 223 formed at the bended portion of the connection rod 22 is pivoted with the insertion pins 15 protrudingly formed in the left housing shell 11 and the right housing shell 12. Accordingly, as shown in
The control button 23 is a cap member, the top opening thereof is formed with a stop end 231 at the location adjacent to the latch end 222 of the connection rod 22, as shown in
Moreover, the present invention is further provided with a continuous button 24, which is protruded from the opening 13 at the front bottom of the housing 1, the continuous button 24 is transversally sleeved with a third resilient member 241, e.g. a spring, the rear thereof is abutted against a continuous block sheet 18 formed in the housing 1, such that the continuous button 24 is equipped with an automatic recovery function, wherein the bottom of the continuous button 24 is transversally extended with an extension sheet 242 having an engagement part 243, e.g. a buckle slot, at the inner end. When the control button 23 is pressed to be in a retracted state, the continuous button 24 is enabled to be directly pressed, so the engagement part 243 and the buckle part 236b form a buckle effect as shown in
The base seat 3 is an integrally-formed base seat member, a stepped seat hole 31 is formed at its axial direction, and the seat hole 31 allows the gas intake control valve 32 to be installed therein to control the supplying or terminating the combustion gas. As shown in
As shown in
The interior of the engagement pipe 35 is installed with a transversally-stepped pipe slot 351, a gas outtake control valve 36 is installed therein, the gas outtake control valve 36 has a thimble valve 361 having one end being sleeved with an eighth resilient member 362, e.g. a spring, and the other end being sleeved with a gas blocking ring 363 and a position ring 364 installed at the middle portion of the pipe slot 351. When a sleeve pipe 61 of the flame device 6 is not inserted in the front of the pipe slot 351, with the stretch effect of the eighth resilient member 362, a convex ring 361a of the thimble valve 361 is tightly adjacent to the gas blocking ring 363 for forming a combustion gas termination state. When the sleeve pipe 61 of the flame device 6 is inserted in the front of the pipe slot 351, a nozzle seat 611 at the rear of the sleeve pipe 61 pushes the thimble valve 361, the eighth resilient member 362 is therefore compressed and the combustion gas is allowed to pass through the gap defined between the convex ring 361a and the pipe slot 351 to enter a gas guiding pipe 361b inside the thimble valve 361, and is ejected from an ejection nozzle 612 installed at the front of the nozzle seat 611.
Moreover, the rear of the base seat 3 is longitudinally and protrudingly installed with a fasten seat 37 allowing the top of a piezoelectric device 38 to be installed, and the bottom of the piezoelectric device 38 is connected to the front of the control button 23. The piezoelectric device 38 has a wire 381 extended and connected to an electric conductive terminal 382 installed at the periphery of the opening 13 at the front of the housing 1, the rear of the electric conductive terminal 382 is sleeved with a ninth resilient member 383 so as to be retractable, and the electric conductive terminal 382 and the ninth resilient member 383 are both installed in a terminal seat 384.
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The technology feature of the pressure stabilizing device 5 is to be equipped with a function of adjusting pressure, i.e. the center of the top of the top plate 54 is longitudinally protruded with a top plate pipe 542 having a non-round positioning hole 543 at the top, and an elevation press block 55 having a cross shape corresponding to the positioning hole 543 is installed in the positioning hole 543, the bottom of the elevation press block 55 is adjacent to the retractable spring 53, the top thereof is connected to the pressure adjusting button 56 of the top plate pipe 542, the pressure adjusting button 56 is exposed outside the opening 13 at the top of the housing 1 for being easily to be operated. As such, when the pressure adjusting button 56 is rotated, the elevation press block 55 forms a compressing or stretching effect to the retractable spring 53, so as to adjust the pressure of the gaseous/liquid fuel entering the pressure stabilizing device 5. As shown in
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When the combustion gas inside the bottom plate chamber 341 is gradually ejected from the ejection nozzle 612, the pressure inside the bottom plate chamber 341 is decreased, so the retractable spring 53 is recovered, and the partition membrane 52 is downwardly pushed, so the elevation rod 512 is downwardly pushed and the seventh resilient member 513 is compressed, thereby the gaseous/liquid fuel supply state as shown in
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Moreover, the sleeve pipe 61 is provided with a detach seat 62 having an outer pipe 63 inside for being connected to a conventional connection member, e.g. a screw, passing through a positioning convex block 621 radially preset at the rear portion of the detach seat 62 and the outer pipe 63, then being fastened with the sleeve pipe 61. The detach seat 62 is radially protruded with a seat ring 622, a notch of the seat ring 622 is fastened with a contact terminal 623 which is received in a terminal slot 625 integrally extended at the front of the seat ring 622, and a seal cover 626 is used to seal the terminal slot 625, a wire 624 connected to the contact terminal 623 enters the outer pipe 63 and one end of the wire 624 is fastened with a wire positioning ring 64 installed at the inner front end of the outer pipe 63.
For generating a special flame effect, another gas guiding component 65 is installed in the flame pipe 66, and a connection ring cover 67 is sleeved on the flame pipe 66, and abutted against a flange 661 formed at the rear, then combined at the front of the outer pipe 63. The front of the gas guiding component 65 can be provided with, e.g. but not limited to, inclined guiding sheets 651 rotating toward the same direction, so when the mixed combustion gas passes through the inclined guiding sheets 651, a turbine flame can be formed for enhancing the combustion effect.
When the flame device 6 is connected to the engagement pipe 35, the positioning convex block 621 is aimed and inserted into a concave slot 131 radially formed in the opening 13 at the front of the housing 1, because the positioning convex block 621 is restrained by the stop block 132 at the rear of the opening 13 as shown in
When the piezoelectric device 38 is compressed, the generated static electricity is transmitted through the wire 371, the electric conductive terminal 382, the contact terminal 623 and the wire 624, and sparks are generated between the wire 624 and the inner wall of the flame pipe 66 so as to ignite the mixed combustion gas passing the gas guiding component 65.
In actual practice, please refer to
At this moment, the gas/liquid fuel supplied by the canned gas, which is connected with the pivotal connection device 4, passes through the convey pipe 329, the seat hole 31, the gas intake control valve 32, the gas intake channel 312, the regulation valve 51 to the location of the partition membrane 52 for processing pressure stabilizing, then passes through the gas outtake control valve 36 of the engagement pipe 35 for being ejected from the ejection nozzle 612 in the sleeve pipe 61, so the combustion gas which is completely vaporized and having a constant pressure is ejected into the sleeve pipe 61 for being mixed with air, the mixed combustion gas passes through the outer pipe 63 for entering the flame pipe 66, and formed as a special airflow through the guiding effect of the gas guiding component 65 then ejected from the pipe opening; the static electricity generated by the piezoelectric device 38 which is synchronously pressed by the control button 23 is transmitted by the wires 381, 624 for generating sparks at the inner wall of the flame pipe 66 so as to ignite the mixed combustion gas for processing the combustion operation.
As shown in
If the combustion operation is desired to be terminated, the control button 23 is pressed again such that the buckling with the continuous button 24 is released, and the continuous button 24 is automatically recovered through the third resilient member 241, the control button 23 is automatically recovered through the second resilient member 233 and the piezoelectric device 38, and the latch end 222 of the connection rod 22 forwardly protrudes and is latched at the stop end 231 at the rear of the control button 23, the latch button 21 is automatically recovered through being downwardly pressed by the other end of the connection rod 22 and the stretch of the first resilient member 211.
The advantages of the present invention are: with the safety mechanism formed through the latch button, the connection rod and the control button, the operation procedure is more complicated and with certain level of difficulty, so unpredictable accidents caused by children playing with the gas combustor can be avoided, thereby complying with the safety regulations issued by countries such as the America or European Union; moreover, when the combustion operation is desired to be released, it can be easily carried out by simply pressing the control button again to releasing the interfere formed between the continuous button and the latch button and allowing to automatically recover to the original positions, and at the same time, the combustion gas supply is terminated for ceasing the flame, and a locking state is automatically formed; moreover, during the combustion gas supply, the pressure stabilizing device with adjustable pressure is equipped with functions of completely vaporizing the fuel and maintaining at a constant pressure. With the modularized design of the flame device, the flame device can be provided with different types of gas guiding components according to the actual combustion needs, and the flame device is installed in the opening at the front of the housing, and can be respectively formed with the combustion gas and electrical connections.
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.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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099127704 | Aug 2010 | TW | national |