Fuel-fired heating appliance with combustion chamber temperature-sensing combustion air shutoff system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6497200
APP PUB NO 20020124814A1
SERIAL NO

09801551

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A gas-fired water heater has a combustion chamber with a bottom wall defined by a perforated flame arrestor plate forming a portion of a flow path through which combustion air may be supplied to a burner s structure within the combustion chamber. During firing of the water heater a combustion air shutoff system senses an undesirable temperature increase in the combustion chamber, caused by for example a partial blockage of the flow path, and responsively terminates further air flow into the combustion chamber, thereby shutting down the burner, prior to the creation in the combustion chamber of a predetermined elevated concentration of carbon monoxide.

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  • BRADFORD WHITE CORPORATION;RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Campbell, James T Wetumpka, AL 8 81
Elder, Gary A Montgomery, AL 13 87
Kidd, Larry D Nashville, MI 12 131
Lannes, Eric M Kentwood, MI 29 338
Scanlon, John H Montgomery, AL 9 80
Stretch, Gordon W Montgomery, AL 15 141

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