Gas infra-red burner in a heater tube or heat exchanger

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An improved gas burner for a cooking tank or heating air the, burner including a distribution tube which is closed at one end and mounted within a burner shell part of the surface of which is formed from a mesh screen or screens, the arrangement being such that a combustible gas fed via an injector to an end of the distribution tube is spread evenly along the length of the tube to be burnt as it filters through the mesh screen which glows to incandescence to thereby produce infra-red radiation which increases heat transfer. The burner shell can be constructed with a top woven cloth mesh laid with the axis of its grid at 45° to the longitudinal axis of the burner. Additionally the heat …