Burner structure for high temperature gas generators

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A GAS GENERATOR BURNER ASSEMBLY FOR EFFECTING PARTAIL COMBUSTION OF A HYDROCARBON GAS SUCH AS A METHANE WITH OXYGEN AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE 2500* F. FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A CARBON MONOXIDE-HYDROGEN GAS MIXTURE, WHICH BURNER ASSEMBLY COMPRISES A METHANE PLENUM CHAMBER, A PLURALITY OF METHANE DISCHARGE TUBES COMMUNICATING WITH SAID PLENUM CHAMBER AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM AT A SPACED INTERVALS, A VERTICAL TUBULAR WATER JACKET SURROUNDING AND SLIGHTLY SPACED FROM EACH METHANE TUBE AND EXTENDING SLIGHTLY BEYOND THE DISCHARGE END THEREOF WITHOUT BEING IN PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH ANY PART THEREOF, A HORIZONTAL WATER JACKET COMMUNICATING WITH THE UPPER END OF THE VERTICAL JACKET COMMUNICATING A FIRST WATER PLENUM CHAMBER, A SECOND WATER JACKET, CHAMBER, CONNECTIONS FOR FLOWING A STREAM OF WATER RAPIDLY IN SERIES FROM ONE WATER CHAMBER TO THE OTHER THROUGH THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL WATER JACKETS, AN OXYGEN PLENUM CHAMBER, AN ANNULAR OXYGEN DISTRIBUTOR SURROUNDING EACH TUBULAR WATER JACKET AND BELOW THE CORRESPONDING HORIZONTAL WATER JACKET CONDUITS EXTENDING FROM SAID OXYGEN PLENUM CHAMBER TO SAID ANNULAR OXYGEN DISTRUBUTOR, AND A GROUP OF OXYGEN NOZZLES EXTENDING FROM EACH OXYGEN DISTRIBUTOR IN HEAT EXCHANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER IN THE HORIZONTAL WATER JACKET FOR DIRECTING OXYGEN STREAMS AGAINST THE METHANE STREAM DISCHARGED FROM EACH METHANE DISCHARGE TUBE.