Gas fired igniter

Claim 1

AN IGNITOR FOR FUEL BURNERS COMPRISING: A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER HAVING AN INBOARD END AND AN OUTBOARD END, SAID INBOARD END BEING OPEN AND FORMING A FLAME PORT, A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL BODY CONCENTRICALLY LOCATED IN CLOSELY SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITHIN SAID CONTAINER WITH APERTURES SPACED ALONG ITS SURFACE AND HAVING AN INBOARD END AND AN OUTBOARD END, SAID INBOARD END BEING OPEN AND ADJACENT SAID FLAME PORT WHEREBY AN AIR-DELIVERY CHAMBER IS FORMED BETWEEN AID CONTAINER AND SAID BODY AND A PILOT CHAMBER IS FORMED WITHIN SAID BODY, SAID APERTURES HAVING A TOTAL CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA WHICH IS COMPARATIVELY SMALLER THAN SAID AIR-DELIVERY CHAMBER, AN AIR INLET LOCATED ADJACENT SAID OUTBOARD END OF SAID CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER ADAPTED TO INTRODUCE A STREAM OF AIR TO SAID AIR-DELIVERY CHAMBER, A MAJOR PORTION OF SAID AIR STREAM BEING CONVEYED THROUGH SAID AIRDELIVERY CHAMBER WITH LARGER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA TO SAID FLAME PORT AND A MINOR PORTION OF SAID AIR STREAM PASSING FROM SAID AIR-DELIVERY CHAMBER THROUGH SAID SPACED APERTURES WITH SMALLER CROSSSECTIONAL AREA LOCATED ON SAID BODY INTO SAID PILOT CHAMBER, A SEPARATE GAS CONDUCTING MEANS WITHIN SAID HOLLOW CONTAINER HAVING AN INBOARD END AND ON OUTBOARD END, SAID INBOARD END BEING OPEN AND ADJACENT SAID FLAME PORT, A GAS FLOW DIVIDER MEANS POSITIONED ACROSS THE OUTBOARD END OF SAID PILOT CHAMBER AND SAID GAS CONDUCTING MEANS, SAID DIVIDER MEANS HAVING A PASSAGEWAY THEREIN TO SAID PILOT CHAMBER AND A PASSAGEWAY THEREIN TO SAID GAS CONDUCTING MEANS, SAID PASSAGEWAY TO SAID PILOT CHAMBER BEING COMPARATIVELY SMALLER IN CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA THAN SAID PASSAGEWAY TO SAID GAS CONDUCTING MEANS, A GAS INLET MEANS INCLUDING A PIPE CONNECTED TO SAID GAS FLOW DIVIDER MEANS AND ADAPTED TO INTRODUCE A GAS STREAM TO SAID DIVIDER, A MAJOR PORTION OF SAID STREAM ENTERING THE OUTBOARD END OF SAID GAS CONDUCTING MEANS THROUGH SAID LARGER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA IN SAID DIVIDER AND A MINOR PORTION ENTERING THE OUTBOARD END OF SAID PILOT CHAMBER THROUGH SAID SMALLER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA IN SAID DIVIDER, AND A SPARK MEANS IN SAID PILOT CHAMBER LOCATED ADJACENT SAID OUTBOARD END, SAID SPARK MEANS CAUSING A PILOT FLAME TO BURN IN SAID PILOT CHAMBER, SAID PILOT FLAME CAUSING THE GAS STREAM ISSUING FROM THE GAS CHAMBER TO BURN AT SAID FLAME PORT.