(19)
(11) EP 0 696 711 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
19.03.1997 Bulletin 1997/12

(43) Date of publication A2:
14.02.1996 Bulletin 1996/07

(21) Application number: 95305213.1

(22) Date of filing: 26.07.1995
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6: F24C 3/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

(30) Priority: 27.07.1994 GB 9415091

(71) Applicant: JETMASTER FIRES LIMITED
Southampton, Hampshire SO15 0AW (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Beaton, Alan
    Darlington DL3 8ET (GB)

(74) Representative: De Minvielle-Devaux, Ian Benedict Peter et al
CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43, Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA
London WC1A 2RA (GB)

   


(54) Improvements in fireplace appliances


(57) The invention relates to improvements in fireplace appliances, and in particular to a device for controlling the distribution of the gas/air mixture in gas burners for such appliances.
A gas burner (15) for a fireplace appliance comprising a gas/air mixing chamber (22), a dispersal medium (17) for spreading the gas/air mixture across a surface for burning and a distribution device (18) positioned between the mixing chamber and dispersal medium, characterised in that said device comprising a lower distribution plate (19) having a plurality of apertures (20) therein to direct the distribution of the gas/air mixture to a selected location and an upper distribution plate (21) to prevent the dispersal medium from entering the apertures.






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