Harry A Tyler

US Patent:

60448377, Apr 4, 2000

Filed:

May 12, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/076685

Inventors:

Harry Arthur Tyler - Royal Oak MD

International Classification:

F24H 300

US Classification:

126 99C

Abstract:

A combustion and heating chamber into which a fluid is pumped under pressure is provided. A burner is positioned in the combustion and heating chamber to provide a heat load to the pressurized fluid in the chamber. As the fluid is heated its internal pressure is greatly raised providing a force for driving the heated air through a spiral conduit that encircles the combustion and heating chamber. An insulated outer wall is fitted around the spiral conduit and in contact with it. The individual wraps of the spiral conduit do not lay side by side, but are spaced apart. Relatively cool process air is drawn into the spaces between the separate wraps of the spiral conduit, which is thereby formed as a second spiral space intertwined with the spiral conduit between the combustion and heating chamber wall and the outer wall. The process fluid is therefore in contact with the walls of the spiral conduit. Preferably, as the heated fluid spirals in a downward direction under pressure and cooling as it moves downwardly, its heat is transferred through the walls of the spiral conduit into the space between the individual coils of the spiral conduit so as to heat the relatively cooler process air which is spiraling upwardly at the same time and being heated as it moves.