April 18, 1944. E. c.

BALCERZAK 2,346,720
METHOD OF MAKING GAS STOVE BURNERS AND CORE FOR SAME
Filled Nov. 15, 194l 2 Sheets-Sheet l

INVENTOR.
EDWARD C. BALCERZAK.

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April 18, 1944. E, C, BALCERZAK 2,346,720
METHOD OF MAKING GAS STOVE BURNERS AND CORE FOR SAME
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Patented Apr. 18, 1944 2,346,720

UNITED STATES PATENT of FICE 2,346,720

METHOD OF MAKING GAS STOVE BURNERs
AND CORE FOR SAME
Edward C. Balcerzak, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor
to A. J. Lindermann & Hoverson Company,
Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin
Application November 15, 1941, Serial No. 419,306
12 Claims. (Ci. 22-165)
The improvements relate to gas burners and Fig. 4 is a perspective top view of the finished
methods of making the same, more particularly burner casting.
burners for gas stoves, and include the produc The cast burner comprises the inlet tube
tion of a gas burner consisting of a one-piece with flanges 2 having holes 2" by which it may
casting with fuel inlet, interior bowl or distrib 5o be bolted to a gas mixing tube Supplying mixed
uting conduit and numerous small open mouthed air and fuel gas to the burner, the bowl por
channels radiating therefrom and forming cir tion 3, the cap portion 4, the jet ports 5 and
cumferential ports for supporting jet combus channel or grooves 6 surrounding them. Inside
tion. This burner is produced in a peculiar the burner casting are the inlet channel , the
manner and by the employment of cores formed O annular bowl or distributing duct 3' and its exit
and arranged to give the desired result with duct 4' with numerous small radiating channels
accuracy and certainty and at a minimum of 5 terminating in the ports surrounded by and
labor and time. The resulting burner has all communicating with the groove or recess 6.
the efficiency and other advantages of hand bored The cores comprise the inlet channel and bowl
or two-piece burners, Will not clog in ordinary forming core , , , and the exit duct and port
use, is stronger and more durable and costs less forming core 8, 8'. The core 8, 8 has an annular
for materials, labor and factory overhead. extending print 9 surrounding and extending
Heretofore it has been the practice to make beyond the radial port-forming members 8' and
gas burners of the kind involved herein in two integral therewith, which also forms the groove
or more parts comprising the burner proper and 20 6 and provides for a smooth mouth for each
the burner cap, or in one piece without jet Sup port where it joins the said groove. This print
porting ports and to drill the ports in the burner reenforces the slender radiating members 8 of
after the casting was made. These practices the core and prevents them from breaking until
still prevail, and are attended with great diffi the casting has set. The print 9 is cut away
culties and result in unsatisfactory Work and 25 at 9 to allow draft at that point for the pat
imperfect products, which must be discarded or tern. Chaplets are employed and located in
will produce undesirable results in use. The Work proper positions, as at the points marked X,
alone of drilling numerous Small bores very close and also a suitable ridge engaging the groove
to one another each in exactly the right direc ' to support and hold the core members in
tion and position has always been a source of 30 proper position. N
great trouble, uncertainty and loss to manufac The burner shown in the drawings is an actual
tgreS. size commercial burner and the mold and core
The present improvements do away with all members are of size and proportions to produce
these difficulties and with the use of two-piece such a burner. It will be seen that the port
burners, made of expensive and at present often 3. or gas exit channels 8 are between 8 and is
unobtainable materials, accurately gauged, inch in diameter; that they are slightly flared
matched and fitted, and provide instead a burner at their inner ends (Fig. 2); that they are ap
cast in one piece by One simple molding opera proximately is inch in length and that the mem
tion and having the gas inlet, distributing bowl bers 8 and 9 form thereWith an integral core
and numerous small radiating orifices therein 40 unit. It will also be noted that the portion
and in a completely finished state ready for use. 8 is much greater in cross-sectional area, than
There are other objects and advantages which the ports 8', so as to provide an annular dis
will appear to those familiar with the art and tributing chamber of capacity sufficient to Supply
which need not be enumerated. all the ports with gaseous fuel and properly sup
45 port the combustion jets at the recess 6. The
The improvements are illustrated in the ac relative size and proportions of these ports should
companying drawings, and in which
Fig. 1 is a vertical media Section of a cast be maintained in all normal sizes of cooking
burner and cores as they are positioned in the burners.
mold when the casting is poured, exemplifying The cores are made of core sand in any Suit
the improvements; 50 able way, as in core boxes, and are baked, the
Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the core which forms core 8, 8' being sprayed or otherwise treated
in the casting the top or exit chamber of the with a molasses water or other tempering Sub
annular bowl and the jet supporting ports; stance before baking. They may also be faced.
Fig. 3 is a bottom plan of the core which forms They are then assembled in the mold by first
the gas inlet and distributing bowl; and 55 placing the core 8, 8' in position in the bottom
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of the mold where it is held in position by the numerous small passages and parts for gaseous
core print 9 around its outer edge. Core 7, fuel to support exterior combustion leading from
is then set on core 8, 8' in the mold and guided said interior chamber to the Outside of the burn
in place by the ridge . er, which consists essentially in forming a core
The mold is then poured through a suitable in a plurality of parts of core Sand or like friable
gate, such as that indicated at 2, and when the material, One part forming an interior chamber
metal is "cold' the mold is dumped, the Sprues in communication with a gaseous fuel inlet and
broken off, the cores disintegrated and the cast another forming the exit portion of said chamber
ing cleaned in any usual manner, as in a tumble and numerous tenuous radiating passages: ex
barrel. :
O tending laterally therefrom to a circumferential
The formation and shape of the mold is indi combustion recess at the said exterior each of
cated in Fig. 1, the pattern being a conventional the portions thereof which form the said exit
match plate with the core prints a part thereof. portion and recess being larger and stronger
As the procedure and mold referred to in this than the portion which forms the passages, as
and the two preceding paragraphs are Ordinary sembling Said cores and positioning them in
in the molding art they need not be described spaced relation in a mold so as to produce the
or shown in detail. Line 3 indicates the part molded Outer walls of the burner and a thick
ing of the cope 4 and drag 5 and 2' shows top portion with said numerous passages therein,
the sprue of one of the gates while line f3' then pouring the mold, opening the same, re
(Fig. 4) indicates the parting line of the mold moving the casting therefrom and removing the
on the casting. The flanges 2 are molded in cores inside said casting therefrom.
the green sand with small hole cores for the 3. The method or process of producing a burn
holes 2'. Preferably four burners are cast si er formed of a single casting and comprising
multaneously in a single mold, and they are an inlet channel, a distributing chamber and
molded in inverted position, as indicated in Fig. 1. numerous small passages and ports for gaseous
It will be noted that the ports 5 are angular fuel to support exterior combustion leading from
in cross section and as shown are substantially said interior chamber to the outside thereof,
rectangular. This is one of the characteristics which consists essentially in forming a core in
of the present improvements, since angular chan a plurality of parts of Core sand or like friable
nels cannot be bored. They are also slightly material, one part forming an interior chamber
larger in area than the standard bored ports in communication. With a gaseous fuel inlet and
and are somewhat longer. The result of this another forming the exit portion of said chamber
is that the ports are less subject to clogging and and numerous tenuous passages extending there
are more easily cleaned if necessary, while the from to the exterior of the burner and a cir
increased friction due to their extra length and cumferential fuel combustion chamber joining
angular form ensures against an over Supply said passages and surrounding their mouths and
of gas for the jets and promotes perfect con orifices and forming a support for said core in
bustion. the mold each of the portions thereof which form
The parts herein shown and described may be the said exit portion and combustion chamber
varied to change the shape and construction of 40 being larger and stronger than the portion which
the parts within the wide limits of the molding forms the passages, assembling said cores and
art, and those who practice the invention will positioning them in spaced relation to a mold
find it quite possible to. do this, for example to so as to produce the molded walls of the burner,
change the cross section and length of the ports then pouring the mold, removing the casting
5 or to make them tapering from end to end, 45 therefrom and disintegrating the cores inside said
without departing from the Scope of the said casting and removing fragments thereof through
invention. the Openings.
I claim: 4. The method or process of producing a burn
1. The method or process of producing a burn er in a casting Operation Comprising an inlet
er formed of a single casting and comprising 50 channel, a distributing chamber and numerous
an inlet channel, a distributing chamber and small passages and ports for gaseous fuel to
numerous Small paSSages and ports for gaseous support exterior combustion leading from said
fuel to support exterior combustion leading from chamber to the outside of the burner, which
said interior chamber to the Outside thereof, consists essentially in forming a core in a plu
5 rality of parts of core sand or like friable ma
which consists essentially in forming a core in terial, one part forming an interior chamber in
a plurality- of parts of core sand or like friable
material, one part forming an interior chamber communication with a gaseous fuel inlet and
in communication with a gaseous fuel inlet and another forming an external print and the exit
another forming the exit portion of said cham portion of said chamber and numerous tenuous
ber and numerous tenuous paSSages extending 60 passages of angular cross Section extending
laterally therefrom to a circumferential com therefrom to the exterior of the burner and ta
pering from end to end each of the portions
bustion recess at the exterior of the burner each thereof
of the portions thereof which form the said exit which form the said print and exit por
tion being larger and stronger than the portion
portion and recess being larger and stronger than 65 which
the portion which forms the passages, assem forms the passages, assembling said cores
bling said cores and positioning them in a mold in superposed position in an outer mold and
and in spaced relation thereto So as to produce positioning them in spaced relation thereto so
the molded Outer walls of the burner and a thick as to produce the molded walls of the burner,
top portion, with said numerous passages therein, then pouring the mold, removing the casting
then pouring the mold, opening the same, re 70 therefrom, disintegrating the cores and removing
moving the casting therefrom and removing the the5. fragments thereof. w
The method or process of producing a burn
cores inside said casting therefrom.
2. The method or process of producing a burn er casting comprising an inlet channel, an in
er formed of a single casting and comprising 75 terior distributing chamber and numerous small
an inlet channel, a distributing chamber and passages and ports for gaseous fuel to support
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exterior combustion leading from said interior
chamber to the outside thereof, which consists
essentially in forming a core in a plurality of
interengaging self-supporting parts of core sand
or like friable material, one part forming an
interior chamber in communication with a gas
eous fuel inlet and another forming an external
print and the exit portion of said chamber and
numerous tenuous passages extending laterally
therefrom to the exterior of the burner each of
the portions thereof which form the said print and
exit portion being larger and stronger than the
portion which forms the passages, assembling said
cores and positioning them in spaced relation in a
mold so as to produce the molded outer walls and
cap of the burner, then pouring the mold, re
moving the casting therefrom and disintegrating
the cores and removing the fragments thereof.
6. A. Core of core sand or like friable material
throughout for forming the fuel distributing and
jet combustion supporting channels and ports
of a gas burner by molding the same in a single
piece, comprising an annular inner portion, nu
merous separate, spaced, attenuated members
integral therewith and radiating therefrom and
a print portion surrounding the extremities of
said radiating members and joined thereto to
Support and position the same in a mold and
to form a continuous channel surrounding the
ports formed by the said members in the casting
and in free communication therewith the said
annular inner portion and print portion each
being larger and stronger than the said atten
uated members, the said portions and members
forming a single rigid core member and the said
portions joining the ends of said members and
reinforcing them and said members forming a
connecting link between the said portions.
7. The method or process of producing a burn
er in a single casting operation comprising the
steps of providing a core member forming the
fuel distributing and jet combustion supporting
channels and ports of the burner, having an
annular inner portion, numerous separate, uni
formly spaced, attenuated members integral
therewith and radiating therefrom and a print
portion surrounding the extremities of said ra
diating members and joined thereto to form a
continuous channel surrounding the ports formed
by the said members in the casting and in free
communication therewith, the said portions and
members being composed of core sand or like
friable material and forming a single rigid core
member and the said portions being larger and
stronger than and joining the ends of said mem
bers and reinforcing them, placing said core in
a mold in spaced relation thereto and supported
thereon by said print portion and in contact
with a core member supported thereon and re
movably connected therewith for forming an in
terior chamber in communication with a gas
eous fuel inlet and said fuel distributing channel,
then pouring the mold, opening the same and
removing the casting therefrom.
8. The method or process of producing a burn
er in a single casting comprising an inlet chan
nel an interior fluid fuel distributing chamber
and numerous, small, individual, separated pas
sages and ports for said fuel extending outwardly
from said chamber from a point below the top
thereof to support exterior combustion and lead
ing from said interior chamber to the outside
of the burner, which consists essentially in mak
ing a core of core sand or like friable material
comprising an interior chamber forming portion
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in communication with a fluid fuel inlet form
ing part, a part for forming an exit portion of
Said chamber and a portion for forming said
passages extending therefrom to the exterior of
the burner and consisting of spaced and sepa
rated attenuated members connecting said last
two parts, positioning said core in a mold, sup
porting it therein by said part for forming the
exit portion and in spaced relation thereto so
10 as to produce the molded outer walls of the
burner and walls separating said passages and
ports, then pouring the mold, opening the same,
removing the casting therefrom and removing
the cores inside said casting therefrom. -
lis 9. A core for forming the fuel distributing and
jet combustion supporting channels and ports
of a gas burner by molding the same in a single
piece, comprising an annular inner portion, nu
nerous separate, spaced, attenuated members all
of less than one-eighth inch maximum diameter
integral therewith and radiating laterally there
from, said annular portion having a cross-sec
tional area, much greater than that of each at
tenuated member, a continuous annular print
portion Surrounding and integral with the ex
tremities of Said radiating members and extend
ing outwardly therefrom to support the said core
in a mold and to form a continuous channel
surrounding the ports formed by the said atten
3) uated members in the casting and in free com
municating therewith, the said portions and at
tenuated members composed of core sand or like
friable material and forming a single rigid self
supporting and positioning core unit and the
said portions being larger and stronger than and
positioning and reinforcing the said attenuated
members and said attenuated members forming
connecting links between the said portions.
10. A core of core sand or like friable material
40 for forming the fuel distributing and jet com
bustion supporting channels and ports of a gas
burner by molding the same in a single piece,
comprising an annular inner portion, numerous
separate, spaced, attenuated members all of less
than one-eighth inch maximum diameter integral
therewith and radiating laterally therefrom, said
annular portion having a cross-sectional area
much greater than that of each attenuated mem
ber and extending beyond their inner ends ver
tically, said attenuated members being flared at
their inner ends to produce a flare in said chan
nels, and a continuous annular print portion
surrounding and integral with the extremities of
said radiating members and extending outwardly
therefrom forming a Support for said radiating
member and to form a continuous channel sur
rounding the ports formed by the said atten
uated members in the casting and in free com
munication thereWith, the Said portions and at
s tenuated members forming a single rigid self
supporting core unit and the said portions being
larger and stronger than and positioning and
reinforcing the said attenuated members and said
attenuated members forming connecting links be
tween the said portions.
i1. A sectional core of core sand or like friable
material for forming the fuel receiving and dis
tributing, the jet combustion Supporting channels
and the ports of a gas burner by molding the
same in a single piece, comprising a member
for forming an inlet and a gas receiving cham
ber extending around the inside of the burner,
an inner, distributing chamber forming member
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extending from and in contact therewith, nu
merous separate, spaced, attenuated lateral men
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bers integral with the last named member and
radiating laterally therefrom, a print portion
surrounding the extremities of Said radiating
members and joined thereto to form a continuous
channel Surrounding the ports formed by the
said radiating members in the casting and in
free communication therewith, the said last three
portions and members forming a single rigid
core piece the said attenuated lateral members O
being smaller and weaker than the distributing
chamber forming member and than the print
portion supported in a flask by Said print por
tion, the said print and inner portions reinforcing
the said radiating members and the said radiating
members forming a connecting link between the
said members.
12. A sectional core of core Sand or like friable
material for forming the fuel receiving and dis
tributing, the jet combustion supporting chan
nels and the ports of a gas burner by molding
the same in a single piece, comprising a member
for forming an inlet and a gas receiving chamber
extending around the inside of the burner, an
inner distributing chamber forming member ex
tending and in contact therewith, numerous sep
arate, spaced, attenuated lateral members inte
gral with the last named member and radiating
laterally therefrom, a print portion surrounding
the extremities of said radiating members and
joined thereto to form a continuous channel sur
rounding the ports formed by the said radiating
members in the casting and in free communi
cation therewith, the said last three portions and
members forming a single rigid core piece sup
ported in a flask by said print portion, the said .
print and inner portions being larger and strong
er than and reinforcing the said radiating mem
5 bers and the said radiating members forming
a connecting link between the said members,
there being an interlocking severable connection
between said first named member and the inner
portion on at least three sides of the core for
920 holding the said parts in their proper relative
positions while a mold is being poured.
EDWARD C. BALCERZAK.