Dwight E Brooker

US Patent:

6644961, Nov 11, 2003

Filed:

Mar 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/108281

Inventors:

Dwight E. Brooker - Skiatook OK

Assignee:

The Protectoseal Company - Bensenville IL

International Classification:

F23D 1482

US Classification:

431346, 431328

Abstract:

A combination of a flame arrestor with a reflection suppressor is provided which not only arrests an advancing flame front, but also suppresses or mitigates a reflection wave that is generated by a pressure wave that passes through the combination and continues on to a pipe restriction what generates a reflection wave that proceeds back to the combination. At the combination, the reflection suppressor suppresses and/or mitigates the reflection wave, thereby avoiding a heightened pressure in the combination that could cause a re-ignition and a new flame front and pressure front. The reflection suppressor has a tapered profile that permits a pressure wave to pass along and past the reflection suppressor as it leaves the combination but that impedes and mitigates a returning reflection wave produced by the pressure wave striking a pipe restriction and causing such a returning reflection wave.

US Patent:

7056114, Jun 6, 2006

Filed:

Sep 16, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/664306

Inventors:

Dwight E. Brooker - Skiatook OK, US

Assignee:

The Protectoseal Company - Bensenville IL

International Classification:

F23D 14/82
F23D 14/12

US Classification:

431346, 431328

Abstract:

A combination of a flame arrestor with a reflection suppressor is provided which not only arrests an advancing flame front, but also suppresses or mitigates a reflection wave that is generated by a pressure wave that passes through the combination and continues on to a pipe restriction what generates a reflection wave that proceeds back to the combination. At the combination, the reflection suppressor suppresses and/or mitigates the reflection wave, thereby avoiding a heightened pressure in the combination that could cause a re-ignition and a new flame front and pressure front. The reflection suppressor has a tapered profile that permits a pressure wave to pass along and past the reflection suppressor as it leaves the combination but that impedes and mitigates a returning reflection wave produced by the pressure wave striking a pipe restriction and causing such a returning reflection wave.

US Patent:

7390190, Jun 24, 2008

Filed:

Mar 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/374255

Inventors:

Dwight E. Brooker - Skiatook OK, US

Assignee:

The Protectoseal Company - Bensenville IL

International Classification:

F23D 14/82
F23D 14/12

US Classification:

431346, 431328

Abstract:

A combination of a flame arrestor with a reflection suppressor is provided which not only arrests an advancing flame front, but also suppresses or mitigates a reflection wave that is generated by a pressure wave that passes through the combination and continues on to a pipe restriction what generates a reflection wave that proceeds back to the combination. At the combination, the reflection suppressor suppresses and/or mitigates the reflection wave, thereby avoiding a heightened pressure in the combination that could cause a re-ignition and a new flame front and pressure front. The reflection suppressor has a tapered profile that permits a pressure wave to pass along and past the reflection suppressor as it leaves the combination but that impedes and mitigates a returning reflection wave produced by the pressure wave striking a pipe restriction and causing such a returning reflection wave.

US Patent:

20030044740, Mar 6, 2003

Filed:

Sep 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/947861

Inventors:

Dwight Brooker - Skiatook OK, US

International Classification:

F23D001/00

US Classification:

431/252000

Abstract:

A detonation flame arrestor including an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder, and fill media. The outer cylinder and inner cylinder are secured to a canister flange on one end and include a domed face (cap) on the other end. On assembly, the inner cylinder secured to the canister flange is positioned inside the outer cylinder secured to the canister flange, altogether forming a canister. The fill media is inserted in the canister between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder. Both the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder include a tapered spiral wound wire screen which forms their respective cylindrical circumferences. Contaminates are constrained between adjacent windings of the tapered wire screen. The canister is positioned in an outer housing in the flow path of a gas pipeline in such a manner that a flame front traveling through the pipeline enters the outer housing, impinges upon the domed face of the outer cylinder, makes an abrupt turn to enter the canister, passes through the fill media where the flame is extinguished, and the gas flow makes a second abrupt turn to exit the canister and continue in the flow path of the pipeline. The fill media includes irregular shaped spheres which provide a large surface area which acts as a heat sink to extinguish the flame.