APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COLOR FLAMES
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an apparatus for generating color flames.
More particularly, it relates to an apparatus for generating color flames which not
only provides flames of various colors such as red, blue, green, yellow, purple, etc.
so as to enhance the atmosphere of indoor/outdoor parties of various scales, training
centers, performance stages and large scale festivals or to make the surroundings of
the festival area more magnificent, but which also makes the most of the function of
the solvent generating color flames by increasing the vividness of the color flames
by completely burning the fuel.
BACKGROUND ART
In general, the apparatus for generating color flames mainly used for
indoor/outdoor decoration or for festivals uses oil, LNG, or LPG as a fuel.
However, when generating flames using said fuel, only single colored flames of
yellow or red are generated.
Also, in prior art, the apparatus for generating color flames for lightening
the sacred fire so as to notify the opening and closing of various events including the
Olympics or other domestic sports game, or for enhancing the atmosphere of an
event, only generated a single colored flame.
Therefore, such apparatus for generating color flames of prior art could not
arouse a strong interest of the people watching the flames because it generated only
a single colored flame.
However, recently, it became possible to generate flames of various colors
by adding a particular chemical ingredient to the ordinary apparatus for generating
color flames and injecting said chemical ingredient thereafter.
When flames are generated by adding chemical ingredients to the ordinary
apparatus for generating color flames as above, there are disadvantages such that the
apparatus cannot generate the desired vivid color due to imperfect fuel combustion,
and that foreign substances remain after combustion.
Further, the ordinary apparatus for generating color flames has
disadvantages that flames are dispersed due to wind even when the flames are
injected or burned by giving pressure on the solution itself such as chemical
ingredients generating colors, and that it may not be ignited because the ignition rate
is remarkably lower when being ignited using the ordinary igniting method, and that
nozzles must be frequently replaced because nozzles get choked up due to imperfect
combustion.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention was originated in order to overcome said
disadvantages of prior art. It is an object of the present invention to provide an
apparatus for generating color flames which will not only provide flames of various
colors such as red, blue, green, yellow, purple, etc. so as to enhance the atmosphere
of indoor/outdoor parties of various scales, framing centers, performance stages and
large scale festivals or to make the surroundings of the festival area more
magnificent, but which will also make the most of the function of the solvent
generating color flames by increasing the vividness of the color flames by
completely burning the fuel.
In order to accomplish said objects, the apparatus for generating color
flames of the present invention comprises a supply portion, a regulator formed to
control gas pressure of the supply portion, a solenoid valve formed to block and
supply gas pressure controlled by the regulator, an atomizing nozzle portion having a
color solvent reservoir formed to burn gas for combustion and color solvent supplied
through the solenoid valve, igniting portion having an igniter igniting the gas passed
through and gas of the color solvent injected from the atomizing nozzle portion, said
igniting portion connected to be communicated to the regulator, and a combustion
portion formed to enclose the peripheral surface of the atomizing nozzle portion
combusted by the igniting portion.
The apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention
comprised as above will be described in more detail in the following.
The present invention comprises a supply portion 20 formed to supply fuel
gas so as to generate flames, and a regulator 22 formed to control gas pressure of the
supply portion 20.
Also, the present invention comprises a solenoid valve 24 so as to supply
and block the gas supplied from the supply portion 20 smoothly.
Further, the present invention comprises an atomizing nozzle portion 28
having a color solvent reservoir 26 for generating said color flames.
The present invention comprises an igniting portion 50 having an igniter 30
in order to burn gas discharged from said atomizing nozzle portion 28.
Said igniting portion 50 comprises a solenoid valve 23 so as to block and
supply the gas supplied to the supply portion 20.
Also, the igniting portion 50 comprises a replaceable fuel tank 21 which
can not only receive gas from the supply portion 20, but can also receive gas
separately.
At the end of the igniting portion 50, a flame extinguishment detection
portion 25 is formed so as to detect whether the flames are extinguished.
A combustion portion 39 is formed to enclose the atomizing nozzle portion
28 so that gas injected from the atomizing nozzle portion 28 is not dispersed, and
burned easily.
Also, in order to generate various colors, said* combustion portion 39 is
located in the center of the igniting portion 50, and atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48,
58, 68 are located around the combustion portion so as to form a circle.
A color solvent reservoir wherein color solvents are stored, is formed so as
to generate various colors before gas is discharged from the atomizing nozzle portion
28 and burned.
Also, in the atomizing nozzle portion 28, more than two color solvent
reservoirs inhaled by the gas pressure supplied from the supply portion 20, can be
formed as many as the number of colors to be generated.
As another modified embodiment of the present invention, a number of
color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 can be formed at a single atomizing nozzle
portion 78.
Solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 are formed in said color solvent reservoirs 31,
32, 33, 34 so as to supply and block the gas and color solvent supplied from the
supply portion 20.
A control portion 40 is formed so that the user can operate the igniting
portion 50 comprising solenoid valves 24, 41, 42, 43,44 and an igniter 30 formed in
order to control the color solvent of the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 and
the gas of the supply portion 20, more easily.
BRBEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 is a drawing illustrating the apparatus for generating color flames of
the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a drawing illustrating the first modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a drawing illustrating the atomizing nozzle portion formed at the
combustion portion of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a drawing illustrating the second modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a drawing illustrating the third modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention.
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
The apparatus for generating color flames comprised as above will be
described in more detail in the following with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a drawing illustrating the apparatus for generating color flames of
the present invention.
As shown in Fig. 1, the present invention controls the regulator 22
connected to be communicated in order to control the height of the flame using the
gas supplied from the supply portion 20.
After the supply pressure of gas is controlled by controlling the gas pressure
of said regulator 22, the solenoid valve 24 is opened to inject gas of the supply
portion 20 through the atomizing nozzle portion 28.
A gas filler inlet 27 wherein gas is filled in from the supply portion 20, is
formed at said atomizing nozzle portion 28, and when the filled-in gas passes
through, an inlet 29 generating suction force to inhale color solvent is formed at one
end.
Said solenoid valve 24 supplies and blocks gas, and when closed in
emergencies, it can easily block flames from burning, because the gas discharged to
the atomizing nozzle portion 28 from the supply portion 20 is blocked.
If gas of the supply portion 20 is discharged through the atomizing nozzle
portion 28, the igniter 30 generates a spark to ignite the igniting portion 50 so as to
generate flames.
The igniter 30 sends the power source of the utility voltage through a
transformer to maintain high pressure, and supplies it to the igniter 30 to ignite
flames by the electric discharge between the igniter 30 terminals.
At this time, the igniting portion 50 ignited by the igniter 30 is burned
continuously so that flames are generated until the firework ends.
Due to the flames ignited at the igniting portion 50 as above, the gas and
color solvent injected from the atomizing nozzle portion 28 are burned at the
combustion portion 39, and thus magnificent flames are generated.
The igniting portion 50 and atomizing nozzle portion 20 of the present
invention are automatically blocked and supplied because solenoid valves 23, 24 are
formed.
Also, when the flame of the igniting portion 50 being used is extinguished,
simultaneously with the solenoid valves 23, 24 being operated by the control portion
40, the flame extinguishment detection portions 25 formed in certain distances on
one end of the igniting portion 50 are operated to be closed.
Said flame extinguishment detection portion 25 is heat induced or electron
induced so that the generally used gas can be blocked.
The combustion portion 39 formed at one end of the atomizing nozzle
portion 20, is formed in a cylinder shape so that the flame is not dispersed.
The combustion portion 39 is characteristic in that it has a high ignition rate
and combustibility because the color solvent discharged after being mixed with the
gas injected from the atomizing nozzle portion 28 is faced towards the center
without being dispersed.
Gas burned by being injected from the combustion portion 39 as stated
above, passes through the atomizing nozzle portion 28 to pump up the color solvent
filled in the color solvent reservoir 26 formed at the atomizing nozzle portion 28 into
the atomizing nozzle portion 28. Accordingly, it generates the corresponding color
flames by being burned and injected simultaneously, because it is injected from the
atomizing nozzle portion 28 after being mixed with gas.
At this time, since gas injected from the atomizing nozzle portion 28 is
discharged after being mixed with the color solvent before being burned, the color
solvent burns with gas and generates flames of unique colors corresponding to each
color solvent.
That is, due to the gas pressure passing through the atomizing nozzle
portion 28, the color solvent of the color solvent reservoir 26 formed at the
atomizing nozzle portion 28 is naturally pumped up and mixed with the gas passing
through the atomizing nozzle portion 28 and discharged thereafter. Accordingly, it
achieves an optimum mixture with the gas passing through, and is completely
burned.
The gas passing through the atomizing nozzle portion 28 pulls up the color
solvent by making the color solvent reservoir 26 vacuum, and the pulled-up color
solvent is injected as fog simultaneously being mixed with gas.
Because gas and color solvent are injected after being mixed in the
atomizing nozzle portion 28 and burned simultaneously, it is completely burned and
thus can generate flames with vivid colors.
Especially, since the present invention uses an atomizing nozzle portion 28,
pressure does not have to be given directly in order to supply color solvent stored in
the color solvent reservoir 26. Instead, it is mixed by being inhaled by the vacuum
generated by passing through the atomizing nozzle portion 28. That is, the
atomizing nozzle portion 28 inhales the color solvent of the color solvent reservoir
26 formed between the atomizing nozzle portions by the gas pressure passing
through the atomizing nozzle portion 28, and discharges the color solvent
simultaneously with gas. In general, nozzles used for paint spray gun are used.
It is preferable for the color solvent reservoir 26 to form a small airing hole
wherein air can pass through so that the color solvent can be easily pumped up to the
atomizing nozzle portion 28 by the vacuum generated when gas is discharged.
That is, if the atomizing nozzle portion 28 maintains in a vacuum status as the
amount of the color solvent being inhaled by the velocity pressure of gas passing
through the atomizing nozzle portion 28 increases or decreases, the color solvent
remains inside not being able to be pumped up to the atomizing nozzle portion 28,
and thus inhibits the generation of flames. Therefore, it is preferable to form a
small airing hole so as to prevent this.
The first modified embodiment of the apparatus for generating color flames
of the present invention will be described in the following.
Fig. 2 is a drawing illustrating the first modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a
drawing illustrating the atomizing nozzle portion formed at the combustion portion
of Fig. 2.
As shown in Fig. 2, among the apparatus for generating color flames
illustrated in Fig. 1, the present invention forms more than two atomizing nozzle
portions having a color solvent reservoir which has a constitution the same as that of
the color solvent reservoir and atomizing nozzle solvent.
Therefore, not only a single color flame but also flames of various colors
such as red, blue, green, yellow, purple, etc. can be generated by the atomizing
nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68 having color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34.
At this time, because the color solvent injected from the atomizing nozzle
portions 68, 38, 48, 58 is mixed with the gas supplied from the supply portion 20,
flames are generated by being burned by the igniting portion 50 formed in the center
of the combustion portion 39.
As shown in Fig. 3, because the igniting portion 50 is located in the center
of the atomizing nozzle portions 68, 38, 48, 58 formed on the combustion portion 39
to keep the flames continuously alive, the ignition rate of the injected color solvent is
very high.
Therefore, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, it is possible for the user to obtain
the desired color flames if color solvents of different colors which serve the purpose
of each event are supplied by forming a number of atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48,
58, 68 having color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34. That is, it is possible to
operate the apparatus of the present invention to generate color flames as the user
desires by supplying and blocking gas supplied from the supply portion 20 by
controlling the solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 using the control portion 40 controlling
the atomizing nozzle portions 68, 38, 48, 58 having their respective color solvent
reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34.
Filler inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid are formed in each atomizing nozzle portion
38, 48, 58, 68 in order to inhale gas supplied from the supply portion 20 and color
solvent charged at the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34.
Color solvent inlets 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d are formed to be located inside each filler
inlet 11a, lib, lie, lid.
As stated above, color solvent inlets 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d are located inside the
filler inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid so that the color solvent can be inhaled as gas passes
through the filler inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid.
Solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 are respectively formed at the filler inlets 11a,
lib, lie, lid of the atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68 so that only the desired
color solvent is inhaled.
Since the solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 are closed and opened by a control
portion 40 which is operated by the user, the user can generate the desired color
easily.
Further, when the flame of the atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68 or
the igniting portion 50 is put out, such extinguishment of the flame is detected by the
flame extinguishment detection portion 25, and the solenoid valves 23, 24 are
operated to block the gas supplied from the supply portion 20.
Hereinbelow, the second modified embodiment of the apparatus for
generating color flames of the present invention is described.
Fig. 4 is a drawing illustrating the second modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention.
The present invention, as illustrated in Fig. 4, provides a plurality of color
solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 to an atomizing nozzle portion 78 in order to
generate various colors of flames such as red, blue, green, yellow, purple, etc. in
addition to a single color of flame according to the apparatus for generating color
flames such that when different color solvents are supplied in accordance with the
need of the functions/events, the user is able to obtain his/her desired color of flames.
The atomizing nozzle portion 78 is characterized in that a plurality of color
solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 is provided in order to be sucked/inhaled by the gas
supplied from the supply portion 20.
Said color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 are filled with color solvents,
each manifesting different colors of the flames, respectively, and thus the user selects
his/her desired color of the color solvent and let such color solvent be inhaled/sucked
by the atomizing nozzle portion 78, which provides a color flame corresponding to
the solvent.
In this regard, each of the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 is installed
with solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44, respectively for controlling inflow and blocking
of the gas and color solvent to the atomizing nozzle portion 78.
Accordingly, the remaining color solvent reservoirs except for the color
solvent reservoirs desired by the user for his/her necessary colors to be inhaled is
fastened by the solenoid valves in order not to discharge the color solvent.
If any one of the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 fastened by the
solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 of Fig. 4 is opened, only the color solvent of the
opened color solvent reservoir is inhaled to the atomizing nozzle portion 78 and
injected. Thus, the flame desired by the user is generated.
Also, the present invention is characterized in that it provides a (an
automatic) control portion 40, which can change the color of the flames by a simple
operation at any time.
The (automatic) control portion 40 controls the operation of the solenoid
valves 41, 42, 43, 44 installed at the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34, and also,
controls the igniting portion 50 having a igniter 30 and the operation of the solenoid
valve 24 for controlling the gas supply. That is, when the power is supplied by the
(automatic) control portion 40, the solenoid valve 24 is opened, the electric
discharge is initiated at the igniter 30, and simultaneously gas supplied from the
igniting portion 50 is ignited so as to generate flames continuously. Thus, the gas
discharged from the atomizing nozzle portion 78 is ignited by the flames of the
igniting portion 50.
The flames generated at this state are made by the color solvents selected
from the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 being mixed together with the gas
passing through the atomizing nozzle portion 78 to be injected/sprayed, wherein the
gas and the color solvents are simultaneously burnt.
The selected color solvents sprayed/injected and burnt through the
atomizing nozzle portion 78 as above can generate various color flames such as red,
yellow, blue, green or purple, etc.
Also, the present invention described a use of an apparatus for generating
color flames by using color solvents. However, the present invention is not limited
thereto, and it is certainly possible to connect several numbers of the apparatuses for
generating color flames with connecting jack, etc. and to operate to produce/present
various flame/fire shows with a single control portion.
The apparatus for generating color flames can install the supply portion 20
inside the apparatus, which can not only be manufactured in a small size but also be
convenient for moving as it is in a small size and be installed at various positions.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that when the flame show
continues for a long time, the supply portion 20 can be installed at the external
portion such as the installation of the supply portion 20 inside the apparatus as
illustrated in Figs.2 & 4 so as to supply much gas, which can be used for a long time.
The atomizing nozzle portion 78 is provided with a plurality of filler
openings/inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid in order to inhale gas supplied from the supply
portion 20 to each of the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34, respectively.
Also, the filler openings/inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid of the gas is formed with
color solvent inlets 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d to be communicated. Such constitution enables
the color solvents filled in the color solvent reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 to be more
easily inhaled by gas passing through the filler openings/inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid.
When the gas supplied from the supply portion 20 is discharged through the
filler openings/inlets 11a, lib, lie, lid provided on the atomizing nozzle portion 78,
the solenoid valves 41, 42, 43, 44 are operated and controlled.
In addition, the other solenoid valve 24 provided at the discharge portion of
the supply portion 20 is used and controlled beforehand so as to block twice over,
which is characterized to have an excellent safety.
According to the present invention, the solenoid valves 23, 24 provided at
the supply portion and the replaceable fuel tank 21 are automatically shut off by a
flame extinguishment detection portion 25, and thus even when the flames of the
igniting portion 50 are put out, the gas is not discharged unnecessarily.
Fig. 5 is a drawing illustrating the third modified embodiment of the
apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention.
The replaceable fuel tank 21 is easy to install in the apparatus of the present
invention, and characterized in that portable butane gas canisters easily obtainable
from the market can be used.
Accordingly, in the modification of the present invention, the flames are
generated continuously at the igniting portion 50 through the replaceable fuel tank
21, and thus when the supply portion 20 supplies only the pressurized air to the
atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68, the color solvents filled in the color solvent
reservoirs 31, 32, 33, 34 are inhaled and injected/sprayed.
In this regard, the supply portion 20 supplying the pressurized air
sprays/injects only the pressurized air and the color solvent by the atomizing nozzle
portions 38, 48, 58, 68.
The color solvent sprayed/injected by the pressurized air as above will
manifest color flames when the color solvent sprayed/injected from the atomizing
nozzle portions touches the flame of the igniting portion 50 and burns since the
flames are continuously generated from the igniting portion 50.
Further, it is certainly possible that the supply portion 20 can supply and use
gas to the supply portion 20 as well as first of all, discharge and use only the
pressurized air discharged from the atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68. That
is, since the pressurized gas is sprayed/injected while the solenoid valve 41 of the
atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68 is closed using gas instead of the
pressurized air at the supply portion 20, the present invention is characterized in that
flames in the true colors of the gas can only be generated.
The present invention is provided with a solenoid valve 23 for blocking fuel
supplied from the replaceable fuel tank 21 when the flame of the igniting portion 50
dies while in use.
The solenoid valves 23, 24 provided on the replaceable fuel tank 21 and the
supply portion 20 are automatically closed by the flame extinguishment detection
portion 25 for detecting flames of the igniting portion 50.
The characteristic of the present invention sharply increases safety for
preventing fire beforehand, wherein the igniting portion 50 and the solenoid valves
23, 24 of the atomizing nozzle portions 38, 48, 58, 68 are automatically closed by
the aforementioned solenoid valves 23, 24, and thus even when the flame of the
igniting portion 50 is put out, gas and the pressurized air will not be continuously
discharged.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
The apparatus for generating color flames of the present invention provides
an effect of variously furnishing several colors of flames in order to further raise the
mood of the indoor/outdoor parties in various scales, training centers, performance
stages, big festivals, etc. or to magnificently change the surroundings of the festival
grounds.
Also, the burning flames can be completely burned so as to raise the clarity
of the color, which is characterized in that the effect of the color flames is
maximized.
The present invention can provide industrially useful effects by further
increasing safety and efficiency at functions/events as well as it can render mysteries
of the functions/events and raise the level of the functions/events while attracting the
interest of the participants and lifting mood, etc. at places such as the Olympic
games, athletic meetings, festivals, memorial ceremonies, an eve celebration,
outdoor parties, fraining centers, etc.
The present invention particularly raises safety, which is characterized in
that it prevents unnecessary outflow of gas even when the flames of the igniting
portion are put out so as to prevent fire from occurring.