Patent ID: 6334339
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: C03B,Y02P

Abstract:
A hooded glass particulate synthesizing torch provided with at least:a glass particulate synthesizing torch body having a feedstock gas injection passage formed at the center of its front end, a combustible gas injection passage formed concentrically at the outer circumference of the feedstock gas injection passage, and a plurality of small diameter combustion aid gas injection passages formed in the combustible gas injection passage along the outer circumference of the feedstock gas injection passage and a hood projecting out at the outer circumference of the front end of the torch body, the torch hood satisfying the following relation: 0.5&lE;D/L&lE;2.0 â€ƒwhere, L is the focal distance, that is, a distance from a point P, to which the small diameter combustion aid gas injection passages are directed and on an extension of the center line of the torch body in front of the torch body, to the front end of the torch body, and D is the hood length, that is, the distance from the front end of the hood to the front end of the torch body.