This invention relates to an infrared gas burner plate used for a radiation type gas burner.
As for a burner plate of this kind, there has been hitherto known such a type as that shown in FIG. 1, for instance. A sintered plate body a composed chiefly of a heat resisting material such as ceramic or the like is provided at its front surface with a large number of grooves b crossing one another and a large number of convex portions c defined by these grooves b The plate body a is additionally provided with a large number of burner holes d piercing therethrough between the front and rear surfaces thereof and distributed over the grooves b and the convex portions c so that each of convex portions c may be made red-hot by being heated through the burner holes d made therein and the burner holes d in the surrounding grooves b around the same, and thereby the burner plate may be improved in radiation efficiency. This conventional type of burner plate, however, is such that the same is liable to be broken along any of the grooves b when subjected to a bending force. Moreover, it takes only about 40 seconds from ignition until the ignition can be confirmed visually from a red-hot condition of a corner portion of any of the convex portions c that is raised in temperature most easily. This makes it easy to more rapidly confirm the ignition as compared with a conventional flat plane type plate in which it takes one minute to confirm the ignition. However, it is desirable that this time be shorter so that use of a burner plate of this kind may be further facilitated.
This invention has for its object to provide a burner plate which has an improved bending strength, and in which the time necessary for confirmation of the ignition is shortened, and also has an improved radiation efficiency. More particularly, it is an object to provide a burner plate of the type wherein a sintered plate body composed chiefly of a heat resisting material such as ceramic or the like is provided at its front surface with a large number of grooves crossing one another and a large number of convex portions defined by these grooves, the plate body being additionally provided with a large number of burner holes piercing therethrough between the front and rear surfaces thereof and distributed over the grooves and the convex portions characterized in that each of the intersecting portions of these grooves is provided with a small convex portion having at its center the burner hole. In a preferred embodiment, each of the small convex portions is frusto-conical in form.