US1060254A - Clothes-drier. - Google Patents

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J. P. HILL.

1 CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED I'EB.17, 1912.

1,060,254. Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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JOSEPH P. HILL, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

Application filed February 17, 1912. Serial No. 678,346.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Drier, of which the following is a specification.

The principal objects of this invention are to improve the circulation within a clothes drier in such a way as to introduce preliminarily heated air into the same and to direct it to a point in the drier where it will be necessary for it to circulate through the contents thereof before it can leave the drier; also to provide means whereby the greatest efficiency of the current of air passing through the drier can be secured for drying purposes; and to provide improved means for supporting the clothes rack bars at the top of the drier.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a clothes drier constructed in accordance with this invention, some part-s being shown in transverse section. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional View on the line 22 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side view with parts in section showing a supporting rod.

The invention is shown as applied to a type of clothes drier which is well known on the market and which comprises in addition to a stove 10, or other source of heat, a chamber 11, having horizontal rods 12 at the top extending from one end of the chamber to the other and projecting from said front end a distance substantially equal to the length of the chamber. Depending from these rods are clothes drying racks 13. Near the bottom of the chamber is a radiator 14 as usual connected with the source of heat and delivering its products of combustion into the stove pipe 15. Above this radiator is shown a screen 16 and below it a deflecting plate 17 just over the bottom of which is an outlet 18 which goes back into the heater or stove so as to provide a draft for the air in the drying chamber. The parts so far described are well known in this art.

In order to provide for preliminarily heating the air entering the chamber and to bring it into the chamber at a point which will necessitate its passing through all the articles to be dried that are contained therein, the chamber is provided with an inlet having a horizontal portion 20 on the top of the rear of the stove and a vertical portion 21 within the chamber extending substantially to the top of the chamber where it discharges the air into the upper part thereof. Preferably also a shell 22 is hinged to the outer end of the horizontal part 20 of the inlet and rests on top of the stove. This has an opening 23 through which the air enters along the surface of the stove. In this way all the air entering the chamber 11 must pass over the top of the stove and thus receive heat which ordinarily is entirely wasted. In this way the air as it en ters is preliminarily heated and in addition to this it is discharged into the chamber at the top thereof so that before it comes down to the outlet 18 it must pass through or between all the articles to be dried. The common circulation which is secured around and by the radiator of course is taken advantage of also in this case.

It has been customary heretofore to support the outer ends of the rods 12 by supports extending down from the ceiling. This, however, is open to some objections, owing to the fact that the ceiling has to be perforated or otherwise mutilated in order to provide these supports, and that this is often a tedious and expensive labor on account of the many kinds of ceilings in existence. In order to obviate these difliculties and to provide a support within the article itself so that it can be manufactured at the shop and shipped with the device and to do away with all tampering with the ceilings in installing the apparatus, the following arrangement is provided: The drier is provided with two or more vertical struts or posts 25 at the front end thereof and a tie rod 26 is passed through or over each one extending down in front to a cross piece 27 which connects the ends of the rods 12 and at the rear to a similar cross piece on the rear wall of the drying chamber at the same level. Obviously these tie rods can be brought up to any degree of tautness by a turn buckle 29 on each one and they support the outer ends of the rods 12 with great rigidity and firmness.

WVhile I have illustrated and described the invent-ion in a single form, and as applied to only one type of drier, I am aware that it can be carried out in other forms and on other types. Therefore I do not wish to be limited to all the details of construction shown herein or to the drier illustrated, but

WVhat I do claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, a clothes particular type of drier having a heating radiator extending.

' ing'chamber in which said radiator is 10- cated, saiddrying chamber being provided with an inlet directly over the inlet of the radiator and leading-directly from the ex'-- ternal air, whereby fresh airentering said chamber will pass over the source of heat before entering said inlet.

8. As an article of manufacture, a clothes drier having a heating radiator extending therein and adapted to be connected with a source of heat external to the-drier, and a drying chamber in which said radiator is located, said drying chamber being provided with an inlet for fresh air directly over the inlet of the radiator, whereby fresh air entering said chamber will pass over the source of heat for heating the radiator, said air inletextendinglupwardly substantially to-the top of the chamber to direct thefresh air into the upper part of the 1 chamber, the chamber having an air outlet at thebottom below said radiator.

45. In a clothes drier, the combination with'a stove having a substantially hOIIZOIl".

taltop and radiator connected therewith,

of a drying chamber into which said radiator extends, said chamber being provided with an air inlet entering directly over the top of said stove and extending upwardly in. the chamber substantially to the top thereof, whereby the air drawn in through said inlet will pass over the top of the stove and be preliminarily heated, and having an air outlet at the bottom below said radiator.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a source of heat having a horizontal radiator, of a drying chamber into which said radiator extends, said chamber being provided with a deflecting plate below the radiator, an air inlet directly over the top of the source of heat and extending substantially to the top of the chamber, and an airoutlet at the bottom above said defleeting plate, whereby the air entering the chamber will be preliminarily heated by the source of heat and will circulate throughout the chamber in the heat of said radiator before reaching the outlet.

6. The combination with a heating stove having a radiator projecting from the back thereof, of a drying chamber into which said radiator projects, and having an inlet opening from the-top of the rear of said.

stove, said inlet having a horizontal portion over the stove, and a shell removably connected with said horizontal portion and extending over the top of the stove and having an outlet opening at its front end, the chamber havingan outlet at its bottom connected with the stove.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- JOSEPH P. HILL. Witnesses:

ALBERT E. FAY, C. FORREST WESSON.

Copies ot'this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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