US1293223A

US1293223A - Ash-pan.

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Publication number: US1293223A
Application number: US17845617A
Authority: US
Inventors: Oliver J Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1917-07-03
Filing date: 1917-07-03
Publication date: 1919-02-04
Anticipated expiration: 1936-02-04

Description

O. 1. SMITH.

ASH PAN. APPLICATION FILED JULY 3. 191? 1 ,QQSQQQS Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

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OLIVER is. SMITH, F MONROE,

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Application filed July 3. 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. Onrvnr. J. SMrrH. e cit" cn of the United States ofAmerioa, and res lent of Monroe, in the parish of Ouachito and State of Louisiana. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AslnPans, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to steam and furnaces and particularly to locomotive furnaces, the said invention being directed more particularly to ash pans for locomotives.

An object of this invention is to orovicle on ash pen which can be readily attached to or removed from locomotives now in own men use, the said invention having for its further object the provision. of novel means for maintaining or augmei' ting the supply of air under the grate or grate hers, means being also provided for regulating the said supply of air.

A further object of this invention is to provide an ash pen in which the ashes will gravitate toward the discharge opening thereby facilitating the blowing out of the said ashes or the removal of the same from the said ash pen. I a

A still further object of this invention is to provide ventilators which can control the point at which air is delivered under the ire bed with respect thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details or construction, and in the arrangement and. combination of ports to he hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

in describing the invention in detail re:- erence will be had to the accompanying drawings formingot this specification wherein like characters denote correspond I mg parts in the several views, and in Which Fignre 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a. fragmentof the exterior of a boiler furnace with the invention applied. thereto;

illustrates a plen view partly in section of the ash pan detached;

Fig. 3 illustrates a Sectional. View on o-line corresponding with the line 3-3 of 2; one

Fig. lillustrates ment of the ash pan.

these drawings 5 denotes the locomotive lire box of a conventional type having the ash pen applied thereto, the said esh pan Specification of Letters latent.

boilers sides of the ash pen to the front or leach a front view of a frog} "owing Patented t, 1919*. Serial No. 178,4:56.

curved sides 6 suplron the fire box by means of the 7, although any appropriate means may be supplied for connecting these parts together. The sides have openings 6 therein with which chutes to he hereinafter described communicate.

The sides are tapered. in Width from back to front and the bottom 8 of the nth pan has upturned flanges 8 i by fastening-s 9, such as rivets or the comprising inwardly ported like,

- and the said flanges are tapered in width from the back to front, so that the bottom is supported in an inclined position from front to back, thus causing the ashes in the pen to gravitate toward the back and facilitating the discharge of the said ashes when they are blown out under the usual process for discharging ashes.

The back of the ash pan is closed or guarded by a door 10 mounted on hinges, such as 11 and any suitable means may be supplied for holding the doorclosed.

At points intermediate the length of the ventilators are intr0- duccd, the said ventilators comprising hoods or chutes 12 which communicate with the interior of (he fire box through the openings 6 in said sides. The outer ends of these hoods are open end face the direction of travel of the locomotive so that air may he collected as the locomotive is traveling. The mouths or outer ends 13 of the chutes are preferably flared so that a greater volume of air is collected and forced into the fire box.

For convenience of illustration, two of the air collectors ar. shown oneech side, althoi'igh these may be modified as to size and configuration within predetermined bounds Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Each of the ventilators is preferably supplied with a damper comprising a closure i l and a rod 15 journoled in the'-sides of the ventilator and. the outer end of the said rod has an operating crank 16 on it so that any suitable means may he provided for rotating the rod and operoting the valve or damper controlling the supply of air to the fire box.

By reason of the construction, it has been air may he delivered uniformly to the under surface of a lire bed and that to the velocity of the air traveling therein, a. forced draft is effected which to a found that connected to the sides great extent when the locomotive is in motion, supplies sufiicient draft without the use of a blower or other force draft mechanism.

The construction of the device is comparatively inexpensive and by reason 0' the simple placed on lOCOmotlVes new in common use without materially increasing the cost.

I claim- In an ash pan for locomotives, sides having openings therein, chutes extending to the sides in communication with the said manner of attachment it can be openings, said chutes having openings facing:

the direction of travel of the locomotive, a

bottom for the ash pan having side flanges connected to the said sides, the said flanges and said sides being tapered in width from the back to front whereby the bottom of the pan is on an incline, a door for closing the ash pan, and a damper in each of the said chutes, said damper comprising a rod journaled in the sideof the chute and a closure carried by the said rod.

OLIVER J. SMITH.