US1326904A - Heat-distributer - Google Patents

Description

L. K. BELCHER.

HEAT DSTRIBU/TER. APPLICATION flu-:D JAN. is. 1919.l

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LEON K. BELCHER, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

HEAT-DIsTRIBUTER.

Application filed January 16, 1919.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON K. BELCHER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heat-Distributers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to heat distributing attachments for gas or other cooking stoves, whereby all the heat from a burner may be utilized for heating a plurality of cooking vessels.

It is the aim of this invention to generally improve the construction of such attachlments, and especially to improve the distribution of the heat among the several openings in the top of the device from one or more openings in the bottom thereof designed to be arranged over stove burners. To this end a. delector is employed which has openings therein permitting part of the heat to pass through to an opening in the top of the device above the deiector, while the rest of the heat is turned by the deflector toward other to) openings. Other objects will appear as t e description proceeds.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute partl of this specification, and then more specifically delined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying` drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:-

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a heat distributer constructed substantially in accordance with this invention, the same being shown arranged upon an ordinary gas range, parts of which are broken away for the sake` of clearness, and the section of the distributer casing being taken on the line I-I of Fig. 4.

Fig. 2 is a section of the distributer taken on the line II-II of Fig. 4, part of the gas range also being shown, as in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-III of Fig. 4, also showing part of the gas range.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the distributer casing.

Fig. 5 is a section thereof on the line V-V of Fig. 4.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Serial No. 271,374.

Fig. 6 is a section on the line VI-VI of Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is a section on the line VII-VII of the same figure.

In Figs. l, 2 and 3, 1 designates an ordinary gas range, and 2 and 3 top burners thereof which are supplied with gas via pipes 4. The distributer casing 5 is in the form of a lat boX and has two openings 8 and 9 in its bottom 6, and four groups of openings 13, l5, 20 and 25 in its top 7. The number of the openings may, of course, be changed if desired.

The group of openings 13 in the top of the casing is arranged in vertical alinement with the bottom yopening 8, while the group of top openings 15 are in vertical alinement with the bottom opening 9. The groups of top openings 20 and 25 are out of alinement with either of said bottom openings. The group of openings 13 is adapted to be closed by a cooking vessel 14 when pla-ced thereon, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The group of openings l5 is fitted with a valve 16 having openings 17 adapted to be placed in or out of register with the openings l5 by adjusting said valve on its pivot 18 by means of the projecting handle 160. vWhen the valve is arranged with its openings 17 in alinement with the openings l5, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3, a cooking vessel 19 may be placed on the valve so as to close the openings therein and prevent the escape of any of the heat units.

lThe group of openings 2O is ysimilarly fitted with a valve 21 having openings 22 adapted to be placed in or out of register with said openings 20 when the valve is turned on its pivot 23 by means of the handle 210. The openings 22 in the valve 21 may likewise be covered by a cooking vessel 24, as shown in Fig. 2, for preventing any of the heat units from being wasted.

The group of openings 25 is also fitted with a similar valve 26 having openings 27 adapted to be placed in or out of register with said openings 25 when the valve is turned on its pivot 28 by means of the handle 260. This group of openings 25, being the farthest removed from the bottom opening 8, is provided with a raised stand 29 for supporting a cooking vessel 30 out of contact with the valve 26 and top of the casing, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the heat units may escape from said openings 25 and in doingso create a draft which will aid-in drawing some of the heat to said remote point of the casing. v

The bottom opening 9 is provided with a valve 10 for shutting it off when only .the one burner 2 is in use. Said valve 10 slides intosa` frame 12 on the bottom of thecasing, and has a projecting handle l1 by means of which it may be removed or inserted. It will ,be understood lthat all four of the top openings in the casing, and the cooking vessels arranged thereon, may have heat distributed to kthem from the burner 2 through the single bottom opening 8 of the casing, but when greater heat is desired, the valve lO'may be removed from over the opening 9 `and the burner 3 also lighted.

To effectively `distribute the heat between the openings in the top of vthe casing which are not in line with the bottom openings, and the'top openings which are in vertical alinement'withsaid bottomopenings, an inclined partition or deflector 31 is arranged in the casing over the bottom openings 8 and 9 and preferably extending fully across the casing from one end to the other. Said partition or delector 31 may be suitably fastened to the walls ot the casing, as by rivets or screws 32, Figs. 2 and 3, and it is provided with groups of openings 33 in vertical alinement respectively with the ybottom openings 8 and 9 and top openings 13 and 15. Said openings 33 in the partition or deflector are of less area than 4the bottom openings'in the casing, so that only part of the heat units are permitted to passthrough the deflector to come in direct contact with the vessel placed on the top openings 13 and 15, the remaining heat units being turned by the deflector toward the top openings 2O and 25, as indicated by the arrows in Figs.

2 and 3. When only the one burner 2 is.

used, some of the heat units will also be directedlongitudinally along Athe deector vas indicated by thearrows in Fig. 1. The iniddle portions of the top and bottom plates of the casingand the delector may be connected by a post 311 to prevent warping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by let- -ters patent of the United States is l. A heat distributer comprising a casing having an opening in its bottom to be arranged over a burner and a Yplurality of openings in its top, one of said openings inthe top being in vertical alineinent with the opening in the bottom and the other out of alinement therewith7 and an inclined partition in the casing over the opening in the bottom and having restricted openings therein arranged in alinement with said bottoni opening for allowing part of the heat from the burner to pass through the partition to the opening inthe top of the casing above it while part of the heat is diverted by said partition to the other openings in the top.

2. A heat distributer comprising a casing having two openings in its bottom to be arranged over twospaced burners of a stove, and a plurality of openings in its top, two of said top `openings being arranged respectively in vertical alinement with the bottomv openings while other top openings are` out*V of alinement with said bottom openings, and an inclined partition extending across the casing over the two bottom openings and' having restricted openings therein in vertical aliiiement therewith for allowing part of the heat from the burners to pass through the partition to the openings in the top of the casing above it while part of the heat is diverted by said partition to the other openings in the top.

1n testimony hereof I have signed my name to this specification.

LEON K. BELCHER.

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