US1359550A - Tobacco-furnace - Google Patents

Description

E. C. VEAZEY.

TOBACCO FURNACE.

APPucATxoN FILED DEC. 15. 1919.

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TOBACCO FURNACE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 15,I9I9.

Patented N ov. 23, 1920.

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UNITED' STATES EDGAR C. VEAZEY, OF WEST `POINT, VIRGXNIA.'

TOBACCO-FURNACE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pabgnted N0v 23, 1920.

Application iler December 15, 1919. Serial No. 344,812.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it lrnown that l, EDGAR C. VEAZEY, a citizenV of the United States, residing` at West Point, in the county of King Vi'lilliam and State of Virginia,h have invented a new and useful Tobaccodfurnace, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a tobacco barn furnace and one object of the invention is to provide a device of the sort above alluded to embodying a casing adapted to receive air and direct the air upwardly about that portion of the furnace in' which combustion takes place, novel means being,- provided for directing the heated air laterally.

. Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for assembling the casing which directs the air upwardly and, laterally, with the body portion of the furnace.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains. y

"With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being` understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing;` from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying` drawings- Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, a portion of the wall. ofthe tobacco barn appearing in section; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the structure shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the structure depicted in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4t is a transverse section showing the furnace.

'The device forming the subject matter of this application comprises a furnace including a bottom 1 having upstanding flanges 2 connected by securingelements 3 with the sides l of the arched body 5 of the furnace, the lower edges of the sides being received within the flanges 2 and resting` on the bot* tom l. The furnace includes a rear end wall 6 provided with a nipple 7 adapted to receive a flue 10. The rear end wall 6 of the and connected thereto by` securing devices 14, the frame having an opening 15 controlled by a door 16 mounted on hinges 17 and adapted to be held 'closed by a latch 1S, the door carryingv a damper 19 of `any desired. construction. Agrate 2O is. located ,in the furnace body 5 and may ybe constructed as desired, depending,` upon the' nature of the fuel used. The grate may have legs 21, coperating witlrthe bottom 2 to space ,the grate from the bottom. l

4Laterallyextended Ufshaped supports 22 are provided, the upper ends 23 of the supports 22 beine` connected by securing members 24 tothe top portion of the furnace body 5. he lowerends 25 of the supports 22 extend inwardly and are provided with extensions 26 overlapped upon the flanges 24 of the bottom 1, and connectedto the said vflanges and to the sides tof the furnace bodv 5 by certain of the securing elements 3. The invention includes a casinaP .having sides 27 spaced from the sides 4, of the furnace body 5 and connected by securingelements 28 to the intermediateportions of the laterally extended Ushaped supports 22. The lower ends of the sides 27 of the casing are fashioned into outwardly extended, upu wardly inclined deflecting flanges 29. The casing includes an end 30 havingr a flange 31 overlapped upon the outside of the furnace body 5 and 4connected thereto by securing` elements 32. The flue 10 projects through the end 30 of the casing. At its lower end, the member 30 of the casing is supplied with an outwardly extended upwardly inclined deiiecting flange 33, complemental to the flanges 29 on the sides 27 of the casing. leinforcing,H strips 34 eX- tend upwardly along the inner surface of the sides 27 of the casing, at the ends thereof these parts being held to the sides of the casinaVV by certain of the securing elements 32. The upper ends of the reinforcing strips 33 are inwardly inclined, as indicated at 35 7 and are secured at 36 to a defiector 37, in the form of a plate, the deilector being; spaced from the upper edges of the sides 27 on the casing, and from the upper edge on the end BO of the casing. sides 27 of the cas" Vtobacco barn.

ing converge as they extend upwardly, as shown in Fig. 4, the sides of thercasing be# ing reversely curved adjacent their upper edges, and terminating at their upper edges, in approximately parallel portions.V

The numeral 38 denotes a wall of a tobacco barn. The furnace body 5 projects through thev wall 38 of the barn, and the open end of the casing abuts against the wall of the barn7 as indicated clearly in Fig. l of the drawings.

In practical operation, a fire is built within the furnace body', the products'of combustion escaping by way of the flue 10, the

`fine Al() being disposed within the tobacco barn in accordance with anyof the'established practices resorted to by tobacco planters. The relatively cool air adjacent the floor of the barn passes beneath the in- `clined deflecting members 29 and 33 and Hows upwardly within the casing 27430.

' l The airis held by the casing in relatively close relation to the body 5 of the furnace and is vheated thereby, the air passingupwardly out of the open top of theV casing. Heated air impinges against the upper-devfierting plateA 37 and is carried laterally thereby, the air thus being diffused in the The structure forming the subject matter of this application affords a simplemeans whereby the air may be drawn from-a point adjacent the bottom of the tobacco barn, and be heated, `the heated air being deliv- `ered into the barn andbeing diffused therein. Further, the invention discloses a sirnple means whereby the Vvarious parts of the device, such as the body 5. the partsrof the casing, and the deflecting plate 37, may be held together to form a strongand operative structure.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is pl. In a device of 'the class described, a furnace; an exterior casing reduced in width at its top and having an opening in its top, the opening extending upbrolrenly from one end of the *casing to the other, one end of the furnace projecting beyond the corresponding end of the casing, the other end of the furnace being disposed within the casing, the extreme lower edge of the casing being disposed above the lower edge of the furnace and said edge .being provided with an outwardly extended upwardly inclined flangeg'a baiiie supported on the easing and located above the opening in the top of the casing; and a wall constituting a closure for the space between the first specilied end of the casing and the furnace.

2. In a Vdevice of the class described, afur nace;` a casing open at the top and inclosing the furnace; outwardly extended supports having their ends attached to the furnace and having their intermediate portions attached' to the casing; reinforcing strips secured to the side portions of the casing and extended above the casing; and a deiiector Acz'irried by the upper ends of the strips, in spaced relation to the top of the casing.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, l have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDGAR C. VEAZEY. Witnesses: i

W ALTER SPARKLIN, WM. T. CLEMENTS.

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