US1377108A

US1377108A - Appliance for fireplaces

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Publication number: US1377108A
Application number: US387051A
Authority: US
Inventors: Peyton W Williams
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-06-07
Filing date: 1920-06-07
Publication date: 1921-05-03
Anticipated expiration: 1938-05-03

Description

P. W. WILLIAMS.

APPLIANCE FOR FIREPLACES.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 7. 1920.

Patented May 3, 1921.

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- UNITED s'rA'rEs PEY'ION W. WILLIAMS, OI MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

APPLIANCE FOR FIREPLACES. I

Specification of netteraratent.

Patented May 3, 1921.

'lpplicatlon filed lune 7, 1920. Serial No. 387,051.

vented new and useful Improvements in- Appliances for Fireplaces, of which the. following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide an air heatin device for use in conjunction with open ire places whereby a column of air is maintained interposed between the fire and the walls of the fire place, cold air being taken in at approximately the floor level and being returned in a heated cond tion to the roof in which the fire place 15 used. To this end, the invention comprlses preferably a pair of hollow elements or members adapted fordisposition in the fire place and provided with means for supporting a coal grate, if coal is used, themembers having floor level intake openings and discharge openings positioned at the top of the fire place and adapted to discharge heated air into the room at this level.

While illustrated and described in a specific embodiment the invention is not to be restricted to such embodiment. The right is reserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compatible in spirit with -'the annexed claims.

In the accompanying drawmgs:-

Figure '1, is a front elevational view of anopen fire place equipped with the appliance.

- constituting the invention.

- Fig. 2, is a perspective'view of one of the elements comprised in the invention.

Adapted for use with any open fire place, but designed particularly for use with those having a coal grate, the invention comprises complementary hollow elements each having a substantially rectangular shaped body 1 and in front wall of which there is provided an air entrance opening 2. The upper end a of the body element is contracted into a neck 3 terminating in an upwardly disposed discharge opening 4:. On one side the body element is equipped with the lugs 6 by means of which it is secured in the fire place 7 by engagement with the lugs 8 carried on the. side walls thereof. The body element is also equippedwith the In 9 to be engaged by the lugs 10 carrie by the grate 11. The two members comprising the invention are disposed-respectively on opposite sides of the fire place and through the mstrumentality of the lugs 9 support the grate 11.

Each member at the rear is provided with a lateral hollow element 12, these two elements of the two members serving as a back wall for the fire place and against which the heat from the ate ma be directed as well as against the lnner si e walls of the body members.

A great deal of heat is lost in open fire places, as a'result of dissipation into the walls of the fire place and as a result of pas sage up the chimney. The appliance herein described aims to conserve a large quantity of this lost heat. All cool air being near the level of the floor will pass through the intake openings 2 and into the body elements 1 to the lateral extensions 12 of the two members and therein will be heated, rising to pass out of the discharge openings 4 4 and in this way the quantity of air drawn into the appliance from the room and returned in a heated condition, may be determlned to suit the conditions or temperature of the room.

The elements comprising the appliance may be made of cast iron or sheet steel or any acceptable material and conditions of manufacture will obviously determine this. The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. The combination with an open fire place, of a removable heating appliance consisting of complemental hollow members each of which is formed with a hollow body portion disposed against the side wall of the 'fire place, the said body portions being formedwith laterallyprojecting hollow elements disposed against the back wall of the fire place and having contracted discharge mouths projecting forwardly from the fire place and terminating above the top thereof,

the said body elements having substantially floor level intake openings for the purpose specified.

2. The combination with an open fire place, of complemental hollow elements each of which consists of a body element having means for attachment to one side wall of the fire place, the said body element being formed With a. hollow laterally projecting element disposed against the back wall of the fire place and abutting end-on the corresponding element of the complcmental member, both members having their body elements contracted at their upper ends to provide discharge openings above the plane of the top of the fire place and having substantia-lly floor level intake openings, a rate suspended from the body elements 0 the two'members, and dampers carried in said body elements above the plane of thetop of the laterally projecting elements in the manner and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. PEYTON W. WILLIAMS.