US1427375A - Heater support - Google Patents

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H. E. GOVE.

HEATER suPPoRT.4 APPLICATION FILED OCT- 3. 1921.

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' citizen of the United States, residing at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heater Supports; and l do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention7 such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. y

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and inexpensive, yet a highly eiicient means for supporting the well known charcoal heaters in freight cars, refrigerator cars and the like. y

With the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the descriptive matter being supplementedy by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a refrigerator car with one of its doors swung open, showing the use of my invention for mounting a heater upon the door.

Figure 2 is a sectional view as indicated by line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the heater supporting bracket.

- Figure 5 is a front elevation of the brackety shown in Figure 4. n

Figure 6 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the supporting bracket.

Figure 7 is a plan view of the bracing ring.` for the heater.

Figure S is an edge view of the ring shown in Fig,

ln the drawings above briefly described, the numeral 1` designates a portion of a refrigerating car, provided with a pairof hinged outwardly swinging doors 2. l prefer to attach my improved heater supporting means to one of these doors, so that, when the latter is swung open, the heater will be readily accessible.

The numeral 3 designates a bracket which is detachably mounted on one of the doors 2 to support the weight of an ordinary charcoal or other heater lil, while. the numeral 3a has reference to a bracing ring spaced above the bracket 3 andalso secured detachably to the door, said ring being adapted to surround the upper portion of the heater4 as shown and thereby securely hold it in prosition upon the bracket 3.

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The bracket 3 includesa pair of horizontal. bars 4. having their rear ends bent downwardly at 5 kto be detachably mounted on the door 2 or other suitable support, the

front ends of said bars being bent upwardly to provide a pair of heater engaging fingers 6. A pair of crossed bars 7 have theirend portions extending across the horizontal bars 4 and secured thereto by rivets or the like 8, the outer ends of said bars 7 being bent upwardly at 9 to provide additional heater holding lingers which cooperate with the lingers 6 in properly retaining the heater H upon the bracket. By positioning the bars 7 diagonally as shown `most clearly in Fig. 4, not only do they provide for effectively supporting the center of the heater bottom against possible sagging, but they form efficient braces for holding I"the bars 4 in proper relation with each other and preventing any side whipping of these bars as the car is in motion.

` Extending from the` horizontal bars 4 to their downwardly turned ends 5, are brace bars 10 whose lower ends turn downwardly, said lower ends and the ends 5 being jointly formed with vertical notches 11 adapted to receive cap screws 12 driven into vthe door 2. The upper portions of the bar ends 5 are formed with vertical slots 13 and hooks 14 carried by the door are adapted to be passed through said slots and turned downwardly, whereby to secure the o bracket 3 detachably to the door. In hot weather, when the use of the heater H is not necessary, the bracket 3, may be readily detached from the door by turning the hook 14 into alineinent with the slot 13, moving the upper portion of the bracket outwardly from the door, and thenk bodily lifting the entire bracket from thek cap screws 12.

The ring 3 is formed of front and rear sections 15 and 16 respectively, said sections being hingedvtogether at one end and having an. adjustable overlapping connection 18 at their lother ends. A pair of arms 19 are secured to and extend rearwardly from the rear section-16, the rear ends of said arms being bent outwardly at 20 for detachable connection with the vdoor or the like 2Q The ring 3 is vertically alined with the heater engaging portion of the bracket 8 and when said ring is clamped around the upper portion of the heater, it will rigidly hold the latter in place upon the bracket. l

The invention is simple and. inexpensive,

yet has proven to be very effectivev and in every -way desirable, and since excellent results may be obtained from the details disclosed, they are preferably followed. l wish it understood, however, that within the scope o the invention as Claimed, numer. ous minor changes may be made.

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A supporting bracket for ear heaters com- 10 prising a pair of parallel horizontal hars bent downwardly at their rear ends for atmy hand. E RANSOM E. GOVF.'

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