US158572A

US158572A - Improvement in heating-stoves

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Publication number: US158572A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1875-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 1892-01-12

Description

l l 2 Shee'ts- -Sheet 2. G. CU M STCK.

Heating-Stoves.

A Ngo. 15 8 57 2 f Pajtented Jan. 12, 1875.

UNTTED STATEs GILBERT COMSTOCK, OF KEOKUK, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN Hx-:A'rlNe-sroves.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,572, dated January 12, 1875; application filed September 11, 1874.

Fig. II, Sheet 2, is vertical cross-section. Fig.

III shows part ofthe base-plate. Fig. IV is a detail of a part of double-plate corner-cola mns in horizontal section.

The object of this invention is to make a heating-stove that will be specially adapted to warmin g the feet, to improve the construction and avoid the faults of other similar stoves, and to enable such stoves to be made better looking.

First. The first object is to make a stove suited to agreeably warming the feet, where they may be supported on a foot-plate at a suitable low elevation from the floor and below the stove, so they may be warmed on top, and where the foot-plate will be so separated from the stove as not to be heated to burn the shoes or feet. To do this the base-plate H is made and arranged, as shown, separate from and under the stove, projecting on all sides to receive the feet. The stove rests on and 4over this at a suitable elevation, supported by the end plates E E at the corners. The stovebody A is made rounded on its lower side like a horizontal cylinder, so its sides will overhang the foot-rest at the sides and throw heat from above onto the tops of the feet on it to heat them agreeably. To throw the heat down freely the outer wall is made ot' sheet metal, and the tire put into the fire-chamber inside the inner wall, L, having a door in the end plate, and the hot smoke is circulated between the two walls under and at the sides of the stove to avoid the obstruction of ashes in the stove-bottom. v A

Second. The second object is to provide against Weakness ot construction and faulty attachment of legs. To do this the legs are not attached to the e'nd plates by casting or bolting, as usual with such stoves, nor in any other way, but are set under the base-plate H,

To do this the end plates E E are extendedw beyond the sides and top ofthe body A, with such outlines as to give relief to the form of the stove. To make this orn amental extension at the sides strong enough to form supportingcolumns at the corners, and to avoid breakage without too great weigh t, this portion F down the sides to the base-plate and outside of the body A, is made double, of thin castings riveted together, with moldings and spaces between their central parts. This makes strong columns F, and a rm frame for the body A, and enables molded relief designs to be made on each face to add to the goed looks. They same means is used to give the top projecting points and parts strength, lightness, and ornamental faces on each side.

Fourth. To prevent the weight of pipe and pipe connection N from sagging down the sheet-metal outer Wall of body A, to turn in its bearings, as around the cylinder, the pipeconnection is made with a leg, T, and baseplate H is arranged with it to bear the Weight and hold the parts irmly in place, avoiding all such trouble in this class of stoves.

Fifth. To avoid the trouble from dampers in this class of stoves, arising from the long sliding dampers warping in their bearings, and from pivoted tilting dampers having to be operated from the back side incouveniently, the damper is made pivoted, as shown, and tilting backward to open from tire-chamber into the pipe-connection N in the middle of one of the long sides, which is set usually next the Wall; and a rock-shaft, N", arranged to be turned by a crank, enters the stove from the front end beside the door, Where' most suitable for use, and in line with damper-pivots, and eX- tends inside to the damper, bending sidewise to unite with damper away from the pivots, to turn it to open or close.

I claimy 1. The combination of the rounded horizontal sheet-metal body A and the rest T from pipe-connection N to base-plate H, substantially as set forth.

2.,' The combination of the double-plate columns F and the base-plate H, to support the stove, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the rounded horizontal body A and the end plates having double plates F" outside of the body down to the baseplate H, substantially as set forth.

GILBERT COMSTOCK.

Witnesses:

SAML. J. WALLACE, M. R. KING.