US193089A - Improvement in furnaces and stoves - Google Patents

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J. J. JAR-VES. .M -RNA::ES rANI: sTovEs.

N-PETERSl PHOTO-I ITHDGHAPHER, WASHINGTON, Dv CV `immediately UNITED S'rnrns JAMES J. JARVES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FURNACES AND STVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,089, dated July 17, 1871; application filed March 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES J. JARVES, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Gommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in Furnaces and Stoves adapted for burning petroleum and other mineral oils with safety, and also formaking gas, by means of a suitable stove or lamp, constructed according to the principles set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the 'arrangement and construction of' furnaces, stoves, lamps, and other articles specially adapted forburning mineral oils with safety. As a rule mineral oils are highly dangerous, on account of their explosive nature, where ignited in the ordinary way.

Now, the object of this invention is to provide the means of burning any of these natural products with perfect safety. Under one form or modification of arrangement the furnace, stove, or other article, consists of any outer casing of any suitable figure, the lower part of which forms a receptacle for the firep'root safety medium, through which the petroleum or other hydrocarbon permeates.

In the lower part of this receptacle is arranged a perforated tube, through which a` stream of oil iiows from the continuous reservoir. In this receptacle is placed a quantity of asbestus, which may or may not he economized by mixing it with a lower stratum of pumice-stone, talc, the silicates of magnesia, or wood-ashes. Or, if preferred, one or more of these materials may be used without the asbestus, and be applied generally to my furnaces.

Upon the bed of fire-proof material thus formed are arranged one or more vertical tubes, lforming so many chimneys, opening to be heated. y

Near the upper part of these chimneys is arranged a diaphragm or horizontal partition, which inoloses the contents of the receptacle beneath. The lower ends of the tubular chimneys are perforated or serrated, to permit the gaseous llames of the burning oils to pass up freely. These chimneys, as well as the'other below the boiler or other surface parts ofthe furnace, stove, gas-lamp, or other article, constructed on the principle of this invention, may, if desirable, be lined with millboard or slabs or sheets of paper made of as bestus, so as to form a complete protective surface to the metal.

y In this way, when the oil is allowed into the receptacle and is ignited, the ventilation is so arranged that it burns with a smothered ame, which serves to heat to a high degree the lower part ofthe chimneys, before referred to. The partially-consumed gaseous products rush through the chimneys and 'are ilashed into flame of great heating intensity on emergthe entire gaseous product of the oil is utilized and consumed with safety and economy, either as a heater or illuminator. v

The accompanying drawings show the method of combustion of my invention, which can "be varied and appliedas needed.

A is theN boiler or 'article to be heated; O, diaphragm or partition; D,' tubular inner chimney; E, holes or serrated apertures for gaseous dames to pass into and up the tube; F, fire-proof bed or medium for holding and burning the oil; G, feeding-pipe; H, smothered flames or gases. I Iare doors above and below the diaphragm.

What AI claim as my invention and improvement isl. The combination of the receptacle for oils, containing asbestos or other loose fireproof materials, the diaphragm, and the chimney, provided at its lower end with liolesor serrated apertures, and passing upthrough the diaphragm, substantially as and for the purposes described. t 4 A 2. The above-described method of' burning hydrocarbon oils and generating gas therefrom by igniting the oils in' a receptacle containing fire-proof materials, andemitting the gas through a chimney projecting out ot' the receptacle, and provided at its lower end with holes or serrated apertures.

JAMES J. JARVES.

Witnesses HENRY HIATT, OTTAvIo BUooI.

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