US24738A

US24738A - Stove

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Publication number: US24738A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1859-07-12
Anticipated expiration: 1876-07-12

Description

S. E. HEWES.

Heating Stove.

Pater ted july 12, 1859.

i "onrrnn srarns PATENT OFFICE.

S. E. HEVVES, OF ALBANY, NEIV YORK.

STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,738, dated July 12, 1859.

To all whom it may concern: I fastened to it by which the fire pot may Be it known that I, S. EMILIUS Hnwns, of rotate when desired.

New York, have invented a new, useful, and pot to the semicircular lever or bail cl, which Improved Coal-Stove; and I do hereby devibrates on pins fastened in the base h, to 55 clare that the same is described and repretraverse or raise and lower the firepot when sented in the following specifications and necessary, and it may be held in the posidrawings, tion required by letting the bail (Z, catch into To enable others skilled in the art to make one of the notches in the rack c, Fig. 1.

and use my invention I will proceed to de- The door 772-, in the base h, may be pro- 60' scribe its construction and operation refervided with a register to regulate the supply ring to the drawings in which the same letof air which passes in through the ash draw ters indicate like parts in each of the figures. tube into the ash pit f, and ascends up Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved through the firepot and top of the case, into stove showing the devices for raising and the pipe N, leading to the perpendicular pipe 65 lowering the fire pot. Fig. 2, is an elevation O, to kindle the fuel and get it to burning, with a part of the case broken away to show when the damper I, in the pipe N, may be the fire pot in proper position. Fig. 3,shows closed and the damper Q, in the pipe 0, the firepot in a position to receive a charge opened so that the gaseous products of comof coal, and also the construction of the air bustion may pass out of the top of the fire- '70 chamber below the fire pot. Fig. 4, shows pot down through the openings 2' into the air the firepot in the position it should occupy, chamber in the base h, as shown by the arafter the coal ceases to supply any flame. rows in Fig. 4, and from thence into the pipe The nature of my invention and improve- 0, and pass to the chimney.

ment consist in a revolving firepot arranged The fire potg, is made in the form shown 75 to traverse perpendicularly, or to be raised in the drawing, that is larger in the middle and lowered, for the purpose of supplying than at the ends, and one end about three air to, and shutting it from the openings in fourths the size of the other, and I fit a the sides of the firepot, so as to effect a more coarse grate to the large end, to burn biready and perfect combustion of the fuel. tuminous coal; and a finer grate to the small 80 In the accompanying drawings 71, is the end for anthracite coal, either of which base of the stove forming an air chamber grates may be removed when the other is around the ashpit f, with openings 2', from used. There are also openings in the sides said air chamber into the chamber above, of the firepot, so that when it is raised from 5 around the fire pot g. The outside case is, of the base, after the fire is kindled, the air 85 the stove may be made in the form shown in may enter at the sides as well as at the botthe drawings or in such other form as will tom of the firepot. answer the purpose, and provided with an By raising the firepot, so as to supply air opening j, to supply coal to the fire pot g, containing oxygen entirely around it, as

which opening may be closed by a proper shown in Fig. 2, and the top of the firepot 9( door. This case is, has slots in the sides for may be brought so near to the rim 7", above the pivots of the fire pot, to traverse in when it, that the rim will deflect the air containit is raised and lowered. ing oxygen in over the firepot, so as to unite Z, Z, are ribs on each side of the above menwith the hydrogen rising from the coal and tioned slots forming a dovetailed groove burn it, and thereby effect a more perfect 95 around. said slot for the slide a, to traverse consumption of all the products of coal that in, which covers the slot, and is provided are combustible than has been heretofore atwith a hole for the pivot of the fire pot, tained by any apparatus within my knowlwhich pivot extends through it and through edge.

the end of the link 0, and has the crank b, I believe I have described my improved 1 the city and county of Albany and State of The links 0, connect the pivots of the firestove, so as to enable any person skilled in I of siipplying air to, and shutting it frdni the) the art to make and use it. I openings in the sides if the firepot, so'as td 10 I will now state what I desire to secure by effect a more ready and perfect combustion Letters Patent to Wit: and consumption of thenfuel.

5 I claim U V S. EMILIUS'I-IEWES.

A revolving firepot arranged to traverse Witnesses:

perpendicularly, or to be raised and lowered B. F. SMITH, I J substantially as described, for the purpose I WM. J. HOFFMANN.