US30347A - Joseph pine - Google Patents

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PATENTED OCT. 9, 1860.

J. PINE. METHOD OF HEATING CITY RAILROAD CARS.

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APPARATUS FOR HEATING RAILROAD-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,347, dated October 9, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH PINE, of 52 Marion street, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented. a new and useful Method of Heating City Railroad-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specifica tion, in which Figure l is a longitudinal section taken in a. vertical plane through the middle of a street car with my improvement applied to it. Fig. 2 is a section taken in a horizontal plane through the body of the car, above the floor. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section through one of the horizontal floor fines. Fig. 4c is an end view of the same. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the fioor of the car.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part in the several figures.

To enable those skilled in the artto make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A. is the floor of the car continued out forming the platforms B, B, at each end of the car.

C, is the roof, D, D, are the ends and E. E, are the seats of a city-car of the most approved style.

Under each platform, B, is arranged a fire box F, having a grate a, in its bottom and covered by a grate or perforated plate Z), the surface of which is level with the surface of the platform. The fire boxes F. F, are surrounded with a jacket 0, which forms a chamber around the box for heating air that passes through the perforations in the bottom of the jacket, which hot air is conducted to the opposite ends of the car and passed out at the top of the car as will be hereinafter described. The fire boxes be ing thus arranged under the two platforms of the car and covered with grating, the driver and conductor will receive the bene fit of the heat rising from the fire of which it is only necessary to have little which may be replenished at the-termini ofthe route. The fire boxes are not made very deep they will therefore not be liable to come in contact with obstruct-ions. The boxes will be made of cast or wrought iron and arranged in such a way that they will not obstruct the working of the brake chain. From each of these boxes the smoke and hot air are carried through the car in separate channels that is to say the hot air channel or fine g, is inclosed by the smoke flue h, as shown in Fig. 3.

The heated air and smoke pass from the fire-box, at one end to the opposite end of the car and are then conducted up through the vertical pipes or fines out through the roof of the car. These vertical escape fines, of which there are two, are furnished on their tops with cowls G, which will facilitate the draft. The horizontal lines pass along under the floor of the car immediately in front of each seatin boxes'J, which prevent the radiated heat from escaping below the bottom of the floor. The boxes and fiues are covered by gratings (Z, (Z, on which the feet of the passengers are placed.

Instead of arranging two fines one on each side of the car, a wide central flue may pass through the car communicating with each fire box which should be covered with grating as described for the two flues. The vertical fines or chimneys will be properly housed in so that they will not present an unsightly appearance.

In carrying out my method of warming cars, it will be understood that my object is not, so much to warm the entire car as it is to keep the feet of the passengers comfortably warm and at the same time the feet of the driver and conductor who sufi'er very much during the winter season. from standing on the exposed platform.

I do not claim broadly the placing of heaters, below the floors of cars, but

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The arrangement of the heaters F, F. with the outside end platforms B, B, plates 6, 6, boxes J and gratings (l as herein shown and described whereby the driver and conductor and others standing upon platforms outside of the car will receive the benefit of the heaters as well as the passengers occupying the interior.

JOSEPH PINE.

Witnesses:

GooDWIN Y. ATLEE, G. F. G. DIETERIOH.

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