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  • My invention consists in the construction and combination of a furnace, a furnace-box and hot-air chamber, a hot-air register, an outside casing and cold-air chamber, a furnace-blower, and a steam-generator and heatradiator with the floor of a car or vehicles of various kinds and forms, as hereinafter fully set forth.
  • Figure l of my accompanying drawings is a top view of my heater fixed to a section of a car-Hoor.
  • Fig. 2 is atop view showing the car-floor and upper portions of the furnace box and case removed.
  • Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the complete heater.
  • Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the blower detached and the steam-generating tube exposed.
  • Fig. 5 is a top view of the blower and a drawer combined.
  • A represents the fioor of a car.
  • B is a square metal frame provided with a flange on its outside top edge, to adapt it to be tted in and fixed to the edges of a corresponding opening in the door of a car.
  • C are the metal sides of a square box, riveted or bolted to the under edge of the frame B.'
  • C is the bottom of the box,xed to the lower edges of the sides C, to form a support for a furnace, and to produce a hot-air chamber, No. 1, on the outside of the furnace or hrepot.
  • C are sides of the furnace. They have flanges at their edges, adapting them to be secured to each other and to the top d and base C by means of rivets or screw-bolts.
  • the insides of the plates or side pieces, C" have a corrugated surface or ribs extending vertically, to prevent fuel from packing too close against them.
  • furnace-top D is a cover hinged to the furnace-top D in such a manner that it can be closed air-tight and locked by means of a wedge-key, or in any suitable way, to prevent the escape of gas 5o at all times, and fire if a car should be derailed and inverted.
  • D is a grate pivoted in the bottom of the fire-pot and combustion-chamber of the furnace.
  • F represents a smoke-line extending laterally from the top portion of one of the sides C, and through the parallel side C of the box, to be continued to the side, end, or top of the car, as may be desired.
  • F represents an opening on the opposite side ofthe furnace, through which fuel may be introduced from a reservoir located under the seat in the car, orin any position desired, so that the cover D need not be opened Ito supply fuel to the fire.
  • F (shown in Fig. l) represents a hot-air register detaehably placed upon the frame B and over the hot-air chamber No. 1, that surrounds the furnace.
  • F is a perforated plate detachably placed upon the frame B and over the register F.
  • G G represent a sheet-metal case surrounding the box which incloses the furnace. It has a iiange at its top edge, adapting it to be fixed to the under side of the car-floor by means of screws. It inclines toward the bottom of the combined box and furnace, and is tightly fixed thereto by means of a flange extending inward, or in any suitable way, so as to produce a cold-air chamber, No. 2, around the box and furnace.
  • h (shown in Fig. l) is an opening that admits cold air from above the floor of the car into the chamber No. 2.
  • I are flanged tubes fixed in openings formed in the lower portions of the sides G of the box, to allow cold air to enter the lower portion of the hot-air chamber No. l, and to exclude dust.
  • the iioor of the car becomes heated by radiation from the furnace Wall or 'plates C", and ascends through the hot-air register F into the car to the roof of the car.
  • a continuous The cold air thus taken from the top of 9o current of heated and purified air is thus pro- 9 5 i blowershave extended inward from the opposite sides of the furnace to the center, and
  • box that incl oses the furnace. It has a depressed center, that forms a chamber, No. 3, adapted to receive a drawer immediately under the furnace-grate D, through which ashes and cinders may fall.
  • M is a slide fitted to the side of the box in such a manner that it can be moved down over an opening, N, in the box and into a drawer underneath, to regulate the quantity of cold air admitted under the furnace-grate and the supply of oxygen into the furnace, as required, to govern the combustion of fuel and the generation of heat.
  • This slide M may be retained elevated at any point desired by means of setscrews N, that extend into the box-plate G through slots N, or in any othersuitable way.
  • R is a slot in the cover It', through which slot the slide M descends to prevent cold air from entering the chamber No. 3 whenever the re is to be checked in the furnace and the heat in the car diminished.
  • S S are flaring and open-ended blowers that extend laterally from the opposite sides and front covered end ofthe drawer R. They are preferably formed integral with the sheetmetal drawer, but may be attached thereto in any suitable way. As a car is moved air is caught and pressed through these blowers to be conducted to the fuel, to promote and regulate combustion and heat in the furnace.
  • X represents a metal tube coiled around the furnace and within the hot-air chamber No. l. One of its ends passes outward at the bottom and the other at the top, to be extended within adouble car-floor or on top of the floor and under seats, and joined at their extremities, as required, to produce a continuous tube and the circulation of steam and water. I preferably fill the tube partly with salt brine, that will not freeze readily. Vhen it is brought to a boiling ⁇ heat in the lower portion of the coil in the hot-air chamber, steam will be generated and pressed to the remote end and highest elevation of the continuous tube, and the tube will serve as a radiator to aid in heating the car. As the steam eondenses it will return to the lower portion ofthe tube and coil to be again heated, and thus continuously circulated and utilized..
  • a sliding drawer having blowers S S and a chamber at its front end, in combination with a furnace suspended from a car-floor, and provided with a chamber under the furnacegrate adapted to receive the sliding drawer, for the purposes set forth.
  • a car-heating apparatus composed of the following elements, to wit: a box suspended from the floor of a car and provided with a register at its top, a covered furnace inclosed in the suspended box to produce a concentric chamber adapted to inclose a por ⁇ tion of a continuous tube, a case surrounding the suspended box, to produce a concentric cOld-air'chamber outside of the box, a slide or register for admitting air under and within the furnace, a blower for forcing cold air to the furnace-lire when the car is in motion, and a steam-generating and heat-distributing tube partially coiled around the furnace and Within the suspended box and partially l the furnace and within the pendent box, to 1o Within the car, to operate in the manner set heat' cold air and discharge it into the ear, forth.
  • the combipurpose of maintaining pure warm air and nation of a box pendent from the ioor of a l even temperature within the oar. car and enveloped by a coldair chamber by vJOI-IN E. THOROUGHGOOD. means of a case, a furnace inolosed Within the Witnesses: pendent box, and a steam generating and THOMAS G.
  • ORWIG heat-radiating tube partially coiled around MANDLY M. NVELTON.

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i APPARATUS EOE HEATINGSTEEETGAES AND OTEEE VEHICLES.
110.311,151. Patented .13.11.20, 1885.
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No. 311,151. Patented Jan. 20,1885.
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JOHN E. THOROUGHGOOD, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF THREEFOURTHS TO J AOKSON VISFHART, OF SAME PLACE, AND I. W. JOHNSON, OF OSOEOLA, IOVA.
APPARATUS FOR HEATING STREET-CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,151, dated January 20, 1885.
Application filed January 18, 1.884. (No model.)
To @ZZ whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN E. THOROUGH- eooD, of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a Car-Heater, of which the following is a specification.
My invention consists in the construction and combination of a furnace, a furnace-box and hot-air chamber, a hot-air register, an outside casing and cold-air chamber, a furnace-blower, and a steam-generator and heatradiator with the floor of a car or vehicles of various kinds and forms, as hereinafter fully set forth.
Figure l of my accompanying drawings is a top view of my heater fixed to a section of a car-Hoor. Fig. 2 is atop view showing the car-floor and upper portions of the furnace box and case removed. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the complete heater. Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the blower detached and the steam-generating tube exposed. Fig. 5 is a top view of the blower and a drawer combined.
J ointly considered, these figures clearly illustrate theconstruction, application, and operation of my complete invention.
A represents the fioor of a car.
B is a square metal frame provided with a flange on its outside top edge, to adapt it to be tted in and fixed to the edges of a corresponding opening in the door of a car.
C are the metal sides of a square box, riveted or bolted to the under edge of the frame B.'
C is the bottom of the box,xed to the lower edges of the sides C, to form a support for a furnace, and to produce a hot-air chamber, No. 1, on the outside of the furnace or hrepot.
C are sides of the furnace. They have flanges at their edges, adapting them to be secured to each other and to the top d and base C by means of rivets or screw-bolts. The insides of the plates or side pieces, C", have a corrugated surface or ribs extending vertically, to prevent fuel from packing too close against them.
D is a cover hinged to the furnace-top D in such a manner that it can be closed air-tight and locked by means of a wedge-key, or in any suitable way, to prevent the escape of gas 5o at all times, and fire if a car should be derailed and inverted.
D is a grate pivoted in the bottom of the fire-pot and combustion-chamber of the furnace.
F represents a smoke-line extending laterally from the top portion of one of the sides C, and through the parallel side C of the box, to be continued to the side, end, or top of the car, as may be desired. v y,
F represents an opening on the opposite side ofthe furnace, through which fuel may be introduced from a reservoir located under the seat in the car, orin any position desired, so that the cover D need not be opened Ito supply fuel to the fire.
F (shown in Fig. l) represents a hot-air register detaehably placed upon the frame B and over the hot-air chamber No. 1, that surrounds the furnace.
F is a perforated plate detachably placed upon the frame B and over the register F.
G G represent a sheet-metal case surrounding the box which incloses the furnace. It has a iiange at its top edge, adapting it to be fixed to the under side of the car-floor by means of screws. It inclines toward the bottom of the combined box and furnace, and is tightly fixed thereto by means of a flange extending inward, or in any suitable way, so as to produce a cold-air chamber, No. 2, around the box and furnace.
h (shown in Fig. l) is an opening that admits cold air from above the floor of the car into the chamber No. 2.
I are flanged tubes fixed in openings formed in the lower portions of the sides G of the box, to allow cold air to enter the lower portion of the hot-air chamber No. l, and to exclude dust. the iioor of the car becomes heated by radiation from the furnace Wall or 'plates C", and ascends through the hot-air register F into the car to the roof of the car. A continuous The cold air thus taken from the top of 9o current of heated and purified air is thus pro- 9 5 i blowershave extended inward from the opposite sides of the furnace to the center, and
box that incl oses the furnace. It has a depressed center, that forms a chamber, No. 3, adapted to receive a drawer immediately under the furnace-grate D, through which ashes and cinders may fall.
M is a slide fitted to the side of the box in such a manner that it can be moved down over an opening, N, in the box and into a drawer underneath, to regulate the quantity of cold air admitted under the furnace-grate and the supply of oxygen into the furnace, as required, to govern the combustion of fuel and the generation of heat. This slide M may be retained elevated at any point desired by means of setscrews N, that extend into the box-plate G through slots N, or in any othersuitable way.
It represents a drawer adapted to fit and slide in the chamber No. 3.
It is a cover fixed over the front portion of the drawer that remains outside of the chamber No. 3.
R is a slot in the cover It', through which slot the slide M descends to prevent cold air from entering the chamber No. 3 whenever the re is to be checked in the furnace and the heat in the car diminished.
S S are flaring and open-ended blowers that extend laterally from the opposite sides and front covered end ofthe drawer R. They are preferably formed integral with the sheetmetal drawer, but may be attached thereto in any suitable way. As a car is moved air is caught and pressed through these blowers to be conducted to the fuel, to promote and regulate combustion and heat in the furnace.
X represents a metal tube coiled around the furnace and within the hot-air chamber No. l. One of its ends passes outward at the bottom and the other at the top, to be extended within adouble car-floor or on top of the floor and under seats, and joined at their extremities, as required, to produce a continuous tube and the circulation of steam and water. I preferably fill the tube partly with salt brine, that will not freeze readily. Vhen it is brought to a boiling` heat in the lower portion of the coil in the hot-air chamber, steam will be generated and pressed to the remote end and highest elevation of the continuous tube, and the tube will serve as a radiator to aid in heating the car. As the steam eondenses it will return to the lower portion ofthe tube and coil to be again heated, and thus continuously circulated and utilized..
From the foregoing detailed description of the construction and function of each element and sub-combination the unitary offices of all the parts and the practical operation of my complete invention will be obviousA to mechanics and persons familiar with the laws of heat.
I am aware that furnaces have been fixed under the floors of cars, that funnel-shaped provided with separate dampers for regulating the draft, and that a coiled tube has been l combined with a stove and radiating-tubes in a car to generate and circulate steam to warm the air in a car; but my manner of constructing and combining metal plates to produce a complete furnace, of forming and combining a chamber and blower with the furnace, and my manner of arranging and combining a continuous tube with the furnace and car to generate and circulate and radiate heat, are novel and greatly advantageous in accomplishing the results contemplated.
I am also aware that water-heating tubes have been combined withl hot-air furnaces, and that a furnace has been inclosed in a water-jacket pendent from the car-floor, to heat water and circulate it through a tube that extended into the car; but my manner of combining a water-heating and radiating tube with a furnace inclosed in a box that is pendent from a car and incased and enveloped by a cold-air chamber, so that the heat radiated from the furnace-walls and from the pendent box enveloped by the cold-air chamber and that portion of the tube coiled around the furnace and within the box will all be utilized by ascending into the car to aid the watercirculating and heat-radiating tube in maintaining an even warm temperature within the car, is novel and greatly advantageous, in that fresh air is thereby constantly passed through and heated in the apparatus and circulated in the car.
I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the square metal frame B, the four metal sides C, having flanges at their edges, the bottom or furnace-support C, the furnace-sides C, having continuous iianges extending outward from their edges, and vertical corrugation's on their inside faces, the fixed top d, the hinged cover d, and the plate K, adapted to form achamber under the grate, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
2. A sliding drawer having blowers S S and a chamber at its front end, in combination with a furnace suspended from a car-floor, and provided with a chamber under the furnacegrate adapted to receive the sliding drawer, for the purposes set forth. l
3. The drawer It It', having a slot, It", and the slide M, in combination with the boxG C and furnace-bottom K, to operate in the manner set forth, for the purposes specified.
4. A car-heating apparatus composed of the following elements, to wit: a box suspended from the floor of a car and provided with a register at its top, a covered furnace inclosed in the suspended box to produce a concentric chamber adapted to inclose a por` tion of a continuous tube, a case surrounding the suspended box, to produce a concentric cOld-air'chamber outside of the box, a slide or register for admitting air under and within the furnace, a blower for forcing cold air to the furnace-lire when the car is in motion, and a steam-generating and heat-distributing tube partially coiled around the furnace and Within the suspended box and partially l the furnace and within the pendent box, to 1o Within the car, to operate in the manner set heat' cold air and discharge it into the ear, forth. y and also to radiate heat Within the ear, for the 5. In a car-heating apparatus, the combipurpose of maintaining pure warm air and nation of a box pendent from the ioor of a l even temperature within the oar. car and enveloped by a coldair chamber by vJOI-IN E. THOROUGHGOOD. means of a case, a furnace inolosed Within the Witnesses: pendent box, and a steam generating and THOMAS G. ORWIG, heat-radiating tube partially coiled around MANDLY M. NVELTON.
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