US327706A

US327706A - Laundry-stove

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Publication number: US327706A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-10-06
Anticipated expiration: 1902-10-06

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(N0 ModeL) P. J. MUELLER. LAUNDRY STOVE.

No. 327,706. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH JULIUS MOELLER, OF EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN.

LAUN DRY-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,706, dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed March 18, 1885. Serial No. 159,322.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH J ULIUs MOELLER, of East Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Laundry- Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in launouter wall or shell of my stove, provided with the central partition, B, separating the case or shell into two compartments, a b, in the former of which is located the fire-chamber and ash-box, and in the latter a water-reservoir, as hereinafter set forth.

The front, sides, and bottom of the chamber a are lined with brick G, leaving an airspace between them and the outer case to prevent as much as possible radiation of heat. The chamber or compartment to is provided with a suitable grate, D, upon which the fire is built; and it is also provided with a door, E, by means of which communication is had for inserting fuel into the fire-box, and a similar door, E, through which communication is had with the ash-pit. The partition B serves as the back plate of the firebox and ash-pit. Upon the rear face of this plate or partition B is found the diving-fiue F, which communicates with a horizontal flue, G, extending entirely across the bottom of the stove and communicating at the rear with a rising flue, H, the upper end of which is provided with a suitable collar to receive a stove-pipe. The front end of the flue G is closed by a check damper or slide, I, above which is a slidedamper, J, communicating with the ash-pit below the grate for regulating the draft. The

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top of the firechamber is closed by a removable well, K, in which to heat sad-irons, and this well may be provided with one or more holes and griddles, so that various culinary vessels may be used for cooking or other purposes, as desired.

In the compartment 1), I place a waterreservoir, L, of any suitable sheet metal, and this reservoir I close with a suitable cover or lid, M.

In practice, a fire being built, the smoke and products of combustion find exit through an opening in the plate B to the diving-flue F, thence to the flue G, and thence to the stove-pipe and chimney through the flue H at the rear. If it is desired to check the draftmore than can be done by closing the damper J, the check damper or slide I should be opened, thus creating a draft through the flue G to the exit, which would, if allowed to remain open for any length of time, cause the fire to go out.

By lining the chamber a with brick upon its bottom and three sides the greater part of the heat generated is radiated through the back plate, and thus rapidly assists in heating the water contained in the reservoir, which heating is still further enhanced by the radiation from the fiues which pass down upon two sides and across the bottom of the reservoir.

I am aware of the Patents Nos. 25,573, 83,086, and 156,712, and make no claim to the constructions shown therein as forming part of my invention. I attach importance to my check-damper I, by means of which the draft can be regulated as desired.

What I claim as my invention is- In a stove of the character described, the combination of the outer inclosingcase with the chamber 1), and the chamber a, provided with damper J, the flueF between said chambers, the horizontal flue G beneath the cham' ber b, the vertical flue H, and the extension of the flue G beneath the chamber a, of the check-damper I, arranged beneath the said damper J and closing the front end of the extension of the flue G, substantially as described.

FRIEDRICH JULIUS MOELLER.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. J. SoULLY.