US35612A - johnson - Google Patents

Description

vl". B. JOHNSON.

v*Car Heater.y

" Patented June 17, 1862.

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.a .osnenn JoHNSoN, or LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS. iMaPRoi/EM ENT IN WARM No.` PASSENGER-CARS.

` spcifie t" nfforimvg part fretta-S Patent No. 35,612, dated June-11, isc-z.

w To a/ZZ whom tranny` concern: y In the drawings, A exhibits the end of .a vBe it known tliatI, JOSEPH B. JOHNSON, a Istreet-railway vcarriage or car, while Bis the citizen of the United States of America, and a doorway and C the door thereof, a a being the resident of Lynn, inthe` county of Essex and windows or window-openings ofsuch end. The State of Massachusetts, "have made a new `and door is represented as held in place by a frame,

` `usefulinvention havng reference to the Warmi ing of Passenger-Carriages, and particularly those used on Street-Railways; and I do hereby f declare-the said immacolato be fuuy described laterally either toward or away from the post range the heating apparatus or furnace shown in th e following specification, and represented at E, which, as represented in the drawings, in theiaccompanying drawings, of whichconsists of a long vertical chamber or case, c,

Figure ldenotes fan inner side View, Fig. 2 containing a stove, d, the throats e f ofwhose a vertical section,and Fig. 3 ahorizontal secash-pit g andfire-chamber 'h open toward the ftion,iof the end portionofa street-railway carinterior of thecarriage,and are provided with riage as provided withtmyinvention, Vthena` sliders or doorsi 7c for closing them, as'circunr ture of which, consists in arranging stove, stances may require. A iiuepipe,l,exten\ds furnace, orheatingapparatus within the doorupward from the stove and through the topof jway of the carriage, "and also inthe applicathe case c, such case being an air-chamber or tion of `such heatinggapparatus within such air-heating space and furnished with air indoorway and withrespectto the door in such duction and eduction holesarranged as shown y manner as to beheldin `place in the doorway at fm m at.

y byl the door; also, inthe arrangement of an The front side of the case c,I construct flat auxiliary chimney or due-pipe relative to one or a plane surface, the remainder, or that which end of the carriage and the drivers platform, projects outside of the doorway and over the f or to thelatter and thereof projecting over it drivers platform Rheing curved or otherwise 1 whentheheating apparatus is placed within properly formed. I also make the said case 1 the doorwayof a carriage;` "Y with a longtongue, o, and a long groove, .p,ar

It has longbeen adesideratuni to find some ranged on opposite edges of it, as shown in i suitable and economiicalirneans of warming a section in Fig. 3, the tongue being to enter a `common street-railway carer carriage during groove, r, of the door'frame, while the groove l winter or coldweathei and whileyin use. TheV p is to receive the door when the latter may usual aisleor passageway between its two rows be forced close up to the heating apparatus. of seats is not, generallyspeakingpf sutiicient By means of such appliances the door and its width toreceive `a stoveandallow apassenger frame will operate to keep the heating appaa to safely pass by it ingoingtoward either end ratus in place in the doorway, and particuof thecarriage,whether to take ormto leavea larly if the door be seat.,` The removal of even a portion of the being within the frame p. l long seat of a street-car in order to make room The heating apparatus is constructed in the for a stove would often not only bean inconabovedescribed manner in order that it may venience topassengers," but a serious loss, as it be readily removed from one doorway and `would lessen theucapacityof the carriage for placed in theother, which vmay be done by transportation`,and of course create a diminua the conductor prior to the starting of the car- To render the apparatus c tion of pecuniary receipts duringeach trip of Vriage on -each trip.

a the carriage over the railway. easily removable fro "In .carrying out my invention I place the to the other, I provide it with handles s s s',

` heating apparatus within the doorway or the by which i-t may be lifted by the conductor or if front end of acarriage. In street-railway car- .one or more persons. I have found in pracriages the door at each end is not generally tice that a portable air-heating furnace made hung on hinges, butyis usually so applied to its opening or doorway in such `manner as to an ordinary street-railway carriage capable of 'ng slidlaterally either to uncarryingtwenty-five or thirty passengers, need be capable of bei cover or to close the said opening. weigh onlylaboutfortypoundsa weightwhich Dso made as to enable the doorto be slid u b of such frame. lXithiu the doorway I arfastened in position while m one end of the carriage as above described, and suitable for warming y is not unfavorable to its being easily removed from one end to the other of the carriage.

Each portion H, or that part of the roof of the carriage Which projects over each of the drivers platforms at the two ends of the carriage, has a chimney or discharge-pipe, I, af- Xed to it and extended through it and both above and below it, as shown in Fig. 2. Itis intended that this pipe I shall be separate from and come directly over or in a line With the pipe Z of the stove or heating apparatus, in order that the smoke discharged from the latter may be led off through the said pipe I and be discharged above the roof of the carriage.

As passengers .usually enter and depart through the rearmost doorway of the carriage, the front one may be easily employed foi1 the purpose of receiving the heating apparatus.

By having the pipe I arranged in that part of the roof which projects over the drivers platform, instead of running it up through any part of the remainder of the roof, I avoid the dropping of soot into that part of the carriage in which the passengers are to sit. It will readily -be seen that after the heating apparatus may have been removed from one end to the other of a carriage and the carriage is set in motion more or less soot would be likely to fall or bejarred out of that dischargepipe I Whose lower end may not be in connection with the smoke-pipe of the heating apparatus. My arrangement of the pipe I prevents any soot from falling inside of the carriage.

I claim- 1. The arrangement of a stove or heating apparatus Within the doorway of a carriage, as described.

2. The construction of the heating apparatus with the tongue and groove, or their mechanical equivalents, arranged on opposite sides or edges of it and so as to enter the doorframe and receive the door of the carriage when such heating apparatus is arranged within the doorway of such carriage, as set forth.

3. The arrangement of the auxiliary pipe I relatively to the drivers platform, or in the projecting roof thereof, as explained, when the heating apparatus isarranged in the doorway, as set forth.

JOSEPH B. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

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