US362928A - Street-car heater - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. L. REINE.

STREET GAE EEETEE.` No. 362,928. Patented Mey 17, 1887.

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JOHN L. DRINK, OF DUBUQUE, IOVA.

STREET-CAR HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,928, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed September 1, 1856.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN L. BRTNK, a resident of Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Oar Heaters 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in means for heating street-cars or other vehicles for the conveyance of passengers, its construction and operation being fully described and explained in this specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a side elevation of a car provided with my improved heater, a part of the side wall of the car being broken away to show the construction and arrangement oi' the heater. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectionof the car through the line x x, Fig. l, the view being in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse seetion through the line y y, Fig. l, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow in said ligure, the dellector V being removed to show the remaining parts; Fig. 4L, a horizontal section of one of the hoods II, fastened to the side wail of the car.

In the views, A is the side wall of a car or other vehicle. B is aseat resting against said wall, and B is the riser extending from the front edge of the seat to the licor. In the space beneath the seat, and between the riser and the wall of the car, is placed the inelosingcase of the heater, the entire case, as shown, being made up of live parts-viz., a central distributing chamber, C, two combustionchambers, O', lying on opposite sides of the chamber O, and two receiving-chambers, O", occupying the extremities of the case. The receiving-chambers C are separated from the combustion-chamber O by vertical partitions a, and similar partitions, a, separate the combustion-chambers from the distributingchamber C. Each of the receiving-chambers O is connected with the distributing-chamber O by one or more preferably horizontal fines, D, whose ends are set in the partitions a" a", already mentioned, and suitable burners, I,

Serial No. 219,401. (No model.)

placed beneath the ilues and accessible from the outside of the car by means of doors K, afford a means of heating the lines and the air within them or passing through them.

Openings G in the side wall of the car admit air to the extreme ends of the receivingchamber C, the admission ol' air being l'acilitated and regulated by means hereinafter explained. The lower end of the receivingchambcr O opens into a transverse conductor, E, lying under the floor ofthe car, and a register, F, preferably at the center of the car, opens from the conductor and discharges warm air into the body of the car.

Over each of the openings G in the side of the car is a reversible hood, II, hinged to the car by means ol'l staples s, or any equivalent device, each of the hoods consisting ol" a ean vas cover held in place by a series of elastic ribs, h. These hoods are reversed with each reversal of the motion of the car, the mouth or opening of the hood being always in the direction in which the car is ruiming, andthe office of the hoods being to force air into the openings G, and thence through the heater. Vithin each receivi11g-chamber are two partial partitions, Z d', one rigidly attached to the lower wall of the chamber andthe other hinged to the upper wall. The weight of the hinged partition or valve d holds it normally vertical and at a considerable distance from the partition d; but when the car is running at a high speed, or when from any other cause the current of air passing through the heater is unusually strong, the valve el is swung inward toward the partition d, and thus partially cuts off the current and lessens the supply of cold air.

In the distributing-chamber C is a dellector, V, consisting of two oblique plates, against which the heated air strikes as it comes from the flues D, and by means of which the aircurrent is deflected downward to the conductor E. A pipe, L, carries the products of combustion from each of the chambers C to the open air, either through the side of the car, as shown, or through the roof, and a pipe, M, placed in any convenient position, supplies fuel to the burners I, by means of which the chambers are heated.

I have found it advisable to protect the cai1n IOO B', or through openings N in the wall of the car.

The drawings show a car having the heater :o under one seat, but not under the other; but it is evident that the arrangement shown on one side of the car may be duplicated on the other. Where two heaters are used, the conductor E may be extended completely across the car and receive hot air from both ends and discharge it at the center. I have found it preferable, however, to use two separate conductors and two registers, in order to avoid interference of the two currents of hot air. For

2o use in nearly any location the heater shown 3o burners is in use, it is necessary to close the air-opening G leading to the unused combustion-chamber;` and this may be done by means of a slide, G', (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) or by means of va hinged door or otherwise.

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

1. The combination, with a car and a seat therein, of a heater occupying the space be- 40 neath the seat and consisting of a combustion-chamber and air-'receiving and air-distributing chambers on opposite sides ofthe combustion-chamber, the air-receiving and air-distributing chambers being connected by one or more ilues passing through the combustionchamber,the air-receiving chamber being provided with an opening for the admission of cold air, the combustion-chamber with a suitable burner or burners and an escape for the products of combustion, and the air-distributing chamber with an opening into the body of the car.

2. The combination, with a car and a seat therein and a heater occupying the space beneaththe seat and consisting of an air-receiving-chamber, an air-distributing chamber, a combustion-chamber between the receiving and distributing chambers, and one or more fluesconnecting the receiving and distributing chambers and passing through the combustion-chamber, of a transverse conductor beneath the door of the car, opening at one endl from the distributing-chamber and at the other end into the body of the car, said receiving-chamber being provided with.v an opening for the admission of cold air and said combastion-chamber with a suitable burner or burners, and an escape for the products of combustion.

i 3. The combination, with a car, a heater above the floor of the car, and a conductor beneath the door and opening at one end from the heater and at the other end into the body of the car, of an oblique defiecting-plate adapted to receive the current of air from the heater and deflect it downward into the conductor.

4. The combination, with a car 'and a heater Within the car and receiving its cold-air supply vthrough an opening in the Wall of the car, of a reversible hood adjacent to the cold-air opening and adapted to deiiect into the opening the current of air formed by the motion of the car, the reversal of the hood with each reversal of the motion of the car rendering it equally operative whether the car moves in one direction or the other.

5. The combination, with the car and the heater receiving its cold-air supply through an l opening, G, in the wall of the car, of the hood H, pivoted to the car and consisting of a series of ribs, 7L, and a flexible cover, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. l

6. The combination, with the distributingchamber C, the combustion-chamber C', and the receiving-chamber C, connected by flues D with the chamber C and receiving cold air through an opening at the end farthest from said chamber, of the stationary partition d and fthe hinged partition d', arranged within the receiving-chamber and adapted to be deflected in proportion to the force of -the air-current entering the chamber, and when so deflected to proportionately decrease the volume of said current, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose'set forth.

7.v The combination, with a car and a seat therein, of a heater occupying the space beneath the seat and consisting of a central distributing-chamber, combustionchambers on opposite sides of said distributing-chamber, and receiving-chambers at vthe extremities of the heater, each of said receiving-chambers being connected with the distributing-chamber by flues -passing through the corresponding combustion-chamber, and the receiving-chambers being provided with openings for the admission of cold air, the combustion-chambers with suitable burners and escape-openings for the products of combustion, and the distributing-chamber with an opening into the body of the car.

8. rllhe combination,with the car A and seat B, of the heater under the seat, consisting of the central chamber, C, duplicate combustionchambers-C, and duplicate receiving-chambers C, connected with the central chamber, C, by the ues D, the double deflector Vin the central chamber, and the conductor E, opening from the chamber C and into the body of the car, substantially as and for'the purpose set forth.

9. Thecombination, with the ear A and the duplicate heater consistingof the central cham IOO IIO

A. ber, C, the combustion-chambers C', andthe rethe heater and the seat and forming,` air-spaces, eeivng-ehambers G,supplied with airthrough substantially as and for the purpose set forth. openings G in the Wall of the cnr, of a recip- In testimony whereof I have signed this roeating cover, G', fastened to the cur-Wall and specification in the presence of two subscrib- 5 adapted to close one of the openings G when ing witnesses.

but one of the combustion-chambers is in use, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

10. The combination, with the om' A, the Vitnesses: seat B, and the heater arranged under the seat, CHARLES G. STEARNS, lo of one or more shelves, b b', arranged between LUMAN F. BOWDISH.V

JOHN L. BRINK.

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