US388180A - Caetee - Google Patents

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Patented Aug. 2l, 1888.

INVENTOR I QAM 1 ATTORNEYS.

CAR HEATER.

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G. W. CARTER & W. T. PICKETT.

GAR HEATER.

No. 388,180. Patented Aug. 21i 1888.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARTER AND VILLIAM THOMAS PIOKETT, OF OANYONVILLE, OREGON.

CAR-HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,180, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed July 13, 1887.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that we, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARTER and WILLtAM THoirAs PTCKETT, of Canyonville, in the county of Douglas and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Heaters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to selfextinguishing stoves for railroad-cars, wherein a water base or reservoir is connected by pipes which conduct the water from the base to the interior of the stove, and wherein a guard or easing outside the stove prevents the contact of the heated surfaces of the stove with combustible material.

The improvements consist in certain constructions and combinations of parts, hereinafter particularly described, and designated by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a central sectional elevation through the stove; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section in the line m x of Fig. l. Fig. 8 is a detail section, and Fig. 4 is a face View, of the door and spring-lock.

The shell of the stove is composed of a cylindrical or slightly-conical base and waterreservoir, A, au inverted conical base-section, B, a cylindrical middle section, B', and a conical crownsection, B2, and the said base-section, middle section, and crown-section are provided with iianged edges b b and united to each other and to the basesreservoir A by tiebolts C, which pass through the cover of the reservoir and through the iianges b of said scctions, having nuts c' and lock-nuts O2 upon the ends of said bolts to draw the said sections and base'reservoir closely together.

A detlectiou-ring of sheet metal, D, is secured between the flanges b of sections B' B2 of the stove-shell, and asimilar ring, D', is secured between the iian ges b' of the sections B B'. Tubes E pass through the top plate, a, of the basereservoir A and through the deiiection-ring D', and are coupled by joints e, with eXtensions E', which project upwardly therefrom around the middle section, B', of the stove and terminate beneath the deiiection ring D. Tubes F pass through the top plate, a, of the Serial No. 241,209. (No model.)

base, alongside of or between the pipes E, and terminate beneath the defiection-ring D'.

The pipes E conduct water from the reservoir A to the top ofthe fire-chamber Bl of the stove, and the pipes F conduct water from said reservoir to the middle portion of the said fire-chamber B3, and the water will thus be conducted by said pipes and deflected by the plates D D to the middle as well as at the top of the mass of burning coals. The pipe-joints c will permit the pipe sections E E' to be easily connected with and removed from the stove for repairs and for convenience of construction.

An inner easing, G, is secured to the base and to the upper end of the base-section B, inside of the pipes E F, to protect the said pipes and the outer shell, B, of the stove from direct contact with the burning coals. Draftopenings b2, covered by a sliding plate, b3, are formed in the base-section B, and slits g in the inner casing, G, admit the air to the combustion-chamber and to the mass of burning coals upon all sides. The pipes E F will thus be protected against clinkers and theintense heat of the coals, the outer shell will be kept comparatively cool and will not be heated to a suliicient degree to set lire to or burn any object which may fall upon it in case of wreck or accident, and the draft and air supply to the combustiouchamber will be evenly dis` tributed around the burning coals.

A grate-bar section, H, at the upper end of the stove is riveted to the crown-scetion .B2 beneath the chimney B4 to receive the coals and prevent them from falling through the chimney and being emptied upon the ear when the stove is overturned. A door, I, hinged to the middle section, B', of the stove and secured thereto by a latch and by a safety device hereinafter described, will provide means of access to the interior of the stove, and an. inlet-tube, A', and cap A2 provide means for tilling the water-reservoir.

An outer guard-casing, K, composed of a base-ring, K', which tits and encircles the bottom of the reservoir A, and similar rings, K* K3, and a crown-ring, K", located one above the other,are riveted to bars K6, placed in an upright position around the stove, bent at the crown-ring K, and extended radially over the crown-section B2 of the stove to meet and be riveted to the stove-pipe ring K5 of the guardcasing.

Theguard-easing will protect falling timbers or personsy falling against it in the time of Wreck or accident from Contact with the heated surface of the stove.

The stoveshell and water-reservoir may be made of wrought-metal plates riveted together, and will withstand great pressure or strain without being torn apart or broken.

The guard-easing K has a door, K', located opposite the stove-door,provided with a sp ringactuated latch or lool, K8, to securely hold the doorvof the guardcasing, and said door K7 is formed with projecting rods K, which press against the stove-door and hold it securely closed.

We claim as our invention and desire to seeure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the enlarged basereservoir A, of the baseseetion B, middle section, B', and'erown-seetion B, eachv provided with iianges and tie-rods or bolts C, located outside of and around the stove, passing through the base and through said flanges, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the Water-reservoir base A, of the stove-sections B B B2, rings D D', secured between the sections B B', and

Ipipes E, communicating with the reservoir,

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