US395047A - Water-heating mantel - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. FRIEDLANDER.

WATER HEATING MANTBL.

N0.'395,04 7. Patented D80. 25; 1.888.

INVENTOR: 8 i J/Wd/ZMM BY m ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES. PATENT ()FFICE.

JACOB FRIEDLANDER, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

WATER=HEAT|NG MANTEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,047, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed November 17, 1887. Serial No. 255,444. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB FRIEDLANDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful ater-Heating Mantel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to water-heating mantels; and it has for its object to produce a mantel of this character which will effectually heat the room without the generation of foul or dry air, and one which maybe constructed in a simple manner and at a small expense.

To this end my invention consists in the peculiar construction of a mantel and its novel connection with a fire-place, all of which will be clearly set forth in the annexed specification, and particularly pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line A B, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 isa horizontal section on the line B S, Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the mantel, provided with the usual the place opening, A, in which is fitted the usual tire-grate, B, as shown.

The mantel A consists, essentially, of the hollow capitals Q Q, arranged one at each end thereof, the hollow center piece, g, the hollow base portions, f f, and the top plate, p p.

The hollow capitals Q Q and their respective base portions, f f, are connected together by a series of verticalradiating pipes, a a, and said capitals Q Q are connected to the center piece, g, by similar pipes, a. The pipes a a" are ordinarily to be of about one inch in diameter, and have their outer surfaces highly polished or niekeled, so as to serve as an ornamentation to the mantel when in place.

It will be observed by reference to the drawings that one set of the pipes, a, is arranged at each side of the grate-opening and the pipes to a" are arranged above said opening; but all of said pipes are arranged on the outer face of the mantel-back proper.

Within the base portions, ff, and a short distance from the floor are formed bottom plates, f, and the rear walls of said base portions above the plate f communicate with horizontally-disposed pipes d, which are securely built into the brick-work of the chimneybreast, and which consist each of a section, at, which enters the fire-place opening and abuts against the grate, and an elbow portion, 61 which opens into the base portions, f, as clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

At each end of the mantel, just below the top 19 p, the capitals Q are formed with a series of small air-holes, h h,whereby a constant communication is kept up between the inside of the mantel and the outer air. Just above the center piece, g, the top p is provided with a hinged section, 9', whereby an opening is formed in the upper part of said mantel to readily admit the en trance for the water when the mantel and pipes are to be filled.

The operation'of my improvement is as follows: After the mantel has been properly set up to the chimney-breast water is poured in at the opening at the top of the mantel above the center piece, the air within the mantel and pipes readily escaping through the apertures h 71. Fire is then built in the grate. The water which is contained in the horizontal pipes d (I will then soon become heated and ascend to the top of the mantel, and the colder water Will descend until the entire area of water will have been completely heated to a uniform degree. The hot water, passing through the pipes or a and the hollow portions of the mantel, will then present a large 11 eating-surface, and thereby quickly increase the temperature of the room. By this construction of mantel it will be seen that the room may be quickly heated, dry or foul air is avoided, and the cost of heating the room being but nominal in comparison with the ordinary heatinggrate, as only a very small gratesurface and a small quantity of fuel will be necessary to heat the water, which may be distributed over a large area of the mantels front surface.

While I have shown and described a mantel constructed to heat but one room, it is manifest that the mantels of different rooms may be connected by pipes and the water forced through both mantels with fire in but one grate.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drz'iwings, the ad vantages It will be observed that but a very small surface of the water-reser\'oir is in contact with the tirespaee, and. all danger of et'mverting' the entire water-body into steam and causing accidents by explosion is thereby avoided. 3y connect in the upper and lower eonipartinents with the pipes a o and arranging the waterspace in the mantel as shown, the entireheating-surt'ace is to the face or front of the lirebox, and by this arrangement the cost of con struetion is but a very small addition to the construction of ordinaryinantels nowin use, and the necessity of building the l'ieatingspaces at the baek or sides of the tire-space is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by letters Patent, 1S?

The combination, with attire-Macehavinga grate, ll, of a water-nmntel consisting of the lu')llow"base portions, 7', the hollow upper portiions, Q, the conneeting-pipes (l u, saidpipes I projected beyond the face of the mantel, the horizontally disymsed pipes (I, built in the ehimney-breast, said pipes consisting" of pertions (7, entering the lire-place opening, and elbow portions connected with the hollow base portions, f, air-openings 7:,t'orn1ed in the tops (.2, and a \vatcw-inlet opening provided in the mantel, all arranged substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

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