US430875A

US430875A - Car-heater

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Publication number: US430875A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 1907-06-24

Description

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1,

R. E. NICHOLS. OAR HEATER.

No. 430,875. Patented June 24, 1890.

WITNESSES.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. R. E. NICHOLS. GAR HEATER Patented Juh 24, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

REUBEN E. NICHOLS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,875, dated June 24, 1890.

Application filed December 6, 1889- Serial No- 332,'763. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN E. NICHOLS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and nsefulInr provement in Car-Heaters, which improve ment is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to car-heaters; and it consists of the construct-ion, arrangement, or combination of the parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth and definitely claimed.

Figure '1 represents a vertical section of a locomotive-engine containing part of a carheater embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a front view of portion of the heater and adjacent parts of the engine. Fig. 3 represents a partial side elevation and partial longitudinal section thereof. Figs. 4: and 5 represent longitudinal sections of portions of cars with parts of my invention applied thereto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the smoke or fire box of a locomotive-engine, and B designates a chamber for heating air, the same being located in said box and consisting of a suitable casing, to the front and rear walls of which are secured fines O, which admit the passage of the products of combustion through the same, it being seen that the products of combustion also pass around the casing, whereby the casing will be highly heated without, however, affecting the draft.

I) represents nozzles or pipes, which pass tightly through the shell of the boiler, and are connected with the casing of the chamber B, so as to be in communication therewith and direct air thereinto.

A designates a neck, which unites the two divisions of the chamber B.

E designates pipes, which are attached to the walls of said neck, and with which are connected blowers or fans F, the latter being located on the front portion of the truck of the engine or on any other suitable portion thereof, and having connected with them pipes G, which extend along the engine, and are attached by flexible connections II and short sections of pipes II with pipes or passages J in the cars K, said pipes having branches L, which pass under the car-seats for distribution of heat ad mitted to the pipes J.

In the cars are radiators M, which are in communication with the pipes II and the pipes or passages J, and contain stoves or other heating devices for obtaining heat should the cars be disconnected from the engine or there be any defective action of the heat generated in the engine. The blowers or fans F are operated by a small engine N, suitably located on the loco motive-engine, the same being under control of the engineer or fireman, if so desired. It will be seen that as air is drawn into the chamber B it is highly heated by contact with the hot fines C and walls of said chamber, and from thence it is driven by the blowers or fans into the pipes G, and thus through the couplings II and pipes II into the pipes or passages .I the heat entering the radiators M unless directly conveyed by the pipes II into the pipes or passages .I. It will be seen that the cars will be eifectively heated, the means employed being simple and inexpensive, easily applied, and without the danger attending the use of stoves. I

Connected with the chamber B at or about the place of connection of the pipes E is a valve I, whereby communication of said pipes with the chamber B may be closed, so that heat from said chamber is prevented from e11- tering the pipes E. Valves Q are connected with the pipes E, so that fresh. air may be admitted thereinto, whereby provision is made for directing said air into the cars, thus admirably adapting the device to serve as a ventilator or cooler-a feature of service during warm weather.

The shape and location of the chamber B may be varied; hence I do not limit myself to the same; but the shape of the fines is preferably elliptical, so as to gain a large heat ing-surface without materially affecting the draft of the furnace.

It is evident that by the use of the coupfor the products of combustion, and increas ing, the heating-surface of said casing and avoiding interference with the steam-exhaust, draft, &c.

The pipes J and branches L may have suitable registers for controlling the heat admitted thereinto.

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

1. The air-heating chamber B, located in the smoke-box of a locomotive-engine, consisting of a casin g with supply-n ozzle D,centraldivisional Walls forming the passage R, and a neck A, connecting the divisions of the casing, said passage B being in front of the lines or tubes of the boiler, substantially as described.

2. The divided chamberB, with air-supply REUBEN E. NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.