US449509A - Water-heating device - Google Patents

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(No Model.) R. P. WHITE. WATER HEATINGv DEVICE.

N0. 449,509. Patented 1V1a1231,-1891. li .l I I .[II l 7 Il' 1 i: f

UNITED STATns 'PATnNT @erica ROYAL P. \Vlll'l`E, OF Ll'lWLETON, NE\V HAMPSHIRE.

WATER-HEATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,509, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed May 20, 1890. Serial No. 352,508. (No model.)

To all whom. it may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, ROYAL P. XVHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Littleton, in the county ot' Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful YVaterJleating Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a water-heat ing device adapted to be removably applied to stoves and ranges and to heat and feed water from said device to a suitable storing tank or reservoir or through a suitable system of water-distributing pipes.

The objects and advantages of the invention, together with the novel features thereof, will hereinafter appear, and be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a cooking-stove, a water-heating apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention being applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective in detail of the boiler, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Like numerals indicate like parts in all the vIigures of the drawings.

l represents a metallic box or boiler, of a shape adapting the same to be removably inserted into the reservoir-opening 2 of an ordinary cooking-stove or range The side wall of the box or boiler 1 is provided near its upper end with a series of-in this instance three-openings, in which are mounted pipes 4, 5, and G.

7 represents any suitable-sized water-tank, the same being preferably air-tight and connected to any source of cold-water supply 3a convenient. From the bottom of the tank there leads a supply or feed pipe S, the lower end of which is coupled to the couplings G of the box or boiler 1, and from the inner end of the coupling there extends a depending that. steam generated within the boxer boiler is by the pipe 10 conducted to the tank 7 and exerts a slight pressure upon the surface of the water, so that a forced feed is accomplished and the water from the box or boiler is discharged under said pressure, which water has previously been partially heated by the steam. The cold water coming through the supply-pipe serves to vcondense the steam, which is therefore returned in liquid form to the boiler 1.

Leading from the coupling tis a discharge pipe 11, which may connect with any suitable system of pipes arranged in a building, or, as shownlierein, may terminate in a faucet 12, arranged over a sink located in a pantry or other suitable and convenient place. The box or boiler is also provided with a cock or fau cet 13, through which water may be drawn from the box or boiler at the boiler and without the necessity of going to the cock or faucet 12.

The boxer boiler at its upper side is provided with a mud-hole 14, covered by a cap 15, by which access may be obtained to the interior of the boiler for cleaning purposes. Formed transversely in the Opposite side walls ofthe boiler is a series of opposite openings `15, which openings are connected by tire-tubes 16, which pass through the boiler near the bottom of the same.

In operation the fire passes through the tubes, and surrounding the four sides of the box er boiler soon heats the water discharged in the bet-tom of said boiler, which water may be drawn off through any' of the appliances.

heretofore described, and said discharge will, by reason of the construction heretofore mentioned, be under pressure, so that the water may be forced to heights above that of the stove or the source of supply.

In Fig. 1 I have illustrated by dotted lines a slight modification of my invention; and the same consists in the provision of awater-reservoir 1G* at the rear end of the stove, which water-reservoir is in communication with the box or boiler by means of a pipe 17. In this instance the reservoir is provided with the discharge and pressure pipes, as shown, and from the same the water is drawn off after having first been thoroughly heated while TOO passing through the box or boiler and previous to its entrance to the reservoir.

From the above Construction it will be apparent that I have provided an exceedingly simple, cheap, and efficient means for heating and distributing,` water, which means are so constructed as to be capable of ready removal from the stove or range, and may therefore be transported when desired. The pipes for oonneeting the supply-tank with either the res ervoir or the boiler are preferably formed of lead and of suitable lightness whereby they may be bent, and therefore permit of the removal of the boiler from the reservoir-opening and a setting,y of the same to one side; or, if desired, the couplings connecting the pipes with either the reservoir or the box or boiler may be loosened to permit et the boilerbeing thus removed.

The hereindescribed apparatus may be employed to warm stock-water, and in such instance the discharge-pi pe would simply lead to the watering-trougli. The boiler may be located upon an outdoor box-stove, if desired, and within the lire-box thereof.

Having thus described my invention., what I claim is* The combination, with the stove, of a movable boiler inserted therein and provided with a draw-oft' cool; or pipe and with a series of transversely-disposed re -tnbes, a supplytank located near the boiler, a feed-pipe leading from the lower end of the supply -tank and terminating within and near the bottom of the boiler, and a pressure-pipe leading from the upper end of the boiler'to that ofthe tank, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I elaim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence et two witnesses.

ROYAL P. WHITE.

Witnesses:

JOHN I. BowMAN, C. R. CoBURN.

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