US451944A

US451944A - Radiator

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Publication number: US451944A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 1908-05-12

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

1E. 'MARAK, Jr.

. RADIATOR.

No. 451,944. Patented May 12, 1891.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2.

' F. MARAK, Jr.

RADIATOR.

No. 451,944. Patented May 12, 1891.

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NITE STATES FRANCIS MARAK, JR., OF EVEREST, KANSAS.

RADIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 451,944, dated May 12, 1891.

Application filed August 1, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS MARAK, J r., of Everest, in the county of Brown and State of Kansas, have invented certain Improvements in Radiators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to a reducingdrum in which the products of combustion are directed rapidly upward and downward through a series of fines, the course being varied and determined by valves.

The aims of the invention are to simplify the construction and to secure the passage of the currents directly and repeatedly through the drum by one or more of its flues, in order to cause the burning or carrying away of the solid matters which may lodge therein, and thus keep the apparatus clear and in good operative condition.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my radiator with portion broken away to show the internal construction. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same midway of its height. Fig. 3 is a view showing the internal partitions removed. Fig. 4: is a horizontal section on the line a; m, Fig. 1, looking downward. Figs. 5 and 6 are vertical sections on the lines m 00' y y, Fig. 2, respectively.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an upright cylindrical body or drum of sheet metal provided at the bottom with an inletneck a, through which the products of combustion are admitted into a base-chamber b, lying below the horizontal division 0. At the upper end the body is provided with a discharge-neck d and contains a top chamber e, lying above the horizontal division-plate f. The plates 0 and f are of cast-iron of the full diameter of the drum and fixed in place by bolts or otherwise. The space between these plates is divided by vertical partitions radiating from the center, and hereinafter described in detail, into equal flues or

passages

1, 2, 3, 4:, and 5. The flue l communicates at its lower end directly and constantly with the base-chamber through an opening it. The top of flue 1 is permanently closed by the overlying division-plate; but a lateral opening 1' leads from its upper end into the top of flue 2, which is provided at its top with the upwardly-opening hinged valve 70, operated Serial No. 360,631. (N 0 model.)

eral opening pinto flue 5. A hinged valve q, controlled by the protruding handle q, may be turned, so as to close the top of either flue at or flue 5 or leave both open. A hinged valve .9, with a handle 5, is located at the lower end of flue 5, and may be turned down to shut off communication with the base-cham:

ber or raised to permit the products to pass directly upward into the flue 5 and also through an openingp into flue '4. A hinged valve t, having a handle it, serves to open and close communication between the base-chamber and the lower end of flue 3.

The operation is as follows: The valve q being adjusted to close the top of flue 4 and the other valves being closed, the products of combustion ascend from the base-chamber directly into flue l, and ascending therein escape laterally through the opening into the top of flue 2, in which they descend until they pass through the bottom opening into the flue 3. Ascending in this flue, they pass in turn through the lower opening into the top of flue 4:, through which they descend and pass at the bottom into flue 5, through which they ascend into the top chamber, and thence through the delivery-neck at the top. By properly adjusting the valves the course of the products through the apparatus maybe materially lessened. When it is desired to give a direct or unobstructed draft, either for the purpose of starting the fire or for the purpose of blowing out and carrying away the soot or other solid matters which may have accumulated, it is only necessary to open all the valves, whereupon the products will ascend directly through flue 1, and pass thence through opening and valve 70. The products entering valve 5 will ascend in part directly through the valve 5 and in part through the opening p and flue 4 into the top chamber. The products entering past valve i will ascend in part through the valve 2, directly into the top chamber, and in part through flue 3, and thence through the lateral. opening at its top through flue 4. It will be observed that a practically straight or direct passage is thus afforded through each and all of the fines.

In order to reduce the labor of assembling the parts and admit of the partitions being held securely in position, I recommend the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 8,in which the five partitions are formed by three plates. A sheet of metal ac, cutaway at its corners, as shown, to afford passages between the fines, is bent longitudinally, so as to present a V form in horizontal section and provided with holes 00' at. A second plate w, having an indentation in one corner, is bent in like manner and provided with holes w "w. A third and flat plate y is provided with oblique slots 1 Now the angular plates to and 0a are inserted endwise into the drum, with their angular portions at the center and their outer edges seated against the walls of the drum. The third plate y is inserted into the drum between them, one edge being seatedagainst the wall of the drum, while the other and slotted edge is seated between the angular plates. Bolts 2" are inserted through the holes in the angular plates and through the slots of the intervening plates. Before the bolts are tightened the plate y,which was left in an elevated position, is forced downward, when byreason of its inclined slots it is carried outward tightly against the wall of the drum, and also acts on the other end to force the angular plates in the opposite direction against the drum. In this way the several parts are forced and held tightly to their places. The outer edges of the plates are seated between angular strips 2 riveted to the inside of the drum.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim isl. The cylindrical body having the top and bottom chambers therein, the division-plates, and the intermediate vertical lines com municating successively at the upper and lower ends, in combination with the two valves at the lower end and the two valves at the upper end.

2. The cylindrical body or shell, in combination with theangular division-plates-w and x, the intermediate obliquely-slotted plate, and the connecting-bolts.

3. In a radiator, an upright body'divi'ded into a series of vertical flues, said fines communicatin g successively at the'topand bottom to compel a serpentine course of the products of-combustion, in' combination with top and bottom valves to open the ends of the fines and permit a direct vertical passage of the products through all the -flues.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, this th day of October, 1889, in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

FRANCIS MARAK, J-R.

Witnesses:

JOHN ACKLEY, GEO. SCHAFER.