US482276A

US482276A - Heating-drum

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Publication number: US482276A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1909-09-06

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J. SEITHER. HEATING DRUM.

No. 482,276. Patented S pt. 6, 1892.

ir li f 1 l l l 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB SElTI-IER, OF KEOKUK, IOWA.

HEATING-DRUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,276, dated September 6, 1892. Application filed January 13, 1892. Serial No. 417,937. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J AooB SEITHEE, a citi-Y zen of the United States, residing at Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heating-Drums; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

-My invention has special reference to that class of heating-drums which are designed to utilize the lost heat which ordinarily escapes through the chimneys of stoves, furnaces, &c. and the object sought to be attained is to more effectually produce this result and to provide a more desirable device than has heretofore been known.

To this end my invention consists of certain novel features and combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a heatingdrum supplied with my improvements, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my complete device; Fig. 2, a vertical section showing more clearly its detail construction.

The reference-letters A and B represent the hollow heads or terminals of my drum, which are preferably constructed of sheet metal and are circular in shape. To one side of these heads are secured short sections of pipe or tubing O, which telescope into both ends ot' the flues D. By this arrangement it will be seen that the heads A and B may be readily lifted out of engagement with the iiues by means of the ears or handles E-and F, located on each head. Inlet and outlet pipes G and H communicate with the heads A and B, respectively, and serve'to convey the heat to and from the drum. These pipes G and H are located in the center of the heads for reasons that will now be described,

Located in the head B and directly over the inlet-pipe H is the cone-shaped heat-deliector I. This deiiector is arranged between and forms the center around which the iiues D are arranged. Hence it is located in the center of the head. The heat on entering the drum by Way of the inlet-pipe H strikes the this class have been constructed somewhat similar to mine, with the exception of the heat-deflector and the arrangement for detaching the heads and tlues. The advantages of this construction are obvious, for it is evident that if the drum with the parts assembled could not be taken apart and reduced to a more compact form, it would be very clumsy and unhandy in shipment. This feature is further useful when it is desirous to clean the drum of dirt, which will collect. Indeed, this is a greater advantage than the one mentioned above, for it would be almost impossible to thoroughly clean the device if it was arranged in a different manner.

The heat-deflector serves to more equally distribute the heat among the several flues. It is knownq that a great defect in heatingdrums is that the heat upon entering them does not go through all of the iiues or conduits, but through one or, may be, two and then out. Such a drum, it will readily appear, is not as eifective as one in which the heat is evenly distributed by means of the deiector which I employ.

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

Y In a heating-drum, the combination of a pair of hollow heads or terminals, short sections of pipe or tubing connected to and communicating with each of the heads, a similar number of flues for connecting the heads, fitting over the short sections of tubing, a conical heat-deiiector located in the center of the lower head and directly over the inlet-pipe, whereby the heat is equally distributed among the flues, and inlet and outlet pipes connected to each head, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in ,presence of two witnesses.

JACOB SEITHER. Witnesses:

LORENZO Soo'rr, JOHN A. SMITH.

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