US515640A

US515640A - Stovepipe water-heater

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Publication number: US515640A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-02-27
Anticipated expiration: 1911-02-27

Description

(No Model.)

B. R. AUSTIN. STOVEPIPB WATER HEATER.

Patented Feb. 27, 1894.

WITNESSES NrrEn STATES EMMET R. AUSTIN, OF NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

STOVEPlPE WATER-H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,640, dated February 27,189. Application filed May 22,1893. serial No. 475,089. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMET R. AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwalk, in the county of Fairtield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe Water- Heaters; and I do hereby 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.

My invention has for its object to provide a stove pipe water heater which shall be adapted for general use but especially adapted for houses not provided with a running water supply, and which shall be made in sections and provided with suitable pieces for connecting the sections together, for connecting the lower section to the stove, and for the connection of the upper section with the stove pipe, and suitable pipes for connecting the sections to each other, and for connecting the upper and lower portions of the heater with a suitable hot water tank, it being required that the construction be simple, durable, inexpensive and practically impossible to get out of repair.

With these ends in View I have devised the novel construction which I will now describe referring byletters and numbers to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification in which Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section illustrating a single section of the heater in place upon a stove and connected to an ordinary pipe, and also showing the connections to a hot water tank; Fig. 2, a sectional view illustrating the manner in which two sections are connected, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the base piece which engages the ordinary pipe collar upon a stove or range.

A denotes sections of my novel heater, B the base piece, a connecting piece, and D a top piece. The sections consist of inner and outer walls denoted respectively by 1 and 2, and top and bottom walls denoted respectively by 3 and i, which connect the inner and outer walls leaving a passage through the section for the products of combustion. Hubs 5 are provided at the tops, bottoms or sides of the sections, wherever they may be required,

for the connection of pipes, the only diiierence between single, top, bottom or intermediate sections being in the number and location of the hubs. If a section is designed to be used as a single section as in Fig. 1, it is provided on the outer side near the bottom with a hub for the connection of a cold water pipe 6 and on the outer side near the top with a hub for the connection of a hot water pipe 7.

\Vhere two sections are used as in Fig. 2 the bottom section is provided on its outer side near the bottom with a hub for the con nection of a cold water pipe and the top section is provided on its outer side near the top with a hub for the connection of a hot water pipe. The lower section may be provided with a hub on its upper side and the top section with a hub on its under side for the engagement of an intermediate connecting pipe 8, or if preferred, instead of providing hubs on the top and bottom respectively of the two sections as in Fig. 2, two single sections provided with hubs as in Fig. 1 may be connected by an intermediate pipe which would of course lie outside of the connecting pieces. This form is not illustrated in the drawings as it is so obvious that illustration could not. make it any clearer.

Where more than two sections are used the intermediate section or sections need not have any hubs upon the outer side but may be provided with hubs on the top and bottom which would be connected to the other sections by intermediate connecting pipes lying inside of the connecting pieces as in Fig. 2. It is obvious however that any number of single sections made as in Fig. 1 may be connected by pipes outside of the connecting piece. lhese sections are in practice cast in a single piece. The base piece consists of a plate 9 which is adapted to rest upon the top of a stove or range indicated by E and is provided with a collar 10 adapted to receive the ordinary pipe collar 11 of the stove or range, and with an outer flange 12 provided with an inwardly extending shoulder 13. The lower section passes within the top of the flange and rests upon the shoulder as shown in the drawings. The top piece consists of a top plate 14: having an outer flange 12 provided with a shoulder 13 which rests upon the top section, and with a collar 15 adapted to receive a stove pipe 16