US535490A

US535490A - Thermo-electric generator

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Publication number: US535490A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-03-12
Anticipated expiration: 1912-03-12

Description

7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY BARRINGER cox, or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

THERMO-ELECTRIC GENERATOR.-

s rxcmcanon formingpart of Letters Patent No. 635,490, dated March 12, 1895. Application fled arms a, ma. Renewed August 14, 1894." smn No. 520,330. (so model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY BARRINGER Cox, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and .State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and nseful Improvements in Thermo- Electric Generators; and I do hereby declare that the followingisafull, clear, apdexact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the-artto which it appertaius reto she and use thesame, reference being the accompanying drawings,-and tothe 'letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification. This invention relates to certain improve- :5 meats in thermo electrlc generators.

- The object of the invention isio provide in an improved manner therm'o electric piles with radiators whereby the potential in the circuit will be increased The invention consists in certain uovel'featnres of construction and in combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referringtotheaccompgnyiriidrawirigsr- 2 5 F gure 1 is a cross section of a therrno electric pile. Fig. 2 is adetail sectional view of a modification.

In the drawings'the reference letter a, indicatfsa serieaxgfi courfieotgili tihersno electric coup r .connec' re era y n r ugf rzrua nnmb'er of rings oing placed. togetner to form a pile i open-or cylindrical form. The heat is app'ied .to the interior-of the pile. The. rings after being suitably secured'together, preferably contact at their inner andont'erends. with some suitablefire 'proof materiaigsuchasfireclay gvhichisthenbalred, hardened or vitrified to arm a hard coating b on the inner and ontert'aces of the pile. The cute surface of this hard cylinder is then pro tried in some suitable manner with a meta to acket 0. The outer ends of the thermo Jacket.

In Fig. 2 the radiators are formed byacorelements are the cool portions of the circuit while the inner ends thereof constitute the head portions of the circuit. In order to 1ncrease the difference in tenip'eraturebetween the inner and outer snrfa'ces'of the pile, the outer surface of/the pileor generator is provided with suitable outwardly projecting radiators (1. These radiators preferably extend out from the outer metallic jacket of the pile,

and rapidly'couductoif the heat from'thepila I do not wish to limit myself to any peculiar construction of radiator or any peculiar manner of arranging or connecting-the same.

Iu-Fig. 1, the radiators shown consist of. U shaped strips of metal suitably secured at theirbent ends to the metallic jacket so that thelegs of the U project radially from said 6 rngated strip of metal secured around the pile so that the corrugations project outwardly and radially from the pile., Having thus fully described myinvention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States isp a 1. A thermo electric pile provided with the outwardly projecting radiators from its outer surface independent of the elements of the thermo couples, substantially as described.-

2. A thermo electric lpile having the exterior metal jacketand the series of radiators extending outwardly therefrom, substantially as described. 3. A thermo electric generator having the exterior coating and the exterior radiators,- substantially as described. a t

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I a'ffix my signature in presence of 8c two witnesses.

I HARRY BARRINQ' R cox. Witnesses:

' rE. HENRY HYDE, .Tr., J. L.