US574024A

US574024A - Deflector

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Publication number: US574024A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-12-29
Anticipated expiration: 1913-12-29

Description

(.No Model.)

A. EBY.

.DEFLEGTOR. I

No. 574,024. v Patented 1390.29. 1896.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFicE.

AMOS EBY, or LEAMAN PLACE, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEFLECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 574,024, dated December 9, 8

Application filed March 27,. 1896. Serial No. 585,054. No model-l T0 ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMOS EBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leaman Place, in the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Deflectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of deflectors designed for throwing out toward the center of an apartment the hot air entering the same through a wall-register; and the object of the improvements is to prevent the hot air from rising directly toward the ceiling after escaping from the register and to direct it to and out over the floor of the apartment, so as to diffuse the hot air through the same directly from the register.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the various parts, as hereinafter fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective front view of a deflector embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section thereof, showing the deflector attached to the front face of a register; Fig. 3, a similar section of the deflector detached, showing a modification of the device for adj usting the inclination of the deflector-plate and Fig. 4 a top view of the deflector detached.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A indicates a Wall-register, and B the deflector, constructed, preferably, of sheet metal.

B is the horizontal top plate of the deflector, 13 vertical side plates or cheeks formed with or connected to the top plate at their upper ends, and b a wire connecting the lower inner corners of the checks to maintain the lower ends thereof in their proper relative positions. This wire preferably extends up the outer sides of the inner edges of the cheeks, beingheld in loops 6, formed by turning over the edges of said cheeks. Im1nediately beneath the inner edge of top plate B a hinge-rod d is supported in the cheeks, and on rod cl is hinged a deflector-plate D, which is of the full width of the space between the cheeks. The deflector plate slopes down ward and outward from the hinge-rod, as illustrated, and the angle of inclination is regu lated by a rack-bar E, pivotally connected at its lower end with the vibrating edge of the deflector-plate and having its upper end passing through a slot 6 in the top plate B, said rack-bar being held in an adjusted position by the engagement of one of the teeth e thereon with an edge of slot 6. The upper end as of said rack-bar is turned over to form a handhold.

Instead of rack-bar E a chain F may be used, the links of which are engaged over a hook f, as shown in Fig. 3, those above the hook passing through slot 6. rod is so located that the upper end of the deflector-plate works against or in contact with top plate B, so as to' prevent the escape of any material part of the hot air from the register through the joint between said top plate and deflector-plate.

The top plate and the side plates need not be of the contours shown, but may be constructed of any pleasing design suitable for the purpose.

G represents inwardly-projecting arms 011 the innerfaces of cheeks B and on the ends of said arms are rearwardly-extending hooks g, adapted to take over the bars, a, of the wallregister, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The deflector is of such dimension that the The hingetop and sides embrace all the outlet-openings of the register, the inner edges of the top and sides of the deflector being constructed to set up flush against the face of the rim of the register. The hot air pouring through the register, instead of rising directly to the ceiling of the apartment, as it ordinarily does,

I do not limit myself to any particular mode of securing the deflector to or in front of the register; neither do I restrict myself to the particular manner of hinging the deflectorplate herein shown and described.

.Having thus described my invention, what structed to engage the register, a deflectorplate having its upper edge hinged between the inner edges of the cheeks and adjacent to the top plate, and a rack-bar having one end pivoted to the vibrating end of the deflector-plate and the other end passing through a slot in the top plate, the rack on said bar being constructed to engage an edge of said slot, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

AMOS EBY.

\Vitnesses O. G. BASSLER, WM. R. GERHART.