US637186A

US637186A - Locomotive-boiler.

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Publication number: US637186A
Application number: US70357299A
Authority: US
Inventors: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-01-27
Filing date: 1899-01-27
Publication date: 1899-11-14
Anticipated expiration: 1916-11-14

Description

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LOCOMOTIVE BOILER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOCOMOTIVE-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 637,186, dated November 14, 1899. Application filed January 27, 1899. Serial No. 703,572. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS VANDER- BILT, J r., of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Locomotive-Boiler, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved locomotive-boiler arranged to materially increase the strength of the boiler, to resist all strain due to expansion and contraction of the parts or other causes, and to avoid rupture of the sheets, the arrangement also giving a more effective heating-surface, notably in the fire-box, to insure a rapid generation of steam.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,-in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a longitudinal central sectional elevation of the improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section of the same on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is alike view of the same on the line 4 4 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a similar View of the same on the line 5 5 in Fig. 1.

The shell of the locomotive-boiler is provided with a barrel or outer section A, disposed horizontally and made cylindrical and having a smoke-box A projecting from the outer end of the barrel. The rear endof the barrel is connected with the small end of the 'wagon top A in the form of a cone, the rear or base end being connected with a fire-box section A inclined rearwardly and downwardly from said wagon-top A as is plainly indicated in Fig. 1.

The section A is made cylindrical in crosssection, as is plainlyindicated in Figs. 2 and 3, and in said section is arranged eccentrically a fire-box B, likewise made cylindrical in cross-section, the rim or wall of said fire-box being corrugated in a transverse direction, as is plainly indicated in Fig. 1. The forward end of the fire-box B is suspended by links 0 from the forward top portion of the fire-box section A the lower or bottom portion of the fire-box resting on suitable supports G,carried by the section A asillustrated in Fig. 3. The open end of the fire-box Bis riveted or otherwise secured to the front sheet A of the firebox section A (See Fig. 1.)

The fines E extend from the-firebox fluesheet B to the flue-sheet F, formed with a rim having transverse corrugations F, as is plainly shown in Fig. 1, the corrugations extending a suitable distance from the inner surface of the barrel A to permit a proper yielding in a longitudinal direction of the fluesheet upon expansion and contraction of the fines E to relieve the barrel A of undue strain, it being understood that the extreme outer end of the corrugated sheet is riveted in the usual niannerto the barrel or outer section A.

By the arrangement described the flnes E stand at an angle to the axis of the barrel A and the wagon top A and the fine-sheet F stands at an angle to the outer end of the barrel-that is, is inclined to the vertical-as is plainly indicated in Fig. 1, and by tilting the fire-box B the water-space below the fire-line at the back is reduced to increase the depth above the fire-line, thus giving a more effective heating-surface in the back end portion of the fire-box. By not submerging the for ward end to the same extentthat the rear end is submerged a still more effective heating surface is obtained, thereby insuring a rapid generation of steam. It is further evident that by the arrangement described, especially by the cylindrical form of fire-box and barrel, the strength of the boiler is materially increased and a rupture of the sheets is not liable to take place, as unequal strains are avoided, and the connection and form of the several sections are such as to resist all strain due to expansion and contraction of the various parts and to the pressure of the generated steam.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- 1. Alocom otive-looiler, provided with a firebox made cylindrical in cross-section and hav ing its rim or wall corrugated in a transverse direction, and a fire-box section in which the fire-box is placed eccentrically, the axis of the fire-box section beinginclined to the horiand the forward end of said firebox being submerged to a less extent than the rear end, to increase the effective heating-surface for a rapid generation of steam, substantially as shown and described.

2. A locomotive-boiler comprising a shell having a horizontallydisposed barrel-section, a conical wagon-top, a fire-box section inclined downwardly and rcarwardly from the base of thesaid conical wagon-top section a fire-box hung eccentrically in said fire-box section and with its axis inclined to the horizontal, an inclined flue-sheet in the barrelsection, and fines extending from the front end of the fire-box to the said line-sheet and approximately at right angles thereto, snb stantia-lly as shown and described.

. 8. A locom0tive-boiler comprising a horizontally-disposed barrel -section, a conical Wagon-top section, a cylindrical fire-box sec tion inclined downwardly and rearwardly from the base of said wagon-top section, a fire-box made cylindrical in cross-section and having its wall or rim corrugated in a trans verse direction and hung eccentrically in the said fire-box section, a fine-sheet in the said the fire-box to the said fine-sheet, snbstam tially as shown and described.

In a steam-boiler, the shell comprising a horizontally disposed cylindrical barrel, a conical wagon-top in axial alinement with the barrel and a cylindrical fire-box section in combination with a cylindrical firebox eccentrically disposed in the said fire-box section and seen red thereto at its open entrance end, and fines extending from the forward closed end of the said fire-box in an upward and forward direction to connect with the flue-sheet in the said barrel, substantially as shown and described. a

In a steam-boiler, a cylindrical fire-box section, and a cylindrical fire-box eccentrically mounted in the said fire-box section and inclined thereto in a longitudinal direction, substantially as shown and described.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR.

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