US71347A - Base-burning stove - Google Patents

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UNITED STATE PATENTFFIGE- CHARLES M. WHELDEN, OF PITTSFIELD, M ssAonUsE'rrs {BASE-BURNING STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 71,347, dated November 26,:136Z.

To all whom it may c n It will be observed thatthedraft-pipesGcoml l i Be it known that I, CHARLES M. WHELDEN, mence atthe lower part of the stove, Wheretheir of Pittsfield, in the county of Berkshire and open ends communicate through suitableregis- 1 "State of Massachusetts, have invented a new ters (not shown) with the atmospheric air,:and and useful Improvement in ReservoinStoves; are taken upward through the combustionand I, do hereby declare that the following chamber and flue-spaceRandthence through is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, the outerwall of the reservoir, where theycomr; whichiwill enable those skilled in the art to municate withthesaidannular,passageG. By A fmake and use the same,reference being Jhad means of this arrangement the: air -.currents e to, the; accompanying drawing, forming part which pass through the pipes G become heated of this specification, in whiche by the flames and gases from the fire, and are 1 Figure lrepresents a central vertical secconsequently in amorefaVorable condition j tion of a stove made according to my invention. for promoting combustion? thanxif they were W 2 is also a central vertical; section, but in discharged into the fire in a cold state. The l lane at rightangles to that of Fig. 1. Fig. said air currents may; bejtakens downward a horizontal section on the line was. through or alongthe reservoir kin pipes or This invention relates to that class of stoves tubes, if preferred, in which 0 e thewallsj of which have a reservoir for fresh fuel aboveor the said reservoir may be 'ingleinstead convenient to the fire chamber,:so that the of double, as in this exam r theflmanner 1; latter is: supplied with fuel automatically as i of conducting the draftor at hericair may combustion proceeds. e be modified in other .ways-as,fo1% instance, The letter A designates the outercylinder the pipes G may commence elsewherein the l of the stove, and B the grate, from near whose stove, or be carried to a less height? than here y outer edge rise the walls 0 of the fire-chamber. shown. The arrangement of the annular drafty D is the fuel-reservoir, which contains the fuelpassage G here shown causes thedraft-airto a supply. The top of said reservoir may be be Well distributed atthetime ofitsdischarge sunken below the top of the outer cylinder, A, into the fire,so that the: air -currents come yin t I so as to open. into or communicate with the contact with the incandescent fuel at different flue space E, or it may, as in this example, be points and mix with the gases of the fuel over. carried upward through said flue-space to the a wide area. 3 t l e l level of the top of cylinder A. Ithas the usual The reservoir D is perforated at any convencover, which is removed when the reservoiris ient place or places, preferably near its top, to be filled with fuel. i as at H H, in order to allow the gaseswhichf The stove here shown is made witha de-. are generated in the reservoir by the heating, scending flue, F, which conductsthe products of the fuel contained therein toyenter a pipe or of combustion into the lower part ofthefstove pipes, I, that are carriedfiidownward to the i e on their way to the place of discharge but lower edge of the reservoir, where they di the manner of conducting the flue can be vacharge such gases into the fire. n this exried without affecting my improvement. ample Ihave placed said pipes Iin the annular The letters G- G G designate draft-pas; space G; but they may be placed outside of; sages, which conduct atmospheric air from the wall of said annular space, if desired. The without and discharge the same into thefiregas-pipesI and air pipes or passages Gldo not: chamber at the top or upper part of the fire. communicate with each other. inftheir course, 1

Said draft-passages may consistwhollyofpipes because it is desirable thatthe air; and gases or tubes, or, as in thisexample, partly of pipes be not brought together. in such pipesyor. pa or tubesand partly of an annular passage sages, or in the reservoir-itself; and theyara *formed in the Walls of the reservoir but said kept apart until the moment oftheirldischarge draft-passages may be formed inany suitable into the fire; or if they are brought together; :or convenient manner solong as the principle before, it should be at such adistance from of my invention is adhered to of discharging. the perforations H as to. avoidthe possibilit the draft or atmospheric airinto the fire at or of the entrance of atmosphericair into the; y near its surface. l l l l ervoir. 1 l if

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