US725310A - Gas-light heater. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR. 14, 190-3. W. P. YOUNG. GAS LIGHT HEATER". APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23, 1902\ N0 MODEL.

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WILBUR F, YOUNG, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAS-LIG HT H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,31 0, dated-April 14,1903.

Application filed December 23, 1 902. Serial No. 136,354. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: t

Be it known that I, 'WILBUR F. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Springfield,in the-county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Light Heaters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescriptiou.

The object of thisimproved gas-light heater is to provide an applia-nceof simple and cheap construction which may be employed in conjunction with an ordinary gas-burner and in the place of and supported in the same man-- nor as the ordinary glass globe, which without impairing the capabilities for illumination utilizes the products of combustion of the gas-light for heating the air in a material degree and yet the heating of the air being performed in a manner which does not vitiate the air by consuming the oxygen therein; and the invention consists in the appliance to constitute the combined burner-globe and heater which is hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of the combined globe and heater, shown as supported in its cooperative relation to an ordinary gas-burner, Fig. 2 is substantially a plan view of the same, portions being broken out in horizontal section.

Similar characters of reference indicate the corresponding parts in both of the views."

In the drawings, A'represents an ordinary gas-burner tip which is surrounded by the therewith-connected usual circular skeleton frame I) for supporting the globe. In the present instance the globeA is composed of thin sheet metal comprising an inner wall (1, of inverted-dome shape, having circular bottom openings 6 and having circular central top opening f of less diameter than the bottom opening such globe, furthermore, comprising the outer annular wall g, which is of considerably larger diameter thantheinner wall, the upper and lower portions of which are inwardly merged to and have connection by any suitable seam or joint with the inner wall d and all whereby the jacketed space or annular chamber 7' is produced,the same being entirely inclosed, except in so far as there are the series of lower air-inlet openin gst' at the bottom and another series of airoutlet openingsk at the top. The whole appliance, as described, made of thin light sheet metahmaybe spun or struck up practicably gas-lightiiame, and the heated air emerging at thetop of the device somewhat above the flame will be further heated by the heat from the burner-flame, whichlatter, however, is

-far enough removed from the upwardly-issw ing heated air from the chamberj to be nonconsuming of the oxygen The inners'urface of the inner dome-shaped Wall will serve as areiiector for downwardly directingthe light,

such inner surface being, as desired, of polishedmetal, or it may be painted white, 7

black, or any neutral or other color.

' v I am aware that various apparatuses have been proposed and constructed for application in connection with a gas-light burner in which the air maybe heated by being brought ,within the range of the gas-light flame, and

it is not, of course, my intention to claim anything which would extend to cover any of these appliances; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi v i 1. A combined gas-light globe, and airheater consisting of a metallic casing having an inner wallof dome shape with large central bottom opening and smaller top central opening, and having an outer surrounding annular wall, the upper and lower portions of which are inwardly extended and merged into, and joined to, saidinner wall, creating the inclosed annular air-heating chamber j, and said casing having a series of openings through its bottom outside of saidbottom central opening, and openings 70 through its 'top outside of said top central opening, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

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2. The combination with a gas-light burner j and. the circular surrounding skeleton globesupporting frame, of a metallic casing removably resting on said skeleton frame, which metallic casing, has an inner wall of dome i shape with large central bottom opening and smaller top opening, and having an outer separated and surrounding annular Wall, the upper and lower portions of which are merged into, and joined to, said inner Wall, creating the inclosed annular or heating chamber j, and having a series of openings '2; through its bottom outside of said bottom central opening, and top openings 70, through its top out- 10 side of said top central opening, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NVILBUR F. YOUNG. W'itnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, A. V. LEAHY.

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