US736633A - Heating apparatus for vehicles. - Google Patents

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No. 736,633. PATENTED AUG,.V18,`1903.

G. I'. RAY.' HEATING APPARATUS POR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED Dno.f24. l1 so'fz.

No MODEL.

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Nirnn Patented August 18, 1903.

GABRlEL FRANKLIN RAY, OF MEEKER, COLORADO.

HEATING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,633, dated August 18, y1903. Application filed December 24,1902. Serial No.136,489. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom, t pta/y] concern:

Be it known that 1, GABRIEL FRANKLIN RAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meeker, in the county of Rio Blanco and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Heating Apparatus for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to devices for heating vehicles, more particularly buggies, carriages, automobiles, sleighs, cutters, and the like, and has for its object the production of a simply-constructed and easily-operated and effective apparatus which may be applied to any vehicle; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a vehiclefbody with the improved apparatus applied. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail of the burner and Wick-tube.

The device may be applied to any of the various constructions of vehicles and for the purpose of illustration is shown applied to a conventional buggybody (indicated at 10) having a lloor 11.

The improved apparatus consists of a tubular member 12, located in position to serve as a foot-rest and extending transversely of the oor 11, as shown. The member 12 Will preferably be formed of sheet metal and of sufficient size and with depending tapering ends 13 14, engaging apertures through the floor of the vehicle, as shown in Fig. 2, the tapered form of said ends serving to securely bind them in the apertures in the floor and prevent them sliding through the apertures in the floor, whereby said ends perform the double function of outlets for the tube and supporting-legs for the foot-rest, no fastening means being necessary to secure the legs to the floor.

Depending centrally from the tubular member is a communicating shell 15, the lower end of the shell having a laterally-extended iange 16 for attaching it to the floor of the vehicle around an aperture 17 therein, as shown, so that a free communication is provided between the interior of the member 12 and the space beneath the vehicle. Free communication is thus provided between the member 12 and the space beneath the vehicle at both ends and centrally of the member 12. Located within the shell 15 is the heater, preferably in the form of a burner 18, the burner adapted to receive its supply of fuel from a reservoir 19 beneath the iioor of the vehicle, preferably at a point sufciently remote from the burner to avoid danger of ignition therefrom and connected to the burner by a suitable conduit 20, containing a Wick, (indicated at 21.) The reservoir is adapted to be supplied through an aperture closed by ascrew-plug22in the floor 11. By this means the burner Will be constantly supplied With fuel so long as any is contained in the reservoir. Any of the ordinary liquid fuels may be employed; but preferably wood-alcohol will be used for this purpose. I The construction of the burner is shown more fully in Fig.` 3, and consists of an interior wick-tube 23, threaded externally, and an outer controlling-tube 24E, threaded internally and engaging the inner tube. The outer controlling-tube 24 is provided with -spaced perforations or vents 2S, and it Will be obvious that the necessary supply of air will reach the wick 21 through these apertures, and the more fully they are uncovered` by raising the controller-tube the larger will be the iiame, and, on the contrary, the 10W- ering of the tube will lessen the supply of air or entirely cut it off and cause the iame to burn out for lack of oxygen. This makes a very simple and easily operated and controlled burner which meets all the requirementsfor a heating means and by its extreme simplicity can be easily maintained in operative condition. The vertical movement of the controller-tube caused by its rotation upon the outer tube increasing or decreasing the flame of the burner regulates its heating properties.

The shell 15 is provided With a lateral aperture covered by a closure 26 to afford access tothe burner to light and regulate it, as will be obvious. The burner may thus be lighted and controlled from the interior of the vehicle and Without stopping the vehicle or dismounting therefrom.

The tubular member 12 may be of any desired size and of any desired material, but will preferably be of sheet metal as thin as consistent with the strains to which it will be subjected, and the burner may likewise be of any desired size or capacity to impart'the requisite heat. v

By this simple arrangement a very free rapid circulation of the air is produced, which causes a correspondingly free and rapid radiation from the tubular member, while all the gases and other volatile products of the combustion are carried o through the lateral portions 12 13 and Will not enter the vehiclebody and annoy vthe passengers.

A perforated guard-screen 27 will preferably be placed over the radiating member to protect the feet of the passenger and likewise protect the lap-robes and prevent them from coming in direct contact with the heated p0rtions of the device. If preferred, the guardscreen may be lined `With asbestos or similar non-conducting material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1 l. In a heating apparatus for vehicles, a tubular foot-rest having depending opposite ends, registering with openings in the bottom of the vehicle and forming supports for the ends of the foot-rest and provided With-a tubular shell depending centrally therefrom and attached to the floor of the vehicle around an aperture therethrough, and a heating means Within said shell.

2. In a heating apparatus for vehicles, a v

tubular foot-rest having depending tapered ends fitting in apertures in the floor of the vehicle, and provided with acommunicating f shell depending centrally therefrom and attached to the door of avehicle around an aperture therethrough, and a heating medium Within said shell.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afXed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

GABRIEL FRANKLIN RAY. Witnesses:

A. P. HUBBARD, E. A. FULLER.

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