US806653A - Automatic draft-regulating heating system. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD DEC. 5, 1905.

' G. 'FAUST. AUTOMATIC DRAFT REGULATING HEATING SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1906.

nu Mote; Ciw vcr' lydusi UNITED STATES CASPER FAUST, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

AUTOMATIC DRAFT-REGULATING HE ATING SYSTEM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed May 9, 1905. Serial n). 259,528.

To 00% whom it may 'concern.-

Be it known that I, CASPER FAUST, a citizen of the United States, residing atOshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AutomaticwDraft-Regulating Heating Systems; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable-others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in automatic draft-regulating heating systems; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of-devices hereinafter described and claimed. I

The object of my invention is to provide an improved apparatus which may be connected to and included in the smoke-discharge pipe .of a stove or furnace and which will serve. as a drum to radiate the heat from the heated products of combustion and also to automatically control the draft, so as 'to preserve aneven temperature. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional view of an apparatus embodying my improvements, the same being especiallydrum 1 and which is provided with sections a Z) for attachment, respectively, to the pipe 2, which leadsfrom a stove, and to a pipe 3, which leads from the said section 1 to the chimney. The said section or drum may be of any suitable size and may be of any suitable construction. It is here shown as provided with a supporting intake-cone 4, the lower end of which is closed and which is provided near its lower endwith a series of openings 5. upper end of the intake-cone extends into the bottom of the drum or section 1, is inclined, and forms a seat for a damper 6. The said damperis secured to and is at the lower end a of a vane or baffle-plate 7, which is here shown as secured to a rod 8, the lower end of the said rod projecting below the said vane or bafiie and being attached to the said damper. The upper portion of the rod passes through an opening 9 in the top of the drum or section 1' The and terminates in an arm 10, which is screwthreaded. Said rod is pivotally connected to the upper portion of the section or drum 1, as at 11, for vertical angular movement to adapt the vane or baffle-plate and the damper for such movement. On'the screw-threaded arm 10 is an adjusting and counterbalancing weight 13.

The weight of the damper and vane combined exceeds that of the regulating-weight 13, so that the damper is normally closed to prevent the admission of air into the drum through the openings 5. The heated products of combustion from the stove pass through the drum or section 1 in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, the velocity of the current depending on the heat of such products. When the heat of the same exceeds a certain predetermined degree, the current, by acting to be admitted to the drum through the cone 4:, hence reducing the draft of the stove. As soon as the temperature of the heated products becomes lowered the damper closes automatic'ally by overcoming the weight 13, and

so on, the result being that the vane, damper, and weight-lever 1O coact to automatically regulate the draft.

"In Fig. 2 I show a modified construction of my invention, in which the drum is provided at opposite sides with connections c d for attachment, respectively, to the smoke-pipe which leads from the furnace and to a pipe which leads to the chimney. In this form'of I the invention" the supporting-cone is formed 75f a plurality of sections telescopically connected together, such sections 14 15 being here indicated. Any suitable number of the sections may be provided according to the required height of the drum above the floor.

Not only does my improved apparatus serve to regulate the draft of a stove or furnace, and hence eifect an economy of fuel burned therein, butsince the supporting-cone of the drum has its intake opening immediately above the floor the air which is admitted into the drum is the coldest air in the room, as will be understood, so that the apparatus serves also to automatically utilize the coldest air in the room when acting upon the damper.

- From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inven- IIO intake, a pivoted vane in the drum between the attachments and connected to the damper, and a counterbalancing-Weight for said vane and damper.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CASP ER FAUST.

Witnesses:

JOHN KLOEGKNER, JOSEPH KLonoKNER.

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