US893994A - Illuminated electric heater. - Google Patents

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No. 893,994 PATENTEI) JULY 21, 1908. E. C. GREEN'.

ILLUMINATED ELECTRIC HEATER. APPLICATION FILED Nov. so, 1907.

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@iiiiiiilc ERANCIS C. GREEN, 'OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CONSOLIDATED CAIR-HEATING OOM- PANY, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NVEBT VIRGINIA. i

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To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS C. GREEN, a citizen of the United States,'residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Electric Heaters, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to illuminated electric heaters and it has for its object to so construct such heaters as to combine with their heating function the ocular effect of a fuel fire. This l accomplish by providing a casing whose front is perforated to represent conventionallya iiaming bed of fuel and ar-y ranging one or more lamps and resistance elements behind said perforated front so th at the lamps will project their light through the perforations of the casing in a certain manner, while both the lamps and the resistance elements also project their radiant heat through such perforationsv and serve to heat the casing and the air currents which pass therethrough. y .l ,5,

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a iront elevation of an illuminated electric heater constructed according to my invention, with the front of the casing partly broken away. Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical section.

. 10 in a casing whoseback and top wall 11 is preferably made of heat and light-reflecting material. 'T he bottom wall is formed with perforations 12 to permit' the entrance of air and the front Wall 13, of which a portion only is shown in Fig. 1 isiormed with a lower set of perforations 14 and an upper set 15 together with a horizontal melder ine or bead l16 separating the two. The lower perforations 14 are regular and closely grouped so as to conventionally represent to the eye the appearance of a bed oi coals, whilcthe upper perforations are streaky and tongueh r e in a generai up-and-down direction so as The dividing head 16 is referably waved to appear like the top surace of a fuel-bed.`

Within the casing and supported on its bottom wall isla-bank of electric incandescent lamps 17, and above these is an electric heating device which may be of the kind ernployed hin electric street-car creating, emodying, as here shown, two horizontal pori celain cores 18, and heliealiy-composed barewire resistance-elements 19 helicaliy wound on said cores, .the whole being supported by end-frames or brackets 20 which-stand on the bottom of the casing. Suitable wirin conveys the electric current from anexterna source oi supply to these heating and illuminating devices. T he number and speciiic construction of such devices is immaterial to the present invention.

Ln operation, the lam s 17, whose globes may be appropriately co cred, illuminate the interior oi the casing and cast their 'light and radiant heat out through the periorations 14,'

15 of the irontcasing, so that the latter presente to the eye the appearance of a iiaming bed of coals. rihe lamps also project radiant heat and cause heated air-currents to rise' through the casing and pass out through the front periorations, and it will be noted that- 1 they could be used alone Without the -barewire heaters in cases-where a small degree of heat isconsidered sufhcient. i: prefer however, to use the wire resistance elements; 19,

or their equivalents, of any of the kinds regularly employed Aier electrically heating apartments and to locate one or more of these above the lamp or lamps in a'casing having the construction described. The

.wire-heating elements thus project their radiant heat through the upperperforations independently of the lamps 17 andthere is attained a certain desirable progressive heating of the upwardly and outwardly passing air-currents, first by the relatively-low temperature oi the 1lamp-globes -.and iinally by the higher temperature of the 'exposed wire heaters.

i claim:

1. Anilluminated electric heater compris-- ing a casing whoseiront is perforated to imitate a'iiaming fuel-bed and permit the passage of air-currents, and one or more elec', ric lamps located in said casing. v

2. An illuminated electric heater coinprising a casing whose iront is formed with a f lower set oi perorations imitating a fuel-bed and an upper set oi tongue-.hire periorations imitating iiames and one or more lamps so located in said casing as to projectheat and light'through both sets of perforations.

3. An illuminated electric heater comprising a casing whose iront is perforated in imitation of a flaming' fuel-bed, in combination with a set of electric lamps located inthe :oom-illuminating resistance heating element part thereof. located in the uppe m't thereof. In testimony' whereof .have hereunto Il. All illuminated. e ectre heater comprismy nhand in the presence of two subscribing 5 img a eesilllg vghose @ont is *formed wltl (al, Wthosses, the 22nd day of November 1907. 15

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