US92781A - Bentley c - Google Patents

Description

academia.

gaat can To all whom 'it may concern:

BENTLEY C. BIBB, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Laim Patent No. 92,781, ma Juzg 2o, 1869.

FIRE-PLACE HEATER.

bw-f- Be it known that I, BENTLEY 0. BIBB, of the city and county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful'Improvement on Fire- Place Heaters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a lire-place heater, having my improvement applied to it.

Figure 2 is a diametrical section through the upper portion of the heater, showing thewater-evaporating pan, applied to the screen at the top of the heater.

Figure 3 is a top viewof the top of the heater, indicating the `screen moved to one side, and exposing the feed-opening.

Figure 4 is a view of the screen and tached nom its heater.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral iigures.

This invention consists in attaching to the inner, or bottom lside of a perforated movable screen for the top cfa fire-place heater, an evaporating-pan, sc that this pan and screen can be moved together when access is its pan, de-

ldesired to the top plate of the heater, and so that the pan will not be exposed to view when the screen is adjusted on the top of the heater, as will be 4hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and opd 'e1-ation.

"Ihe fire-place heater, which I have represented in accompanying drawings, has afeed-passage, a, leading through -the top plate C into the upper end of the magazine B, through which passage fuel can be conveniently supplied to the magazine.

It will be seen, by reference to iig. 2, that the passage a. is made through the front or exposed part of the top plate C, outside of the front'plate D, and that this passage is closed by a tightly-fitting cover b,

which will prevent the escape of smoke and gases into the room.

Over that portion of the top plate C which is exposed in front of the front plate D, a perforated screen,

E, is arranged, for the purpose of hiding from view the platefO and cover b, and also for ornamenting the top of the heater.

This screen E is preferably made of the form of the segment of a sphere, and hinged or pivoted to the upper portion of the heater, so that it can be swung off and on the'top C without detaching it therefrom.y

In iigs. l and 2, the screen E is represented as covering the top C of the heater, and hiding from view the cover to the feed-passage, and in fig. 3 the screen is represented in a position for exposing the top10 and feed-passage cover.

A 'single screen is represented in the drawings for covering the top of the heater, but, if desired, two sections may be adopted, and hinged so as to swing either horizontally or vertically.

To the inner or concave side of the perforated screen E,'a pan, F, is suitably secured in a horizontal posi-- tion for containing water for evaporation;

This pan can be conveniently supplied with water when thc screen E is swung off the top ofthe heater,

.as shown in iig. 3, and,` when the screen is adjusted over the top ofthe heater, the pan is not exposed to view.

' -Thus arranged, the pan F will be out of sight and out of the way, and the vapor rising from it during the operation of the heater will escape through the perforated screen into the room, or, when the hot-air tine leading to an upper apartment is open, the vapor will ascend through said flue.

I do not claim, under these Letters Patent, a perforated screen applied to the top of a heater, nor dov I claim a fuel-feed passage leading through the top of a fire-.place heat-er.

What I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A movable evaporating-vessel and a movable screen, combined and applied to the top of a heater, substantially as described.

' BENTLEY C. BIBB.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. COOKE, WM. H. BAYZAND.

Images