US978793A - Orchard-heater. - Google Patents

Description

P. H. TROUTMAN.

ORGHARD HEATER. APPLICA'IION PILED JANJO, 1910.

Patnted Dec. 13,1910

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P. H. TROUTMAN.

ORCHARD HEATER. I APPLICATION FILED JAN.10, 1910. 7 978,793. Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

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PERGIVAL HAMMEBTRO'UTMAN, or canon CITY, coLonADo.

ORCHARD-HEATER..

Specification of Letters Patent,

Application filed January 10, 1910, Serial No. 537,278.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERCIVAL HAMMER TROUTMAN, a oltizen of the United-States,

- residing at Canon City, county of Fremont,

and State of Colorado, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Orchard- Heaters; and Ido 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, reference being had to the ac-- companying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in orchard heaters, my object .being to providea construction of this class which shall be adapted to properly perform the function indicated by its title. These heaterswhen in use are distributed through-the area covered'by, the orchard or where the vegetation to be protected is located, the number being sufficient to properly raise the temperature of the atmosphere over the entire area to be protected, to the degree necessary to prevent injury to vegetation due to frost or the loweringof the temperature to a point which will injure the same.

In my improved construction the fuel'receptacle hasa chimney located in its central portion and registering with an opening in the bottom thereof. This chimney is surrounded by a depending member adapted to limit the volume of the combustion chamber or the portion of the receptacle in which combustion actually takes place. This depending member is connected with a hood which itself either rests upon supports with which the upper portionof the receptacle is provided, whereby the hood is raised above the receptacle to permit the entrance of air; or the hood is corrugated, whereby it is adapted to rest directly upon the upper edge of the receptacle, the corrugations forming openings for the admission of the necessary air for purposes of combustion.- The por-' tion of the dependingmember, extending 1 above the level of the fuel, is perforated, which is also true of the upper portion of the centrally located chimney. Having briefly outlined my improved construction, I will proceed to describe the same in detail, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In this drawing: Figure 1 is a central'verbustion purposes.

tic'al section of my improved orchard heater; Fig.2 1s a fragmentary View of the upper portion of the same. Fig.3is a detail view partly broken away, showing the hood and the depending member. Fig. 4: is a similar Patented-Dec.13, 1910,

viewshowing a slightly modified form of construction The same reference,- characters indicate the same=parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate the fuel receptaclewhich is adapted to hold'oil 6 or other liquid fuel. This receptacle is supported upon a cylindrical base 7 having a draft .openingf8 communicating with the chnnney 9 which is centrally located within" the receptacle. The-, upper part' of this chimney is perforated 'as' shown at 10.

'As shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the upper portion of the receptacle is rovided with members 11 which project a ove the upper edge of the rece tacle and form a support for a frusto-con1cal'hood 12 whose upperedge is interlocked as shown at 13 with the upper extremit of the depending member 1a which exten s downwardly into the fuel of the receptacle the desired or necessary distance. As shown in the drawing, this depending member extends nearlyto the bottom of the receptacle while its upper project above the upper edge of the receptacle and form a support for the hood but when thrown to its other extreme position it will not protrude above the edge of the receptacle but will allow the hood to completely close the same. This form of conportion is perforated as shown at 15. The support 11 may consist of a member eccen-- trically pivoted to the upper portion of the. fuel receptacle so that when desired it may;

struction is illustrated in Fig.2 in which the support consists of a disk 16 eccentrically pivoted as shown at 17 the said disk being provided with a lug or projection 18 to reinforce the portion of its edge which engages the hood when the disk is adjusted to support the hood above the top of the receptacle.

In the form of construction shown in Fig. 4, thehood is corrugated as shown at 19, whereby it may.rest directly upon the upper edge of the receptacle, since by virtue of the corrugations ample provision is made for the entrance of the necessary air for-com- Vhen the device is in use the receptacle is provided with the necessary quantity of 011 which is lighted within the space or area between the chimney 9 and the depending member 14. This space forms the combustion chamber of the heater, the oil being of course at the same level within the said fuel receptacle having a draft opening 1n the bottom thereof, a centrallylocat ed chimney communicating with the said draft opening, a hood supported a suitable distance above the upper edge of the receptacle to form an air opening bet-ween the hood and the receptacle, the said hood having an open ing therein, :1 depending member supported by the hood and communicating with the said opening the upper portion of the de pending member below the hood being perforated, the said member surrounding the chimney and suitably spaced therefrom to form a combustion chamber between the chimney and the receptacle, substantially as described.

2. An orchardll'lieater comprising- ,a fuel receptacle having a draft opening in the bottom thereof, an open ended chimney com'- municating with the said opening and extending upwardly through the receptacle, a

hood su ported over the upper edge of the receptac e, and having a space between the hood and the edge of the receptacle to permit the-entrance of air for combustion, the

hood having an opening therein, a depending' member supported by the'hood and in communication with the said opening the upper portion of the depending member below the 'hood being perforated, the said member surrounding the chimney and suitably spaced therefrom to form a combustion chamber, substantially as described.

3. An-orchard heater comprising a liquid fuel receptacle having a draft opening in the bottom thereof, a centrally located open ended chimney in communication with said draft opening, the upper portion of the said chimney being perforated, a hood supported a suitable distance above the upper edge of the receptacle; to form an airspace between the-hood and the receptacle-, the said hood having an opening therein, a depending member supported by the hood and in communication with theopening therein the upper portion of the depen din member below the hood being perforated, the said member extending downwardly around the chimney into theliquid fuel, andsuitably spaced from the chimney to form-a combustion chamber, substantially as described. p

4:..An'orcha'1d heater comprising a liquid fuel receptacle having a draft opening in the bottom thereof, an. ope ended chimney in communication with the said draftopening, and extending upwardly through the receptacle, the upper portion of the said chimney being perforatedforfeeding air to the'inner surface of the fuel, a hood supportedasuit-., able distance above theupper edge of the receptacle to form an air space between the hood and the receptacle, the said hood havmg an openln ber' supported the hood and in communication with theopening therein the upper portion of the depending member below the hood being perforated, the said member ex-' tending downwardly into the fuel of thereceptacle and terminating a suitable distance above the bottom of the receptacle to permit of the entrance of the fuel into the. sai member, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PERCIVAL. HAMMER TROUTMAN.

. Witnesses:

'JEssIE F. HOBART,

VIRGINIA I. DAVIS.

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