US1392525A - Oil-heater - Google Patents

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G. F. REZNOR.

OIL HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18.1919.

Pat nted Oct. 4, 1921 GEORGE E. REZNOR, F

MERCER,- PENNSYLVANIA.

OIL-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

" Applicatlon filed July 18, 1919. Serial No. 311,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, GEORGE F Rnznon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meroer, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to oil heaters and the objects thereof are to provide an oil heater having means whereby the burners may be easily blown out without moving them from their normal positions; to provide an oil heater of the reflector type into which the oil receptacle with the burners thereon may be inserted and from which they may be removed partially or entirely, through an opening in the back of the casing, the burners without the chimneys passing through holes in the reflector; to provide safety means whereby the oil receptacle may be supplied with oil Without extinguishing the burners. Other objects ap pear hereinafter.

On the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a stove embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section on the line IL-II of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a side elevation with the oil-receptacle partially withdrawn.

On the drawing, 1 designates the sheetmetal casing supported by the legs 2. The casing has the front 3, the back 4, the ends 5 and 6, the top 7, and the bottom flanges 8.

The front 3 has the large rectangular opening 9, surrounded by the top strip 10, the bottom strip 11, and the lateral flanges 12. From the lower edge of the strip 10 there is a sheet-metal flame plate 13 extending nearly from side to side of the casing and toward the back. This plate is slightly inclined rearwardly and downwardly. From the top edge of the strip 11' is a bright horizontally-corrugated sheet-metal reflector 14-curving rearwardly and upwardly approximately to the rear edge of the flameplate. The lateral edges of the reflector have secured thereto the end reflector sheets 15, only one shown, which reach forwardly to the flanges 12 and upwardly near the plate 13.

Resting on the of horizontal strips of sheet-metal, is the rectangular oil receptacle 16. The oil-receptacle is slidableinto and out of the easing 1 between the guides comprising the said bottom flange 8 and the horizontal bottom flanges 8, composed 'is absent in order that strips 17 secured to the ends Of just above the said receptacle. "The back of the casing is provided with the door 18 lunged on the horizontal rod 19 just below the rear end of the receptacle and swingable upwardly to meet the lock on the upper fixed sectionof the back and covering an opening for the removal and insertion of the Oll receptacle. 20 is a removable cap on the top of the receptacle and near the rear side of the same for the purpose of permitting the filling of the receptacle with oil and of closing the same after the receptacle is so filled.

On the top of the oil-receptacle is a plurality of burners 21 extending through holes 22 in the reflector 14, the tops of the burners extending sufliciently forward to allow the glass chimneys 23 to stand in front of the reflector 14. The holes 22 are large enough to pass the burners with the chimneys on. They may be made so small that the chimney holders 24 as well as the chimneys must be removed before the oil-receptacle can be removed. The chimneys normally stand with their tops sufliciently below the flame plate 13 to permit them to be lifted above the tops of the chimney-holders 24, or to permit the latter with the chimneys thereon to be lifted above the tops of the wick-holders 25, whereupon the chimneys or the chimneys with their holders, may be removed from the heater, and the oil receptacle may then be moved wholly or partially through the back of the casing. The combined reflector and guard 26 is secured to the top of the oil receptacle. It is preferably composed of sheetmetal reflecting material like the reflector 14. It stands just back of the burners and parallel with thereflector 14, and permits the refilling of the receptacle with oil without danger of any inflammable gas reaching the burners. It also reflects to the front of the burners much of the heat and light that passes rearwardly through the holes.

. In order that the lamps may be blown out by driving air from chimneys, I provide a deflector 27 for each chimney. Each deflector is secured to the flame plate 13 and comprises a curved strip of sheet-metal suspended close to the chimney-tops and embracing more or less of the same except at the front, where the deflector air may be blown the chimneys and beneath over the tops of The deflectors 27 turn the the flame-plate.

Patented o t. 4, 1921.

the casing the mouth down the air down the chimneys and cause the lamps to be extinguished. I have shown thedefiectors to be semi-cylindrical but their shape may evidently be changed without changing 7 their principle of operation.

I claim: In an oil heater, a casing having an open front, a sheet-metal reflector extending upwardly and rearwardly opposite the opening in the front and having a hole therein,

'an oil-receptacle slidable into the casing from the back thereof and carrying a burner screen between the filler-cap and the open-v in t V %ignedat Mercer, Pa., this 7 day of July, 1919.

G. F. REZNOR.

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