US1530423A - Radiator or drum - Google Patents

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H. M. SHEER RADIATOR 0R DRUM March 17, 1925.

Filed Jan. 19, 1924 gwuemfom 10 This device is intended for use withhovers 9 crimped downwardly. The spreader is a Patented Mar. 17,1925. v I Y J 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I HENRY M. srmnn, or bi ie ILLINYOIYS. I

p v RADIATOR mm. I I 7 Application filed January 19, 1924. Serial Ito. 687,356;

To all whom z'fmay concern: I supported and a burnero is secured to the 45.

Be it known that I, HENRY M. SHEER, extreme upper end of and is supplied by a citizen of the United States, residing .at this pipe 5. V I Quincy, in the county of Adams andState A disk or wire gauze 7 covers the entire 5 of Illinois, have invented certain new and bottom of the air chamber 1 to keep out useful Improvements in Radiators or Drums, dust and inflammable and explosive matter of which the following is a specification. which might otherwise .be sucked in by the My invention relates to an improved radiflame. I ator or drum. A spreader 8 at the top has its outer edge r and brooders, although it might be applied secured to, the flange 10 at the top of the to other purposes where heat radiation is drum or radiator 11; by bolts 12 and spacers required. 13, thus providing a space 14 all around The object is to exclude fine dust and exthe top of the drum or radiator for the easy 15 plosive material from the flame or spark. escape of-the products'of combustion. In

Dust or gas drawn to the burner flame this-way, there is 110 back pressure upon60 in sufficient volume'will necessarily become. the flame, but as it rises and expands it ignited, but it is impossible for the products has free issue all around the edge of the v of combustion to ignite gas or dust-unless top so that there is little or no danger of the flame from the burner extends beyond ignition or explosion taking place due to the outer edge of the confines of the drum sucking in inflammable or explosive matter '06 or radiator within which the burner is 10- at'the bottom, but as a precautionary meascated. v ure against anything of the sort, the wire It is the purpose ofmy invention to prodisk 7 may be employed at this point. 25 .vide against any such possibility, and to this 7 Thisis easily removable by lifting the end it consists in a spreader at the top for ring 15 which rests above its edge, when 0 the escape of the products of combustion the wire gauze disk becomes clogged for the and a gauze screen across the bottom of the purpose of cleaning the same. drum or radiator, and in this way provi- C is a diagrammatic representation of a sion is made for the unrestricted outlet for canopy. I the products of combustion, relieving the I claim: flame from any and all back pressure except The combination with a burner and an oil what is produced by the air being drawnflin supply pipetherefor. of a hollow body havthrough the line. screen at the bottom. ing an annular inturned ledgetherearound, 1 :5 In the accompanying drawings: a foraminated bottom integral with said F g- 1 is a c l Q ledge and hollow body, means secured to the so Fig. 2 is a: plan view looking'down into supply pipe and engaging the foraminated Y the air chamber. I bottom for supporting the hollow body, and

The numeral 1 represents the air chamber a wire gauze covering for the foraminated preferably made of cast metal withaskeletonv bottom and being at a point, below the bottom 2 providingairinlets 3. 1 Thelair burner.

chamber 1 is preferably provided with a In testimony whereof I affi x my signahole l in the bottom to receive the upper ture.

end of the oil inlet pipe 5 upon which it is HENRY M. SHEER.

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