US693281A - Cinder or spark arrester. - Google Patents

Description

.No. 693,281. 7 Patented Feb :1, i902.-

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(Application filed Dac.'5, 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFicE.

SYLVESTERL. LANGDON, OF MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI.

CINDER OR SPARK ARRESTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 693,281, dated February 11, 1902. Application filed December 5,1901. Serial No. 84,815. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLvEsTER L. LANG- DON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Magnolia, in the countyof Pike and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cinder or Spark Arresters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cinder and spark arresters or catcherst. 6., devices adapted to be arranged on locomotive smoke-stacks for the purpose of arresting cinders and sparks and preventing the former from annoying the passengers on a train and the latter from causing fires; and it consists in a certain peculiar construction, the novelty, utility, and advantages of which will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portionof a locomotive equipped with my improved do are the body and the cinder and spark re ceiver, respectively, of myimproved arrester or catcher. The body B, which is preferably of circular form in horizontal section and open at its lower and upper ends, is disposed vertically upon and riveted or otherwise rigidly connected to the upper end of the stack a, as best shown in Fig. 3, and is provided in its forward side with an opening 19 of about the proportional sizeillustrated. Thecinderand spark receiver 0 is disposed vertically at the 1 back of and fixedly connected to the body A, and the interiors of the two are connected by a port or passage 0, formed in the present embodiment of the invention by coincident open ings d in their adjacent walls and strips e, interposed between said walls. The top of the receiver 0 is preferably closed, as indicated by f, and'its bottom 9 by preference is dished and connected to a depending pipe D.

This pipe'D may be arranged to extend down at the side of the locomotive to a'point adjacent to the road-bed or may be carried to the ash-pan of the locomotive, as desired, for a purpose presently described.

E is a cap which extends forwardly and upwardly from the upper edge of the body A, so as to rest over the upper end of the same, and terminates at its forward edge in a depending flange h. Said cap is shown as forming a continuation of the top f of the receiver 0, but may obviously be formed separately from .said' top without departing from the scope of my invention.

In the practical operation of my improvements it will be observedthat withoutinterfer-. ing with the draft in the stack a or the escape of smoke therefrom the cap E is calculated to stop the cinders and sparks blown upwardly in the stack by the steam-exhaust and deflect the same back into the body B 5 also, that the opening I) in the front side of said bodyB enables the strong current of air, due to the motion of the locomotive, to force such cinders and sparks through theport or passage ointo the receiver 0 and from thence through the pipe D to the road-bed below the locomotive or into the ash-pan of the locomotive.

v In follows from the foregoing that when the locomotive of a train is equipped with my improvements the windows of the cars may be left open with little or no liability of the passengers getting cinders in their eyes or having their persons and clothes begrimed with cinders and soot; also, that the liability of sparks escaping from the locomotive and causing fires is reduced to a minimum.

I have entered into a detailed description I of the construction and relative arrangement of parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding of the same. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to such specific construction and arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my claims. I

Having described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In acinder or spark arrestinglocomotive uptake, the combination of a hollow, upright body or uptake proper open at its upper end, and having closed sides, and also having an opening in its front, a receiver disposed in rear of and communicating with the hollow body or uptake proper, and a cap disposed over the upper end of the hollow body or uptake proper and resting in a plane above the sides and front of said body or uptake proper.

2. A cinder and spark arrester for locomotives comprising an upright hollow body open at its lower and upper ends and having an opening in its forward side, an upright receiver disposed in rear of and connected to and communicating with the hollow body, and having a dished bottom, a pipe com municating with the receiver and depending from the dished bottom, a wall forming the top of the receiver, and a cap forming a continuation of said wall said cap extending forwardly and upwardly from the rear portion of the upper end of the body so as to rest over and above the same, and terminating at its forward edge in a depending flange.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SYLVESTER L. LANGDON.

Witnesses:

SAM WOLFE, J. II. PRICE.

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