An Improved Smoking Apparatus for Use in connection with Smoke Houses.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Smoking Apparatus for Use in connection with
Smoke Houses.
I, BRUNO MELZER, of 253, Bruckenstrasse, Witzenhausen, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a smoking apparatus in
which the admission of smoke to the smoke house may be accurately regulated.
In the accompanying drawings;
Figure 1 is a section on the line A-B of Figure 2 and
Figure 2 is a side view.
Beneath the iron cylinder a and to the bottom f thereof is attached the fire
box which consists as usual of the grate c and the ash pan d and is placed
between the three supporting feet e of the cylinder a. In the bottom f of the
cylinder a is a large opening and a ring of smaller openings through which
the flames can pass into the cylinder a. Above the ring of holes is a perforated
plate provided with a handle i which projects out of the cylinder and provides a
means whereby the plate k can be rotated. Fixed to the perforated plate k
is a conical hood having perforations or openings, through which the flames can
pass. In the chamber a exterior to the conical hood is an inverted cone-
shaped cylinder m contracted at bottom and closed at top by a perforated lid n.
This cone is furnished with ribs bearing on the cylinder a to prevent the
cylinder jacket a from becoming heated. Attached to the cylinder a by a hinge s
is a cover rising out of which are two lateral arranged tubes o-furnished with
Attached to
dampers pleading to the outlet pipe q provided with outlets r.
the cover is a bracket piece t adapted to engage the cylinder a when the cover
is opened and so prevent the said cover coming in contact with the wall of the
cylinder. Two handles we serve for the convenient handling of the apparatus.
The method of using and the operation of the apparatus are as follows:-
The cover is lifted up the lid n taken out and the space between the cones m
and filled with wood shavings, plat or other material to be used for smoking:
the lid is then replaced and the cover shut down. The fire is then lighted in
the firebox which passes through the holes h and k and through the holes in
the hood and brings the mass between the cones and m to a smouldering
state and so causes a copious evolution of smoke. The smoke first rises through
the holes in the lid n, becoming thereby cooled, it then passes by the pipes o
into the pipe 9 whence it passes through the holes r into the smoke house.
:-
By means of the damper p the outlet of smoke from the apparatus can be
readily controlled and simultaneously by means of the handle i, the cone 7 and
the perforated plate may be agitated so that the holes therein may always he
readily freed from ashes and the draught consequently increases.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) A smoking apparatus, in which the smoke generated in a movable chamber

page_text: above the firebox may be so regulated as to enter the smoke house in a cool state
and in determined quantities in the manner hereinbefore specified.
(2) In a smoking apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, movable cones and annular
grates situate within the closed smoke chamber and above the opening in the
base thereof through which the heat from the fire passes, the said movable cones
and grates being operated externally of the chamber for the purpose of freeing
the holes therein from ashes by a shaking motion and so increasing the
draught.
(3) In a smoking apparatus as claimed in Claim 1 a metallic cone such as m
constructed, arranged and operating to prevent the overheating of the walls of
the cylinder of the apparatus, as set forth.
(4) In a smoking apparatus as claimed in Claim 1 a perforated lid such as n
placed above the smoke generator for the purpose of cooling the smoke as set
forth.
(5) In a smoking apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, a movable cover such as
in connection with an outlet pipe such as q by lateral pipes controlled by dampers
for the purpose of admitting the smoke to the smoke house in determined
quantities, as set forth.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E., .
Chartered Patent Agent, 70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Associate Agent.