Improvements in and relating to Magazine Stoves.
Year: 1894

page_text: te of Application, 20th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Magazine Stoves.
1, JOSEF STRECKER, Merchant, of 5 Schnorrstrasse, Munich, Bavaria, German
Empire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The present invention relates mainly to that class of stove known as magazine
stoves into which the fuel is charged at the top and settles down on to the grate
and burns gradually without further attention, and the improvement consists in
constructing the grate with a front series of vertical bars, a vertical grate-and
a series of vertical air passages in front of the horizontal grate.
And in order to make this Specification more easily intelligible reference is
had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters denote similar parts
throughout the several views :-
Fig. 1 being a vertical section through the stove,
Fig. 2 a horizontal section taken just above the grate,
Fig. 3 a sectional front elevation taken on a line just in front of the vertical
grate,
Fig. 4 a front elevation of a modified form of vertical grate,
Fig. 5 a vertical transverse section through the fire door showing the same as
adapted for the reception of the vertical grate shown in Fig. 4,
Fig. 6 shows front and side elevations of the fire door and door framing and
Fig. 7 a front elevation of the air chambers in front of the horizontal grate.
A is the stove, a a the grate supporting bars, and 6 the grate having at the front
a tapering ridge c extending upwards and provided with ribs or webs d in front,
said webs being arranged a short distance apart so as to leave a series of air
channels extending upwardly along the front of the tapering ridge c.
door frame, having fire door with peepholes n and a door to the ash pit having
h is the fire
damper B. The doors to the fire chamber and ash pit may be secured by means
of a catch o pivoted to an arm o of the door which grips under a bill shaped
hook o² of the door frame (Fig. 6). A bridge or horizontal cross piece f in the
frame h, divides the combustion chamber from the ash pit and on this cross piece
is arranged the vertical grate, or series of vertical bars g, said bars standing on and
fixed to a rail k advantageously provided with lugs or pins ii which take into
orifices of the bridge f (Figs. 1 and 3). These bars may be made to extend about
half way over the opening of the fire door (Fig. 3) or the same may extend
entirely over the said opening (Figs. 4 and 5) as at 91 and may be fixed in upper
and lower rails k k in which case the said upper rail k may be laterally extended
as at and take into slanted grooves m in the sides of the door frame n.. Or the
top rail may be omitted and the end bars provided with upper lateral lugs to
take into the said grooves or slots m. Or the lower rail k may be omitted and two
or more of the bars g¹ extended downwardly to act as substitutes for the lugs or
ins i i.
The device operates in the following manner :- -When the stove has been
harged and the damper B opened, part of the cold air entering at B will pass
pward through the grate b, and part in front of the support bar a', through the
ir channels formed by the ribs or webs on the front of the tapering ridge c,
hus cooling the grate band keeping fuel and cinders, which fall between the
wo grates b and g or g' at a bright red glow and burning the same simultaneously
eating the air on its way to the fire chamber, thus this front layer of cinders
ill show when the fuel in the stove has burnt down, as the same will be in
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page_text: proportion in height and mass to the fuel within the stove. The glowing layer
of fuel between the grates taken the place of the layer of black cinders and
half consumed fuel which is at present noticeable in this class of stoves, and
forms one of the disadvantages of the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a stove the combination of a horizontal grate having a front tapering
upwardly extending ridge c with webs or ribs d to form air channels having their
lower ends in communication with the ash pit and a vertical grate arranged in
front of said ridge in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
2. The combination of a horizontal grate ↳, an upwardly extending tapering
ridge c along the front of same, a series of vertical webs or ribs d along the front
of said ridge to form air channels having their lower ends opening into the ash
pit a bridge f to the fire door frame and vertical grate bars g to rest on and
supported on said bridge in front of the said ridge c in the manner and for the
purpose substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of August 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.