Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 26th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 17th Apr., 1888
I WILLIAM HENRY SWINGLER House Painter & Decorator 59 Dymoke Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
An improved apparatus, or stove, of sheet iron seamless body, wrought iron bars,
measuring 6 inches high by 4 inches wide by 24 inches from front to back and
graduating to 3 inches at back; fitted with socket for holding polished wood handle
through which passes copper tube terminating in a flattened aperture inside the back
of stove and 2 inches from bottom, and connected with flexible vulcanized-rubber tube
fitted with tinned metal mouth-piece, within which is fixed self-acting valve for
preventing ascent of noxious vapour into the mouth of operator. Attached to handle,
1 inches from back of body is a sheet iron heat-guard to protect the hand, the handle
being firmly kept in position by small screwed nut.
I claim for the X. L. All Painter's Charcoal Burning-off Stove the following special
advantages:
1st. Being made with fixed covered top and solid bottom it economises fuel.
2nd. The blow through tube contrating an intense moist heat (by a slight condensation
of breath) upon the surface, thus preventing any possibility of scorching the wood work
but instantaneously softening the thickest coatings of Paint, so that it can be readily
removed removed, the workman holding the stove in one hand and with the other using
an ordinary broad-blade painters' chisel knife.
3rd. Being charged with charcoal it is absolutely safe and not liable to explosions,
as is the case with oil or spirit, gas or vapour lamps, whilst performing equally as
much work.
Finally, being specially designed for Painters only and not a soldering-lamp, its
slight cost being from 10 to 150% cheaper than the above complicated combination
lamps combined with simplicity of construction and efficiency of action at once
confirming its superiority over the charcoal stoves at present in use, which are heavy,
cumbrous, inconvenient and awkward to manipulate, no special knives being required
with the X. L. All Painters improved Charcoal Burning-off Stove.
Dated this 15th day of March 1007
WM. HY. SWINGLER,
59, Dymoke Street, Birmingham..

page_text: WILLIAM HENRY SWINGLER Painter of 59 Dymoke Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick 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 :-
This invention consists of the following arrangement of parts, forming and constituting
a paint softening stove.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my improved stove is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents a front vertical elevation of my improved stove.
Figure 2 represents a side view of figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a section of figure 1 on the line A B.
Figure 4 is a plan and edge view of the sliding bottom.
Figure 5 represents the method of using the stove.
Figure 6 represents an enlarged section of the valve seat and valve.
In carrying out my invention I form my stove of the configuration represented at
figures 1 and 2, by preference out of sheet steel aliho it may be made out of sheet
iron or out of cast metal or out of any other suitable material. I provide the bars a
and perforate the bottom with holes I also provide an extra movable sliding bottom c
for the purpose of using to slide over the holes a to regulate the draft.
At the back of the stove 1 secure a branch d, at the end of the branch I secure a
hand guard e; the hand guard e may be made of metal or it may be made of any
other material suitable for shielding the hand from the heat of the stove; The branch e
forms a socket and receives the end of the handle g. I next provide a conduit
tube made of copper or other suitable material, the conduit tube is flattened at one
end and increased in transverse dimensions in the manner shewn at j, the other end of
the conduit tube is by preference formed with a screw-thread on its outer surface, this
screwed end is passed through the opening provided in the back of the stove until the
expanded part blocks the passage, leaving a short length of the expanded back end
projecting inside the stove as represented at figures 2 and 3.
A suitable handle g is next provided, the said handle being formed with a tubular
central hole extending from end to end; the screwed end of the conduit tube is next
passed through the handle as represented at figure 3; the vale case and its valve
are next provided, an enlarged section of which is shewn at figure 7, the socket
branch m of the valve-case is then screwed over the end of the conduit-pipe until the
stove, the handle and the valve-case are pressed tightly together, the flexible tube n
is passed over the nozel o completing the compact apparatus as illustrated at figure 2:
the apparatus can be quickly disconnected for convenience of packing.
In using the apparatus constructed in the manner herein set forth, charcoal, coke or
other suitable combustable is put inside the stove and ignited, the handle of the
apparatus is then held in one hand by the operator and the scraping knife in the other

page_text: hand, the mouth piece of the flexible tube n is put into the mouth of operator as
illustrated at figure 6; by blowing down the tube n the moist air so expelled from
the lungs of the operator would pass along the pipe n, through the nozel-branch 0, lift
the valve p, pass through the branch passage g along the conduit pipe and out at the
flattened end into the centre of the fire: the supply of moist air from the
lungs of the operator would increase the volume of heat obtained by the com-
bustion of the coke, charcoal or other substance contained in the stove: the
operator would approach the door or other painted surface and hold the stove near
the paint, the intense moist heat directed against the old paint would quickly melt
the paint and enable the operator to as quickly remove it by the use of any ordinary
painters-knife the moist heat obtained by the condensation of the breath of the operator
conveyed through the conduit-tube into the fire, would in some cases be blown through
the fire and reach the paint in the form of hot steam this hot steam in combination
with the flame impinging on the wood work would modify any tendency to scorching
or burning the wood surface during the process of melting the old paint.
The sliding-bottom could be used to cover the perforated bottom, or it could be
slidden over a portion of the perforations, or it could be entirely removed: The valve p
contained in the valve-box is for the purpose of preventing noxious gasses passing
out of the stove into the operators mouth, any accidental suction of the flexible tube n
would close the valve p and merely exhaust the air contained in the said flexible
tube n.
The regulating plug u screwed into the valve case is for the purpose of providing
for the rising of the valve p; the end of the regulating plug is placed at such a
distance from the top w of the valve p that the valve p can rise to allow the air to pass
into the conduit tube but cannot rise high enough to fall out of the valve seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The invention as illustrated and described for the purpose of melting and
removing old paint.
2nd. The combination of the flexible tube n, the valve (working as represented at
figure 6) with the conduit-tube h, the branch d and the stove, as illustrated and
described in reference to figure 3, for the purpose of melting off old paint.
Dated this 25th day of November 1887.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.