Improvements in Oil Stoves or Heaters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Stoves or Heaters.
I, EDWARD Griffith BreWER, of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of
London, and 30 East Parade, Leeds, in the County of York, Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (a communication to me from abroad by The Manhattan Brass
Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of New
York, United States of America, and doing business at No. 338 East 28th Street,
in the City of New York in said State of New York) to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to make use of a large lamp for heating purposes,
and the device is especially adapted to the heating of rooms or apartments, but
said device may be employed for cooking purposes or for heating water or other
liquids.
The lamp itself is composed of a reservoir to hold the petroleum or other oil,
and passing up through this reservoir is an air tube with a perforated deflector at
the upper end. The cylindrical wick surrounds this air tube and a wick raising
mechanism is provided for raising and lowering the wick, and surrounding the
wick and below the flame is a perforated air distributor.
The reservoir is preferably received into an ornamental base provided with legs
and having an ornamental railing or rod around and above the base, and
surrounding the air distributor and extending above the wick is an open-work
ornamental ring upon which is received the base of a sheet metal drum which is
preferably made of polished brass and having ornamental open-work, and designs
embossed upon the same, and the top of this drum is perforated for the free
escape of the products of combustion, and a removable cap is usually provided at
the upper end of the drum.
Behind the range of perforations in the lower part of the drum, sheets of mica
are introduced and held in position by bands within the drum, so that these form
ornamental windows to the drum; and a deflector is employed within the orna-
mental ring and around the flame for the purpose of cutting off the air that might
otherwise reach the flame and causing the air that passes through the air
distributor to be directed upon the base of the flame for producing a perfect
combustion.
By this means the ornamental drum becomes substantially a chimney to the
lamp and the heat which is given out from the flame, both by radiation and
conduction, passes to the ornamental drum for heating the air, and the entire
apparatus is highly ornamental and well adapted to domestic purposes for heating
apartments, but the upper part of such heater may be used for heating water or
for cooking if desired.
This heater is made and sold under the name of the "Star Heater."

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Oil Stoves or Heaters.
A communication to me from THE MANHATTAN BRASS COMPANY, a corporation
duly incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, United States of
America, and doing business at No. 338, East 28th Street, in the City of New
York, in said State of New York.
I, EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London and 30 East Parade, Leeds in the County of York, Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents 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 and accompanying
drawings, that is to say :-
The object of this invention is to make use of a large lamp for heating
purposes, and the device is especially adapted to the heating of rooms or apart-
ments, but said device may be employed for cooking purposes or for heating water
or other liquids.
The lamp itself is composed of a reservoir to hold the petroleum or other oil,
and passing up through this reservoir is an air tube with a perforated deflector at
the upper end. The cylindrical wick surrounds this air tube and a wick raising
mechanism is provided for raising and lowering the wick, and surrounding the
wick and below the flame is a perforated air distributor.
The reservoir is preferably received into an ornamental base provided with legs
and having an ornamental railing or rod around and above the base, and
surrounding the air distributor and extending above the wick is an open-work
ornamental ring upon which is received the base of a sheet metal drum which is
preferably made of polished brass and having ornamental open-work and designs
embossed upon the same, and the top of this drum is perforated for the free
escape of the products of combustion, and a removable cap is usually provided at
the upper end of the drum.
Behind the range of perforations in the lower part of the drum, sheets of mica
are introduced and held in position by bands within the drum so that these form
ornamental windows to the drum, and a deflector is employed within the ornamental
ring and around the flame for the purpose of cutting off the air that might other-
wise reach the flame and causing the air that passes through the air distributor to
be directed upon the base of the flame for producing a perfect combustion.
By this means the ornamental drum becomes substantially a chimney to the lamp
and the heat which is given out from the flame, both by radiation and conduction,
passes to the ornamental drum for heating the air, and the entire apparatus is
highly ornamental and well adapted to domestic purposes for heating apartments,
but the upper part of such heater may be used for heating water or for cooking if
desired.
This heater is made and sold under the name of the "Star Heater."
In the drawing,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the improved lamp partially in section, and
Fig. 2 is a detached plan view of the deflector.
The lamp reservoir A is of suitable size and is provided with a proper supporting
base B and this lamp is provided with a central air tube and a perforated
deflector 3 at the upper end thereof, and around the wick tube 4 is an air
distributor 5 with numerous fine holes for the passage of the atmosphere to the base
of the flame, and rising from this air distributor 5 is the ornamental ring C for the
drum D, and this ring C is made with openwork between the outer rim portion 6
and the air distributor 5, and such ring may be made in one with the air distributor
or be removably connected thereto.
The ornamental drum D is preferably of sheet brass and made with numerous
openings at 7 and 8 in the upper and lower portions of such drum, and these

page_text: openings are properly curved to form artistic figures that add very materially to
the ornamental appearance of the drum as the light shines through these openings,
and this drum D is received within the ornamental ring C and secured therein by
the screws 10, and the upper end of the drum D may have an ornamental head 9
which is advantageously flat and adapted to receive the removable cap E which is
of ornamental metal and can be taken off when the lamp is burning or replaced
when the lamp is not in use, so as to cover up the head 9 which usually becomes
discolored to a greater or less extent in consequence of being exposed to the heat of
the flame.
Around within the drum D there are interrupted bands 12 and 13 which are
secured at their upper and lower edges respectively to the interior of said drum in
order that strips or sheets of mica 14 may be slipped in between these bands, the
same being entered where the bands are interrupted and slid along until the whole
interior surface of the drum between such bands 12 and 13 is lined with the mica,
and these bands 12 and 13 are above and below the lower set of openings 8 in
the ornamental drum, the object being to prevent the passage of air into the
lower part of the drum, thereby confining the heat that is radiated from the flame
and causing such heat to be given off by the mica and by the sheet metal of
the drum.
To prevent smoke and permit a perfect combustion of the oil, the deflector F is
made in the form of a disk setting within the ring C and having a central opening
and a downwardly projecting rim 15 which surrounds the base of the flame and
rests at its lower edge upon the sheet metal of the ornamental ring C at the central
opening therein, so as to prevent atmospheric air from passing into the flame except
through the perforations of the air distributor 5. This prevents the flame
flickering and at the same time concentrates the action of the atmosphere upon the
base of the flame so that the combustion of the oil is perfect and smoke and smell
are avoided and a glass chimney is dispensed with, and the heat which would
ordinarily be sufficient to melt or soften a glass chimney, were one made use of, is
radiated and distributed to the ornamental drum D and thence to the surrounding
atmosphere, and this ornamental drum D does not become sufficiently heated for
igniting any garment that may come in contact with the same, and the openings in
the ornamental drum allow the passage of light through such openings and through
the mica, thereby furnishing sufficient illumination for an ordinary apartment by
modifying the light that would otherwise be too intense, and the heater is efficient
in warming such apartment by the heat radiated to the drum and passing into the
atmosphere by radiation and convection.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
First: The combination with an Argand lamp having a central air tube and
perforated deflector, of an air distributor surrounding the wick tube, an ornamental
ring extending out from the air distributor, an ornamental drum of perforated sheet
metal resting upon the ornamental ring and having openings at the upper and lower
portions of such drum, transparent material within the ornamental drum and closing
the lower openings therein, and a sheet metal deflector formed as a disk at the base
of the drum with a central opening and rim surrounding the flame and directing the
draft to the base, substantially as set forth.
Second-The combination with the ornamental drum of sheet metal with
openings therein, of the interrupted bands within the ornamental drum and con-
nected near their upper and lower edges respectively, and mica in sheets introduced
between the interrupted bands at the openings between the ends and slipped around
between such bands to close the openings in the lower part of the ornamental drum,
an Argand lamp, an air distributor around the wick tube, and an ornamental rim
extending out from such air distributor and supporting the drum, substantially as
set forth.

page_text: Third:-The combination with the Argand lamp having a central air tube and
perforated deflector, of an air distributor surrounding the wick tube, an ornamental
ring extending out from the air distributor, a deflector in the form of a disk
having a central opening and internal rim surrounding the base of the flame and
resting upon the ornamental ring, and a sheet metal drum supported by the a
ornamental ring and adapted to receive and radiate the heat from the flame,
substantially as set forth.
DL 1
2000
BREWER & SON,
Agents.