Certain Improvements in Oil Stoves used for Heating and Cooking, to Facilitate the Removal and Replacement of the Reservoirs and Burners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1895-4ccepted, 28th Sept., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Oil Stoves used for Heating and Cooking,
to Facilitate the Removal and Replacement of the Reservoirs
and Burners.
We, J. H. HOPKINS AND SONS, LIMITED, of Granville Works, in the City of
Birmingham, Iron and Tinplate Workers and Japanners, and ALFRED NIND
HOPKINS, Managing Director of the said Company 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 :-
Oil stoves used for heating and cooking are frequently constructed with a
chamber in the lower portion thereof into which the oil reservoir, with its burner
or burners, is slid or pushed to bring the burner or burners into proper position
below the chimney or chimneys or upward flue or flues, and is withdrawn or slid
out from such chamber for cleaning, or for refilling the reservoir, or for such like
purpose.
In such stoves, as usually constructed, the reservoir is pushed in and pulled
out along the bottom of the chamber within which it is placed, and owing to the
friction thus occasioned is liable to stick and to be moved with a jerk; and this
invention has for its object improvements whereby the friction frequently
experienced in pushing the reservoir into place within the chamber and withdrawing
it therefrom is so greatly reduced that these operations may be performed with the
utmost ease and convenience.
The above object is accomplished, according to this invention, by means of
rollers, mounted within suitable bearings, in the bottom of the chamber aforesaid.
It is preferred to make the rollers of considerable length, so that two rollers only
need be used, one in front of the other; and it is preferred, in order to avoid
raising the bottom of the reservoir unnecessarily above the bottom of the chamber,
to form openings in the bottom of the chamber which receive the lower portions of
the rollers.
This invention is illustrated by the drawings herewith, of which
Figure 1 is a vertical section, taken on line of Figure 2, of the lower portion
of an oil cooking stove, the reservoir and burners being shewn in elevation;
Figure 2 is an elevation, partly in section taken on line y y of Figure 1, the
reservoir and one of the burners being shewn in elevation; and
Figure 3 is a sectional plan taken at the level of the underside of the reservoir.
Two rollers a, preferably of considerable length as shewn, are carried in
bearings 6 fixed to the bottom A of the chamber B. These roilers may be formed
of metal or any suitable material. We find it convenient to make them of hard
wood, and to form their pivots c as screws which are screwed into the ends of the
rollers a.
The rollers a might, of course, he mounted so as to stand clear above
the bottom of the chamber B, but to avoid unnecessary height in the chamber it
is preferred to form openings d in the bottom thereof through or into which the
lower sides of the rollers may project; and in order to strengthen the metal around
such openings, and for the sake of neatness, the metal forming the edges of the
openings is bent or flanged down into an inclined or curved form in section, as
shewn in Figures 1 and 2. The reservoir C carrying the burners D is run in and
out upon the rollers a, whereby the friction incidental to pushing the reservoir and
burners into place, and withdrawing them from the chamber B is greatly reduced
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page_text: compared with such operations performed with the ordinary construction of stove.
The reservoir and burners are guided into place, in the case of the stove shewn
by the illustrations, in the manner common with stoves of this class, that is to say,
by the use of slides or guards e projecting upwards along each side edge of the
dome plates (carried by the reservoir) which are guided along the lower sides
of the flues g, as the reservoir C is pushed into and withdrawn from the
chamber B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim'is':.
In an oil stove, used for heating or cooking, of the kind in which the oil
reservoir with the burner or burners is pushed into a chamber to bring the burner
or burners into proper position below the chimney or chimneys or upward flue or
flues; and is pulled out from such chamber for cleaning, or for refilling the reservoir,
or for such like purpose, the employment of rollers such as a carried within suitable
bearings, fixed to the chamber, in such position that the reservoir bears upon such
rollers as it is pushed into the chamber and withdrawn therefrom, substantially as
described and shewn by the drawings herewith.
Dated this 21st day of August 1895.
STEPHEN WATKINS;
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants.