Portable Enclosed Blast Rivet Heating Furnace Stove.
Year: 1885

page_text: Portable Enclosed Blast Rivet Heating Furnace Stove.
Sir WILLIAM WEDDERBURN ARBUTHNOT Bart & NICHOLAS ALGERNON MERCER
Esq carrying on business as Engineers and Contractors at 7 Westminster Chambers
Victoria Street London S.W. and JOHN BENNETT GUY in the employment of the
said Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot and Nicholas Algernon Mercer do hereby
declare the nature of the above invention for PORTABLE ENCLOSED BLAST RIVET
HEATING FURNACE STOVE to be as follows:-
Portable Enclosed Blast Rivet Heating Furnace Stove constructed of fire clay
or other slabs held together by readily adjusted iron bracings.
The middle and upper chambers are provided with an arrangement of bearers
and loose bars and which can be replaced in parts as they wear away.
The middle chamber receives the first direct action of the fire and in this
chamber the rivets are heated all over including heads in a very short time.
The heat passing through the body of rivets in this chamber is utilized in
preparing a further supply in the upper chamber.
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FRANCIS & JOHNSON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Portable Enclosed Blast Rivet Heating Furnace Stove.
Sir WILLIAM WEDDERBURN ARBUTHNOT Baronet and NICHOLAS ALGERNON'
MERCER Esquire carrying on business as Engineers and Contractors at N° 7 West-
minster Chambers Victoria Street London S. W. and JOHN BENNETT GUY in the
employment of the said Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot and Nicholas Algernon
Mercer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The portable enclosed blast rivet heating furnace stove is constructed of fire clay
or other slabs held together by readily adjusted iron bracings, the front and back

page_text: of the bracings also acting as or being used for bearers for the fire bars (and whic
may be indented for the purpose) and being outside the action of the fire are no
liable to injury-The fire bars of the stove merely consisting of flat pieces of iro
cut to lengths the odd ends of bars can be utilized for the purpose.
The first direct action of the fire is received in the middle chamber of the stov
where the rivets are thoroughly heated all over until ready for use the heat passe
through the body of the rivets in the middle chamber and is utilized in preparin
a fresh supply in the upper chamber-The slabs forming the sides of the stov
being so arranged that any one of them could be taken out and replaced in a fev
moments-Any or all of the fire bars can also be removed or renewed withou
stopping the work in the stove or in the least reducing the fire.
The said Invention will be more readily understood by reference to the annexe
drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
: Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus or stove shewing the arrangement o
slabs and fire bars in which a, a, a, a, are the fire clay or other slabs b, b, are iro
bracings c, c, the fire bars.
Figure 2 is a side view of the apparatus or stove a, a, a, a being the fire clay
or other slabs b, b the iron bracings c, c are holes or apertures for assisting the
combustion of the gases.
Figure 3 shews back view of stove.
Figure 4 sectional plan.
Figures 5 6 7 & 8 shew the adopting of the Invention to a double blast. hearth
and are respectively-side view, front view back view, and sectional plan.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is :-
The use of iron bracings with indentations for the insertion of loose bars for
heating the rivets as herein described and the construction of the slabs of fire
clay or other material in such a way as to be readily adjusted or removed or
replaced in parts or as a whole as set out.
FRANCra
JOHNSON
FRANCIS & JOHNSON,
Agents for the said Applicants.