Improvements in Heaters for Carriages and other Vehicles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left 5th May 1892-Accented 6th Aug. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heaters for Carriages and other Vehicles.
I, EMANUEL RICHARDS, of Wabaunsee, in the County of Wabaunsee and
State of Kansas, United States of America, Minister of the Gospel, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to foot-warmers, and aims to provide a device in which
the heat is supplied from an ordinary coal-oil lamp and is utilized to the best
possible advantage, being conducted over the top, down the sides, and up through a
perforated bottom into the foot-warming compartments, one being provided on each
side of the lamp.
In my invention I employ a base of hard wood.
An arched flue is formed to conduct the heat around the heater, which is of
sheet-iron. The back plate of the arched flue is closed, and with the sides is
secured to the base, while the front end is open so as to receive the feet inside.
The inclined floor-rests are perforated sheet-iron, resting upon perforated iron-
sleepers to form hot-air flues around and under the feet, then ascending through
the foot-rests.
There are two racks, one in each oven, upon which can be placed food or small
garments to be kept warm.
The lamp not only gives heat but also light to those riding.
The oil-vessel can be drawn out of the lamp-tube with the lamp for cleaning,
filling, &c. The lamp is placed in the centre each way of the heater and between
the lamp and the back plate.
An air-tube four inches high with perforated cap, is provided to admit air to the
oil-vessel and allow generated gas to escape. The top of the chimney extends
one-half inch into the air-flue. Fastened to the top plate of flue is a heat
distributer or deflector over the lamp to keep the top plate from getting too hot and
save the robe from being burned.
At the bottom of the back plate opposite the hot-air flue is a row of holes to
admit air if needed, which can be closed with slides at will and which can be moved
from each end by a handle. The arched flue extends from one side of the base to
the other and is composed of two parallel walls, between which the flue is formed.
The flues are formed between the base and the perforated foot-rests and com-
municate at their outer ends with the lower ends of the flue. The racks spring
across the angles between the sides of the tube and the crown of the arched flue
and form compartments for the purposes specified.
It will be observed that the lamp is of ordinary construction, receiving its draft
in the usual manner, and the front of the warmer being open, except the arched flue
and the base-flues; hence it is obvious that the lamp will be abundantly supplied
with air.
The racks in addition to forming warming-compartments, serve to brace the
structure.
Dated this 28th day of October 1891.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heaters for Carriages and other Vehicles.
I, EMANUEL RICHARDS, of Wabaunsee, in the County of Wabaunsee and
State of Kansas, United States of America, Minister of the Gospel, 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 relates to foot-warmers, and aims to provide a device in which the
heat is supplied from an ordinary coal-oil lamp and is utilized to the best possible
advantage, being conducted over the top, down the sides, and up through a
perforated bottom into the foot-warming compartments, one being provided on each
side of the lamp.
The improvement consists of the novel features, which will be hereinafter
more fully described and claimed, and which are shown in the annexed drawings,
in which-
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a foot-warmer embodying my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a rear view, parts being broken away, of the device.
Fig. 3 is a front view of the invention.
Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line X X of Fig. 3, looking to the left.
A represents the base, which is of hard wood.
B represents an arched flue to conduct the heat around the heater, which is of
sheet-iron. The back plate, marked C, of the arched flue is closed, and with the
sides are secured to the base, while the front end is open so as to receive the feet
inside. The inclined floor-rests (marked D) are perforated sheet-iron, resting upon
perforated iron sleepers to form hot-air flues around and under the feet, then
ascending through the foot-rests.
E represents two racks, one in each oven, upon which can be placed food or small
garments to be kept warm.
F represents the ovens for feet.
G represents the continued hot-air flue under the foot-rests.
H represents the lamp-tube to shelter it from the feet.
I represents the lamp which gives beat and also light to those riding.
J represents the oil-vessel, which can be drawn out of the lamp-tube with the
lamp for cleaning, filling, &c. The lamp is placed in the centre each way of the
heater and between the lamp I and the back plate.
C' is an air-tube four inches high with perforated cap, marked N, to admit air to
the oil-vessel and allow generated gas to escape. The top of the chimney extends
one-half inch into the air-flue. Fastened to the top plate of flue is a heat
distributer or deflector K over the lamp I to keep the top plate from getting too
hot and save the robe from being burned.
L represents the handle by which the heater can be easily carried, the entire
weight not exceeding twelve pounds. At the bottom of the back plate C, opposite
the hot-air flue G, is a row of holes to admit air if needed, which can be closed
with slides at will and which can be moved from each end by handle M. The
arched flue B extends from one side of the base A. to the other and is composed of
two parallel walls, between which the flue is formed. The flues G are formed
between the base A and the perforated foot-rests DD, and communicate at their
outer ends with the lower ends of the flue B. The racks E E spring across the
angles between the sides of the tube H and the crown of the arched flue B, and
form compartments for the purposes specified.
It will be observed that the lamp is of ordinary construction, receiving its draft
in the usual manner, and the front of the warmer being open, except the arched
flue B and the base-flues G G; hence it is obvious that the lamp will be abundantly
supplied with air.

page_text: The racks E E, in addition to forming warming-compartments, serve to brace
the structure.
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 :-
1. A foot-warmer comprising a base, an arched flue connected at its ends to the
base, a central lamp tube or chamber, perforated foot-rests on each side of the lamp-
tube forming flues between them and the base, which flues have communication at
their outer ends with the lower ends of the said arched flue, a lamp in the lamp-
chamber having communication with the arched flue, and a deflector at the crest of
the arched flue directly opposite the lamp, substantially as described, for the
purposes specified.
2. A foot-warmer composed of a base, an arched flue connected at its ends with
the base, a central lamp-tube, perforated foot-rests on each side of the lamp-tube
forming flues GG, which communicate at their ends with the ends of the arched
flue, the lamp in the lamp-tube, and racks sprung across the angles between the
sides of the lamp-tube and the arched flue to brace the structure and forming
warm-compartments, substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of May 1892
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.