Improvements in Incinerating Stoves for Photographers' Waste or Scrap Papers.
Year: 1896

page_text: being date of first Foreign Application
United States of America)
Mar., 1890
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 18th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 18th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Incinerating Stoves for Photographers' Waste or
Scrap Papers.
I, DANIEL ROMAINE VAN RIPER, of 128, Hamilton Avenue, Paterson, in the
County of Passaic and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Artist,
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:-
Most photographers preserve their waste paper used in printing photographs
and express it in bundles or boxes to refiners for the purpose of having the gold or
silver or other metals extracted therefrom. This waste paper accumulates rapidly,
is very cumbrous, taking up a great deal of room, and is expensive to express or
send by messenger to the refiners.
The object of my invention is to provide a furnace or stove for photographers in
which they can burn their waste paper and reduce it to ashes. When reduced to
ashes, it takes up but little room, and a great quantity of paper can be burned
before the ash-pan of the stove is full. These ashes may be compressed into a
small box or package, and much of the trouble and expense of storing, packing,
and shipping the paper may thus be avoided. Some photographers, it is true,
have used an ordinary stove for this purpose; but the object of my invention is to
produce a stove or furnace that will be neat, compact, and especially adapted for
the purpose.
The invention consists in the peculiar construction and novel arrangement of
the various parts, which are shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a
part of this specification, and which will be hereinafter described and set forth in
the claim.
In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate
like parts,
Figure 1 is a view showing the stove complete.
Figure 2 is a view of the stove, part broken away, with a dotted line showing
the position inside of the cover of an inner pyramid-shaped portion which is
secured to the inside of the cover, leaving a space between it and the cover for the
purpose of draft and permitting the smoke to escape to the chimney portion.
Figure 3 represents said cover, the dotted lines on cover indicating the position
of the inner pyramid, the same as in Figure 2. A cap with a perforated top fits
inside of the pipe portion of the cover.
Figure 4 is a view of said cap with perforated top.

page_text: Figure 5 is a view of upper portion of pipe provided with a cone, same as shown
in Figure 1, which pipe is adapted to pass over and outside of the pipe portion of
cover shown in Figure 3.
Figure 6 is a view of the pyramid which is secured on the inside of covering
shown in Figure 3.
Figure 7 is an illustration of grate composed of semi-circular grate-bars; and
Figure 8 is a view, part sectional, of the lower part of the stove, showing the
inclined strip on the inside of the wall of the stove on which the grate rests.
In the drawings, A represents the body portion of the stove; B the cover;
C pyramid inside of cover; D the cap with perforated top, which fits inside of the
pipe on the cover; E the top pipe, which fits over the pipe on the cover; F cone
on top of pipe; H the grate-bars; K the inclined strips secured around the inside
of the body of the stove, upon which the grate-bars. rest; P, the ash-box, and
S the casters under the stove.
The photographic paper is placed in the stove upon the semi-circular grate-bars
and is ignited. The grato-bars are a slight distance apart and the ashes fall
through between said grate-bars into the ash-box P. As the strip around the
inner wall of the stove has a sloping face inclined toward the ash-box and the
grate rests upon the upper portion or portions of said strip, the ashes falling
between said grate-bars will slide down said strip into the ash-box P. No part of
the ashes can fall outside of the ash-box, as the inclined strips K project over the
edges of the ash-box. The smoke strikes the inner pyramid C, causing any
particle of the paper or ashes to be precipitated to the grate, and the smoke passes
between the inner pyramid and the cover and through the perforated cap to the
upper portion of the pipe and out between the top of said pipe, and cone which
surmounts it. The cap with a perforated top further prevents the escape of any
paper, ashes, or particles thereof as far as possible and ensures the saving of all
of the ashes. The ashes may be accumulated in the ash-box until a sufficient
amount has been obtained to send to the refiner. In this ash-box the ashes of
many barrels of paper may be accumulated, so that its convenience and economy
is obvious.
The casters S permit the stove to be moved from oue, place to another with
facility,
While any suitable material may be used in the construction of my refining-stove
I prefer to construct it of ordinary sheet-iron.
"I have not constructed any stoves with the gas-jets nor with other obvious
buruers or wicks which might be used for the purpose, as paper is readily ignited
by use of a match, and this method is more economical. Consequently none of
these methods of lighting have been shown in the drawings, and I do not now claim
them, but mention them for the purpose of preventing others from applying, and
obtaining a patent for such methods.
The use of an ordinary stove for burning this paper, is not advantageous or
economical, because the paper or ashes are apt to be carried away by the draught
(the ordinary stove not being constructed for the purpose) and for many other
obvious reasons.
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 :-
As a new article of manufacture, a photographer's stove consisting of the body
portion A, cover B, pyramid C adapted to be secured inside of the cover B leaving
a space between the two, the cap having a perforated top and adapted to fit
inside of the pipe or cover, the upper pipe portion E adapted to fit over and
around the cap, D and pipe or cover, and cone F secured to the upper pipe, the
grate H composed of semi-circular grate-bara a slight distance apart and secured
together in any appropriate manner, a shoulder or strip secured to the inner walls
of the Lody of the stove adapted to support the grate, said strips K having a

page_text: sloping face inclined toward and extending over the edges of the ash-box, the
ash-box P and the casters S, all constructed substantially as shown and described
and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 17th day of September 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.