IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL AND GAS BURNING STOVES
Year: 1885

page_text: I, CHARLES TOOPE of 1 Ben Jonsons Road Stepney in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OIL AND GAS BURNING STOVES" and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My Invention relates to improvements in oil or gas burning stoves for heating
conservatories and halls and other similar purposes and it has for its object to
utilize the heat as effectually as possible and prevent the emission of any odor.
The stove consists of a chamber traversed by tubes for the circulation of air and
the products of combustion and may be arranged in any of the ways hereafter
described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed and forming part of
this specification. Figure 1 is a front elevation of one arrangement of oil burning
stove partly in section. Figure 2 is a horizontal section of same on line x-x.
Figure 3 is a vertical section and Figure 4 a plan of the same stove, the lamp and
sliding lower part of the stove, being drawn out. Figure 5 shows a modified
arrangement of the heating tubes. Figure 6 is a horizontal section of the same on
line y, y, figure 5.
The stove is in all these arrangements constructed of a sheet metal cylindrical or
other shaped casing a closed at top and fixed water tight on a suitable base. At
the lower part of the casing is a lamp chamber separated from the upper part or
main body of the stove by a horizontal partition d provided with a central aperture
and a descending tube e of a size to closely enclose the lamp glass, and constructed
in halves, the back half being fixed to the horizontal partition and the front half e¹
being hinged thereto and forming a door for the admission of the lamp chimney
into the casing thus formed access being had to the lamp chamber by an opening
closed by the front f¹ of a sliding tray f. Apertures b are also formed in the
partition & at either side close to the casing a and from these apertures descend
legs b' formed of bent pieces of sheet metal fixed against the sides of the casing a
said legs terminating just above the base of the stove.
These legs descend into troughs formed by low walls 6' and the sides of the
casing a in which the water of condensation that escapes at the bottom of the legs
is received from which troughs it can be easily sponged out. The lamp c rests on
the tray and both are fitted to slide independently of each other between the

page_text: walls of the troughs so that (the lamp and tray being drawn out as shown in
figures 3 and 4) the lamp can first be pushed into position in the tube e, the door e¹
closed and the tray f can then be slid in until its front f¹ closes the entrance to the
lamp space, as shown in figures 1 and 2. Instead of using a sliding tray f, the
door may be hinged to one side of the aperture. Flues g dip into the legs b₁ (as
shown in dotted lines at g') and lead out at the upper part of the casing a into a
suitable chimney or outlet. h are air heating or circulation tubes in any suitable
number and of curved form so as to approach for a considerable portion of their
length the ascending hot current from the lamp flame, the inlet and outlet /² of
each tube being on the same side of the casing a.
By this arrangement of the flues dipping into the legs b a better utilization of
the heat which would otherwise escape direct to the chimney, is ensured, the
heated current ascending at the centre of the stove and after communicating a
portion of its heat to the air circulating tubes and then further parting with its
heat by contact with the casing a, descending into the legs whence it is drawn off
by the flues g, the greater part of its heat having thus been utilized.
In figures 5 and 6 the air circulating tubes are in the form of coils crossing each
other, whereby additional heating surface is obtained.
Instead of an oil lamp an Argand or other gas burner might be used the burner
and chimney occupying the same position as those of the oil lamp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I would observe that
I do not limit myself to the particular number and arrangements of the air
circulating tubes herein described and represented in the drawings as such may be
variously modified but what I claim is
The general arrangement and construction of the oil or gas stoves herein
described and represented in the respective figures of the drawings, such stoves
consisting essentially of a casing having a lamp chamber at bottom separated from
the main body by a partition furnished with an enclosure for the lamp chimney
and aperture to allow the ascent of the hot current and having flues dipping into
tubes or tubular legs, and having air circulation tubes traversing the stove, all
substantially as shown and described.