US1477505A - Gas stove - Google Patents

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1,477,505 .1. P. LANE GAS STOVE Dec. 11 1923.

Filed April 5 1925 ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. ll, 1923. I V g cairn earns ATENT oasis.

JOSEPH 1?. LANE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAS STOVE.

Application filed April 5, 1923. Serial No. 630,149.

To all whom it mag concern: having a plurality of openings therein which Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. LANE, a fit over the tubes 13 engaging the flanges citizen of Russia, and a resident of the 14, is provided. This plate seats on the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, manifold and is tightly attached thereto in the county and State of New York, have by rivets 16 retaining the tubes 13 in their invented new and useful Improvements in vertical positions. Each tube 13 has an Gas Stoves, of which the following is a full, opening 18 cut in its side at a predetermined clear, and exact description. distance from its base. In certain construc- This invention relates to gas stoves pritions each tube might be provided with a 10 marily designed for use as heaters. plurality of openings 18 and a sliding mem- The object of the invention is the proher for closing all the openings except the vision of a simply constructed gas stove one it is desired to use. The gas is supplied provided with means for giving complete to the stove through the pipe 19 provided combustion of the gases so as to obtain great with an opening 20 for permitting the in- 15 heating efficiency. take of air for mixing with the gases to be This object is accomplished by providing burned.

a gas distributing manifold having perfo- The openings cut in the tubes 18 control rated areas in its top wall, mounting on said the length of the flame. By increasing the manifold and in alinement with the perfodistance that the openings 18 are spaced 20 rated areas a plurality of tubes forming from the lower ends of the tubes 13 the combustion chambers, and forming in the length of the flame may be varied. Under walls of the tubes openings which control fixed conditions there is a maximum length the length of the flame. of flame for different gases, which gives the This and other objects of the invention greatest burning efficiency and consequently 25 will be more clearly understood from the the greatest heating efficiency. This has to following detailed description and accombe obtained by experiment and consequently panying drawings. the distance that the openings 18 would be Figure 1 is a front elevation of the gas spaced from the bottom of the tubes 13 stove with a portion of the manifold and would be decided upon after a generaliza- 30 a tube cut away to show the construction; tion of a large number of experiments with Figure 2 is a horizontal section along the different gases to arrive at the proper posiline 22, Figure 1; tioning of the openings in order to give the Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section maximum efliciency for the various gases on the line 33, Figure 2, showing the supplied by the different gas supply com- 35 construction of a tube and the manifold; panies.

Figure 1 is a top elevation showing a I would state in conclusion that while the perforated area provided in the top Wall illustrated example constitutes a practical of the manifold. embodiment of my invention I do not limit Referring to the above-mentioned drawmyself strictly to the exact details herein a0 ings, the invention includes a casing 10 in illustrated since manifestly the same can which a gas supply manifold 11 is mounted, be considerably varied without departing extending horizontally across the bottom of from the spirit of the invention as defined the casing. A plurality of perforated areas in the appended claims.

12 including perforations 17 are provided Claims:

4 in the top wall of the manifold. Mounted 1. A gas stove, comprising a casing, 21 on the manifold in alinement with the perfomanifold mounted in the casing, said manirated areas 12 are a plurality of tubes 13 fold having a plurality of perforated areas open at both ends. These tubes 13 are made in its top wall, a plurality of tubes open with flanges 14 in order to facilitate their at both ends mounted on said manifold in 50 mounting on the manifold. A plate 15, alinement with the perforated areas forming combustion chambers, said tubes being 'for forming combustion chambers mounted provided with means for limiting the height on the manifold in alinement With said of the flame When the stove is in operation. perforated areas, said tubes having openings 10 2. A gas stove, comprising a casing, a cut in their Walls for limiting the length of 5 manifold mounted in said casing, said manithe flame.

fold having a plurality of perforated areas 1 in its top Wall, and a plurality of tubes JOSEPH P. LANE.

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