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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
ROB$lVT F. COLE, OF YSLETA, TEXAS.
otCaAnD-EEATtR.Specification of Letters latent. Patented Sept. 2, 1913,
Application fled October 19, 1911. Serial No. 655,582.To all whon it may concern:
Be it known that 1, RoBERT F. CoE, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Ysleta; in the county of El Paso, State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Iihproveiments in Orchard-Heaters; and I
do hereby declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in
10 the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same.
My invention relates to new and useful
improvements in orchard heaters and more
especially to that type of orchard heaters
15 known as center draft heaters and the object
of my invention is to improve the construc-
tion and increase the efficiency of orchard
heaters of the above described character.
A further object of my invention is the
20 provision of an orchard heater having a
draft flue in which provision is made for
the passage of air into the flue from the
side of the heater, thus doing away with
the necessity of false bottoms and the like
25 which have previously been employed, thus
decreasing the cost of manufacture while
at the same time increasing the efficiency,
this latter because of the fact that the draft
coming from the side rather than from the
30 bottom permits the heater to be employed
equally as well in shallow water, mud, or
sandy soil as upon firn ground.
With these and other objects in view, my
invention will be more fully described, illus-
35 trated in the accompanting drawings and
then specifically pointed out in the claims
which form a part of this.application.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front ele-
vation of my improved heater. Fig. 2 is a
40 section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3
is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig.
4 is a top plan view of the complete device.
Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a modi-
fied form of heater.
45 Referring more specifically to the draw-
ings, in which similar reference numerals
designate corresponding parts hereof, 10
designates in general the body of my im-
proved orchard heater which as shown, con-
50 sists of a substantially cylindrical shaped
receptacle or pail, preferably formed of
sheet metal and open at its upper end. The
bottom of this body member is cut away
radially as shown at 11 to form a U shaped
55 aperture, while the side is cut away as at
12 to form a V shaped aperture, the widerend of which forms a continuation of the
outer end of the aperture 11.
The chimney or flue of the heater which
as a whole, is designated by the numeral 13 60
is preferably formed from a single piece of
sheet metal substantially rectangulat in
shape and bent longitudinally in such a
manner that ohe end may be secured about
the cut away portion 11 of the bottom while 65
its side edges are secured to the free edges
of the side of the body member 10 as shown,
said parts being secured together in any
preferred manner as b soldering to form oil-
tight joints. The edge portions of the sides 70
of this member 13 at the upper end there-
of, are drawn together throughout a portion
of their length as shown at 14 leaving a
circular opening 15 at the top. As Will be
readily seen the draft flue thus formed ex- 75
tends throughout the height of the heater
and is open at its side throughout the
greater part of its length, being closed only
at a point adjacent its upper end. The flue
is provided with a plurality of apertures 16 80
at its upper end as shown to permit the air
to pass more freely to the flames.
In operation it will be readily seen that
air enters the flue through the side and be-
cause of the converging sides of the flue the 85
air is forced upwardly and inwardly and
passed out through the openings 16 and the
open end 15 of the flue.
The heater 10 is provided with a cover
17 having a circular opening 18 formed ad- 90
jacent one edge and a cylindrical casing 19,
also formed of sheet metal, has its upper
end passed outwardly through this opening.
This casing 19 is cut away at its side to form
a V-shaped opening 20 corresponding in 95
shape and size to the V-shaped opening
formed in the side of the heater, this open-
ing permitting the positioning of the casing
19 about the flue as best shown in Fig. 3 of
the drawings, with its lower end resting 100
upon the bottom of the heater, said lower
end being notched as at 21 to permit the oil
to pass from the main body of the heater
into the casing and about the flue. For the
sake of convenience, the cover is preferably 105
secured to the casing by soldering or other
preferred means. As will be seen, the body
10 forms, as a matter of fact, a fuel reser-
voir for supplying fuel to the burner formed
by the casing 19 and the flue, the oil burn- no
ing only within the casing.
In Fig. 5 of the drawings I have illus-1,071,704.
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Cole, Robert F. Orchard-Heater., patent, September 2, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth853990/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.