US1205652A - Gas water-heater. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. MOORE.

GAS WATER HEATER.

APPLICATION rl uzp MAY 2. I915.

1 ,205,652. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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GAS WATER-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Application filed. May 3, 1915. Serial No. 25,426.

To all whom it may concern:

7 Be it known that I, GEORGE ALBER MOORE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas ater-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is intended as a device to be secured to an ordinary gas stove immediately adjacent to the burners thereof and preferably arranged between the burners and the grid usually supplied for supporting a vessel to be heated by the burner.

The invention has for its principal object the providing of a means whereby water may be heated at the time and simultaneously with the heating of a pan or pot placed upon the gas stove, and I have so constructed my device that it may be connected with a hot water tank or boiler of ordinary size and style and may operate satisfactorily therewith 'even though the boiler or tank may have connected with it other means for heating the water contained therein.

My device may be arranged to operate as a single unit or as a plurality of units though, if a plurality of units are used I prefer that they should be connected in multiple so as to reduce the radiating surface which might tend to cool the water.

The following is what I consider the best means of carrying out this invention, and the accompanying drawings form a part of this specification in which Figure 1 is a large plan view showing a single unit. Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section, and shows the unit set forth in plan in Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where they. appear.

At 1, I have indicated the burner of a gas stove. This burner may be of any shape or size as I desire it understood that my device may operate with any of the well known type of burners. Should it be necessary however to change the shape or size of my device I do not believe that such changes will modify its functions of operating efficiency. Surrounding the burner though arranged upon a plan above that of the burner is the grid which consists of the ring 2, having a plurality of inwardly projecting fine rs designed to Supp rt a ve el to be b ated above the burner. These fingers which are indicated at 3, may be of any number.

The heater proper consists of a tubular member bent to form a number of inwardly projecting loops as indicated at 4: one of which is arranged adjacent to and partly surround each of the fingers 3, and a straight portion 5 extending between the bases of the fingers, the inward projections i and straight portions 5 together form a continuous member but it is obvious that it would not be desirable to continue this memher for the complete circuit of the burner, I have therefore opened the, complete circuit, for the purpose of entering therein a water delivery pipe 6 and a hot water outlet 7.

The coil as I may sometimes call it and which consists of the projections 1 and por tions 5 is supported upon lugs 8, 9, 10, and 11 formed or cast integral with or secured to certain of the fingers 8. These lugs may be in the shape of semi-cylindrical loops forming efficient cradles for the support of the coil.

From its construction it will be observed that my device may be attached to an ordinary gas stove, it being only necessary to supply to the stove the grid and coil together with the necessary water connection.

From the foregoing description the operation of my device will no doubt appear obvious. I desire, however, to call particular attention to the economy resulting from the use of my invention. It is well known that in the use of the ordinary fiat burner the useful heat derived therefrom constitutes but a small percentage of the heat generated from the gas consumed, and I have learned from experience that a water heater such as I have constructed may be employed without materially reducing the efficiency of the burner and in any way slowing down the heating of the receptacle placed over the burner.

I desire that the heating coil or pipe utilized in my device should be spaced above the burner and below the surface of a receptacle resting on the grid or fingers 3. In this way I obtain a circulation entirely around the tubes or coil, and the coil does not tend to restrict the flame, the heat of which is to be utilized in an ordinary manner.

- Modifications may be made within th scope of the appended claims without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention what'I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A gas water heater the combination with a burner and a grid having inwardly projecting fingers, of a tubular member, portions of which project toward the center of said burner and partially surround said fingers and means formed integral with said fingers for supporting said tubular member 2. In a water heater the combination with a gas burner of a grid having a plurality of fingers a lug formed integral with each said finger and projecting at each side thereof, a tubular member bent to produce a portion extending approximately parallel to each said finger and another portion between each pair of said fingers, said tubular member being adapted to be received upon said lugs to be supported thereby,

Signed at the city of New York, county and State of New York this 22 day of April, 1915, in the presence of these two witnesses.

GEORGE ALBERT MOORE.

Witnesses:

G. E. STERRITTE MARK, ARTHUR PHELP$ MARK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G.

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