US314259A - mccutchen - Google Patents

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O. W.-M0GUT'GHEN.

STOVE PIPE ATTACHMENT.

' Patented Mar. 24, 1885.

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Inventor 'To all whom it may concern: 7 W

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES w. MOGUTOHEN, or PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

STOVE-Pl PE ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,259, dated IMarch 24, 1885.

Application filed May 21 Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. McOU'roH- EN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Stove-Pipe Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shelves and racks that are attached to stovepipes; also to stove'pipe couplings and dampers, and has for its object the embodiment of conveniences that will be useful in the kitchen and nursery in a form that will be handy, ornamental, and out of the way, and of combining with them a form of damper that will be easily applied to pipes, and can be held securely in any of several positions by means that will prevent its unduly closing and becoming a source of danger. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several Views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of my attachment when applied to a pipe. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same with rack-rod and shelf removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing how it is inserted in a pipe-joint, and how rack-rods and shelves are hooked to it, illustrating also how it may be used without a damper. Fig. 4 shows how without the rack flange I may use the attachment as a combined-coupling and damper.

In Fig. l, A A indicate the ends of two lengths of stove-pipe.

Bis clearly represented in Figs. 2 and 3, which show it to be one piece of casting, having a flange, 1, of suitable width,(one and one fourth inch I find good in practice,) and a rim, 2, to enter the top length of pipe, and rim 3,which receives the lower length of pipe. O is a wooden handle attached to the projecting end of the damperspindle 4, the damper being suspended in place as shown in Fig. 2. Spindle 4 is made octagonal in shape, and has bearing upon it the spring D. When the damper is turned so that the spring rests upon one of the flat sides of the spindle, the damper will be firmly held in that position, so that no force of draft or ordinary jarring can displace it. This gives three points at which the damper can be securely held-21 e. wide open, halfway open, and closed.

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5 is a scalloped apron ordownward-projecting flange, which is employed chiefly by" way of ornament, while at the same time it adds strength and stiffness to flange 1. Flange 1 might be made wide enough to serve as a shelf surrounding or partly surrounding the pipe; but such shelves are used and are often inconveniently in the way. I prefer to use shelves that are removable,as E, Fig. 1,which Iattach substantially in the same manner as I do the rods, constituting a rack for towels or other cloths or garments, as shown in Fig. 3. Two rack-rods are shown at F Fin Fig. 1, and one at F, Fig. 2. The latter shows how they are hooked into the holes 6 6, to the number of half a dozen or more,provided in flange 1. A short double angle is bent on the ends of the rods, and these, being thrust easily in the holes, are supported as shown. When not in use, both the rods and shelves may be swung to one side or entirely removed.

Such shelves as E are useful not only in the kitchen to keep cooked victuals warm, but when employed in the sitting-room or nursery water may be tolerably well heated on them, and when used with stoves that are made without suitable water-urns a vessel of water may be kept thereon for moistening the air in rooms. Having the racks and shelves interchangeable will be found a great convenience for the nursery. In the work-shop such shelves will be found useful for keeping a glue-pot heated. For all such purposes this form of removable shelf will be found far preferable to those that surround the pipe.

In Fig. 4 I show how my device may be used without the flange 1. In this form it becomes a pipe-coupling and damper combined, which is a most convenient manner of inserting a damper, and in this I employ the spring-pressure on the damper-spindle, the whole affording a simple, safe, and easily-applied damper. Used without both the-flange l and the damper G it becomes a pipe-coupling that overcomes the proverbial difficulty of joining stove-pipes. (See Fig. 4.)

I disclaim the subject-matter of Patent No. 282,277.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stove pipe attachment comprising ICO pipe- rims 2 and 3, perforated flange B, ornavided with a flahsiclecl spindle, 4, substaning a flat-sided spindle, 4, all combined as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination with the stove-pipe A, rim 2, to enter a pipe, rim 3, to receive a pipe, central flange,B, spring D, and damper G, pro- CHARLES V. MCGUTGHEN.

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FREDERICK LENT, NELSON G. FISHER.

mental flange 5, spring D, and damper G, hav- I tizrlly as shown.

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