US465288A - Brick-kiln - Google Patents

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J. W. PENFIELD.

BRICK KILN.

Patented Dec. 15, 1891.

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No. 465,288. Patented Dec. 15,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

JAMES IN. PENFIELD, OF WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.

BRICK-KILN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,288, dated December 15, 1891.

Application filed August 18,1891. Serial No. 403,033. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES W. PENFIELD, of Willoughby, in the county of Lake and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Kilns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in brick-kilns of the variety known as continuous-burning kilns; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan taken at the floor-line. Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation in longitudinal section showing more especially the partition or cross-wall E. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line w 00, 2, extending lengthwise a wall E. Fig. 4 is an enlarged horizontal section on line y y, Fig. 2, and extending lengthwise the furnace. Fig. 5 is an elevation showing a portion of the right-hand face of a wall E relative to Fig. 2.

In constructing a brick-kiln accordingto my invention a rectangular plat of ground is leveled off and divided into two equal sec-' tions by a driveway, and each section is provided with a series of furnaces A, extending crosswise the plant, each furnace having an adjacent co-operating flue B, extending parallel therewith, a fiue and furnace being separated, say, sixteen inches, more or less, or the thickness of a partition-wall E that is to be built between the line of a flue and furnace. The one side of the arch of a furnace is solid, as at A, while the other side of the furnacearch has a series of openings a, alternating with solid sections a. Openings a lead into the compartment above the furnace and lead, also, into the adjacent flue B, the latter having vertical openings 1), leading through the floor and closed by dampers b. WVhen dampers b are closed, all the products of combustion from a furnace must pass through openings a into the compartment above such furnace, except what is necessary to fill the flue may pass through openings on into the next' adjacent flue B, and from thence .may pass into the compartment above the flue. Flues B at one or both ends connect with chimneys D, the latter being provided with dampers at c for regulating the communication between a flue B and its chimney. The partition or cross-walls E are supposed to divide the sections of the plant into equal compartments,

side and the end walls of the kiln all being permanently built with suitable doorways, as shown in the side walls,to give access .to each compartment. Each. cross-wall Esay about half-way up the wall-has a horizontal flue E constructed therein. Openings E are located, preferably, above openings b aforesaid, and, on the same side of the cross-wall, lead into flue E, and the opposite side wall of this flue is divided into solid sections 6 and checker-work 6, (see Figs. 3 and 5,) the solid sections being directly opposite openings E Inside of flue E are flat tiles e set edgewise and serving as dampers forvclosing, or partially closing openings E The arrangement of solid wall and checker-work shown distributes the heat well into the adjoining compartment that receives the heat. Loose bricks areleft in either side wall opposite the flue E, by removing which a rod may be inserted to shift dampers 6 What I claim is l A brick-kiln comprising a series of compartments with corresponding series of furnaces and lius, a furnace and co-operating' flue communicating with each other and communicating with the compartments, respectively, above such furnace and flue, the division-wall between compartments having a horizontal flue constructed therein and having a series of openings communicating with these walls and the arches" above and thethe adjacent compartments, the openingst'rom In testimony whereof I sign this speoifiow one compartment into the flue being located tion, in the presence of two witnesses, this 25th between the openings from the flue into the day of July, 1891.

other compartment, the Wall opposite the .in- JAMES XV. PENFIELD. 5 duotion-openings being solid with eheoker- Witnesses: work between such solid section of the wall, 0. H. DORER,

substantially as set forth. WVARD HOOVER.

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