US2088959A - Oil burner support - Google Patents

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, J. J. HURWITZ- OIL BURNER SUPPORT Aug. 3, 1937.

FiledAug 5. 195a Z'Shets-Sheet 1 Lu 3 -H/ \W m MN J. J. Huwwrrz 2,088,959

' V OIL BURNER SUPPORT Fil ed Aug. 5, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 3, 1937 2,088,959

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1.

on. BURNER snrron'r Joseph J. Hurwitz, Brookline, Mass. Application August 5, last, serial No. 94,381 2 Claims. (cl. 126-24) My invention relates to oil burners and means and to swing laterally with the pivotal movement for installing the same primarily for domestic of the ring itself. use for heating and cooking. The burner hasthe usual cast iron circular The chief object of my invention is to probase with concentric flanges a, b, c, it, around vide means for mounting the ordinary household which the cylinders are disposed and snugly fit, oil burner commonly installed in a cabinet or providing a space for one wick between the on. the grate of a kitchen range so as to insure flanges a and b, and for another wick between 0 safety from fire and to support the burner so and d. M is the cup in the base of the burner that its vertical axis automatically assumes an into which the oil is delivered and from which it) exactly perpendicular line at all times when in it is distributed to the Wicks through the chanuse. nels 24, 2 t and 249. I5 is the usual recep- It is well known that means have been emtacle for the oil mounted and spaced apart from ployed to install oil burners so that the axis will the cabinet 6 The cabinet l6 has the usual maintain a fixed perpendicular line consisting of apertures H for the radiation of the heat. The

1 adjusting devices for leveling the surface of the oil supply pipe Ill terminates in a box H from support or stand on'which the burner rests, and which a flexible tube leads to the burner 6 employing fluid levels on the same for guiding and anotherfiexible tube 2| leads to the burner the eye of the operator when installing the burn- I. The coupling of the flexible tube 20, which er. Any inclination of the axis of the burner may be of any suitable form, is provided with a from a perpendicular line when in use tends cock 22, and the coupling of the flexible tube 2| 20 to cause the flame to smoke and to diminish the is provided with a cock 23. By means of the 20 amount of heat generated. 5 cocks 22 and 23 the flow of oil to either or both In the accompanying drawings illustrating my burners may be regulated and controlled. invention I have shown the same embodied in a An important feature of my invention resides structure with a pair of burners. It is evident in the employment of the flexible tubes 20 and that itanay be employed likewise with a single 2! made of pliable material not readily deterioburner. Fig. 111s a front elevation of the burnrated by the mechanical action of the kinds of ers installed in a cabinet with a portion of the oil ordinarily used in such burners. Each flexcabinet wall removed; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a lble tube 20 and 21 is laid with considerable so detail of the invention on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; slack so that no restraint will be exerted by the Fig. 3. is a plan view of the burners and the tube against the tendency of the burner to swing frame for supporting the same; Fig. 4 is an enon its pivots in either direction. Any well known larged front elevation of the burners and the form of coupling may be used for connecting the tubular connections with the source of oil supply, tubes ill and 2| to the box Land to the burners.

and Fig. 5 is an end elevation of my device. In the above described structure the burner 35 Referring to the drawings, 6 and 1 are oil burnis mounted so as freely to swing and automaters of common form each of which is composed ically adjust its axis to a perpendicular line in of four perforated cylinders a, b, c, d, concenresponse to a change of position of its supporttrically arranged and resting upon the base 8. 9 ing frame, and is combined with a source of oil is an oblong ring having a pin l0 secured to supply spaced apart from the burner and coneach end and pivotedin the hole II in the apex nected thereto by pliable means for conducting of each of the inverted V shaped legs l2 upon the oil. It results in a safe, clean and eflicient which the ring 9 is supported. These pins are installation. offset upwardlyirom the ring as clearly shown What I claim and desire to secure by Letters in Fig. 3 in order that the ring may hang level Patent is: v i

when the burner bases are assembled therein 1. An oil burner support including a pair of after the burners have been removed for cleaninverted V-shaped frames arranged parallel to ing and it is desired to put the parts back in each other and having aligned bearing openings place. The base 8 of each of the burners has in their upper ends, a ring frame between the two upwardly extending arms l3 secured thereto upper ends of said pair of frames and having 50 on opposite sides of the burner each having a oppositely disposed aligned upwardly offset jourpincfl secured to its upper end and extending nals fitting in said bearing openings, said ring outwardly into a hole in the ring 9. It is apparframe having a pair of bearing openings aligned ent that the burners are free to swing longituwith each other and at right angles to the axis dinally of the ring and independently thereof, of the first mentioned bearing openings, a burner 55 base having a pair of oppositely disposed up standing arms, and journal pins carried by said a'rmsand engaging in the bearing openings of the ring frame.

2. An oil burner support including a pair of inverted V-shaped trames arranged parallel to each other and having aligned bearing openings in their. upper ends, a ring frame between the upper ends of said pair of frames and having oppositely disposed aligned upwardly offset journals fitting in said bearing openings, said ring frame having a pair of bearing openings aligned with each other, and at right angles to the axis of the first mentioned bearing openings, a burner base having a pair of oppositely disposed upstanding arms, journal pins carried by said arms and engaging in the bearing openings of the ring frame, a main casing having a bottom whereon said pair of frames is mounted, said casing also having a side wall, a fuel valve carried by said side wall, a burner supported by said base, and

a flexible connection between said valve and 10 burner. I

JOSEPH J. HURWITZ.

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