James & Henry Ferrabee - Patent No 2332

A.D. 1860, September 26.-N° 2332.

FERRABEE, JAMES, and FERRABEE, HENRY.-(Provisional protection only.)—" Improvements in apparatus for lighting, "heating, ventilating, and cooking by gas, and part of which "invention is applicable to heating apparatuses of other descriptions."

The apparatus consists of an inner and outer case, there being a space in all directions between the two. The bottom of the outer case has a regulating valve for admitting air, and the top is fitted so as to make it when the valve is closed almost air-tight. Within the inner case are the burners in connection with a supply pipe passing through the outer and closed bottom of the inner case. The inner case has apertures for air to support the combustion. The inner case is fitted with a nozzle or a pipe to carry off the

APPLICATIONS OF GAS.

products of combustion, such nozzle or pipe communicating with a flue or other outlet, and being fitted with a regulating valve. Glass is introduced into the inner and outer vessels so as to allow of the gas transmitting light. Bread may be baked and various cooking operations performed in the space between the inner and outer case. The inner case is sometimes made double and fitted with pipes so as to supply a bath with warm water. "also construct lamps for gas with inner and outer cases of "glass, or glass and metal, or some other material, and fitted "with valves or nozzles as before described; and we make an "apparatus consisting of two or more such lamps connected with one outlet pipe for carrying off the products of combustion." [Printed, 4d. No Drawings.]