Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Heating and Cooling Buildings.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Heating and
Cooling Buildings.
GEORGE MORRIS Windsor Works Beeston near Nottingham
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heating
. This invention relates to improvements in apparatus generally known
"radiators" and used for heating, and cooling, churches public buildings and the
like. In the apparatus referred to, there are tubes for the water, steam, or other
heating or cooling medium, and these tubes are made with a large outside
surface in order to heat or cool the air in contact with the same. Now the object
of the present invention is the construction of an apparatus capable of more
efficiently fulfilling the requirements of a "radiator."
According to this invention the tubes for the heating cooling or other medium
are made with a number of ribs parallel to the axes of the tubes, and the upper
and lower ends are suitably connected for the passage of the medium through
them. These ribs are so arranged that when the tubes are placed in position the
ribs on any two adjacent tubes form one or more air spaces or passages between
the tubes. These spaces are provided with suitable inlets and outlets, and they
may be divided into lengths by flanges on the tubes, each length having by
preference an inlet and outlet for the air. The tubes may also be fitted with one
or more central air spaces or passages.
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W. H. POTTER, F.S.P.A.,
Newcastle Chambers, Nottingham, Patent Agent.
OMPLETE
ATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Heating and
Cooling Buildings.
GEORGE MORRIS of Windsor Works Beeston near Nottingham Heating
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus generally known as
"radiators" and used for heating and cooling churches public buildings and the
like; these effects being obtained by means of a heating or cooling mediumn which
is caused to circulate through tubes which are made with a large outer surface.
Now the object of this invention is the construction of a radiator capable of more
effectively fulfilling its requirements.
According to this invention the heating or cooling medium is caused to circulate
through a number of tubes which are suitably connected at their upper and lower

page_text: ends. The outer surface of each tube is provided with a number of ribs preferably
placed parallel to the axis of the tube, and so arranged that the ribs on adjacent
tubes form air tubes or passages, such air tubes or passages being provided with
inlets and outlets for the air, and may be divided into lengths if desired. The ribs
on the radiator tubes may be solid or hollow or the ribs on adjacent tubes may be
arranged to form an air tube in addition to the air tube formed by the meeting of
the ribs on the adjacent radiator tubes.
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In the accompanying drawings which illustrate this invention
Fig. 1. is a sectional elevation of a radiator constructed according to this
invention.
Fig. 2. is an elevation of the radiator showing the air-tubes or passages.
Fig. 3. is a sectional plan of the above, and
Fig. 4 and 5 are sectional plans showing various designs of radiator tubes, and
arrangements of the same.
.
In the radiator shown in Figs. 1. 2 and 3 the tubes a for the heating or cooling
medium are connected at the bottom to a block or trough b, and at the top to a
block or trough c by means of a tube d which fastens the parts together. The
above mentioned parts are carried by a base piece e and are surmounted by a cap f
which is fitted with a perforated panel g. The tube c is made with ribs as shown
in Fig. 3, these ribs being so arranged that the short horizontal ribs h and the
inclined ribs on adjacent tubes a form air tubes or, passages which have air
inlets m and outlets n."
With a radiator as above described when used for heating purposes the heating
-medium, generally hot water enters the trough c and passes through the tubes a to
the trough b. This circulation of the heating medium heats the tubes a and the
ribs b and the surrounding air is heated by radiation while a current of air is
induced through the tube d. In addition to the above effects, a radiator constructed
according to this invention induces currents of air up the air tubes or passages
and such air being heated during its passage produces or sets up an increased
circulation of air in. the building, and thus heats the same more thoroughly and
efficiently.
1,
In Figs. 4 and 5 various designs are shown whereby the ribs in addition to the
air tubes or passages form other air tubes or passages, and there are inlets and
outlets to each of the latter air tubes.
.
In one design the ribs o are made hollow, and at p the ribs are partly hollow,
while at the inclined ribs on-adjacent radiator tubes form the additional air tube
or space Fig. 5 also shows a radiator with two rows of tubes.
The number and arrangement of the ribs on the tubes a may be varied, as may
also the number and size of the air tubes formed, and bolts may be used instead of
the tube d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a radiator, in which. the heating or cooling medium circulates through
tubes, arranging ribs on the surfaces of the said tubes so that the ribs on any
two adjacent radiator tubes form air tubes or passages substantially as herein
described and for the purposes specified.
2. Radiators constructed and arranged as herein described with reference to the
accompanying drawings and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of March 1897
W. H. POTTER,
Nottingham, Patent Agent.