IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH HEATING APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Renton Gibbs, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Hot Water Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
CONNECTED WITH HEATING APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES."
Sealed the 16th May 1879, and dated the 22nd November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Renton Gibbs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd November 1878.
ROBERT RENTON GIBBS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Hot Water
Engineer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH HEATING APPARATUS OR
APPLIANCES."
This Invention relates, first, to upright furnaces employed as stoves, or for
heating water to be circulated, and consists in forming such furnaces with an
opening at the lower end, and in arranging a spherical or cylindrical bottom piece
so as to work on an axis beneath the said opening. Part of the spherical or cylin-
drical bottom is perforated and constructed so as to be equivalent to or act as fire
bars, and part is formed solid. By the above arrangement the amount of draught
or air allowed to pass through the furnace is regulated by adjusting the position of
the movable bottom; or the said bottom piece may be so turned on its axis as to
be free from the lower end of the furnace, and thus allow of the contents dropping
out. A lever or other convenient means is employed for adjusting the position of
the bottom piece.
The Invention relates, secondly, to insulators or guards for surrounding hot water
or like pipes where they pass through inflammable partitions or the like. The said
insulators consist of semi-cylindrical or like shaped pieces of porcelain or suitable

page_text: non-conducting material, and provided with flanges. The said insulators are
employed together to surround a pipe at the place where it passes through the par-
tition, or they are used in combination with dividing pieces where two or more
pipes pass through the same partition close together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Robert Renton Gibbs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
May 1879.
ROBERT RENTON GIBBS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Hot Water
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH HEATING APPARATUS OR
APPLIANCES."
This Invention relates, first, to upright furnaces employed as stoves, or for
heating water to be circulated, and consists in forming such furnaces with an
opening at the lower end, and in arranging a spherical or cylindrical bottom piece
so as to work on an axis beneath the said opening. Part of the spherical or cylin-
drical bottom is perforated and constructed so as to be equivalent to or act as fire
bars, and part is formed solid. By the above arrangement the amount of draught or
air allowed to pass through the furnace is regulated by adjusting the position of
the movable bottom, or the said bottom piece may be so turned on its axis as to be
free from the lower end of the furnace, and thus allow of the contents dropping
out. A lever or other convenient means is employed for adjusting the position of
the bottom piece.
The Invention relates, secondly, to insulators or guards for surrounding hot water
or like pipes where they pass through inflammable partitions or the like. The said
insulators consist of semi cylindrical or like shaped pieces of porcelain or suitable
non-conducting material, and provided with flanges. The said insulators are
employed together to surround a pipe at the place where it passes through the par-
tition, or they are used in combination with dividing pieces when two or more
pipes pass through the same partition close together.
Figure 1 is a plan view, and Figures 2 and 3 sectional views through the lines
A, A, and B, B, of the improvements under the first part of my Invention. a is the
bottom of an upright stove or furnace of any desired construction for heating water
to be circulated. The bottom a is formed with an opening, beneath which the
spherical bottom piece b, free to move on the axis C, is placed.
The part b of the bottom piece is so constructed as to act or serve the purpose of
fire bars; the part b¹ is made solid, so that by rotating such portion beneath the
opening in the bottom a the opening is more or less closed. When desired both
the portions 6 and 6¹ may be moved from beneath the opening in a so as to allow of
the contents being removed. The said bottom piece if desired may be made cylin-
drical instead of spherical.

page_text: Under the second part 4 is a plan view, and 5 a side elevation under my Inven-
tion of an insulator for a single pipe; Figure 6, a plan view; and Figure 7, a side
elevation of an insulator for two pipes; e, el, e², insulators; f, pipes; g, partitions or
walls.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention in such manner that
others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect, I claim,-
First. The improvements in upright furnaces, substantially as set forth under the
first head.
Second. The improvements in insulating hot water pipes, substantially as set
forth under the second head.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Renton Gibbs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
5 Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
said Robert Renton Gibbs, in the
presence of
JAMES JOHNSON,
Patent Office,
Clayton Sqr.,
I'pool.
ROBERT KENTON GIBBS.
(L.S.)