Heating, Drying, and Disinfecting Buildings or other Structures.
Year: 1885

page_text: Heating, Drying, and Disinfecting Buildings or other
Structures.
I, STANISLAUS VON KOSINSKI of 49 Lützow Strasse Berlin in the Empire of
Germany, Civil Engineer and Architect, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR VENTI-
LATING HEATING DRYING & DISINFECTING BUILDINGS OR OTHER STRUCTURES
to be as follows:-
"
The invention has for its object the combination of well-known means which
heretofore have been applied separately for the purpose of ventilating drying or
disinfecting buildings or other structures consisting firstly, of air, warmth, warmed
and heated air which being diluted is capable of sucking up great quantities of
moisture or of killing Micro-organisms and secondly of a ventilator in the
combination with a heating apparatus through which pure atmospheric air is drawn
and heated. The heating apparatus is in construction similar to a locomotive
boiler with tubes and fire-box the pure atmospheric air being drawn in by the
ventilator and brought around the tubes & afterwards as quite hot and dry air
expelled against the wall of the structure to be dried which has to be kept as closed
as possible. Both the heating apparatus and ventilator are erected in the locality
to be dried. The air cooled on account of the contact with the created steam will
descend to the floor or ground in the room to be dried and make its way to the
heating apparatus where it will come into contact with and be absorbed by the
heating apparatus through a hole formed suitably therein and escape afterwards
through the chimney. Instead of securing the ends of the tubes of the heating
apparatus to the ends of the boiler in the ordinary manner the tube ends are formed
with heads or plates which are provided with grooves and springs. These heads or
plates are placed side by side and on top of each other thus forming the ends of the
boiler of several parts instead of only one, the spring and grooves serving to secure
the grooves to-gether. The ventilator employed to draw in pure air is formed in
two sections being fixed on one shaft and rotating in a double casing. The said
casing is provided with two pipes one serving for the already mentioned purpose
and the other to expel the damp air which has descended and collected on the floor
or ground.

page_text: Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Ventilating,
Disinfecting Buildings or other
Heating, Drying, and
Structures.
I, STANISLAUS VON KOSINSKI of 49 Lützow Strasse Berlin in the Empire of
Germany, Civil Engineer and Architect, 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:—
The invention has for its object the combination of well-known means which
heretofore have been applied separately for the purpose of ventilating drying
or disinfecting buildings or other structures, consisting firstly, of air, warmth,
warmed and heated air which being diluted is capable of sucking up great
quantities of moisture, or of killing Micro-organisms, and secondly, of a ventilator in
the combination with a heating apparatus, through which, pure atmospheric air is
drawn and heated.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1 and 4 are internal views of rooms, showing two different applications of
this invention.
Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3 a side view & partly longitudinal section of the
boiler tubes.
Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional plans & Fig. 7 a side view of the ventilator.
In carrying out my invention I obtain such combination by bringing an
air-heating chamber in connection with a ventilator, the former being similar in
construction to that of a locomotive boiler, and in appearance like a portable
engine, consisting of the fire-box A (see Fig. 1,) provided with fire bars and ash
box, the tubes B, surrounded by a thin sheet metal cylinder and smoke chamber D.
The pure atmospheric air is drawn into the space of the metal cylinder and
brought around the tubes by any suitable ventilator through the pipe G, which air
after coming into contact with the said tubes gets expelled through the pipe M,
into the surrounding space or against the wall of the structure to be dried, which
latter is to be kept as closed as possible, in an overheated, diluted and dry
condition. The pipe M is provided with a ball joint by means of which the heated
air can be expelled direct to any required place."
An important feature in this method consists in the simplified, and at the same
time, suitable, formation of different large air-heating chambers and ventilator
which causes the damp air or moisture, collecting on the floor or ground to be
conducted out of the room and at the same time is drawing a fresh supply of pure
air into the air-heating chamber. Instead of securing the ends of the tubes B into
the ends of the air-heating chambers (see Figs. 2 & 3), the tube ends are furnished
with heads or plates which are formed with grooves & & projections c and fit into
each other.

page_text: These heads or plates are placed side by side and on top of each other thus
forming the ends of the boiler of several parts, instead of only one, the projections
and grooves serving to secure the tubes together.
Both ends of each of these tubes B are formed conically, the end a internally
and the opposite end externally, in order that the cone, formed externally, just fits
into the end of another tube where the cone is formed internally whereby any
desired section and length may be given to the air heating chamber.
The ventilator shown in Fig. 5 is employed to draw in pure air, formed in two
sections by an intermediate circular disc f, which fits into the groove formed in the
wing disc g, which divides the ventilator into two, fixed onto one shaft and rotating
in the double casing provided with the conduit G¹.
One section supplies the air-heating chamber with fresh air, and the other draws
and delivers the damp air which collects on the ground or floor, and for which the
fire at o, is not sufficiently strong to dry up, outside the structure see Fig. 4.
The ventilator may also consist of two separate parts situated close to each other,
see Figs. 6 and 7, and fixed on the same shaft, which may draw from and also
expel the air to any desired place. In special cases, as for instance for disinfecting
rooms, which are infected through persons having infectious illnesses, the warmth
expelled by the pipe M is at 300°-400° C. whereby the temperature. throughout
the room may be retained for any length of time at 100° C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st The simultaneous application of a continuous draft of pure air, warmed by
ejecting heat, and contact with diluted air, for the purpose of ventilating, heating,
drying, and disinfecting.
2nd The formation of the air-heating chamber for the purpose specified in
Claim 1, of a smaller or larger number of thin fire tubes furnished with heads or
plates, which latter are formed with grooves & projections & internal & external
cones fitting into each other for the purpose of suitably prolonging the heating
chamber.
3rd The arrangement of a ventilator for the purpose specified in Claim 1, in such
a manner that the same is divided into two parts, by means of the ring disc f, with
the respective pipe conduits G and G¹.
4th The use of a double ventilator in such a manner, that the two ventilators
which are situated near to each other, will have only one shaft and act in opposite
directions.
5th Disinfecting rooms by the application specified in Claim 1, and raising the
temperature in the room above 100° C.