IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING AND VENTILATING HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Goddard Lankester, of the Town and
County of Southampton, Ironfounder, for the Invention of
" IMPROVEMENTS
IN HEATING AND
VENTILATING HOUSES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS."
Sealed the 24th May 1872, and dated the 30th November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Goddard
Lankester at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 30th November 1871.
I, WILLIAM GODDARD LANKESTER, of the Town and County of
Southampton, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING AND VENTILATING HOUSES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
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This Invention consists in heating and ventilating the rooms or apart-
ments of houses and other buildings in a more simple and efficient
manner than heretofore. In lieu of the ordinary skirting which is usually
placed at the base of the walls of rooms or apartments, rectangular

page_text: metallic water-tight pipes or chambers are employed, the same being
placed around the sides of the room or apartment which it is desired
to heat and ventilate in the same position as the ordinary skirting,
the external face of the pipes or chambers answering the purpose
thereof.
When it is desired to heat a room or apartment to which this Invention
is applied, hot water, or steam, or heated air is admitted into the
metallic pipes or chambers by means of pipes connected with a boiler or
other source of heat. The heat is necessarily radiated from the surfaces
of the pipes or chambers, and the temperature of the room or apartment
is raised and maintained as may be desired.
Between the metallic pipes or chambers and the external walls a space
is left or formed, which constitutes an air chamber, and which is in
communication with the outer atmosphere by means of pipes or other
suitable channels. This air chamber is in communication with the room
or apartment through a space left for that purpose above the metallic
pipes or chambers, so that the air which enters from the exterior of the
building is heated by passing over the metallic surfaces, and a continuous
supply of fresh air is maintained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Goddard Lankester in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GODDARD LANKESTER, of the Town and County of Southampton,
Ironfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Goddard Lankester, Her special
licence that I, the said William Goddard Laukester, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Goddard Lankester, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all

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Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HEATING AND VENTILATING HOUSES AND:
OTHER BUILDINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Goddard Lankester, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Goddard Lankester, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in heating and ventilating the rooms or
apartments of houses and other buildings in a more simple and efficient
manner than heretofore. In lieu of the ordinary skirting which is
usually placed at the base of the walls of rooms or apartments, I employ
rectangular metallic water-tight pipes or chambers, and place the same
around the sides of the room or apartment which it is desired to heat and
ventilate in the same position as the ordinary skirting, the external face
of the pipes or chambers answering the purpose thereof.
When it is desired to heat a room or apartment to which this Inven-
tion is applied, hot water, or steam, or heated air is admitted into the
metallic pipes or chambers by means of pipes connected with a boiler or
other source of heat. The heat is necessarily radiated from the surfaces
of the rectangular pipes or chambers, and the temperature of the room
or apartment is raised and maintained as may be desired.
Between the rectangular metallic pipes or chambers and the external
walls of the building, I leave or form a space which constitutes an air
chamber, and which is in communication with the outer atmosphere by
means of pipes or other suitable channels which are provided with the
necessary valves for the purpose of controlling the admission of the air
to the air chamber. This air chamber is in communication with the
room or apartment through a space left for that purpose above the

page_text: rectangular metallic pipes or chambers, so that the air which enters"
from the exterior of the building is heated by passing over the hot
surfaces of the rectangular metallic pipes or chambers, and a continous
supply of fresh air is obtained.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the method of heating and ventilating
the rooms or apartments of houses and other buildings herein-before set
forth and described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Goddard Lankester, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.