Improvements in Apparatus for the Ventilation and Heating of Buildings and Apartments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Ventilation and Heating of
Buildings and Apartments.
I JOHN LANYON of the Northern Bank Chambers Royal Avenue in the City
of Belfast and County of Antrim Civil Engineer and Architect do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the ventilation of buildings warerooms and apartments
of various kinds in connection with the heating thereof by coal oil or gas stoves or
grates and to the increased power of heating by such means.
For this purpose I provide a flue or tube open at both ends and extending from
the top part of the building, wareroom or apartment to a chamber or compartment
under the bottom or fire bars or at the side or sides of the stove or grate so that
when the lower end of the flue or tube becomes heated by contact with or proximity
to the fire or flame a current is effected and a stream of air is caused to flow down-
wards through the flue or tube from the top of the building wareroom or apartment
and to feed the fire or flame from beneath or at the side or sides thereof.
A valve or valves may be formed on the stove or connected with the flue or tube
to regulate the current and direct it or any portion of it if necessary or desired to a
different outlet or outlets:
Access of air to the front or top of the fire or flame may also be employed for
regulating combustion of the coal oil or gas employed for heating.
Dated this 16th day of May 1895.
HUGH
HYNDMAN,
6 Chichester Street, Belfast, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Ventilation and Heating of
Buildings and Apartments.
I JOHN LANYON of the Northern Bank Chambers Royal Avenue in the City
of Belfast and County of Antrim 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:-
My invention relates to the ventilation of buildings warerooms and apartments of
various kinds in connection with the heating thereof by coal oil or gas stoves or
grates and to the increased power of heating by such means.
1.
:
For this purpose I provide a vertical funnel or tube or two or more such funnels
or tubes open at both ends and extending from the top part or ceiling of the building
wareroom or apartment to a chamber or compartment under the solid bottom or fire
bars of the stove or grate so that when the lower end of such funnel or tube or the
chamber or compartment beneath becomes heated 'by contact with or proximity to
the fire or flame a current is effected and a stream of impure vitiated or other air
is caused to flow downwards through each such funnel or tube from the top or
ceiling of the building wareroom or apartment and to feed the fire or flame from
beneath.
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page_text: In applying my invention to an open fire grate I place the chamber or
compartment before mentioned immediately underneath the grate so that the air
from the vertical funnel or tube instead of passing to the front of the fire will rise
through the bars forming the bottom of the grate or by passages provided at its
back and sides which are perforated or slotted to admit such air to the fire.
Valves and pipes may be connected with the vertical funnel or tube to regulate
the current of descending air and to direct it or any portion of it, if necessary or
desired, to a different outlet.
By means of a louvre or. "hit and miss" slides access of fresh air to the front
sides or top of the fire or flame may also be provided in the stove for increasing
and regulating the combustion of the coal, oil or gas which is employed for
heating.
And in order that my said invention may be more fully understood I shall now
refer to the drawings hereunto annexed the same letters of reference being used
throughout all the figures to indicate the same or corresponding parts of my said
apparatus.
Fig. I is the plan of a stove for heating with coke or coal in which the stream
of air brought down from the top or ceiling of the building, wareroom or apartment
through the vertical funnel or tube will be directed to the fire or flame at the sides
as well as in front of the stove while behind there is a chamber through which
fresh air may be passed into the building, wareroom or apartment and be warmed
as it passes. This fig. shows the front and side bars of the stove the lower
end of the vertical funnel or tube and its connection with the chamber or compart-
ment under the bottom of the stove and the passages by which the stream of air
brought down through such funnel or tube is conducted from the chamber or
compartment to the fire or flame the external enclosure being formed by the outer
casing of the stove.
Fig. II is a cross section of the same stove on the line A B laid down on Fig. I.
It shows the chamber or compartment under the bottom of the stove into which the
stream of air brought down from the top or ceiling of the building, wareroom or
apartment by the vertical funnel or tube is received and the passages which conduct
it thence to the fire or flame at the sides of the stove. The vertical funnel or tube
and a valve for regulating the current of descending air are also indicated by
dotted lines on this figure.
Fig. III is a longitudinal section of the same stove on the line C D laid down on
Fig. 1.
It shows the lower end of the vertical funnel or tube, the chamber or
compartment under the bottom of the stove connected with the vertical funnel or
tube and the air passage from such chamber or compartment to the fire or flame at
the front of the stove.
a is the stove. bbb are the fire bars. c is a fire clay block forming the back
and underside of the fire.. d is a chamber by which fresh air may be warmed and
admitted into the building wareroom or apartment.
e is the funnel or tube open at
the top through which the stream of air will be drawn from the top or ceiling of the
building, wareroom or apartment into, f, the chamber or compartment at the bottom
of or underneath the stove and g. 9. g. are passages for conducting such air to the
fire or flame which it feeds. h. h. are talc panels to show the fire or flame.
i. i. are
"hit and miss." slides for admitting fresh air to the fire or flame and increasing
and regulating the combustion of the heating material. k is a valve in the pipe for
regulating the current of air descending through the funnel or tube e and 1. 1. are
ash pans for collecting and removing the debris from the fire. m is a fresh air
inlet to the chamber 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. The
use,
11.
in conjunction with stoves or fire grates, of a vertical funnel or tube

page_text: bottom of the stove or grate, constructed and employed substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
2. The use in connection with a vertical funnel or tube to convey the air from.
the top or ceiling of a building wareroom or apartment to a stove or grate, of a
chamber or compartment at the bottom of such stove or grate constructed and
employed substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described:
and shewn in the drawings hereunto annexed.
3. The use in a stove or grate of a chamber or compartment at the bottom
thereof and of air passages leading from such chamber or compartment to the
front and sides of the fire constructed and employed substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings hereunto
annexed."
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting my improved
ventilating and heating apparatus constructed and employed substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
hereunto annexed.
Dated this 17th day of March 1806
HUGH HYNDMAN,
6 Chichester Street, Belfast, Agent for Applicant.
HUGH HYNDMAN,
6 Chichester Street, Belfast, Agent for Applicant.