AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER, AND AN IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC BURNER IN CONNECTION THEREWITH
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Damon Yates, of Brunswick House, Margate, in
the County of Kent, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
HEATING WATER, AND AN IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC BURNER IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Damon Yates at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th January 1880.
CHARLES DAMON YATES, of Brunswick House, Margate, in the County of Kent.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER, AND AN IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC
BURNER IN CONNECTION THEREWITH."
My improved burner consists of a tube having at the top a receptacle which I call
the "hot gas box," and which box is placed above the flame; inside of this tube is
a smaller tube which conveys the cold gas up to the receptacle, from which it
passes downwards outside of the inner tube to nearly the bottom, where it mixes
with the atmospheric air, and is carried up thus mixed into an outer tube or jacket
which conveys it to the cone where it is lit; when the gas is lit, the flame being
under the receptacle or box heats the gas before it descends to mix with the
air, thus giving much more heat than a mixture of cold gas and air.
Above the hot air box is a structure of wire of a conical or other convenient
shape, which retards the progress of the heated air in its passage up through the
boiler. The boiler is in the form of a jacket, and has at the top a hollow cap into
which the hot water passes through a pipe or pipes; against the underside of this
cap the heated air coming up from the burner impinges, and is then thrown down
round the coil containing cold water. This coil is connected by a pipe with the
main water pipe or cistern and is coiled round the boiler, the water being gradually
heated in its progress by the escaping heated air. The water enters the boiler at
the bottom, and is heated to boiling point before passing into the exit pipe. The
flow of boiling water from the exit pipe is controlled by a tap moved by a handle,
and the same handle turns the gas full on so as to boil the water. Below the
handle is a dial marked so as to shew where to move the handle, as hot water may
be wanted or not. I also provide for a small jet of gas which can be constantly
kept burning, and which serves to keep the whole apparatus warm, and at the same
time when desired to light the large jet of gas. This can be done either by having
a double pipe with a separate tap, or by allowing a very small stream of gas to
flow through the main pipe.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Charles Damon Yates in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st July 1880.
CHARLES DAMON YATES, of Brunswick House, Margate, in the County of Kent.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER, AND AN IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC
BURNER IN CONNECTION THEREWITH."
My improved burner consists of a tube having at the top a receptacle which
I call the "hot gas box," and which box is placed above the flame; inside of this
tube is a smaller tube which conveys the cold gas up to the receptacle, from which
it passes downwards outside of the inner tube to nearly the bottom, when it
mixes with the atmospheric air, and is carried up thus mixed into an outer tube
or jacket which conveys it to the cone where it is lit; when the gas is lit, the
flame being under the receptacle or box heats the gas before it descends to mix
with the air, thus giving much more heat than a mixture of cold gas and air.
My improved boiler I construct in the form of a "jacket" by preference dome-
shaped. In the centre of the boiler I place a coil of copper or other tube on which
the heat from the gas plays, and inside and round this coil I place a structure
of wire in order to impede the passage of the heated air. In the top of the
boiler is an orifice through which the heated air passes, and impinges upon a
small subsidiary boiler made somewhat in the shape of a saucer. The partially
heated water flows from the main boiler into the coil through two pipes which
join it at the bottom; it then flows up the coil through the flame, and is dis-
charged into the small subsidiary boiler before mentioned. The heated air after
impinging on this smaller boiler is thrown downwards round another coil which is
placed around the outside of the boiler. Into this outer coil the cold water enters
at G passing down and entering the boiler at I. The whole is covered in by a
dome-shaped cover. In some cases I insert several oval pipes from side to side of
the interior of the boiler on which pipes also the heated air plays. Sometimes
I dispense with the interior coil, using only these oval pipes, in which case the
heated water instead of passing down to the bottom of the coil passes direct
through a pipe or pipes into the subsidiary boiler.
I also construct my boiler so that it can be heated by coal or petroleum, or any
other fuel instead of gas.
A is the tube through which the gas passes to the receptacle or "hot gas box "B;
C is the outer tube through which the heated gas descends to mix with the
atmospheric air at D; E is the outer tube or jacket conveying the mixed gas and.
air to the burner F.
G is the orifice through which the cold water enters the coil H and passes into
the boiler at I; J is the boiler; K, K, are the pipes through which the water passes
into the interior coil L, entering at M the subsidiary boiler N; O is the orifice
through which the heated air passes to the bottom of the subsidiary boiler; P is
the outer cover; Q, Q, Q, Q, are the oval pipes sometimes used from side to side of
the boiler, shewn on Drawings in dotted lines.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of carrying
the same into effect, what I claim as my Invention, and desire to have protected
by Letters Patent is,―
First. The burner constructed as described above.
Second. The boiler constructed as described above.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Damon Yates, have hereunto set my