Improvements in Radiators.
Year: 1894

page_text: Improvements in Radiators.
I, CHARLES FOSTER KITE of 132 Euston Road, London, Sanitary Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to produce a hot water or steam radiator that
occupies but little space while its heating surface is uniformly effective throughout
and produces the maximum degree of heat and radiation owing to the fact that
behind every square inch of such surface a sufficient supply of hot water or steam
is maintained in immediate contact therewith.
To effect this I make the radiator in one, two, three, or more corrugated sections,
each section forming a hot water or steam chamber wherein the hot water or steam
circulates so that the internal corrugated surfaces are kept in constant and
immediate contact therewith and so absorb the maximum amount of heat and give
forth the maximum amount of radiation, and present one uniform and highly heated
radiating surface.
When the radiator consists of two or more such corrugated sections they are
coupled up with right and left hand screw nipples, no rubber rings, packing, or
washers being used.
The depth of each section from back to front is so shallow that the radiator can
be readily fitted in a window breast, dado, or elsewhere.
When the apparatus is intended for use as a combined heating and ventilating
apparatus, it is fitted with a suitable ventilating grating which communicates with
the external air, while provision is made for shutting off either the hot or cold air
as desired, by means of a regulating lever which works to and fro in a slotted plate
and actuates a flexible metallic cord that passes over a pulley and carries two
balanced sliding valve doors, which are opened or closed either wholly or partially
according to the direction and manner in which the regulating lever is operated.
A suitable indicator shewing when the radiator is opened or closed is combined
with the regulating apparatus. Such regulating and shut-off mechanism may
likewise be fitted to the apparatus when used as a radiator only so as to control
and regulate the temperature of the apartment or locality where it is fitted.
Dated this 28th day of November 1894.
ELT & Co.,
Patent Agents, 43 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.
I, CHARLES FOSTER KITE, 132, Euston Road, London, Sanitary Engineer 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 :-
This invention has for its object to produce a hot water or steam radiator that
occupies but little space, while its heating surface is uniformly effective throughout,
and produces the maximum degree of heat and radiation, owing to the fact that
behind every square inch of such surface a sufficient supply of hot water or steam
is maintained in immediate contact therewith.

page_text: This I effect by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 whereof is a front elevation, and Figure 2, an end elevation of a radiator
constructed according to my invention, while Figure 3 shews a transverse section
of a single section of such radiator.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
To carry out my invention I make the body a of the radiator of one or more
sections of corrugated iron or other suitable metal, each of which sections forms a
hot chamber b wherein the hot water or steam circulates, and is kept in constant
and immediate contact with the internal surfaces of such chamber.
By this improved construction the radiator presents externally one uniform and
highly beated radiating surface, owing to such internal surfaces absorbing the
greatest amount of heat, and giving off the highest radiation, thus affording a
maximum of heating power within a comparatively small space.
Such corrugated body a is provided with suitable feet c and fitted with inlet and
outlet pipes d, d' which are cast thereon, and likewise with one or more radiator
valves e, and an air regulating valve, to prevent the radiator becoming air-
bound, all of which may be of any ordinary construction and do not therefore
require any detailed description.
When the radiator consists of two or more corrugated sections they are
coupled up either end to end, or side by side, with right and left hand screw nipples,
no rubber or other washers or packing being employed in fitting them together;
and when coupled up side by side, the hellow spaces existing between the corru-
gations practically form hot air flues, that rapidly raise the air circulating therein
to a high temperature, which is a spec al advantage where intermittent heating is
required. The average length of each section is about eight inches, and the
average depth from back to front is about three and a quarter inches, so that
my improved radiator can be readily fitted in a window breast, dado, or
elsewhere.
It is therefore particularly adapted for use as a combined heating and
ventilating apparatus, as it can be readily fitted in a shallow recess provided
with a ventilating grating communicating with the external air, and with suitable
regulating apparatus for shutting off the hot or cold air, either wholly or partially
as may be desired, so as to regulate the temperature of the apartment, or other
locality, where the radiator is fitted. A suitable indicator may likewise be
combined with such regulating apparatus to shew when the radiator is open or
closed.
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. As a new article of manufacture, a radiator the body whereof consists of one,
two, or more corrugated sections, each of which forms a hot chamber, which is so
constructed, that the internal surfaces thereof are kept in constant and immediate
contact with the hot water or steam circulating therein, whereby the radiator
presents externally one uniform and highly heated radiating surface, that affords a
maximum of heating power in a comparatively limited area, all substantially as
herein before described and shewn.
2. In a radiator consisting of two or more corrugated sections such as are herein-
before described and claimed, coupling the same together by means of right and
left hand screw nipples, thus dispensing with all rubber and other washers and
packing, all substantially as hereinbefore described.
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ELT & Co.,
Registered Patent Agents, 43, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London,
Agents for Applicant.