Improvements in Apparatus for Warming Conservatories and other Places.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1887
Specification Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for Warming Conservatories and
other Places.
I, CHARLES TOOPE, of 1 Stepney Square, London, E. Hot Water 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 relates to an improved system of heat radiator for warming con-
servatories, greenhouses, halls, passages, and apartments; and it has for its object to
provide a radiator of simple but efficient construction wherein the heat radiating
walls of the radiator are heated directly by the current of hot gases from a gas or
lamp burner and wherein the said gases before escaping into the atmosphere of the
conservatory or apartment are purified and deprived of obnoxious smell and wherein
an evaporator is provided which is heated by the gases in their passage and, by the
evaporation of the water contained, maintains the proper degree of moisture in the
atmosphere.
;
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a radiator
provided with a single system of circulating and heat radiating tubes and with a
purifier and evaporator. Figure 2 is a plan of the same. Figure 3 is a part sectional
elevation of a modified arrangement in which two sets of tubes are combined with one
source of heat. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the
figures.
A is the lamp or gas burner, which may either be placed within an open frame as
in figure 1 or within a closed chamber as in figure 3. Its chimney is situated
immediately beneath an upright tubular pillar or casing B connected by transverse or
horizontal circulation tubes with another upright tubular pillar or casing C, there
being one, two (or more) of these series of tubes, as shewn in figures 1 and 3. The
tube B is divided transversely by one or more diaphragms Ee which compel the gases
of combustion and heated air to circulate to and fro through the series of tubes Das
indicated by the arrows, the tube C being also divided by diaphragms c alternating
with those of the tube B when a series of more than two tubes D are used, as in

page_text: figure 3. The first diaphragm E in tube B is made of two sheets of metal with
asbestos packing between, to prevent the direct transmission of heat. In the top of
the tube B is placed a receptacle F having a perforated bottom and filled with small
lumps of vegetable charcoal or other purifying agent, through which the gases must
pass in order to escape and whereby they are purified and rendered odorless, and in
the top of the tube is placed a vessel G containing water. Both these vessels are
provided with loosely fitting or perforated covers to allow the gases and vapor to
escape. When burning gas, the filter vessel might connect with a flue pipe leading to
the open atmosphere.
It will be evident that the respective positions of the two vessels may be changed,
if a series comprising an odd number of tubes D is used. The feet of tubes B, C,
stand in, or are provided with, removable trays H to catch water of condensation and
in order to permit of the latter trickling down the pipes C, the diaphragms c therein
are made conical and provided with a small drip hole which allows the water to pass
whilst affording but a minute passage to the gases. The tubes B, C, D, and other
metallic parts may be made of sheet copper or galvanized sheet iron.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. A heat radiator, wherein the hot gases and air are caused to circulate through
one or more series of circulating and heat radiating pipes in combination with a
filter or purifier for the gases and an evaporator for maintaining the moisture of the
atmosphere.
2. The respective combinations and arrangements of parts constituting the single
and multiple systems of heat radiator, substantially as shewn and described.
C. TOOPE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents,