Improvements in Swing Radiators.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Swing Radiators.
I, WILLIAM MURRAY BINNY, Consulting Engineer, 53, Victoria Street, West-
minster, London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a radiator for hot water or steam heating installations,
which can easily be turned about a horizontal axis for the purpose of cleaning,
without shutting off the heat supply. The coils of pipes forming the radiator
are arranged in any convenient manner. The supply and return pipes to and
from the radiator are arranged so that the latter can turn about a horizontal
axis, suitable trunnions with steam-tight or water-tight joints being provided.
The radiator is carried by suitable bearings, so that the trunnions do not support
any considerable weight.
The radiator coils, in some cases, are kept in a suitable casing, plain or orna-
mental the front side of which can be opened like a door, giving access to the
radiator and allowing it to be swung into a convenient position for cleaning,
The easing is provided with air-inlets near the bottom, air being supplied
either from inside or outside the building, and with air-outlets near the top, and
may have internal ribs or baffle-plates which cause the air in its upward passage
to impinge on the heated coils.
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1000
ARCHD. SHARP,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Swing Radiators.
I, WILLIAM MURRAY BINNY, Consulting Engineer, 53, Victoria Street, West-
minster, London, S.W., 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 a radiator for hot-water or steam heating installations,
which can easily be turned about a horizontal axis for the purpose of cleaning,
without shutting off the heat supply. The coils of pipes forming the radiator
are arranged in any convenient manner. The supply and return pipes to and
from the radiator are arranged so that the latter can turn about a horizontal
axis, suitable trunnions with steam-tight or water-tight joints being provided.
The radiator is carried by suitable bearings, so that the trunnions with their
stuffing-boxes do not support any considerable weight.

page_text: The radiator coils, in some cases, are kept in a suitable casing, plain or orna-
mental, the front side of which can be opened like a door, giving access to the
radiator and allowing it to be swung into a convenient position for cleaning.
The casing is provided with air-inlets near the bottom, air being supplied either
from inside or outside the building, and with air-outlets near the top, and may
have internal ribs or baffle-plates which cause the air in its upward passage to
impinge on the heated coils.
Figure is a front view partly in section of a radiator and casing, and
Figure 2 is a transverse section showing the casing C with its internal ribs or
baffle-plates b, the door 1) with its internal ribs or baffle-plates b, the heating
coils and the bearings B. Figure 1 shows the trunnions T with stuffing-box
combined in the same casting as the casing C; the bearings B may also be com-
bined in the same casting as the casing C. Two short lengths of pipe pare each
inserted through the bearings B and into the trunnions T, the first section of the
heating coils H, is then bolted to the short pipes by means of the flanges f.
The return piper from the top of the heating coils is led to the first section H,
as shown in the drawing. Stop valves V, V, may be used to shut off the radiator
from the main supply and return pipes S and R respectively.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A steam or hot-water radiator mounted on bearings which relieve the
stuffing-glands of all load, and having trunnions through which the supply and
return pipes pass, so that the radiator can be swung out of its normal position
for the purpose of cleaning without shutting off the supply of heat.
2. The combination of a swing radiator with a plain or ornamental casing,
and a movable door; substantially as described in Figures 1 and 2.
1900
ARCHD. SHARP, Assoc. M.Inst. C.E.,
47, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.