Improvements in Apparatus for the Circulation or Conduction of Water, Air, Steam, or any other Fluid or Gas.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1825
Complete Specification Left, 22nd-Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Circulation or Conduction of
Water, Air, Steam, or any other Fluid or Gas.
Joseph ALFRED DARGUE, of 27 Berkley Street Liverpool, in the County of
Lancashire, and ERNEST GRIFFITHS, of 31 Rocky Lane, Liverpool in the County
of Lancashire, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the circulation, or
conduction, of water, air, steam, or any other fluid, or gas; in warming, cooling,
ventilation & water supply.
It will consist of any form of curb, fender, or similar protection, or projection,
either from, or for the purpose of fixing in front of, or around, fireplaces, stoves,
furnaces or other such appliances.
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This curb, fender, or similar protection, or projection, in external appearance,
may be similar to any existing, or other curb, fender, or similar protection, or
projection, & may be manufactured, or made, of any metal, or other material, or of
any compound material, & may be of any shape, or section, or design, & may be
manufactured, or made, either in one piece, or any number of pieces, connected
together in any way that may seem desirable.
Through this curb, fender, or similar protection, or projection, will be formed a
passage, or passages, of any section & size, & this passage, or passages, may of
itself, or themselves, form the means of circulation, or conduction, or through
this passage, or passages, or embedded in the material of which the said curb,
fender, or similar protection, or projection, is formed, may be conducted any number
of pipes, tubes, or other means of conveyance, for the purposes of circulation, or
conduction.
Or this curb, fender, or similar protection, or projection, may be formed, so as
to fit over, or cover, one or more pipes, tubes, or other means of circulation, or
conduction.
The hollow connection, or connections, to or from this curb, fender, or similar
protection, or projection, pipes, tubes, & passages, may be of any shape, or form,
& of any metal, or other material, or any combination of materials: they may be
in connection with any part of the said curb, fender, or similar protection, or
projection, pipes, tubes, or passages; they may be either horizontal, vertical, or at
any other angle, curve, or tangent, & may be in the form of any engineering, or
other suitable joint, or either socket, spigot, flanged, screwed, locked, faced, or .
welded joints.
These connections may either form part of, or be fixed to, the aforesaid curb,
fender, or other protection; or projection, pipes, tubes, or passages.
Generally our claim is for a curb, fender, or similar protection, or projection,
with one or more passages through it, however formed; either with or without
connections.
Dated this Twenty-first day of December 1895.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Circulation or Conduction of
Water, Air, Steam, or any other Fluid or Gas.
We, JOSEPH ALFRED DARGUE of 27 Berkley Street, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Civil Engineer, and ERNEST GRIFFITHS of 31 Rocky
Lane, Liverpool aforesaid, Mechanical 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 :-
In the warming of rooms or buildings with hot water or hot air pipes, these
pipes are frequently at the present time brought round a fireplace by the back of
the fireplace being cut away and the pipes embedded in the wall. Besides fire-
places there are other parts of rooms and buildings where it is undesirable to have
water pipes prominently displayed.
Now this invention is designed for the purpose of bringing these air or water
pipes past a fireplace or other like position without spoiling the appearance of the
room, and without the expense of having to cut through the walls.
The invention is illustrated by means of the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan view; and
Fig. 2 is an elevation partly in section.
Fireplaces being usually surrounded with a curb or fender, and other like places.
being usually surrounded by a curb or railing, our invention consists in making that
curb fender or railing hollow, and connecting it to the hot water or hot air heating
pipes. In the drawings A is the curb, and B socketed connection. There can be
one or several pipes one above another, forming the fender, and in cases where the
curb is not large enough of itself to carry all the hot water required, the bottom
of the fender itself can be made hollow so as to carry the remainder of the water.
In a similar way the rails already spoken of carried round other portions of the
building, or in the case of low window sills a continuation of the window sill itself,
can he made hollow in this way, and jointed up to the pipes, and in some instances
instead of making the fender rail or window sill hollow in this way, pipes can be
placed in their stead made to any required shape, and a thin shell placed over
them forming the curb, fender, railing guard or window sill. It will be obvious
that the connection B instead of being a socketted one, may be flanged or of any
other suitable construction to suit circumstances. In conclusion we are well
aware that curbs have been continually made hollow for lightness, but usually
open at the bottom, and we know of no case where a curb has been made so as to
be capable of holding water or being made in the form of a tube for water or
hot air. Further we are well aware that covers have been made from time to
time over water pipes for ornamental purposes, and we make no claim for such
devices.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improvement in apparatus for the circulation or conduction of water, air,
steam or other fluid, which consists in forming fenders, curbs or the like, bollow
and connecting them with the heating device, substantially as described.
2. A hollow fender or curb jointed up to the heating pipes, and used for carrying
the heating fluid past a fireplace substantially as described.
Dated this 21st dow of Sentombo- 1900
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.