Improvements relating to the Admission of Heat to Railway Carriages and other Vehicles and Places.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 5th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Admission of Heat to Railway
Carriages and other Vehicles and Places.
I, WILLIAM SAMUEL LAYCOCK of Victoria Street Works, in the City of
Sheffield, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates more particularly to apparatus for regulating the admission
of heat from steam storage heaters into railway carriages, or into other vehicles or
places.
Hitherto in connection with various methods of heating passengers have not
been supplied with any means by which the admission of heat could be regulated,
and consequently railway carriages have frequently become offensively over heated
leaving the passengers the only alternative of having one or more of the windows
open.
I propose to place the admission of heat from the storage heaters under the entire
control of the passengers, and in the following manner.
The storage heater, which is a steam heated cylinder of heat-retaining com-
position is located under and in line with the partition between each carriage
short distance under the seats in each
compartment, thus projecting a
compartment.
I enclose the said storage heater within a casing the face in each compartment
being either made with a number of openings which can be fully opened or
partially or entirely closed by means of a perforated sliding plate, operated by
a crank handle conveniently situated and fixed to the side or back of the carriage,
and preferably marked with indications of " Off" and "On"; or a single large
opening may be used, and be opened or closed by a pivotted door or other
equivalent device for opening and closing, to be regulated by a lever and crank
handle as before described, by this arrangement the passengers may regulate the
amount of heat to any required degree by turning the handle.
I propose to line or cover the inside of the casing and door or slide with sheet
asbestos to prevent the radiation or escape of heat.
Dated the 1st day of January 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
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Improvements relating to the Admission of Heat to Railway
Carriages and other Vehicles and Places.
I, WILLIAM SAMUEL LAYCOCK of Victoria Street Works, in the City of
Sheffield Manufacturer 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 apparatus used in connection with steam storage-
heaters for warming railway carriages, and is for the purpose of regulating the
amount of heat to be admitted to the compartment of the carriage, or other place
to be warmed

page_text: The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which
Fig. 1, represents the regulator as usually fixed under the seat of a carriage,
with end section showing the heater, and the connection to the handle, with the
woodwork removed.
Fig. 2, front view of handle and index plate.
Fig. 3, another arrangement of regulator.
Hitherto in connection with the various methods of heating railway carriages,
the passengers have not been supplied with any means of controlling and regulating
the admission of heat thereto, and consequently such carriages or compartments
have become very objectionably and offensively overheated, leaving the passengers
the only one alternative of opening one or more of the windows with the risk of
serious consequences.
In the system of heating by the use of so-called storage-heaters, the tubular
heater A, is most conveniently placed under the seat S, and preferably exactly
under the partition C, between two compartments so that the sides of the cylinder
project into each compartment.
The heater A, is enclosed in a casing B, reaching from the floor to the partition C,
and in the face of each casing, an opening D, is made for the passage of heated air
from the heater to the carriage.
This opening is closed either by a pivotted or hinged door E, as shown in
Fig. 1, or there may be a series of openings F, which may be partially or entirely
closed by means or a sliding plate G, provided with similar openings and moved
horizontally.
In a convenient position I fix an index plate or indicator H, provided with a
lever or handle I, which is connected by means of suitable cranks and a connecting
rod J, with the regulator door or slide, so that by moving the handle I, in
one direction or the other, the door E, or the slide G, as the case may be,
may be opened to any extent, or be shut as desired. The passengers may thus
regulate the amount of heat to any required degree by simply moving the
handle I.
I propose in some cases to cover the inside of the casing B, with sheet asbestos
to prevent or retard the radiation of the heat given off by the cylindrical storage
heater.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be, or may be performed, I declare that
what I claim, is:
1. In combination with a heating cylinder for warming railway carriages and
the like, the apparatus hereinbefore described and illustrated.
2. The regulating apparatus for controlling the admission of heat from a heater
into a carriage or other place intended to be warmed, consisting of a casing B,
provided with a pivotted, hinged, or sliding door E, in combination with a handle I,
and intermediate connections J, or their equivalents, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated the 4th day of October 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.