Improvements in Heat Radiators and in Combining such Radiators with Furniture and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Improvements in Heat Radiators and in Combining such Radiators
with Furniture and the like.
1, JAMES BOYD, Junior, of the firm of James Boyd and Sons, McDowall Street,
Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, Heating Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to make and combine the parts of heat radiators
in an improved manner, and also to form novel combinations of such apparatus with
furniture or the like.
In carrying out my Invention I form hollow columns of castiron of any convenient
or ornamental form, and with undulated, corrugated, indented, or otherwise uneven
sides such as to present large extents of radiating surface. Each column is closed
at top and bottom but is, in some modifications, made with four lateral openings, two
close to the top and two close to the bottom; and these openings are made with pro-
jecting rings forming alternate spigots and faucets. In one simple arrangement a
number of the columns are stacked together with the spigots on each column entering
the faucets on the next column the joints being made tight by rings of rubber or other
suitable material. The colums are set in a base casting and are fixed together at the
bottom by means of screw bolts secured in lugs or flanges formed on the bottoms of
the columns and projecting down into the base casting which conceals them. The tops
of the columns are fixed together in a similar way the lugs and bolts being concealed
in an entablature or top rail, which may have a grating in its top or which may be
ornamented in any desired way. Steam, hot water, or hot air is led through the
columns and may be made to take any desired course through them by inserting
diaphragms at suitable points.
Instead of the columns being stacked in a straight row they may be stacked in a
circle or curve, the sides and joints being made with suitable inclinations; and instead
of the columns being stacked or arranged close together they may be placed at greater
or less distances apart, with pipes placed between them to connect them with each
other.

page_text: My improved radiating columns may be applied as legs for tables or for other
articles of furniture, also as balusters for stair and other railings, also for chimney pieces
or mantels, for door posts, for conservatory pillars and stands, or for any other
analogous application.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heat Radiators and in Combining such Radiators
with Furniture and the like.
I, JAMES BOYD, Junior, of the firm of James Boyd and Sons, McDowall Street,
Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, Heating Engineers, 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, that is
to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to make and combine the parts of heat radiators
in an improved manner, and also to form novel combinations of such apparatus with
furniture or the like.
In carrying out iny Invention I form hollow columns of castiron of any convenient
or ornamental form and with undulated, corrugated, indented, or otherwise uneven
sides such as to present large extents of radiating surface. The columns are connected
with each other and with other parts of the apparatus in a manner hereinafter parti-
cularly described, the description being aided by an accompanying sheet of explanatory
drawings.
Figure, 1, on the sheet of drawings is a sectional front elevation showing two
columns of a set; figure, 2, is a sectional side elevation of one column; figure, 3, is a
horizontal section as at the middle of the columns; and figure, 4, is a horizontal
section as at the lower part of the columns. Figure, 5, is a perspective view of a heat
radiator composed of a set of columns; and figures, 6, and 7, show some of the
various combinations of the radiating apparatus with furniture and the like. In these
drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever
they are repeated.
In the modification shown in figures, 1, to 5, cach column, A, is closed at top and
bottom, but is made with four lateral openings, B, two close to the top and two close
to the bottom, and these openings are made with slightly projecting rings or annular

page_text: surfaces and so as to form spigot-and-faucet joints. Each column, A, may be made
with faucets on one side and spigots on the other side; I however prefer to make some
colums with faucets at all the openings and others with spigots at all the openings:
and a column of one kind has a column of the other kind connected to it on one or both
sides. A thin ring, C, of rubber or other suitable compressible material is placed at
each joint between the annular surfaces to make the joint tight. In one simple
arrangement as shown in figure, 5, a number of the columns, A, are stacked together
being set in a base casting, D, and being fixed together at the bottom by means of
screw bolts, E, secured in lugs, F, formed on the bottoms of the columns and project-
ing down into the base casting, D, which conceals them. The tops of the columns, A,
are fixed together in a similar way the lugs and bolts, G, H, being concealed in an
entablature or top rail, J, which may have a grating, K, in its top, or which may be
ornamented in any desired way.
Steam, hot water, or hot air, is led through the columns, A, and may be made to take
any desired course through them by inserting diaphragms or stops at suitable points.
The connection of a supply or discharge pipe is shown at, L, but such pipes may be
connected wherever may be most convenient in each case. And in some cases instead
of the columns, A, communicating with each other by the openings, B, they may
be connected by pipes fixed into the bottoms or tops of the columns.
Instead of the columns, A, being stacked in a straight row as shown in figure, 5,
they may be stacked in a circle or curve, the sides and joints being made with suitable
inclinations; and instead of the columns being stacked or arranged close together they
may be placed at greater or less distances apart, with pipes placed between them or in
the base casting, D, to connect them with each other.
My improved radiating columns, A, may be applied as legs for a table, as in the
example of a hall table shown in figure, 7, or for other articles of furniture, also as
balusters for stair and other railings, also for chimney pieces or mantels, as in the
example shown in figure, 6, for door posts, for conservatory pillars and stands, or for
any other analogous application.
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-Arranging and combining together the parts of heat radiators in the improved
manner, substantially, as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
2-The improved construction of hollow heat radiating column or pillar substantially
as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompanying drawings.
3-The application of heat radiating columns or pillars as parts of or in combina-
tion with furniture and other structures or articles substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Shuth dow of Santambar 1988
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.