IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND WARMING ROOMS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER PLACES."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Moore, of Darlington, in the County of Durham,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING
AND WARMING ROOMS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER PLACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Moore at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th January 1876.
"IMPROVE-
JOSEPH MOORE, of Darlington, in the County of Durham, Engineer.
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND WARMING ROOMS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER
PLACES."
This Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of apparatus for
heating and warming rooms, buildings, and other places, whereby such operation is
performed in a more simple and econmical manner than by the means hitherto
employed.
According to this Invention a boiler composed of two or more water-tight cases
of wrought or cast iron, or other suitable material, and of the form of hollow cones
placed one within the other, and connected together by a pipe or pipes, and through
which conically shaped cases the water to be heated passes as herein-after
mentioned, is placed above a series of gas or oil burners, the heated gases from
which pass through the centre of the inner conical case, and also through the space
or spaces between the several cases, the water contained in the latter thus
absorbing the whole of the heat from the gases. By the side of and connected to
the conical boiler by means of suitable pipes is or are one or more vertical cylinders,
and which cylinder or cylinders has or have a vertical tube or chamber passing
through the centre thereof, and both ends of which tube or chamber are left open
to the air. The space between the air tube or chamber and the cylinder is made
water-tight, and forms a reservoir for the supply of water to the conical boiler, and
may be provided with a water guage for the purpose of allowing the level of the
water contained therein to be ascertained.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-Sufficient water is supplied from any
convenient source to the cylinder or cylinders and the boiler, the water passing

page_text: from the cylinder or cylinders through the boiler where it becomes heated back
again to the cylinder or cylinders, a constant circulation of hot water being thus
obtained. As the water in the cylinder or cylinders becomes heated a vacuum is
created in each air tube or chamber, causing the cold air to enter the lower end of
the latter, and becoming heated to pass through the upper end thereof into the 5
room or other place in which the apparatus is placed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Moore in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th July
1876.
"IMPROVE-]
JOSEPH MOORE, of Darlington, in the County of Durham, Engineer.
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND WARMING ROOMS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER
PLACES."
My said Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of apparatus for
heating and warming rooms, buildings, and other places, whereby such operation is
performed in a more simple and effectual manner than by the means hitherto
employed.
According to my Invention a boiler composed of two or more annular and conical
water-tight metallic cases placed one within the other, and connected together by
a pipe or pipes is placed above a series of gas or oil burners, the heated gases from
which pass through the centre of the inner case, and also through the space or spaces
between the several cases forming the boiler. By the side of and connected to the
conical boiler by means of suitable pipes is or are one or more vertical cylinders
having a tube or chamber passing longitudinally through their centres, and both
ends of which are left open to the air, the space between the tube and case of the
cylinders being made water-tight.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-Sufficient water is supplied from a
reservoir or other convenient source to the cylinder or cylinders and boiler. The
water passes from the cylinder or cylinders through the conical boiler, where it
becomes heated back again to the cylinder or cylinders, a constant circulation of hot
water being thus obtained. As the water in the cylinder or cylinders becomes
heated a vacuum or partial vacuum is created in the tube or chamber, causing the
cold air to enter the lower end of the latter, and becoming heated to pass through
the upper end thereof into the room or other place in which the apparatus is
placed.
I will now proceed to refer to the accompanying Drawings, from which the
nature of my said Invention will be more clearly understood.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus; Figure 2, a longitudinal section;
and Figure 3, a plan in section of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate like parts in all the Figures.
A is the conical boiler which is shewn composed to two annular cases a, b;
B, B, the vertical cylinders connected to the same by the pipes E, E; C is the
inner chamber or air tube; and D the water space between the same and the
cylinder; G is the series of gas or oil jets placed beneath the conical boiler; H is a
reservoir placed above the boiler and between the cylinders, and connected therewith
by the pipes F, F, for the supply of water to the same; I, I, are perforated stands
upon which the cylinders rest, and through which the cold air passes to the air
chamber as herein-before described.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in conclusion that what
I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting the Invention

page_text: secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction
and arrangement of apparatus in the manner and for the purposes herein-before set
forth and described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Moore, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.
JOSEPH MOORE. (L.S.)