An Improved Heating Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: I, JOHN RICHARDSON, of Halecroft, Hale, near Altrincham, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
:-
The apparatus consists of a vessel, preferably cylindrical, having a length
of three or four times its diameter and stood on end.
It is divided into two parts horizontally by a plate placed about a quarter of
the length from the bottom. Secured to this plate and in the upper part of the
vessel are placed a tube or tubes, preferably of brass or copper, through which
the steam is passed, and heats water contained in the above named vessel and
outside the tubes causing it to circulate through pipes laid in the room or place
to be heated by means of two branches attached one near the upper and the other
near the lower end of the chamber containing the tube or tubes. The lower
part of the vessel contains a trap which drains off all the water formed by the
condensed steam in the above tube or tubes, but allows no steam to pass. The
steam trap may consist of a water-tight copper ball connected direct to a valve
so that when the water collects in the lower part of the vessel the ball lifts the
valve and allows the water to escape or the ball may be connected to the valve
by means of a lever, or lever and screw combined, so as to give it more power
The inner tube or tubes
to open the valve against a high pressure of steam.
are fitted with a relief valve and also a snifting valve, the latter to guard against
collapse when steam is first admitted.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Heating Apparatus.
I, JOHN RICHARDSON, of Halecroft, Hale, near Altrincham, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, 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:-
The improvement which forms the subject of this invention relates to
apparatus that is intended to be employed for heating rooms or other places.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 an
In the accompanying drawing,
exterior elevation of the aforesaid improved apparatus.
For the purpose of this invention I construct a metallic case preferably
cylindrical as a and of a height three or four times greater than its diameter.

page_text: I form two chambers c and d in said case by a division plate placed at
about a quarter of the length from the bottom of the case. I screw or otherwise
fit into said plate one or more perforated tubes e which I enclose in a cylindrical
case g whose base is secured to the plate band projects vertically into the
chamber but is of a less diameter and height than said chamber so that a
space is left between the
outside of the case g and the inside of the case a.
Steam is admitted through the pipe and passes through the aforesaid per-
forated tubes e into the inner chamber or case y. The aforesaid space in the
chamber d is filled with water which is heated by the steam that is let into and
contained in the case y through the tubes e, the water being thereby caused
to circulate through pipes which are connected to two branches and m on the
case a and laid in the room or place to be heated one of said branches being
fitted near the upper and the other near the lower end of the chamber d
place a trap in the chamber for draining off the water formed by the con-
densed steam from the tubes e. Said trap may consist of a water tight copper
ball as in a case as i and connected direct to a valve t so that when the water
produced by condensation collects in the lower part of the chamber c it passes
through the holes the ball lifts the valve and allows the water to escape,
or the ball may be connected to the valve by a lever or lever and screw com-
bined so as to give it more power to open the valve against a high pressure of
steam. A relief valve as q is fitted on the steam cylinder, and a snifting valve
may also be fitted thereto to guard against collapse when steam is first admitted.
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. Heating apparatus consisting of two chambers as c and d one of said
chambers as d containing water that is heated by steam let into a cylinder as y
in said water chamber which is connected to pipes laid in a room or place and
the other chamber as c containing a trap to enable water resulting from con-
densation to escape substantially as herein before described and shown on the
drawings.
2. Heating apparatus consisting of a combination in a case as a of a chamber
as d, perforated steam tubes as e confined in a case within said chamber, inlet
and outlet connections as and m, a chamber as fitted with a trap for enabling
the water resulting from condensation to escape, and a relief valve as y all
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore decribed.
Doted this 12th day of April 1900.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.