Improvements in Means for Heating Dwellings, Halls, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Heating Dwellings, Halls, and the like.
THOMAS SCOTLAND, Civil Engineer, 6, Balmoral Terrace, Tollcross, Lanark-
shire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
An hollow metal wall-skirting to circulate the heating medium for heating
interiors of dwellings, halls & the like.
Improvements in Means for Heating Dwellings, Halls, and the like.
I, THOMAS SCOTLAND, G, Balmoral Terrace, Tollcross, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Civil 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:-
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My invention relates to improvements in means for heating dwellings, halls,
and the like. Hitherto this has been done by the use of pipe radiators and pipes
either in combination or separate and standing clear of the walls. My invention
overcomes the disadvantages attendant on the use of these other methods by
being more easily dusted and kept clean and by the fact of its taking up
practically no room where fitted up as compared with the large floor space
occupied by other methods.
In my invention I use a metal tube or tubes of the design and character of
the skirting or wall base and fill with the heating medium. I call the tubular
metal skirting the heating skirting or skirting heater."
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I divide this heating skirting internally into any required number of parts,
tubes, or divisions, and externally it may be plain or it may have mouldings
or the general enrichment of buildings as required.
A skirting or wall base is that part of the finishing of an apartment placed
at the junction of the wall and floor. It is generally constructed of wood but
it may be of other material such as cement, concrete, stone, and the like. It may
also be of iron, but hitherto it has been of iron plates or grills.
The following drawings illustrate the application of my invention. In these
drawings the letters indicate the certain parts:-
S, indicates elevation of "heating skirting."
F, indicates section of flooring boards or floor,

page_text: W, S, indicates wooden skirting.
A, D, indicates air duct.
A, P, indicates perforations for admitting air.
R, indicates regulator for admission of air.
Figure 1, is a section and isometric view of a single way "heating skirting"
moulded on the top.
Figure 2, is a section and isometric view of a two-way plain "heating skirting"
with a separate moulding placed at the top.
Figure 3, is a section and isometric view of a three-way "heating skirting"
with the moulding on same.
Figure 4, is a section and isometric view of a two-way "heating skirting"
heavily moulded.
Figure 5, is a section and isometric view of a three-way "heating skirting."
Figure 6, is a section and isometric view of a three-way plain "heating
skirting showing a metal moulding.
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Figure 7, is a section and isometric view of a plain two-way "heating skirting,"
showing a wooden skirting on the top.
Figure 8, is a section and isometric view of a two-way moulded heating
skirting" showing a wooden skirting next the floor.
Figure 9, is a section and isometric view of a two-way moulded "heating
skirting showing the wooden skirting between the "heating skirting" and
the wall.
Figure 10, is a section and isometric view of a two-way moulded heating
skirting showing a suitable moulding placed on the top.
Figure 11, is a section and isometric view showing a "heating skirting"
constructed of three separate pieces.
Figure 12, is a section and isometric view of a two-way "heating skirting"
composed of two separate pieces.
Figure 13, is a section and isometric view showing a seven-way
skirting with a wooden moulding at the top.
heating
Figure 14, is a section and isometric view showing a two-way heating skirting
with a wood skirting placed between.
A metal moulding or capping, or a wood moulding, of a design, can be
adopted at the top of the skirting as shown in Figures 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13,
19 & 20.
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This heating skirting" I attach to the wall or to suitable fixed grounds, or
to the skirting.
I may make it project beyond the line of the common skirting and it may
also extend further up the wall with the bottom resting on or near the floor.
The objects of this invention are:-
1. To utilise the skirting or wall base as a means of heating.
2. To produce means of heating that does away with the objectionable con-
spicuousness attaching to other methods.
3. To heat buildings and apartments in such a way as not to occupy or cover
the large Hoor space taken up by pipes and common radiators.
4. To provide a system of heating that is more easily dusted and kept clean
than the present methods.
5. To provide for the immediate heating of cold draught's that flow along the
floor a result slowly attained by other methods and only on reaching a temperature
uncomfortably high.
This heating skirting can be used with or without a metal plate or other
backing behind or below same as circumstances may require to assist the radiation
of the heat.
or apartment is required to be heated by hot-air, I make
If the building

page_text: a number of openings or apertures through the skirting to connect to an air-
shaft or duct behind. These openings may be arranged to any design and
the object of their use is to heat the air coming through them into the apart-
ment from the air shaft. The supply of air can be regulated as required.
Figure 15 shows a part elevation of heating skirting for heating the air as
it enters the interior of the building.
Figure 16 shows a section of the same.
Figure 17 shows part plan of ditto.
Figure 18 shows section and isometric view of another of the same.
The method of admitting heated air is in use at present but the air is heated
before it comes to or behind the skirting, and not as in my invention where
I heat it by the heating skirting and as it goes through the same.
The separate pieces of the heating skirting can be joined together with the
joints used in connecting the pieces of other methods of heating."
The heating medium is led into the heating skirting by pipes and connected
thereto by the methods in use at present.
The heating skirting will be commonly of cast iron, in one or more pieces
fitted together, but I will also construct it of other metals, built of pieces and
fitted, screwed, jointed, bolted, or rivetted together.
Figure 19 shows section through a heating skirting with the face plate
bolted to the main piece. It may also be rivetted or screwed and the face
plate may be used as the back plate or used as top or bottom ditto.
Figure 20 shows a section through a heating skirting composed of four
separate plates bolted together. These plates may be secured to one another as
described formerly.
I do not confine myself to the particulars given in the above examples which
are merely typical and can be interchanged and varied in wide limits without
altering thereby the nature of the present invention which in general terms relates
to the heating of buildings by the use of a hollow metal skirting or wall base,
filled with the heating medium, and acting as a heating apparatus, heat distributor
and radiator.
I would have it distinctly understood that I am aware that pipes and radiators
have been used covered with a large wood skirting or boxing with or without
open gratings. These coverings have also been used made of iron but this in
no way derogates from the novelty of my invention as my heating skirting is a
skirting or base course which is in itself the heating apparatus, heat distributor,
and radiator.
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. The application and use of a combination and union of a heating apparatus,
radiator, and heat distributor with the finishing of the interior of buildings,
called skirting.
2. The various methods and means of heating dwellings, halls, and the like,
with an apparatus in the form of a wall base or skirting applied either against
or in continuation of the ordinary wall base or skirting, all as comprehended in
the foregoing specification.
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1000