Improvements in and relating to a System for Cooling, Cleansing, and Heating Air for Ventilating:
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to a System for Cooling, Cleansing,
and Heating Air for Ventilating:
I, JOSEPH MCCREERY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at
1409 Indiana Avenue, in the City of Toledo, County of Lucas and State of Ohio,
United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, 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 a system for cooling, cleansing and heating air for
ventilating.
The drawings. Sheet I, Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the device for
cooling and cleansing the air.
Sheet II, Figure 2 shows a perspective view of another device, and Figures 3, 4
and 5, details.
Sheet III, Figure 6, a face view of the heating device, and
Figures 7 and 8 vertical and horizontal sections of Figure 6.
The letter A (Sheet I) represents a case having an air inlet a and an air outlet a',
at the latter there being located an educt with a fan B. Into the air inlet leads a
water pipe C. Within the case is a number of baffle plates D, D¹. attached to the
sides of the case except at one end, such plates alternating, as shown. Opposite
the open ends of the baffle plates except the last, is placed a rack E, to form an
icc receptacle. The last baffle plate has the up turned end d and a pipe d
leading down. Below this pipe da trough F is placed across the case and
has a drain pipe f leading downward. The case is provided with an overflow
pipe f¹.
Air and water together enter through the induct a, and passing over the baffle
plates come in contact with ice in the receptacle and pass down into the bottom of
the case.
The water cools and cleanses the air and passes off through the over-
flow pipe f. The air is drawn off by the blower and forced out through the
educt.
In Sheet II is shown another device for cooling and cleansing the air. The
case G has the water pipe G¹, the air inlet and outlets gg, and within, the
alternating baffle plates H, having holes h. At the top of the case is located the
wind-wheel I, its vanes i being opposite the air inlet 9. The shaft of this wheel
Fig. 3 has a worm gear engagement with a shaft k. A chain pump K passes
over a wheel on this shaft k through the holes and over another wheel at the
bottom of the case. The buckets are made with their tops opening alternately
in opposite directions Figs. 2 and 4. Between the wheel I and the air inlet g
are placed the shutters L L', Figs. 2 and 5, to regulate the amount of air to
the wheel and are closed together by a spring 1. A cord M is secured to one
shutter L, passes around a pulley through the shutters L L' and is secured to the
latter for regulating the spread of the shutters.
Air and water enter the case at the top g, commingling they pass to the
bottom, the water stopping or passing off at the overflow, g, the air passing out
at the outlet g'. That part of the entering air passing between the shutters L, L'
turns the wheel I, operating the pump K. This elevates water, and as the

page_text: buckets turn over the water is alternately thrown to the sides of the case and is
commingled with the air. Ice may be placed in the bottom of the case to cool
the water.
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With such a device a constant supply of water need not be given to the case,
as the water may be used over and over again, to wash and cool the air.
In Sheet III is shown a device for heating the air after it is cleansed. The
letter N indicates a radiator case containing the radiator sections O.
If desired one
sections are hollow and connected to the heat supply pipe n.
section may form the face of the radiator. These sections are connected to the
If desired I
case alternately so as to have a circuitous passage around them.
plates and may connect them alternately at top and bottom to the case, their
sides being also connected to the case. An air educt pipe plis connected to the
back of the case there being a valve q located there. The cover 72 of the case is
hinged.
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The radiator sections are heated in the ordinary way by steam or hot water 1
being forced into or allowed to run through them. Air passes through the educt
pipe into the case around the sections and out at the outlet 73. If desired,
the cover 2 may be raised and the air let out at the top.
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 2
I claim is―
1. The combination of the case having an air inlet and an air outlet, and
between the two a series of shelves, and a water receptacle at the bottom of the
case, with a wind wheel located at the air inlet, and a pump operated by such
wind wheel, the pump being connected with the water receptacle at the bottom of 2
the case, as set forth.
2. The combination of the case having an air inlet and an air outlet, and
between the two a series of shelves, and a water receptacle at the bottom of the
case, with a wind wheel located at the air inlet, shutters between the wheel and
air inlet, and a pump operated by such wind wheel, the pump being connected a
with the water receptacle at the bottom of the case, as set forth.
3. The combination of the case having an air inlet and an air outlet, and
between the two a series of shelves, and a water receptacle at the bottom of the
case, with a wind wheel located at the air inlet, and a pump operated by such
wind wheel, such pump consisting of a chain with buckets, the pump being con-
nected with the water receptacle at the bottom of the case, as set forth.
4. The combination of the case having an air inlet and an air outlet, and
between the two a series of shelves, and a water receptacle at the bottom of the
case, with a wind wheel located at the air inlet, and a pump operated by such
wind wheel, such pump consisting of a chain with buckets, the buckets of the
pump alternately opening in opposite directions, the pump being connected with
the water receptacle at the bottom of the case, as set forth.
5. The combination of the case having an air inlet and an air outlet, and
between the two a series of shelves, and a water receptacle at the bottom of the
case, and a chain pump communicating with said water receptacle and the case
at the air inlet, the buckets of the pump alternately opening in opposite directions,
as set forth.
6. An air cleansing device provided with a number of baffle plates, the last of
which has a trough at one end, and an outlet pipe at such trough, as set forth.
7. An air cleansing device provided with a number of baffle plates the last of
which has a trough at one end, an outlet pipe at such end, and a trough below
such end, as set forth.
8. An air cleansing device provided with a number of baffle plates, the last of
which has a trough at one end, an outlet pipe at such end; and a trough below
the lower end of said baffle plate, the latter trough also having an outlet pipe, as
set forth.

page_text: 9. An air cleansing and cooling device provided with baffle plates, and an ice
receptacle opposite to the end of one of the first baffle plates, as set forth.
10. The air cleansing and cooling device A, having the baffle plates D and D',
overlapping each other, the end d, of the baffle plate D¹ being turned back to
form a trough, and having the outlet pipe d; the trough, ', across the case
and under the lower end of the baffle plate and having the down pipe f, as set
forth.
11. An air cleansing device provided with baffle plates, and an ice receptacle
placed opposite the end of one of the baffle plates, there being a space between
such end and the ice receptacle, as set forth.
12. An air cleansing device provided with the baffle plates, and an ice re-
ceptacle placed opposite the end of one of the baffle plates, there being a space
between such end and the ice receptacle, and there being no ice receptacle between
the end of the last baffle plate and the side of the air cleansing device, as set
forth
13. The air cleansing and cooling device, A, having the baffle plate D, secured
at one end of the case, but stopping short of the other end, and the ice receptacle
placed between the baffle plate D, and the end of the case, as set forth.
14. The case, A, provided with the baffle plates, D, and D', the latter having a
trough at one end, and the air inlet a and air outlet a¹, with a water supply pipe C,
connected to the air inlet, a, as set forth.
15. The combination of a casing having an inlet and an outlet for air, and a
radiator therein, consisting of a series of wings or sections spaced apart, and de-
flectors closing the space between the wings or sections and the casing at top and
bottom and so arranged as to cause the air to move circuitously around and
between the wings or sections, the space between the sides of the wings or sections
and the casing being closed as set forth.
16. The combination of a casing having an inlet and an outlet for air, and a
radiator therein, consisting of a series of wings or sections spaced apart, and
deflectors closing the space between the wings or sections and the casing at top
and bottom and so arranged as to cause the air to move circuitously around and
between the wings or sections, the space between the sides of the wings or
sections and the casing being closed, the casing also being provided with a re-
movable top or cover whereby the air may be allowed to escape at the top of the
casing or be caused to pass around and between the radiator sections before
escaping as set forth.
17. The combination of a casing having an inlet and outlet for air, and a
radiator therein, consisting of several wings or sections placed in such casing
and spaced apart, and the deflector plates alternately connected at the top and
bottom of the casing to the wings or sections and to the casing, as set forth.
Dated this Thirteenth day of July 1897
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.