Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Utilizing Waste Heat for Heating Buildings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Utilizing Waste
Heat for Heating Buildings.
I JAMES EVANS of Hill Top, Southowram near Halifax in the County of
York, Stone Shipper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of my invention is to utilize the waste heat in kitchen and other lower
rooms for heating the upper rooms or bedrooms.
I construct hot air chambers behind or within the kitchen or other ranges or fire-
places, having inlets for fresh air at the bottom, and outlets for the heated air at
the top of the said hot air chamber; the hot air is then carried by pipes or other
means to the chambers above, and admitted to such chambers preferably by means
of hollow skirtings, made of metal or other suitable substance, and having valves at
intervals to admit it into the rooms at the points required; when not required, it
can be turned outside or allowed to escape up the ordinary chimney, in some cases
coils or tubes may be carried partly up the back of the chimney for heating
the air.
Dated this Eighteenth day of January 1892.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Utilizing Waste
Heat for Heating Buildings.
1 JAMES EVANS of Hill Top, Southowram near Halifax in the County of
York, Stone Shipper, 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 object of my invention is to utilize the waste heat in kitchen and other lower
rooms for heating the upper rooms or bedrooms.
I construct hot air chambers formed behind or within the kitchen or other ranges
or fire-places, having inlets for fresh air at the bottom or at other convenient
position and outlets for the heated air at the top or side of the said hot air chamber,
the hot air is then carried by pipes or other means to the chambers above, and
admitted to such chambers preferably by means of hollow skirtings made of metal
or other suitable substance and having valves at intervals to admit and regulate the
air into the rooms at the points required, when not required it can be turned outside
or allowed to escape up the ordinary chimney, in some cases coils or tubes may be
carried partly up the back of the chimney for heating the air, or a coil may be
used at the back of the fire either in place of or in addition to the heating
chamber.

page_text: Fig. 4. is a sectional plan of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5. shows view of metal skirting with circular valve to regulate entrance of
hot air into the room.
Fig. 6. is a section of Fig. 5.
Fig. 7. is a sectional elevation of metal skirting board showing'jóint.
Fig. 8. is a cross section of Fig. 7.
Fig. 9. shows elevation of joint of skirting board.
Figs. 10. and 11. show plan and elevation of corner of metal skirting.
Fig. 12. shows front elevation of kitchen range with an inlet below grate.
Fig. 13. is a sectional elevation of Fig. 12.
Fig. 14. shows front elevation of kitchen range with vertical tubular ribs
or bars.
Fig. 15. is a sectional plan of Fig. 14.
I construct hot air chambers A formed behind or within the kitchen or other
ranges or fire-places having inlets 13 for fresh air at the bottom or at other
convenient position and outlets for the heated air at the top or side of the said 'hot
air chamber, the hot air is then carried by pipes or other means to the chanibers
above and admitted to such chambers preferably by means of hollow skirtings E
made of metal or other suitable substance and having valves F at intervals to admit
and regulate the air into the rooms at the points required, when not required it can
be turned outside or allowed to escape up the ordinary chimney. In some cases
coils or tubes may be carried partly up the back of the chimney for heating the air,
or a coil may be used at the back of the fire, either in place of or in addition to
the heating chamber. G are hollow fire bars horizontal as at Figs. 1 and 2 or
vertical as shown at Figs. 14 and 15.
The hot water boiler may be used at the back or sides of my heating chamber or
in other suitable position.
The position of the inlets B and outlet C may be varied to suit the depth and
positions of the chimney and coving in which the fire places are fixed, Hare the
regulators for the air inlets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Providing heating chamber A having air inlets B, (with or without valves H),
outlet C and pipes D, through which the hot air passes into metal, fireclay, or other
hollow skirtings E, provided with suitable valves F (for controlling the admission
of hot air to the rooms) substantially as shown and described.
2. The use and employment of hollow metal fire clay or other skirting with air
outlets or valves, 'for the purposes shown and described.
Dated the Seventeenth day, of October 1892.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicant.