IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER APPARATUS FOR WARMING BUILDINGS AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I PALMER DALTON of No 34 Upper Gloucester Place Dorcet Square in the
County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER APPARATUS FOR WARMING BUILDINGS AND
FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in hot water apparatus for
warming buildings and for other purposes.
The apparatus consists in a closed system of wrought iron tubes of peculiar
construction: they are an inch and three quarters in external diameter and a
quarter of an inch thick so that they are of great strength. The end of these
inbes which butt together are provided with right and left handed screws and
they are connected by means of sockets, also with right and left handed screw
threads. The sockets draw the ends of the tubes together and force the end of
one tube, which is coned, against and into the flattened end of the other tube.
By means of tubes of this construction an endless circulating system is provided.
The system is furnished with a loaded relief valve and it is kept full of water,
or by preference a solution which will not freeze by exposure to any ordinary
temperature.
A comparatively small portion of this circulating system is contained within the
body of a furnace; here the liquid takes up heat, which, as it flows in the pipes it
rapidly diffuses through the entire system.
The portion of the system exterior to the furnace, we sometimes enclose in a
chamber or casing through which a current of air is driven or allowed to pass.
The air which thus becomes heated is admitted to the building or other place which
the apparatus is employed to warm.

page_text: I, PALMER DALTON of No 34 Upper Gloucester Place Dorset Square in the
County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER APPARATUS FOR WARMING BUILDINGS, AND FOR
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in hot water apparatus for
warming buildings and for other purposes.
The apparatus consists in a closed system of wrought iron tubes of peculiar
construction: they are an inch and three quarters in external diameter and a
quarter of an inch thick so that they are of great strength. The end of these tubes
which butt together are provided with right and left handed screws and they are
connected by means of sockets, also with right and left handed screw threads.
The sockets draw the ends of the tubes together and force the end of one tube,
which is coned, against and into the flattened end of the other tube.
By means of tubes of this construction an endless circulating system is provided.
The system is furnished with a loaded relief valve and it is kept full of water,
or by preference a solution which will not freoze by exposure to any ordinary
temperature.
A comparatively small portion of this circulating system is contained within the
body of a furnace; here the liquid takes up heat which, as it flows in the pipes it
rapidly diffuses through the entire system.
The portion of the system exterior to the furnace we sometimes enclose in a
chamber or casing through which a current of air is driven or allowed to pass.
The air which thus becomes heated is admitted to the building or other place
which the apparatus is employed to warm.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a perspective sectional view of a building provided with hot
apparatus for warming it and for other purposes. This apparatus is arranged in
accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a section of the tubing which is used throughout the apparatus. It
is of an inch and three quarters in external diameter and one quarter of an inch
thick. At the ends of the tubes which butt together there are right and left hand
threads and these ends are received into a socket having corresponding threads
which draw the tubes together and force the coned end of the one against the
flattened end of the other.
In Figure 1 a represents a furnace in which a coil of such tubing is located and
from this coil the tubes are continuous as a closed system through such of the

page_text: following special appliances as in each case it may be considered expedient to
provide. b is a coil within an ornamental open work case serving the purposes
of a stove. c is a like arrangement but with air admitted to the case from the
outside; it serves then as a ventilating appliance. d d are heating pipes contained
in a trough sunk beneath a floor and covered with a grating.
ee are heating pipes conducted around a room and concealed by a skirting
board.
ff are heating pipes supported on standards against a wall.
gg represents a coil located in a drying or disinfecting closet.
hh represents a coil within an open water cistern from which hot water is
supplied to the house.
i, i, is a loaded valve contained within a filling cistern. The weight on this valve
is sufficient to prevent the formation of steam within the pipes but the valve can
open to let out liquid when the pressure rises from the expansion of the liquids by
the heat of the furnace.
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). My improved hot water apparatus consisting of a closed circulating system
built up with the tubes and sockets herein described.
(2). The hot water apparatus herein described and illustrated by the annexed
drawings.