IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING, VAPOURISING, AND CAUSING A FREE CIRCULATION OF FRESH AIR IN HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND OTHER BUILDINGS, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE VENTILATION OF MINES AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, of Aylesbury, in the
County of Buckingham, Gentleman, for the Invention of
IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING, VAPOURISING, AND CAUSING A FREE
CIRCULATION OF FRESH AIR IN HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE VENTILATION OF
MINES AND OTHER PLACES."
Sealed the 17th January 1871, and dated the 20th July 1870.'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th July 1870.
I, AMBROSE LLOYD TAYLOR, of Aylesbury, in the County of Buck-
ingham, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING, VAPOURISING, AND CAUSING
A FREE CIRCULATION OF FRESH AIR IN HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS, WHICH APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE VENTILATION OF MINES
AND OTHER PLACES," to be as follows:
Firstly. I use pipes of the ordinary character for conveying hot water,
steam, hot air, or any other heating medium having thereon a trough

page_text: or receptaale for holding water extending nearly the whole length of the
pipe, which can be used simply as a vapourising pipe for vapourising
plants and otherwise contained in horticultural buildings, but by closing
the top of the trough with a plate of sheet iron, zinc, or any other metal,
or with cast iron, such plate having a hole at one end to which I can
connect a tube or pipe for conveying fresh air from the outside of any
building or apartment over the surface of the heated pipe, and by con-
fining it in its passage along such pipe cause it to issue into such
building or apartment as warmed fresh air; or fresh air from outside
could be conveyed into the said trough through one or more apertures
in the side of the said trough. When water is placed in the trough
before mentioned the heat obtained from its close proximity to the pipe
containing the hot water or other heating media causes it to evaporate
and discharge a gentle vapour, and the air which is attracted in from
outside the building or apartment in passing over the surface of such
water is charged with moisture, and therefore supplies moisture as well
as pure air to the building or apartment in which it is fixed.
Secondly. The trough or receptacle is so cast or formed along the pipe
that divisions can be made in it for ventilating purposes by using and
bending or forming plates of iron, zinc, or other metal, so that instead
of having but one orifice for the attraction or discharge of fresh air on
each pipe, as many as three or four may be made.
Thirdly. When the angle at which the pipes are fixed will admit I
purpose to bore or make two or more holes in the pipe at the bottom
of the trough, so that the labour and attention of supplying water for
the purposes of evaporation is avoided by the water (when hot water
circulations are used as the heating medium) rising through the hole out
of the pipe at one end and falling in again at the other end through
another hole, thus keeping the trough on the pipe fully supplied with
water.
Fourthly. I so arrange the size and dimensions of such trough or
receptacle that it in no way offers any difficulty to the pipes being
connected by ordinary syphons, bends, or otherwise, thus saving the
expense of having the syphons, bends, or otherwise cast in some
uncommon and expensive manner.
Fifthly. I also include as part of my Invention an improvement in the
casting or forming separate troughs or receptacles, which can be readily
applied to ordinary hot water pipes where the angle at which they are

page_text: fixed will admit of the water rising out of the pipes through holes as
before described, and thus forming a connection for the conduction
of heat from the water in circulation to the covered trough for warming
the fresh air attracted from outside.
Sixthly. I likewise include as part of my Invention an improvement
in the casting or forming of a trough of such shape and size as entirely
to surround the pipe containing the heating medium, such trough being
so made as when desired to contain water for evaporation underneath the
said pipe, and having at the top a loose plate such as herein-before
described for the closing of the same.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMBROSE
LLOYD TAYLOR, of Aylesbury, in the County of Buckingham, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, Her special licence,
that I, the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING, VAPOURISING, AND CAUSING A FREE CIRCULATION
OF FRESH AIR IN HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND OTHER BUILDINGS, WHICH
APPARATUS IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR THE VENTILATION OF MINES AND OTHER
PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Ambrosę
Lloyd Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and

page_text: in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
I use pipes of the ordinary character for conveying hot water, steam,
hot air, or any other heating medium, having thereon a trough or
receptacle for holding water extending nearly the whole length of the
pipe, which can be used simply as a vapourising pipe for vapourising
plants and other things contained in horticultural buildings, but by
closing nearly the whole length of the top of the trough with a plate
of sheet iron, zinc, or any other metal, or with cast iron, such plate
having a hole at one end, I can connect a tube or pipe for conveying
fresh air from the outside of any building or apartment over the surface
of the heated pipe, and by confining it in its passage along such pipe
cause it to issue by the closed end of the trough into such building or
apartment as warmed fresh air, or fresh air from outside could be
conveyed into the said trough through one or more apertures in the side
of the said trough, and in such case provision is to be made for discharge
of the air into the building or apartment through openings in the lid
or cover of the trough. When water is placed in the trough before
mentioned the heat obtained from its close proximity to the pipe con-
taining the hot water or other heating media causes it to evaporate and
discharge a gentle vapour, and the air which is attracted in from outside
the building or apartment in passing over the surface of such water
is charged with moisture and therefore supplies moisture as well as pure
air to the building or apartment in which it is fixed. The trough or
receptacle should be so cast (or formed) along the pipe that divisions
can be made in it for ventilating purposes by using and bending or
forming plates of iron, zinc, or other metal, so that instead of having but
one orifice for the attraction or discharge of fresh air on each pipe, as
many as three or four may be used. When the angle at which the pipes
are fixed will admit I bore or make two or more holes in the pipe, so
that the labour and attention of supplying water for the purposes of
evaporation is avoided by the water (when hot water circulations are
used as the heating medium) rising through the hole out of the pipe

page_text: at one end and falling in again at the other end through another hole,
thus keeping the trough on the pipe fully supplied with water. I take
care to so arrange the size and dimensions of such trough or receptacle
that it in no way offers any difficulty to the pipes being connected by
ordinary syphons, bends, or otherwise, thus saving the expense of having
the said syphons, bends, or otherwise cast in some uncommon and
expensive manner.
I also include as part of my Invention the casting or forming separate
troughs or receptacles which can be readily applied to ordinary hot
water pipes, where the angle at which they are fixed will admit of the
water rising out of the pipes through holes as before described, and thus
forming a connection for the conveyance of heat from the water in.
circulation to the covered trough for warming the fresh air attracted
from outside.
And I likewise include as part of my Invention an improvement in
the casting or forming a trough of such shape and size as entirely to
surround the pipe containing the heating medium, such trough being
so made as when desired to contain water for evaporation underneath
the said pipe, and having at the top a loose plate such as herein-before
described for the closing of the same.
Having thus far described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in practice,
I will now for the better exemplification thereof refer to the Drawings
with which I have accompanied this Specification as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, transverse section of a pipe A with trough B cast with same,
with the lid C sliding in rebates in the sides of the trough; Fig. 2,
transverse section of pipe A with trough B cast with square sides **,
having a loose top or lid C supported on the tops of the sides of the
pipe by straps of iron C* ; Fig. 3, transverse section of a pipe A with
double trough B, B, surrounding the pipe C (the lower part of trough
for containing water) cast separate from the pipe, and which can be
applied to apparatus already fixed; Fig. 4, section of trough (B)
for fitting above the pipe A, the lid C being supported on the tie rods D,.
which pass through the sides of the trough and tie same together;
E are nipples in the trough B, inserted in holes in the pipe for evaporation
purposes; Figs. 5 and 6, perspective views. Other forms of lids or covers
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page_text: than those shown may be used if desired, for instance, the edges of the
lid may be turned over so as to slide on the tops of the sides of the
trough without further provision for same.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I
hereby declare that I claim, the Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus
for Warming, Vapourising, and Causing a Free Circulation of Fresh Air
in Horticultural Structures and other Buildings, which Apparatus is
also applicable for the Ventilation of Mines and other Places," in which
apparatus the principal and important features are, the construction
of troughs with lids or covers, substantially as herein described, the
herein described provision for vapourising the trough, the double trough
arrangement, and the single trough constructed as a separate appliance;
it being understood that I do not claim as new or limit myself to the
use of the particular constructive details herein described and represented
in the Drawings, which may be varied without substantially departing
from the nature of my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thouand eight hundred and
Seventy-one.
AMBROSE LLOYD TAYLOR. (L.S.)
Witness to the signature of the
said Ambrose Lloyd Taylor,
H. WYATT,
Walton,
Aylesbury.