IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER APPARATUS AND BOILERS FOR HEATING SAME, SAID BOILERS BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Ormson, of Stanley Bridge, Chelsea, in
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the County of Middlesex, Horticultural Builder and Hot Water
Apparatus Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT
WATER APPARATUS AND BOILERS FOR HEATING SAME, SAID BOILERS BEING ALSO
APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Ormson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th January 1875.
I, HENRY ORMSON, of Stanley Bridge, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, Horticultural Builder and Hot Water Apparatus Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HOT WATER APPARATUS AND BOILERS FOR HEATING SAME, SAID BOILERS BEING
ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a divisional, or a single, double, treble, and
quadruple system of heating by hot water apparatus, and has for its
object to afford the power of heating say one quarter, one half, or three-

page_text: fourths, or the whole of the apparatus, according to the arrangement and
number of pipes or other appliances used, and by this means effects a
great saving of fuel when only a part of the apparatus is used, the water
in the other parts remaining quite cold, according to the state of the
weather and temperature required in the various buildings to be warmed, 5
such as churches, mansions, courts of law, public and private buildings
of all descriptions, conservatories, hothouses, greenhouses, and horti-
cultural buildings of every description.
In this apparatus I use a circulating box, either open or closed, which
is capable also of answering for a supply and feed cistern, and by this
arrangement I do away with the other feed cistern, pressure pipe, stop-
cocks or valves, hose pipe, force pump and bucket, or I use them as I
may think proper.
The boiler and furnace I prefer to be of the following construction:―
I have a single boiler, or when desired a boiler furnished with a water
jacket, forming thereby in effect a double boiler, made either of wrought
or cast iron, or any other description of metal, and I prefer to use the
form of a dome, and within the space covered thereby to have the furnace
and fire-chamber, said form of boiler being constructed so that the stoke-
hole and deep setting required for ordinary boilers are dispensed with,
which is one great desideratum effected by my said Invention, and I
prefer also that the boiler be arranged so as to rest on a level with the
floor line of the building or buildings required to be heated, such boiler to
have one or more dip, parts or legs for receiving the return water, such dip
parts being either formed with the boiler or made separate and connected
to same, and for making the boiler in one, two, or more parts. But
what I consider most particularly desirable are the leg or legs or dip part or
parts of the boiler, as used in connection with my said divisional hot
water apparatus herein described. In this boiler and furnace I can use
any available description of fuel, lime, chalk, coal, coke, wood, peat, and
so forth.
The details of the apparatus I now prefer to adopt are these:-I have
expansion and pressure pipes with circulating box, which is fed from a
feed cistern. A stop-cock or valve is used for stopping off the water
from the pressure pipes above mentioned. The pressure pipes are fed by a
force pump or bucket connected to the same by hose or pipes, to which a
stop-cock or valve is connected for stopping off water from pressure pipe.

page_text: Flow pipe or pipes run from the boiler to the circulating box, and also
from circulating box pipes proceed for circulating the hot water. These
are in stacks or ranges, which are connected with the flow pipe or pipes
by a duct or chamber provided with valves having knobs or handles
outside, by turning some or all of which some or all will be put in
operation, and thus entire or divisional action will be obtained, as the
case may be, and the said duct or chamber I prefer being so made that
the back part is separate from the other part of the duct and chamber,
and that such back part is attached to the other part of the duct or
chamber by screws and packing, or simply by caulking.
The return pipe or pipes to the boiler is or are connected, as before
stated, to the leg or legs or dip parts of the boiler conveying the return
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Ormson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
ORMSON, of Stanley Bridge, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Horti-
cultural Builder and Hot Water Apparatus Engineer, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Ormson, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Ormson, my exécutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Ormson, 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
HOT WATER APPARATUS AND BOILERS FOR HEATING SAME, SAID BOILERS BEING
ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Henry Ormson, my executors or administrators, by an instru-

page_text: ment 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 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 Henry Ormson, 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 :-
This Invention relates to a divisional, or single, double, treble, and
quadruple system of heating by hot water apparatus, and has for its
object to afford the power of heating, say one quarter, one half, three-
fourths, or the whole of the apparatus, according to the arrangement
and number of pipes or other appliances used, and thereby effect a great
saving of fuel when only a part of the apparatus is used, the water in
the other parts remaining quite cold, according to the state of the
weather and the temperature required in the various buildings to be
warmed, such as churches, law, public, and private buildings of all
descriptions, conservatories, hothouses, greenhouses, and horticultural
buildings of every description.
In this apparatus I use a circulating box, either open or closed, which
is capable also of answering for a supply and feed cistern, and by this
arrangement I can do away with any other feed cistern, presure pipe,
stop-cocks or valves, hose pipe, force pump and buckets, or I use these
as I may think proper.
In the boiler and furnace I adopt substantially the following con-
struction, which, however, is varied in some of the details thereof, to
suit particular circumstances when required:-I have a single boiler, or
when desired a boiler furnished with a water jacket, forming thereby in
effect a double boiler, made either of wrought or cast iron, or any other
description of metal, and in some cases I prefer to use the form of a
dome, and within the space covered thereby to have the furnace and
fire-chamber, said form of boiler being constructed so that the deep
stoke-hole and deep setting required for ordinary boilers can be dispensed
with, which is a desideratum that can be effected by my said Invention,'
and I sometimes prefer also that the boiler be arranged so as to rest on a
level with the floor line of the building or buildings required to be

page_text: heated, such boiler by preference having for most purposes one or more
dip parts or legs for receiving the return water, such dip part or parts
being either formed with the boiler or made separate and connected to
same; and further, I can make the boiler in one, two, or more parts. But
I consider most particularly desirable the leg or legs or dip part or parts
of the boiler, as used in connection with my said divisional hot water
apparatus herein described. In this boiler and furnace I can use any
available description of fuel, lime, chalk, coal, coke, wood, peat, and
so forth.
The details of the apparatus -I usually prefer adopt are these:-I
have expansion and pressure pipes, with circulating box, which is fed
from a feed cistern. A stop-cock or valve is used for stopping off the
water from the pressure pipes above mentioned. The pressure pipes arc
fed by a force pump or bucket connected to the same by hose or pipes,
to which a stop-cock or valve is connected for stopping off water from
the presure pipe. Flow pipe or pipes run from the boiler to the circu-
lating box, and also from the circulating box pipes proceed for circulating
the hot water; these are in stacks or ranges, which are connected with
the flow pipe or pipes by a duct or chamber provided with valves, having
knobs or handles outside, by turning some or all of which some or all
will be put in operation, and thus entire or divisional action will be
obtained as the case may be, and the said duct or chamber I prefer to be
so made that the back part is separate from the other part of the duct or
chamber, and that such back part be attached to the other part of the
duct or chamber by screws and packing, or simple by caulking.
The return pipe or pipes to the boiler is or are connected, as before
stated, to the leg or legs or dip parts of the boiler conveying the return
water to the boiler.
Having thus far particularly described the nature of my said Invention,
and indicated generally in what manner the same may be performed, I
will now, in further compliance with the said condition in the said Letters
Patent contained, particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the
said Invention is to be performed or carried out in practice by referring
to the accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents an elevation (the boiler being in section) of my
improved apparatus.

page_text: Figure 3 is end elevation of the series of pipes, shewing valves."
Figure 4 is sectional view of opposite end of pipes.
Figure 5 is an isometrical view of another form of boiler, which may
be fitted to the apparatus shewn in Figure 1, in which case the tubes
round the same are dispensed with, and the dip part or parts, or leg or ♬
legs, is or are added at any point, as for instance, at the point marked *,
but this boiler, as shewn in the Figure, is in itself a boiler and cir-
culating apparatus; Figure 6 is sectional plan of Figure 5.
Figure 7 is a longitudinal section of a boiler which is specially adapted
for burning lime or chalk, or the same mixed with other fuel; Figure 8 1
is an isometrical view of said boiler; Figure 9 is front view.
In the said Drawings A is pressure and expansion pipe; B, close
cistern and circulating box; C, open cistern for supplying water to
the apparatus; D, valve in feed pipe and for stopping off pressure;
E, valve for stopping back pressure of water; F, hose or pipe to
be connected to force pump and bucket when required; G, G, flow
pipes from boiler to circulating box B; H, floor line, which, however,
may differ in position according as more or less deep setting is desired;
I, flow pipe from circulating box B, said flow pipe running from the
said box under the floor to building or buildings to be heated. In the
Drawing (Figure 1) the said flow pipe is connected, as shewn, to a series
of pipes I', which are fitted with valves for regulating the flow of the
water through them. The water after circulating round the pipes 1' is
conveyed by return pipe J to the dip part or leg K under the boiler L,
said dip part being in communication with the boiler. The return water
feeds the boiler. In the case of the series of pipes I¹ the water flows
through the series in communication with flow pipe I, and passes through
and back by the series in connection with the return pipe J. The pipes
may of course be laid either horizontally or vertically. M is an opening
in the leg or dip part K, through which when required the sediment from
the boiler is drawn.
The boiler shewn in the Drawing (Figure 1) at top and bottom is
nearly semicircular, and the two ends are connected by tubes 7, which
.are fitted or cast into the ends, the water for heating circulating through
the tubes, and also the top and bottom of the boiler; ", the fire-bars of
the boiler; N is the feeder to the boiler, through which the fuel for com-

page_text: said feeder or by the opening N¹ in front of the bars ; O represents
valves in series of pipes I' to allow of divisional circulation of the
water, as by means of these valves any two or more of said pipes may be
5 closed.
In Figures 5 and 6 the water, it can be seen, has free circulation right
through the boiler and through the tubes fitted round the said boiler,
the water rising first through the inner part a of the boiler and returning
through the tubes / back again to the inner part a, from where it first
> proceeded.
In Figures 7, 8, and 9 T is the outlet or flow from the boiler; V is the
inlet or return to the boiler. The leg or dip part is to be added if desired
at the part * * ; P is the fire-bars; Q, bars arranged in front of the
boiler for retaining the lime or fuel in the fire-box of boiler; R and R¹
are doors through which the boiler is charged with fuel. The opening $ is
for drawing out the lime and ashes.
In Figures 5 and 6 the boiler shewn constitutes a boiler and circulating
apparatus in itself, but when used as a boiler in connection with the other
herein before described arrangements of my said Invention it will bo
desirable to put it in connection with the circulating box, and the con-
nection can be made at point *, *, or elsewhere. The leg or dip part is
when used in connection with arrangements shewn in Figure I. added to
any convenient place below the boiler, as for instance, at * (Fig. 6),¯
but when such leg or dip arrangement is adopted, then a flow pipe from
the top of the boiler would have to be connected to a circulating box
with other circulating arrangements, as herein-before described and as
above mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed
or carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the said
Invention of "Improvements" in Hot Water Apparatus and Boilers for
Heating Same, said Boilers being also Applicable to other Uses," as
herein-before described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings,
it being understood that I do not limit myself to the use of the exact
details described and shewn by the Drawings, nor do I claim the same,

page_text: except as constituents of my said Invention, and substantially as the
said Invention is herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Ormson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
T. MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Lª.,
21, Cockspur Street,
London, S.W.
HENRY ORMSON. (L.S.)