An Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and other Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and other Liquids.
Communicated by WILLIAM JOHN PAYNE, of the City and State of New York,
in the United States of America, Gentleman.
I ROBERT PINSON GLANVILLE of 86 Camberwell New Road Kennington in
the County of Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus in and by which water
and other liquids can very rapidly be heated by any source of heat whether coal or
coke or gas or oil or otherwise.
To carry out this object I form a receiver of any convenient size and preferably
circular in horizontal section into which the cold water or other liquid is delivered
and from the bottom of this receiver rises a false bottom preferably so shaped that
the liquid shall always be retained in this receiver round the false bottom therein.
Through the upper and central part of this false bottom rise a number of small
pipes or tubes which are led therefrom downwards as far as may be necessary and
may be either straight or curved or coiled or otherwise as may be desired and the
lower ends of these pipes or tubes all enter into an annular hollow ring wherefrom
rise a number of other pipes or tubes which pass up preferably straight into and
through the bottom of the receiver terminating the required distance above the
same inside the false bottom aforesaid. Inside and underneath the false bottom
and above the ends of the pipes or tubes is made another false bottom and the
space between these false bottoms constitutes an air chamber to retain the heat to
which any suitable valve may be fitted. Centrally in the bottom of the receiver is
formned a depression preferably in the form of a cup the edges or lip whereof may
rise a certain desired distance above the bottom and through the lower part of this
cup rise a number of small pipes or tubes which are led therefrom downwards as
far as may be necessary in any form and the lower ends of these pipes or tubes all
enter into a small chamber which may be situate either above or on a level with
or below the annular hollow ring aforesaid from which chamber the liquid can be
drawn off as required in any convenient manner. This apparatus is enclosed in
any suitable casing in the lower part whereof below the apparatus is the heating
chamber formed in any usual or convenient manner for the production of the
required heat from the fuel that is to be used.
Thus when heat is applied in and to this apparatus and water or other liquid is
delivered into the receiver the lower part thereof round and outside the upper false
bottom is first filled and the overflow passes down the pipes or tubes into the
annular hollow ring thence up again into the receiver inside the lower false bottom
filling the lower part thereof the overflow wherefrom then passes over the edges or
lip thereof into the cup and finally down the pipes or tubes to the chamber to be
drawn off all through which passage the water or other liquid is subjected to the
action of the heat and is therefore rapidly and highly heated as is desired.
If steam is or may be developed in this apparatus any suitable valve or valves
may be fitted to allow the escape of the same.
Dated this 16th day of January 1891.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
An Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and other Liquids.
Communicated by WILLIAM JOHN PAYNE, of the City and State of 'New York,
in the United States of America, Gentleman.
I ROBERT PINSON GLANVILLE of 86 Camberwell New Road Kennington in
the County of Surrey Gentleman 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 this invention is to provide an apparatus in and by which water
and other liquids can be highly heated very rapidly and quickly by any usual or
convenient source of heat whether it be coal or coke or gas or oil or otherwise.
In order the more clearly to explain this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have shewn a
very suitable-and efficient form and style of construction and arrangement of this
my improved apparatus for heating water and other liquids as and when fitted to
use gas as the source of heat and
Figure 1 is an elevation of the whole apparatus with the side of the casing
thereof removed.
Figue 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale of the upper part of the
apparatus in which the water or other liquid is heated.
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the same scale of the lower part of the same.
Figure 4 is an horizontal section taken at a bin Figure 2 and
Figure 5 is an horizontal section taken ated in Figure 3.
A receiver A is made in any usual or other manner and of any suitable metal or
material and of any convenient size or dimensions and preferably of a circular shape
in horizontal section whereinto the cold water or other liquid is delivered through
the pipe B preferably as is shown in the drawing at the centre of the top thereof
and centrally from the bottom of this receiver A rises a domed or other false
bottom C preferably so shaped and formed and so proportioned to the receiver A
that the water or other liquid shall always be retained in an annular space in the
bottom of this receiver A round and outside of the false bottom C. Through the
bottom of the receiver A. and it may be as is shewn in the drawing also through
the upper
and central part of the false bottom C rise any suitable or desirable or
convenient number of sinall tubes D preferably arranged in a circle and terminating
at the desired level it may most conveniently be as is shewn in the drawing a little
above the level of the top of the false bottom C or when it may be desired or
expedient so to do these tubes D may rise through the annular space hereinbefore
described in the bottom of the receiver A round and outside of the false bottom C
preferably also terminating at the level aforesaid and the tubes D are led down-
wards as far as may be necessary or convenient and may be either straight or
curved or waved or coiled or otherwise formed and treated as may be desired and
the lower ends of these tubes D all enter into an annular hollow ring E preferably
through the bottom or under side thereof as is shewn in the drawing from which
annular ring E it may be through the outer side or periphery thereof as is shewn
in the drawing issue a corresponding or other number of small tubes F which are
led upwards preferably straightly or in a right line to and rise through the bottom
of the receiver A inside of and underneath the false bottom C and these tubes F
also are preferably arranged in a circle and terminate at the desired level it may
most conveniently be as is shewn in the drawing a little above the bottom of the
receiver A. Centrally also from the bottom of the receiver A and inside of and
underneath the false bottom C hereinbefore described and above the ends of the
tubes F most conveniently rises another similar or other false bottom G preferably
arranged and formed and fitted as is shewn in Figure 1 and the space between
these false bottoms C and G constitutes an air chamber which serves to retain the

page_text: heat and whereto if necessary or expedient any usual and ordinary or other valve
with a suitable pipe or passage may be fitted. Centrally in the bottom of the
receiver A. and inside the two circles or series of tubes D and F hereinbefore
described is made a depression H preferably in the form of and like a cup as is
shewn in the drawing the upper edge or lip whereof may most conveniently rise a
certain desired distance above the bottom of the receiver A preferably as is shewn
in the drawing a little above the level of the upper ends of the tubes F. Through
the bottom or lower part of the cup H rise any suitable or desirable or convenient
number of small tubes K also preferably arranged in a circle and terminating at
the desired level it may most conveniently be as is shewn in the drawing a little
above the level of the bottom of the receiver A and a little below the level of the
upper edge or lip of the cup H and the tubes K are led downwards as far as may
be necessary or convenient and may be either straight or curved or waved or coiled
or otherwise formed and treated as may be desired and the lower ends of these
tubes Kall enter into a small chamber L preferably at different levels as is shewn
in the drawing which chamber L may be on a level with or below the annular
ring E hereinbefore described but is preferably above the same as is shown in the
drawing and from this chamber L issues a large pipe M which when the apparatus
is constructed and arranged as is shewn in the drawing can most conveniently pass
through the annular ring E and be led up outside the tubes D to a position just
below the receiver A whence it can be conducted to and terminate in any desired
position and through and from this pipe M the water or other liquid that has
passed through this apparatus can be drawn off as and when required in any
convenient manner and by and through any usual and ordinary or other appliances.
This apparatus hereinbefore described is enclosed in a casing N made in any
usual or other manner and of any suitable material or materials proper therefor
and of any convenient size and shape and in the lower part of this casing N
below the apparatus is the heating chamber P formed in any usual or convenient
manner for the production of the required heat from the fuel that is to be used in
this example that is shewn in the drawing from gas that is consumed in any ordinary
burners Q
Thus when heat is applied in and to this apparatus in manner as is shewn in the
drawing or otherwise and water or other liquid is delivered through the pipe B
into the receiver A. the lower part thereof round and outside of the false bottom (
is first filled and the overflow passes down the tubes D into the annular ring E
thence up through the tubes F back again into the receiver A but inside of and
underneath the false bottoms C and G if so fitted filling the lower part of the
receiver A and the overflow passes into the cup H and thence down the tubes K
into the chamber L to be drawn off through the pipe M as and when required
and it is obvious that through and during the whole of this passage hereinbefore
described the water or other liquid in the apparatus is subjected to the action of
the heat and is therefore highly heated very rapidly and quickly as is desired.
If steam is or may be developed in this apparatus or whenever it may be
desirable or expedient so to do any suitable valve or valves R can be fitted to
the receiver A or elsewhere in the apparatus to allow the escape of the same
or to obviate and remove any danger to the apparatus from any excess of pressure.
I may state that I consider the shapes and proportions of this apparatus and of
the several parts thereof and the methods and details of arrangement and fitment
of the same as hereinbefore described and as shewn in the accompanying drawing
to be the best and the most convenient and efficient and more especially do I so
consider the comparative elevations of the false bottoms the upper ends of the
tubes and the upper edge or lip of the cup in the receiver as so described and
shewn for it is obvious that in this apparatus a certain due amount or quantity of
the water or other liquid will always be retained in such parts of the same as are
exposed to the direct influence of the heat whereby the danger of burning or
destroying the apparatus will be reduced to a minimum and it is also very conducive
to the effective working of the apparatus and the speedy heating of the water or

page_text: other liquid therein that in its passage through the apparatus this water or other
liquid should not at one stage in its treatment lose any of the heat it has absorbed
by coming into contact with or under the influence of the colder water or other
liquid at an earlier stage in its treatment for which reason it is more especially that
the lower false bottom preferably fitted but at the same time I would state and
I would have it clearly understood that I may vary the shapes and proportions of
this apparatus and of the several parts thereof and the methods and details of
arrangement and fitment of the same as may be necessary or desirable or expedient
in each particular case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting this my
improved apparatus for heating water and other liquids substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
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HART & Co.