Improvements in Heating Water or other Liquid for Warming Rooms and Buildings.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVIDIUNAL DI MUIFICATION.
Improvements in Heating Water or other Liquid for Warming
Rooms and Buildings.
I WILLIAM PAITFIELD ENGLISH of 180 High Street in the town and county of the
town of Kingston-upon-Hull merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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The object of my invention is to provide means for warming rooms and buildings
and so to construct and arrange the apparatus by which this is effected that preferably
an existing gas burner or other source of light in the one room or on the one floor
can warm one or more other rooms or one or more other floors as may be desired.
I will describe my invention as applied to an existing gas burner.
Over this burner I suspend what I call a shade which acts as such and at such an
height as not to interfere with the utility of the light and this shade can very
conveniently be of a conical or other somewhat similar shape and is preferably
made of sheet metal which may be plane or corrugated as may be desired.
shade is made with two or more walls whereby one or more annular and concentric
or other narrow chambers are formed therein which can be filled with water oi
other, liquid which absorbs the heat from the burner and when there are two or
more of these chambers they can communicate with each other where require!
preferably at or near the lower parts of the same. At the upper part of the shade
one or more pipes communicate with the. one or more chambers and the pipe or
pipes is or are led to the other room or floor and thence if desired to other rooms
or other floors where it or they can be disposed in..coils or led to a reservoir or
reservoirs or otherwise treated as may be usual in hot water heating apparatus or
as may be convenient in each particular case and when two or more pipes are so
fitted to the shade they preferably communicate therewith at different levels and
the whole apparatus is duly filled with the liquid.
In any case it is obvious that the liquid will be highly heated in the narrow chamber
or chambers of the shade by the waste heat of the gas flame and therefore will rise
through the pipe or pipes and through the whole apparatus establishing and main-
taining the required circulation of the liquid as long as the gas flame exists and the
other room or floor or so many of them as are fitted with the apparatus will be
warmed as is desired.
One shade can also be made to spread over many gas burners as for example over a
chandelier and the heat from any flame whether gas or oil or otherwise and whether
the flame is also used for giving light or not can be utilized in a similar manner.
Any suitable valves or other appliances may be fitted to prevent the hot water
flowing to any particular part of the apparatus when it is so desired and the shade
can also be suspended telescopically or otherwise so that it can be removed from tho
influence of the heat.
The apparatus can be duly filled with the liquid in the usual manner with the 'usual
valves and a tap can be fitted at the lower part of the shade or elsewhere to draw off
the hot liquid when required.
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A pipe can be taken if desired from the top of the shade to any desired position up
which the products of combustion can pass.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heating Water or other Liquid for Warming
Rooms and Buildings.
I WILLIAM PAITFIELD ENGLISH of 180 High Street in the town and county of the
town of Kingston-upon-Hull Merchant 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 my invention is to provide means for warming rooms and
buildings by bot water or other liquid and so to construct and arrange and fit the
apparatus by which this is effected that preferably the existing gas burner or burners
or other source of light in the one room or on the one floor shall warm one or more
other rooms or one or more other floors as may be desired.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have shewn
my invention as applied to and with an ordinary three light gas chandelier to. warm
one room above and Figure 1 is an elevation of the same shewing one convenient and
suitable form and style and arrangement of my apparatus partly in section and
Figure 2 is an horizontal section of this apparatus taken at a bin Figure 1.
Över each burner is a conical shade A at such an height there above as not to
interfere with the utility and usefulness of the light of the flame in this burner but on
the other hand the rather as shades generally do to enhance this utility and usefulness
and the shade A is made of any suitable material it may be of plane sheet metal and
with double walls in such wise that a narrow annular and concentric chamber B is
formed and created therein extending from its apex to its base. At or about the level
of the lower parts of the shades A is an horizontal tubular ring C which is connected
separately with each of the shades A by the pipes D and communications are made by
and through these pipes D between the interior of the ring C and each of the
chambers B at or near the bottoms thereof. From the top or apex of each shade A. is
led a pipe E to another and preferably smaller horizontal tubular ring F it may be
near the ceiling or the top of the chandelier and communications are made by and
through these pipes E between the interior of the ring F and each of the chambers B
at the tops or apices thereof. These rings C and F can most conveniently as is shewn
in the drawing surround the central stem of the chandelier and when the apparatus is
constructed as is hereinbefore described it can all be suspended by and from and
through the upper ring F in any convenient manner. From the ring F is led a pipe G
to the room above where it can enter an ordinary and suitable hot water stove Hand
a communication is made by and through this pipe G between the interior of the
ring F and the water space in the stove H. From the stove H also is led another
pipe K to the ring C hereinbefore described preferably as is shewn in Figure 1 by the
side of one of the aforesaid pipes E and a communication is made by and through this
pipe K between the interior of the ring C and the water space in the stove H. Both
these pipes G and K terminate and open in and into the water space in the stove H in
such positions and at such levels as may be desirable and convenient and suitable or
as is usual in similar hot water heating apparatus. A suitable aperture or funnel L
can be fitted in and to the stove H at the desired position and level which can be
closed by any ordinary combined safety valve and plug or otherwise in the usual or
other manner.
When therefore this apparatus is duly filled with water or other liquid in such
quantity as may be desired it may be through the aperture L which can then be
closed and the gas is lighted in the burners of the chandelier the liquid in the
narrow chambers B of the shades A will be rapidly heated by the flames and
rising through all the pipes E will meet in the ring F thence passing through the
pipe G into the stove H while the cooler liquid will descend from the stove H
through the pipe K to the ring thence passing through the pipes D back to
the chambers B and thus is established and maintained the required circulation of

page_text: the liquid which will speedily and highly heat the whole body of the same and the
room above will be properly warmed as is desired.
I have thus described and I have shewn in the accompanying drawing as is
aforesaid one very convenient and suitable form and style of my apparatus and one
method of arranging the same and of constructing and fitting the several parts thereof
which I consider will be found extremely efficient and useful but I would have it
clearly understood as indeed is sufficiently obvious that I do in no wise limit myself
thereto for many alterations and variations may be made in the apparatus and in the
method of arranging and constructing and fitting the same and the several parts
thereof as may be necessary or expedient or desirable in each particular case without.
departing from my invention some of which I will now proceed to indicate and
describe.
For example the shade A instead of being conical as hereinbefore described and as
shewn in the drawing may be made of any other desired and suitable shape and the
walls of the chamber B therein may be corrugated or be otherwise created and treated
instead of being plane as aforesaid.
Again instead of forming and creating only one narrow annular and concentric or
other chamber B in the shade A as hereinbefore described two or more similar
chambers may in like manner be formed and created therein which could communicate
with each other either at the bottoms and tops thereof or alternately at their bottoms
and tops or otherwise as may be desired and when so formed the pipe E being the
flow pipe would preferably be led from the innermost chamber as being the hottest
while the pipe K being the return pipe would be led to the outermost chamber as
being the coolest,
Again it is obvious that when there is only one burner and therefore only one
shade A the rings C and F hereinbefore described could be dispensed with and the
pipe E be led directly to the stove H and the pipe K be led directly to the lower part
of the chamber B or the said pipe K could even be dispensed with and only the one
pipe E be employed and especially when the shade A is small and the same arrange-
ment would or could be observed and followed when the one shade A is spread over
two or more burners and in this latter case when this shade A is large two or more
pipes E and two or more pipes K also if any may be fitted thereto in a similar
manner being led to and from different stoves H placed in different rooms or
elsewhere.
Again it is obvious that when there are two or more shades A each pipe E from.
each shade A could be led to a different stove H placed in different rooms or elsewhere
in which case the return pipe K if any would be led from each stove H to each
shade A in a similar manner and thus also the rings C and F herein before described
could be dispensed with.
Again the warming appliance need not necessarily be the stove H herein before
described and shewn in Figure 1 but the pipes may be disposed in coils or be led to a
reservoir or reservoirs or be otherwise arranged and treated in any convenient and
suitable manner as is usual and customary in hot water heating apparatus and further
the warming appliance need not in all cases use the liquid directly and immediately to.
disseminate the warmth but this appliance may provide the desired warinth by means
of the steam or hot air or gases that will naturally arise from the liquid in the shade
or shades below and this warming appliance would in each case be fitted and formed
as may be necessary or desirable or is usual and customary in other similar warming
appliances.
Again it may oftentimes be quite possible and practicable to warm not only one or
more rooms or floors above by this apparatus but also one or more rooms or. Hoors on
the same level or even below which also could be effected in the usual and ordinary
manner by providing a sufficient rise at the first in the flow pipe to maintain the
required circuiation of the liquid notwithstanding the subsequent descent of this pipe.
The warming appliance in all cases can be fitted with the usual and ordinary valves
and other devices if necessary or desirable that are common to and customary in hot
water and other heating apparatus and I need not mention them herein.

page_text: It is obviously possible when my apparatus is applied to a sliding chandelier as also
on other occasions when desired so to construct and fit the flow and return pipes in
any usual manner as to permit the shades also to be moved up and down:
I should procced in a similar manner to perform this my invention when oil or
other material or substance is to be used instead of gas to produce the flame or flames
and therethrough or thereby the necessary heat and no further description is or can be
needed.
A pipe with a tap could if desired be fitted to the chamber in the shade to draw
off the hot liquid therein as required in which case it would be convenient to
cause the upper part of the apparatus to be so fitted in any usual and suitable
manner with automatic or other appliances that when and as liquid is so drawn
off as aforesaid fresh liquid may be supplied so that there shall always be the due
desired quantity of the liquid in the apparatus and the shade shall not be burnt or
damaged by the heat of the flame or flames.
A pipe also can be taken if desired from the top or upper part of the shade to
any suitable position up which the products of combustion could pass and in this
case it would be convenient to make the flow pipe hereinbefore described an
annular pipe surrounding this flue pipe whereby the heat of this flow pipe would
be still further maintained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The combination with a gas flame or other source of heat of a shade A con-
taining a narrow annular and concentric or other chamber B and a flow pipe E
leading from the shade A to a warming appliance substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and declared.
2. The combination with a gas flame or other source of heat of a shade A con-
taining one or more narrow annular and concentric or other chambers B one or
more flow pipes leading from the shade A to one or more warming appliances and one
or more return pipes K leading from the warming appliance or appliances to the
shade A substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and declared.
3. The apparatus for heating water or other liquid for warming rooms and
buildings substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying
drawing.
Datall this 30th day of June 1800