IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER FOR WARMING ROOMS, HALLS, CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1881

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LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Drake, of Huddersfield in the County of York,
Solicitor, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING
WATER FOR WARMING ROOMS, HALLS, CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER PLACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Drake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st December 1881.
THOMAS DRAKE of Huddersfield in the County of York, Solicitor. IMPROVE
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER FOR WARMING ROOMS, HALLS,
CONSERVATORIES AND OTHER PLACES."
«
The object of my Invention is to arrange and construct a simple and inexpensive
apparatus for heating water, adapted to and capable of warming rooms, and other
places. For this purpose I employ a coil of piping of any suitable diameter and
material.
The lowest end of the coil is connected to a boiler or coned shaped vessel, the
bottom of the boiler being placed a little lower than the lowest part of the coil,
whilst the upper end of the coil is connected by means of a branch pipe to the
apex of the cone shaped boiler.
The water in the boiler is heated by means of a jet of gas, or a lamp containing
oil or spirit may be used. Water is introduced into the coil and from thence to
the boiler by a vertical pipe which enters the coil near the bottom, and in order to
keep the coil and boiler constantly full of water, and to feed it as it evaporates or
condenses, I put water in a vessel fixed at the top of the vertical feed pipe by
which means the coil and boiler are always full.
Projecting from the top of the coil is a small pipe, bent downward at the end
over the water supply vessel to let out any air that may be generated if however
the water in the said vessel is used up, and the coil is not full, steam will be
generated to such an extent as to blow off through the small projecting pipe and
sound a whistle placed in connection therewith.
A perforated cover may be placed over the coil and it may be ornamental so as
to be suitable for bed rooms, halls, and offices, and it may be constructed so as to
be portable or otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Drake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th June
1882.
"IMPROVE-
ROOMS, HALLS,
THOMAS DRAKE of Huddersfield in the County of York, Solicitor.
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER FOR WARMING
CONSERVATORIES, AND OTHER PLACES."
The object of my Invention is to arrange and construct a simple and inexpensive
apparatus for heating water, adapted to and capable of warming rooms and other
places. For this purpose I employ a coil of piping of any suitable diameter and
material. The lowest end of the coil is connected to a boiler or coned shaped
vessel, the bottom of the boiler being placed a little lower than the lowest part of
the coil, whilst the upper end of the coil is counected by means of a branch pipe
to the apex of the cone shaped boiler. The water in the boiler is heated by means
Water is introduced
of a jet of gas, or a lamp containing oil or spirit may be used.
into the coil and from thence to the boiler by a vertical pipe which enters the coil
near the bottom, and in order to keep the coil and boiler constantly full of water,
and to feed it as it evaporates or condenses, I put water in a vessel fixed at the
top of the vertical feed pipe, by which means the coil and boiler are always full.
Projecting from the top of the coil is a small pipe, bent downward at the end over
the water supply vessel to let out, any air that may be generated, if however the
water in the said vessel is used up and the coil is not full, steam will be generated
to such an extent as to blow off through the small projecting pipe and sound a
whistle placed in connection therewith. A perforated cover may be placed over
the coil and it may be ornamental so as to be suitable for bed rooms halls and
offices, and it may be constructed so as to be portable or otherwise.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood I herein give
reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings wherein Fig. 1 is an elevation
of the exterior of the apparatus and Fig. 2 is a section of same. A is a coil of
piping connected at its lower end to the cone shaped boiler B, the upper end of the
coil being connected by vertical pipe C to the apex of the boiler. This boiler has
a covering B' so as to retain the heat around the sides thereof. Water is introduced
into the coil and from thence to the boiler by another vertical pipe D from the
supply vessel E, and is heated by a lamp containing oil or by a jet of gas F. It
will thus be seen that the lighted gas will rapidly beat water in the cone shaped
boiler B and that the circulation thereof through the coiled pipes will throw a
considerable amount of heat into a room in which it is placed.
In order to keep the boiler and coil constantly full of water and to feed it as it
evaporates or condenses, the vessel E is filled with water for supplying the said
coil. If water in the coil becomes low owing to the exhaustion of water in the
vessel E steam will blow out of the pipe G into the vessel E and sound a whistle
which is formed at the end of the pipe G. A small pipe I is employed and provided
with a suitable tap to empty the boiler when necessary.
The whole of the apparatus is surrounded with an ornamental perforated cover H
provided with a perforated top so that it may be suitable for bed rooms, halls and
offices, all or any of which it is well adapted for warming. The openings J shewn
in Fig. 1 are filled in with colored glass so as to give the warm appearance of a
fire.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and shewn with the aid
of Drawings how the same may be carried into practice I would have it understood
that I do not limit myself to the precise details or configuration of the parts
I have described and shewn, as the same may be varied or modified without

page_text: departing from the nature of my said Invention, but what I do claim and desire
to be secured is,-
The combination of the coil A with cone shaped boiler B connected together
and supplied with water in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein
shewn and described.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Drake have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
THOS. DRAKE. (L.S.)