Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 12th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 14th Oct., 1887.
We JOSEPH RUSSELL trading as Rosser and Russell of 22 Charing Cross in the City
of Westminster Engineer, and JOHN SYLVESTER ROSSER of Horton Kirby in the
County of Kent Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for warming or for ventilating and warming
buildings; and it has for its object to combine the mode of warming air by means of
series of heated pipes with the system of draughtless ventilation in which the incoming
fresh air is directed upwards towards the ceiling where it spreads over the area of the
apartment and forms a cool descending stratum, as is well understood. By this
apparatus the incoming fresh air is warmed sufficiently to prevent the coolness of the
descending stratum of air being felt.
The Invention further consists in the construction and combination of parts
hereinafter described.
The apparatus consists of two parallel series of vertical circulation pipes for hot
water, steam, or air, each series rising from a horizontal chamber extending the
whole length of the series and common to all and being connected to a similar
chamber at top. Between the two series of pipes is a space for the ascent of
the upwardly directed current of air to be heated, said space communicating at
bottom with a chamber in the base of the apparatus and containing valves by which
the inlet of air to said chamber is controlled. One of these valves controls the
admission of air from the apartment itself, and the other the admission of air from
the exterior, and they are so connected and operated that when the one is open the
other is closed or they may both be made to stand partly open. The current of air
ascending between the two series of tubes becomes heated and escapes at the top

page_text: of the apparatus in the form of an upwardly directed current passing up close to the
wall of the apartment against which the apparatus is placed. The heat radiating
pipes are of peculiar section, being octagonal with re-entering panels at front and
back, whereby the heat radiating surface is increased and they are fitted between
vertical bars, and form therewith a structure of ornamental appearance closed at the
sides so as to prevent the lateral escape of the air current ascending between the front.
and back series of pipes.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heat Radiators.
We JOSEPH RUSSELL trading as Rosser and Russell, of 22 Charing Cross in the
City of Westminster, Engineer, and JOHN SYLVESTER ROSSER of Horton Kirby
in the County of Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to apparatus for warming or for ventilating and warming
buildings; and it has for its object to combine the mode of warming air by radiation
from a series of heated pipes with the system of draughtless ventilation in which the
incoming fresh air is directed upwards towards the ceiling where it spreads over the
area of the apartment and forms a descending stratum the coolness of which is
sometimes unpleasantly perceptible to the occupants of the apartment. By the
apparatus of this invention, the incoming fresh air is warmed sufficiently to avoid the
unpleasant coolness of the descending stratum of air.
The Invention further consists in the construction and combination of parts
hereinafter described.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification
in which figure 1. is a cross-sectional perspective view of the apparatus, and figure 2.
is a horizontal section across a few of the tubes drawn to a larger scale. The same
letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
The apparatus consists of two parallel series of vertical circulation pipes A for hot
water, steam, or air, each series rising from and being in communication with
a chamber B formed in a hollow casting or base, the chambers B corresponding
to the front and back series of tubes communicating with each other at the ends, the
tubes being connected to a hollow cornice C at top. Between the two series of pipes
is a space D in which incoming air ascends and becomes heated, said space
communicating at bottom, through a central passage in the hollow casting, with
an air inlet chamber E in the base of the apparatus and opening out at top through the
cornice C. The chamber E has air inlets at front and back provided with valves F G
by which the admission of air to said chamber is controlled. One of these valves F
controls the admission of air from the apartment itself and the other the admission
of air from the exterior, through an inlet in the wall near which the apparatus
is placed; they are hinged at the lower edge so as to direct the air upwards, and are
connected by a rod so that when the one is open the other is closed, or they may
both be made to stand partly open. The air entering said chamber ascends, in the
space D, between the two series of tubes A where it is heated, and escapes at the top
of the apparatus in the form of an upwardly directed current passing up close to the
wall of the apartment. The pipes A are hollow castings of approximately octagonal
section with circular ends and re-entering panels a at front and back whereby the
heat radiating surface is increased, and they are fitted between upright bars H fixed
between the base and cornice, the pipes having ribs fitting in grooves in the bars

page_text: so as to make tight joints and prevent the passage of air between the adjacent pipes,
the essential object of our invention being to form a structure closed at the sides and
ends, which will heat the air and conduct it upwards in the manner described. The
chambers B and C are respectively in communication with the flow and return
circulation pipes of the hot water, steam, or air, which flows through the pipes A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is ;
An air heating and circulating apparatus constructed substantially as herein shewn
and described, of parallel series of circulation tubes connected to chambers at top and
bottom and each making tight joints with the adjacent ones, the whole 'enclosing
an upwardly directed air passage rising from an air inlet chamber provided with valves
for regulating the draught, as specified.