A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR HEATING CONSERVATORIES, PLACES OF WORSHIP, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Sims and Charles Holmes, both of 214,
Great Portland Street, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex,
Gas Engineers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS
FOR HEATING CONSERVATORIES, PLACES OF WORSHIP, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Sims and Charles
Holmes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 15th October 1872.
We, JAMES SIMS and CHARLES HOLMES, both of 214, Great Portland
Street, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gas Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
PROCESS FOR HEATING CONSERVATORIES, PLACES OF WORSHIP, PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
AND OTHER STRUCTURES AND PLACES, AND APPARATUS FOR SUCH PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
A gas stove with coils and stand. The stove, which is circular and
made of black sheet iron, is seamed with cast-iron top and bottom, and
bolted together with two long bolts passing perpendicularly through the

page_text: stove, and screwed with nuts; the body of the stove contains a tubular
boiler with a centre flue, also made of sheet iron and galvanized, both
ends being seamed over, and a flue (to run from the stove outside the
building in which it may be placed to carry off the fuines of the gas.
The boiler is embedded in the body of the stove, and fitted up with an
ordinary atmospheric burner immediately underneath it, in consequence
of which a fluc is formed all round and through the centre of the boiler,
thereby obtaining a larger proportion of heat before it finally escapes
through the flue. The coils are made of sheet iron, seamed and
galvanized, supported on an iron stand with half round clips, and con-
nected to the boiler with a flow and return pipe fixed with two iron barrel
connectors; the coils are properly soldered water-tight, and on the upright
portions have two galvanized iron cups with tinned iron or sheet iron
galvanized covers which form condensers; the vapour from the hot water
being thereby condensed passes back again into the coil, thus saving much
time in the supply of water, and creating very little or no waste; the
galvanized covers, otherwise the condensers, if required, can be removed
at will, the vapour allowed to pass out and thus add to the moisture
necessary in the air supplied to greenhouses, hothouses, structures, and
places.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Sims and Charles Holmes in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JAMES
SIMS and CHARLES HOLMES, both of 214, Great Portland Street, Regent's
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gas Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Sims and Charles Holmes, Her
special licence that we, the said James Sims and Charles Holmes, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
James Sims and Charles Holmes, our exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time

page_text: 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR HEATING CONSERVATORIES,
PLACES OF WORSHIP, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES AND PLACES, AND
APPARATUS FOR SUCH PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said James Sims and Charles Holmes, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said James Sims and Charles Holmes,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
A gas stove with coils and stands. The stove, which is circular and
made of black sheet iron, is seamed, with cast-iron top and bottom, and
bolted together with three long bolts passing perpendicularly through
the stove and screwed with nuts; the body contains a tubular boiler
with a centre flue, also made of sheet iron and galvanized, both ends
being seamed over, and a flue to run from the stove outside the
building in which it may be placed to carry off the fumes of the gas.
The boiler is embedded in the body of the stove, and fitted up with an
ordinary atmospheric burner immediately underneath it, in consequence
of which a flue is formed all round and through the centre of the boiler,
thereby obtaining a larger proportion of heat before it finally escapes
through the flue. The coils are made of sheet iron, seamed and
galvanized, supported on an iron stand with half round clip, and con-
nected to the boiler with a flow and return pipe fixed with two iron barrel
connectors; the coils are properly soldered water-tight, and on the upright
portions have two galvanized iron cups with tinned iron or sheet
iron galvanized covers which forms condensers; the vapour from the hot
water being thereby condensed passes back again into the coil, thus
saveing much time in the supply of water, and creating very little or no
waste; the galvanized covers, otherwise the condensers, if required,
can be removed at will, the vapour allowed to pass out, and thus add to

page_text: the moisture necessary in the air supplied to greenhouses, hothouses,
conservatories, places of worship, public buildings, and other structures,
and apparatus for such purposes.
That the above description may be more clearly understood the novelty
of this our Invention consists in the application and use of thin wrought-
iron coils, and that through the said wrought-iron coils we claim that a
greater amount of heat can be obtained and that more quickly than from
the ordinary cast-iron coils.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Sims and Charles Holmes,
have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Fifteenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.