Improvements in Ventilating Radiators.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ventilating Radiators.
I WILLIAM RICHARDSON Managing Director to the Meadow Foundry
Company Limited of Mansfield in the County of Nottingham 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 :-
This invention relates to the appliances, attachments, arrangement & mode of
applying & working an arrangement for making sectional, loop, or other similar hot
water or steam radiators, with a means for allowing air to pass through an enclosed or
partially enclosed chamber, such enclosed chamber containing & being formed by part
of the radiator itself, by which the air passing through is warmed in its course, the
arrangement being also provided with a valve or valves, flap or flaps, or other
device for regulating the supply of air & its source, such as for instance as allowing
the air to come from the outside of the building, room, or place, in which the
radiator is situated, or from the room or place itself & also for converting existing
radiators in like manner & for a like purpose, thereby providing what are designated
ventilating radiators.
To carry this out, I provide strips or plates of iron or other suitable material, of such
shape to suit & conform to the shape of the loops or sections forming the radiators,
such strips or plates being placed between each loop or section or a portion only of
such loop or section & at one or both sides, that is front or back of the radiators
& at one or both ends, above the foot of the loop or section, and also plates below
the foot at one or both ends of the radiator, such strips or plates being secured to
the sides or front & back of the radiators by one or more fasteners of iron or other
suitable material-which pass through the plates or strips and catch or bind
behind the swell or projecting portion of the adjoining loops or sections, thereby
holding the strips or plates, securely in position, the end plate or plates above the
foot have a projecting peg or pin cast with the strip or plate fitted on the bottom
of same which drops over a ridge or vertical projection of the loop or section & on
the upper portion of the strip or plate. I provide one or two pius or projections,
horizontally and standing back slightly from the strip or plate, these pins or
projections pass a slot or slots formed in the loop or section slightly above the
position the pins or projections have when down in position, the pins or projections
on the strip or plate pass the said slot or slots and the strip or plate is then dropped
down into position-the top pins or projections gripping or binding against or
behind the inner part of the loop or section and the bottom projection takes the
position already described, it is then securely in position. The plate under foot is
made with one or more lugs or projections & held or locked in position by corre-
sponding lugs or projections cast on or fitted on the adjoining front or back strips
or plates before described, or both of them. I provide also one or more air
regulating valves or flaps and frames fixed either back or front, or both, or at
front, or back, and below in a line and level with or above or below the floor on
which the radiator rests, such frames being secured by screws or other means to
the adjoining front or back or both front and back strips or plates, the valve or
flaps in each case working on pins, hinges, or other suitable means.
For closing & opening either or any of such valves or flaps I provide a connecting
chain, link or links, wire, band, ring, or other suitable device having a similar
action & which is connected to the one or both valves or flaps. To this connecting

page_text: chain or other device as enumerated and which passes over or around the boss or
projecting portion of each loop or section and by which each loop or section is
joined together I attach a lever of iron or other suitable material and of suitable
shape which is also connected to a projecting pin or lug attached to or cast on one
or more of the said front or back strips or plates, inwards, in such position as
desired, thereby forming a fulcrum to such lever, the said lever by preference is
made to extend slightly above the said front or back strips but may be shorter or
louger as may be found most desirable, to attain the like result and to the top of
such lever I attach a short rack or handle with or without stops to hold the said
catch or handle in any position desired, according to the amount of air to be passed
through, by pushing pulling the said rack or handle from or towards the person
operating it, the top portion of the said lever is carried in a like direction and the
bottom portion is moved in an opposite direction, thereby moving the before
named chain or other devices enumerated in the same direction as the bottom portion
of the lever & by such motion one or both of the before named valves or flaps open
or close wholly or partially.
or
The accompanying drawings give a description of the various matters & parts
referred to.
Fig. 1. shows a front view of a radiator, partly with the ventilating device and
partly as a non-ventilating radiator.
Fig. 2. represents a section through a b in Fig. 1. showing the ventilating device
with the front valve or flap A closed & the back one open.
B. Fig. 2. represents the chain which may be of other device as described.
C. Fig. 2 is the lever connected to same and to the pin or lug D.-Fig. 2 on
inner side of front strip or plate.
E. Figs. 1 & 2 is the rack or handle attached to top of lever.
FF Figs. 1 & 2 represents the front and back strips or plates.
GG Figs. 1 & 2 are the fasteners, which pass through the specially designed
openings of the strips or plates.
H Fig. 2 represents the end strips or plates above the feet of loops or sections. &
I Fig. 2 the plates under the feet of same.
Fig. 3 shows the fasteners G.
Fig. 4 shows the end strip or plate H. with the bottom and side projections
described and marked J. K.
Fig. 5 shows the plate I.
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 application & employment of the fastener G and manner of securing
the strips or plates F to the several loops or sections as set forth and described.
2. The application and employment of the projectious J & K on end strips
or plates H and the manner of securing such strips or plates to the end loops or
sections as set forth and described.
3. The manner of securing and locking in position the end plates I as set forth
aud described.
4. The application and employment of the several parts B C D & E severally
and collectively and the general arrangement for regulating and actuating the
movement for opening and closing the valves or flaps A at front back or in floor, as
set forth and described.
Dated this the 10th dor of Dab 1000
W. RICHARDSON.