IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR VENTILATING, HEATING, AND VAPORIZING HOT-HOUSES, MALT-HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, of Nursling, in the County of
Southampton, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES
FOR VENTILATING, HEATING, AND VAPORIZING HOT-HOUSES, MALT-HOUSES, AND
OTHER BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES."
Sealed the 29th October 1867, and dated the 20th July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th July 1867.
I, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Nursling, in the County of Southampton, Gentle-
man, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PIPES FOR VENTILATING, HEATING, AND VAPORIZING HOT-HOUSES, MALT-HOUSES,
AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES," to be as follows:-
1stly, an improvement on my previous Invention duly patented on the
9th day of January 1861, No. 53, causing a ventilating chamber to be so
formed or cast in the pipe as to be capable of holding water if required, and
so that the heated air passing through the pipe into the hot-house, malt-house,
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page_text: or residence or other building over the surface of the water when contained
in the air chamber of the pipe takes up and absorbs moisture and so generates
vapour or moist air to any extent that may be desired.
2ndly, I also claim an improvement in the manufacture of such pipes,
and any other hot air or water pipes, whereby a simple and inexpensive
method of joining them together is attained. To effect this I have pipes cast
or made with a socket at one end as usual, but at the other or spicket end I
reduce the circumference something like a quarter of an inch on the outer
side of the pipe for about an inch from the end, on this reduced portion
I put a washer or ring made of india-rubber or thread coated with india-
rubber, or a washer, ring, or packing made of any suitable material, so that
when the small or spicket end of one pipe is inserted into the large or socket
end of another and pushed in it becomes a water-tight joint, and does
away with the expensive and tedious opperation of packing or soldering as
heretofore. In order to make the pipes firm and rigid I insert a few small
wedges of metal or wood at the socket joint.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of Nursling, in the County of Southampton, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said William Taylor,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time 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 Mau, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR VENTILATING, HEATING, AND VAPORISING HOT-
HOUSES, MALT HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES," upon the condition

page_text: (amongst others) that I, the said William Taylor, my executors or adminis
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 Pateut.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Taylor, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement-
The Invention relates, first, to improvements on a former Patent granted
to me, dated the Ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, No. 53, so that chambers or passages formed on or applied to pipes
used for the purpose of conveying hot water or other heating media for the
purpose of heating hot-houses, malt-houses, or other buildings or residences
may be adapted to receive water or other fluid, as well as to heat and conduct
the air passed into such hot-house, malt-house, or other building or residence
for the purpose of ventilation, whereby whilst such air thereby becomes heated
in its passage through the chambers or passages by the heat of the pipes to
which such chambers or passages are applied it also becomes moistened
by the vapour of the water or other fluid contained in such chambers or
passages. The water or other liquid is supplied to the chambers or passages
in regulated quantities adapted to the extent of moisture desired to be
imparted to the atmosphere of the hot-house or other building or chamber
to be heated.
Secondly, the Invention relates to means of forming a close joint in
connecting pipes used in heating hot-houses, malt-houses, and other buildings
and residences.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying
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a transverse section of one pipe and a portion of another constructed to carry
out my Invention. In each of these Figures the same letters are applied to
corresponding parts.
ia is the pipe for conveying the hot water or other heating media, and b.the

page_text: chamber or passage
for the passage of air for ventilation, such air passing into
the chamber or passage b by the pipe or channel c, and then having passed in
the direction of the arrows it passes out by the outlet d; and this chamber or
passage b is formed to hold water or other fluid, which becoming vaporized
by the heat in the pipe a the vapour generated combines with the air passing
through the chamber or passage b, so that such air thereby becomes not only
heated but moistened. The chamber or passage 6 may be formed ou or
applied to the pipes a, and water or other fluid may be supplied to such
chamber or passage from a reservoir by a pipe having a tap in it to regulate
the quantity to be supplied.
I will now describe the second part of the Invention. e is a socket, which
may be of the ordinary kind, formed at one end of each of the pipes used for
conducting the hot water or other heating media; f is the opposite or spicket
end, which I form ou a reduced diameter, say, about a quarter of an inch less
than the other part, and for a distance of about an inch from that end of the
pipe. On this reduced part I apply a washer of india-rubber or thread coated
with india-rubber, or a washer, ring, or packing of any suitable material g of
thickness or substance such that when a spicket end of a pipe so formed and
having therein such packing is forced into the socket end of another pipe the
packing will form a close, compact, and tight joint, rendering the ordinary
method of subsequent packing or soldering unnecessary. The end of the
reduced part of the spicket end of the pipe forms an abutment or flange for
the packing to rest against, but in place of reducing the end of the pipe for
this purpose a small flange h may be formed on such spicket end for the same
purpose. In order to render the pipes firm and rigid I may in some cases
insert a few small wedges of wood or metal into these socket joints.
..
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in carrying
the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise details shewn and described, as these may be varied without
departing from the peculiar character of the Invention; but what I claim is,-
First, the application of chambers or passages to pipes for receiving hot
water or other heating media, so that such chamber or passage may receive
water or other liquid to be evaporated, whilst they at the same time act as
conduits for the passage of air for ventilation, and thereby moisten as well as
heat the air so supplied for ventilation, whereby hot-houses, malt-houses, and
other buildings or residences may be ventilated, heated, and vaporized in
manner substantially as described.
Secondly, I claim the method of forming the joints of pipes used in heating

page_text: hot-houses, malt-houses, and other buildings and residences, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Taylor, have here unto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January 1868.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named William Taylor, in
the presence of
THOMAS WESTALL,
Solicitor,
7, Leadenhall Street.
ILLIAM TAYLOR. (L.B.)