AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HEATING OR WARMING BUILDINGS
Year: 1859

page_text: PROVISIONAL, SPECIFICATION left by Henry Justinian Newcome at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
January 1859.
1, HENRY JUSTINIAN NEWCOME, of Shenley, in the County of Herts, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
HEATING OR WARMING BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed for the purpose of heating or warming buildings
more uniformly, speedily, at considerable less cost, and with greater security
against accident than by the means heretofore commonly employed for such
purpose.
The improved apparatus constituting this Invention is composed of the
following principal parts:-First, an oven or furnace, the door or doors of
which are (but not necessarily) in the external wall of the building which it is
desired to warm. The bottom of this oven or furnace is provided with grate
bars about four feet long, and the remainder of the bottom is formed closed
with bricks or tiles. If desirable, the whole of this oven or furnace may be.
made in one long box of cast or wrought iron, and lined where exposed to the.
fire with fire brick or tiles. The top of the said oven is made of a plate of
cast or wrought iron covered with sand and having two or more.openings in
the top or sides thereof for the passage of heat into and through pipes arranged
and combined together in tiers as follows, that is to say, immediately above
the floor of the building and parallel with the wall thereof, it is proposed to
place one above the other a series of thin metal pipes of suitable length and

page_text: diameter. These pipes are connected together by their ends being secured to
thin metal boxes, in such manner as to admit of the heat from the furnace
circulating freely through them, said ends being made removable for the
purpose of cleansing said pipes when necessary. The box of the lowermost
pipe is connected by an elbow pipe to the top of the aforesaid furnace, and the
uppermost pipe terminates in an ordinary chimney. The second or third pipe
from the floor is fitted with a damper for regulating the intensity of the heat.
A second, third, and fourth tier of pipes arranged as above described may be
connected with the furnace and brought into action by withdrawing the
respective dampers thereof. It is proposed to connect the front end of the
furnace with the chimney by a flue and damper, so that when all the dampers
are closed and that in the chimney is opened, the apparatus ceases to act,.
notwithstanding the fire in the furnace continues to burn. That portion of
the apparatus situated above the floor of the building may, if it is desired, be
concealed by a perforated screen, tracery, or trellis work of any ornamental
device or pattern.
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By the foregoing improved apparatus, a very small quantity of fuel suffices
to maintain the desired heat, and by thus exposing a large amount of heating
surface, the atmosphere in the building is uniformly heated, and such heat
diffused throughout instead of one part thereof being unbearably hot and
another part comparatively cold, as is frequently the case at present.
apparatus on the above principle may be added to any stove now in use,
thereby exposing a large amount of heated metal surface in the building
instead of allowing the heat to escape into the air or chimney. It consists of
two or more sets of pipes terminating in one box, which is divided into
partitions in the interior, which partitions extend the whole.depth of the box,
and are closed and effectually separated from each other, except where desired,
by the moveable cover at each end, and by a damper in the part of the box
being drawn is brought into immediate action, the same movement closing by a
connecting rod and damper, the flue leading direct from the stove into the
chimney. The stove becomes by this apparatus of double or treble heating
power.