Improvement in Steam Radiators, and Means for Heating the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by FREDERICK VINCENT WINTERS, of New York
City, in the State of New York, United States of America, Mechanica
Engineer.]
Improvement in Steam Radiators, and Means for Heating the same.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester both in the County of Lancaster, and
Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
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 Improvements in Steam Radiators and means for
heating the same, and the object is to provide a portable radiator and heater,
which may be used singly or associated with radiators grouped or arranged in a
system throughout a building or house; another purpose is to provide a new
and improved heater whereby the water is converted into steam, and the steam
thus produced superheated in its course to the radiator, and the condensing steam
returned through the radiator to the water chamber for use again in supplying
the active hot steam. This construction and arrangement enable me to materially
reduce the dimensions of the water tank or boiler, since the return condensations
are used as a means of supply and render the action long and almost continuous.
In the drawings:-
Figure 1 is a side view in elevation, partly in section, of a radiator supplied
with the improved heating apparatus, the doors of the casing stand being removed
to show the construction and arrangement of the heating apparatus.
Figure 2 is a side view showing the heating apparatus connected to a radiator
located remote from the heater and as forming one of a system.
In Figure 1 of the drawings the invention is shown as applied to a portable
radiator the base of which is mounted on castors or wheels so as to be conveniently
moved from place to place in a compartment. A désignates the base casing of
the apparatus, made of such dimensions and capacity as may be required and is
adapted to receive and hold the heating apparatus, and may be provided with
castors or wheels 1, to afford convenient movement. Doors, not shown, close the
front of this base chamber or casing. B designates the radiator composed of a
plurality of pipes as usual, and the base of which is formed with two compart-
ments or chambers 2, 3, separated by an impervious partition 7, the former of
these chambers constitutes the deposit and receiving chamber for the reception
of the downward coursing steam and its condensations; being formed with a
gutter or way 4, leading into a conduit-pipe 5, the lower end of which opens into
the water chamber or tank 6. The chamber 3 opens into the first three or four
sets of pipes in the radiator, and the steam finds its way upwards through these
pipes into the top-chamber 7, formed in the top or cover of the radiator, where it

page_text: is distributed and moves down the pipes communicating with the condensing
chamber 2, where it is condensed and the water of condensation flows back into the
water tank, as heretofore mentioned.
In the base of the radiator is disposed the heating and water supply apparatus,
consisting of the following described elements or parts: In the casing is mounted
a water tank 6, adapted to hold the requisite supply cf water, according to the
size and number of radiators, say of ten pipes, the capacity of the tank may be
not more than one gallon. In the top of the water tank is secured a filling tube
or funnel 10, provided with a suitable shut-off valve 11. In the face of the tank
may be a water glass 12, to permit observation of the height at which the water
stands in the tank. A pipe 13 opens from the tank and at a suitable point in
this pipe is arranged and secured a shallow heating chamber 14, into which a
small quantity of water runs or is fed and where it is first subjected to the action
of the heater, and wherein the water is speedily converted into steam. This
heating chamber 14 consists preferably, of a hollow shell having a flat bottom and
a dome-shaped or conical top terminating in a pipe nipple 15, to which the conduit
pipe 16, connects and leads to a coil of pipes 17, wherein the steam is superheated
for transmission into the chamber 3, by the inlet 171, and from the chamber 3
up through the series of radiator pipes opening from this chamber into the hollow
top of the radiator. This superheating coil 17 is preferably made up of a single
pipe coiled in larger and smaller coils in alternation, substantially as seen in the
drawings, being arranged and disposed of in this manner to permit, present, and
expose additional surface to the action of the heat from the super heater. F de-
signates the feed-pipe through which the gas or gasoline is fed to the burners 18,
directly under the coil, and at the inner end of the pipe is mounted and con-
nected another burner 19, located under the chamber 14, substantially as seen in
the drawings. In the pipe F is coupled a regulating valve 20, of any proper
make adapted in its operation to increase or diminish the flow of gas or other
burning substance; and in this pipe may be interposed a shut-off valve 21. In
case the super-heater burner is not required in active use a valve 21¹, is pro-
vided to shut it off from communication with the pipe. The pipe F is fed from
any proper source, such as connection to a gas pipe, gas tip or gasoline tank.
In Figure 2 of the drawings is shown the heating apparatus associated with
and connected to a radiator located a distance from, or remote from, the apparatus.
The construction of this radiator is identical with that shown in Figure 1, except
that the heating apparatus is not carried in the base of the radiator.
It will be seen from the foregoing description taken in connection with the
drawings, that the invention provides a simple and effective heating apparatus
and system, wherein the water will be speedily heated and converted into steam
and the steam thus generated continuously superheated, and that the distributed
steam in the radiator is eventually condensed to be used again as a supply to the
water tank.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same as to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The combination with a radiator, of a heating apparatus comprising a water
tank, a steam pipe leading from the water tank to the radiator, a heating chamber
interposed in said pipe, a super-heating coil in said pipe, and a pipe leading from
the radiator to the water tank.
2. The combination with a radiator having a hollow top and a hollow bottom
divided into two compartments, of a heating apparatus comprising a water tank,
a steam pipe leading from the water tank into one of the chambers in the bottom
of the radiator, a heating chamber interposed in the steam pipe, a super-heating
coil in the steam pipe between the heating chamber and the radiator, and a pipe
leading from the other chamber in the bottom of the radiator into the water tank.
3. The combination with the radiator having a hollow top and hollow bottom

page_text: with a partition therein, of a heating apparatus comprising a water tank, a steam-
pipe leading from the tank into one of the compartments in the bottom of the
radiator, a heating chamber interposed in the steam pipe, a coil of pipe between
the said heating chamber and the radiator, a burner und- the heating chamber,
a burner under the coil, and a pipe leading from the other compartment into the
water tank.
4. A portable radiator, comprising base box or casing, a gas conduit pipe
therein, a super-heating burner and main burner in said pipe, a radiator mounted
on the base, having hollow ton and bottom, the bottom thereof being divided into
two compartments, a water tank in the casing a steam pipe leading from the tank
into one of the compartments in the bottom of the radiator, a heating chamber in
the pipe over the main burner, a coil of pipes in the steam pipe over the super-
heating burner, and a pipe leading from the other compartment into the water
tank.
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.