IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER FOR WARMING BUILDINGS OR FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Newton, of Lower Providence Mill, near Keighley,
in the County of York, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR HEATING WATER FOR WARMING BUILDINGS
OR FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES."
ealed the 30th August 1878, and dated the 1st March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Newton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1878.
ROBERT NEWTON, of Lower Providence Mill, near Keighley, in the County of
York, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR
HEATING WATER FOR WARMING BUILDINGS OR FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to heating and warming buildings, such as houses, public
buildings, horticultural buildings, and the like, by means of hot water apparatus;
and the improvements consist in the use and employment of a furnace constructed
in accordance with the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me, bearing date
June 6th, A.D. 1874, No. 1972, consisting of fire-bars having waterways therein,
and also of intermediate solid or dead bars, the bars with waterways being attached
at each end to hollow framework or boxes. Above the furnace and connected
there with by pipes is a hollow framework or pair of boxes connected together by a
series of vertical pipes. Above this hollow framework is another box connected
by pipes to the upper portion of the before-mentioned framework. Within the
series of vertical pipes I have either a second series of vertical pipes or a coiled
pipe connected at one end to the hollow boxes of the furnace, and at the other end
to the top frame or box above referred to; or I may use both the inner row of
vertical tubes and the coiled pipe in combination. In connection with the top
frame or box is another coil, either single or double, or series of pipes, which acts
as the outlet for the steam or heated water, the inlet being from the box, and the
outlet connected to the outlet pipe of the box.

page_text: Coke may be fed on to the bars through a door, and also fed in at the top
through an opening made in the top frame or box between the upper coils. By
this means coke is fed within the main coil, and also to the space between the coil
and the vertical tubes.
Over the central feeding aperture I place a midfeather, by means of which the
heated gases are caused to impinge upon the upper coils; this midfeather may be
readily removed when it is necessary to feed the furnace.
The whole apparatus is enclosed by brickwork or other material, openings being
left for the introduction of fuel as above described.
Water is admitted into the hollow framework in connection with the fire-bars,
passing and circulating through the whole series of pipes and boxes. By this
means a compact and efficient apparatus is constructed for the purpose herein
mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st August
1878.
ROBERT NEWTON, of Lower Providence Mill, Keighley, in the County of York,
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR HEATING
WATER FOR WARMING BUILDINGS OR FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to hot water apparatus for warming buildings, and is
applicable to dwelling-houses, public buildings, horticultural structures, and other
purposes requiring hot water.
This Invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and the following description thereof:-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my apparatus; Fig. 2 is a plan view of same; Fig. 3 is
a sectional elevation; and Fig. 4, a sectional plan.
A is a hollow water box mounted upon a brickwork foundation, and forms part
of the furnace, which is composed of hollow and solid fire-bars B, forming altogether
a furnace similar to that described in the Specification of a prior Letters Patent
granted to me, dated June 6th, 1874, No. 1972.
Connected with the water box A by means of pipes a is a second water box C,
which communicates with another water box D by means of a series of pipes E,
forming a kind of cage, in the interior of which is a smaller cage similarly con-
structed, that is to say, two hollow water boxes F, G, and connecting pipes H.
Communicating with the box D is a spiral coil K, and another coil L communi-
cates in a similar manner with the water box G. The inner and outer cages com-
municate by means of pipes M. Fuel is supplied to the furnace through the
opening in the box G, which is then closed by means of a deflecting block or lid N.
Within the inner cage is a spiral coil O, which communicates at each end with
the hollow boxes C and G.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-Water being admitted through the
pipes P circulates through the whole series of pipes herein mentioned, and finally

page_text: runs into the ordinary hot water pipes through the spiral coils K and L, returning
to the feed tank in the usual manner.
The whole of the apparatus herein shewn need not be employed, as the coils K
and L may be dispensed with, in which case the outlet pipes will be connected
with the boxes D and G; also the inner coil O need not be employed when
unnecessary.
It will also be observed that fuel may not only be supplied to the furnace
through the central aperture, but may also be supplied between the inner and
outer cages through the opening between the boxes D and G.
R are blow-off pipes for cleaning out the apparatus and discharging the sediment.
The whole apparatus may be enclosed in brick work or other material, openings
being left for the introduction of fuel and air as above described.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practice, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details of construction herein
shewn and described, as the nature of the Invention admits of many variations in
details of construction without departing from the principle thereof, but what I
claim as my Invention and consider to be new is, the arrangement of water boxes
and pipes in such manner that the greatest advantage may be derived from the
fuel, owing to the amount of heating surface presented, substantially as herein
shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Newton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Robert Newton
in the presence of
JOHN W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
ROBERT NEWTON. (L.S.)