Improved Water-heating Boiler.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Water-heating Boiler.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM BECK of 191 London Road East Grinstead, Sussex
Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of an arrangement to heat water in a boiler by means of
paraffin lamps. The boiler consists of two sections, the upper and the lower section.
The lower section is made in two upright cylindrical tubes of various forms and
sizes so as to suit paraffin lamps of various candlepower. The inner tube to
represent the exact shape of the paraffin-lamp-glass. The outer tube is made in
similar shapes only larger in diameter so as to allow about half an inch of space for
water between the two tubes. The outer tube is about one inch shorter at the base,
which enables the projecting inner tube to fit on a lamp the same as an ordinary
lamp glass. Three tubes about one inch and a half long connect the waterway
between the lower section and the upper section of the boiler. The latter is about
one inch deep by five inches in diameter with a sight hole about one inch in
diameter where an adjustable fume-pipe might be connected. The bulk of the air
passing through the lamp and boiler has to escape between the two sections of the
boiler. A socket is fitted to the base of the boiler and one to the top of the boiler
by means of which the heated water will circulate through pipes and otherwise.
This boiler may be used with or without a metal cover a few inches wider thau the
boiler, covering the same to within a small space of the base, thus forcing the waste
heat escaping between the two sections to surround the outside of the boiler, thus
greatly increasing its heating power. Some boilers are made to contain a coil of
about inch sized copper tubing of several turns. The outer and inner cylinders
receiving such expand by about 2 inches half the way down so as not to diminish
the air space from the lamp. This copper coil is connected through the inside
cylinder about half way down with the waterway of the lower section and flows into
the upper section of the boiler, thus forming four connections between the two
sections. Some other boilers are made without the described upper section, in the
place of which the three or four tubes projecting out of the lower section are made
long enough to allow of forming a conical coil on the top and allowing sufficient air
space between the coils so as not to check the flame. The combined outlets flow
into a socket of a suitable form. These various boilers may be used for heating
conservatories, baths drying rooms and sheds, public bare &c. by means of the
heated water circulating through pipes, tanks, coils, large cylinders &c.
The chief advantages of this boiler are: no dust, no smoke, no smell, no stokehole,
very little attention required, portable & easily adjusted or disconnected, very
cheap to maintain and very effective heating power thoroughly under control.
Dated this Twentieth day of July 1894.

page_text: I FREDERICK WILLIAM BECK of 191 London Road, East Grinstead,
Inventor 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved water-heating boiler, constructed in such a
manner to secure perfect combustion when heated by means of a centre draught
paraffin lamp and at the same time exposing a large surface to the heating influence
of the flame.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I describe the same with reference
to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the boiler, constructed according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a section, showing a variation in the upper parts of this boiler.
The lower part of this builer is made in two upright cylindrical tubes of various
sizes and forms, but so that the inner tube A represents the shape of a centre
draught lamp chimney of various candlepower. The outer tube is so much wider
in diameter to allow for a sufficient space E all round as a waterway. This outer
tube is somewhat shorter at the base to allow the inner tube to project a trifle so as
to fit better on the lamp. Three tubes C forming a conical coil are fitted to the
top of the outer cylinder through which the heated water flows into the outlet
socket I and F. A further coil G may be fixed about midway to the inner cylinder
and flowing direct into the outlet socket I. Letter H shows the lower outlet socket
or return pipe. The sight hole D. through the centre of the top has a cap fitted to
it, which on being removed allows a fair inspection of the flame. The greater part
of this boiler may be closed in by means of a metal cover which must be wide
enough to allow for a sufficient air space B, causing the escaping heat to desceud
about two-thirds of the depth of the boiler, thus enveloping the boiler from the
outside as well and thereby adding to its heating power. Fig. 2. is a variation in
the upper part by substituting a flat top in the place of the conical coiled top shown
in Fig. 1. Letter A on the former shows part of the inner cylinder, B the sight
hole, D the flat top and its waterway, E the outlet socket or flow pipe, F three
short tubes connecting the waterway C between the two upright cylinders with the
waterway D. This variation may also be used with a metal cover and a small
coiled tube as shown by letter G on Fig. 1.
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. A water heating boiler, the inner cylinder of the lower part to represent the
shape and form of a centre draught lamp glass or chimney.
2. To use therewith upper parts of various forms.
3. To reduce or enlarge according to requirements.