Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Heating Rooms or Buildings.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, .25th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Heating Rooms
or Buildings.
I, JAMES TRACY, of Waterworks Office, Formby, in the County of Lancaster,
Plumber, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to be as follows:-
This invention has mainly reference to the heating of rooms or buildings by hot or
warm air.
For convenience I will describe my Invention as applied to the heating of rooms of
dwellings in which any of the ordinary kinds of grates or fire places are used. In
such case, according to my invention, I provide at the back of the grate a chamber
or system of pipes or tubes so arranged that the heat of the grate at the back is
transmitted to such chamber or tubes. Then, in connection with such chamber or
tubes, I provide a pipe or conduit, for conveying cold or cool air thereto, and a
pipe or conduit for conveying warm or hot air therefrom. The cool air may be
drawn from the room itself, or from the outside atmosphere, or from any other
space or source, and enters the heating chamber or tubes at a low level whilst the
air heated by the apparatus is discharged into the room at a higher level and at any
suitable point.
In carrying out this invention as a means for heating a number of rooms, the
heated air or a portion thereof may be conveyed by suitablo pipes from the heating
chamber or apparatus to another room or other rooms, and discharged into them
in a like or equivalent manner. By this means a single fire and air heating
apparatus can if desired be adapted to heat air for distribution to all or a
number of the rooms of a house, hotel, or other like structure.
Although I have described this invention more particularly as applied to ordinary
fire places or grates, it is to be understood that its application not confined to
these, as it is susceptible of being used in connection with any suitable construction
or arrangement of grate or stove, and used and adapted to leat rooms of any house,
hotel, shop, manufactory or other structure.
Data: 141
1 1900
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15. Water Street. Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Heating Rooms
or Buildings.
I, JAMES TRACY, of Waterworks Office, Formby, in the County of Lancaster,
Plumber, 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 :-
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This Invention has mainly reference to the heating of rooms or buildings by hot or
warm air.
For convenience I will describe my Invention as applied to the heating of rooms of
dwellings in which any of the ordinary kinds of grates or fire places are used. In
such a case, according to my Invention, I provide at the back of the grate a chamber
or system of pipes or tubes so arranged that the heat of the grate at the back is
transmitted to such chamber or tubes. Then, in connection with such chamber or
tubes, I provide a pipe or conduit, for conveying cold or cool air thereto, and a pipe
or conduit for conveying warm or hot air therefrom. The cool air may be drawn
from the room itself, or from the outside atmosphere, or from any other space or
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page_text: source, and enters the heating chamber or tubes at a low level whilst the air heated
by the apparatus is discharged into a room at a higher level and at any suitable
point.
In carrying out this Invention as a means for heating a number of rooms, the
heated air or a portion thereof may be conveyed by suitable pipes from the heating
chamber or apparatus to another room or other rooms, and discharged into them in a
like or equivalent manner. By this means a single fire and air heating apparatus can
if desired be adapted to heat air for distribution to all, or a number, of the rooms of a
house, hotel, or other like structure.
Although I have described this Invention more particularly as applied to ordinary
fire places or grates, it is to be understood that its application is not confined to these,
as it is susceptible of being used in connection with any suitable construction or
arrangement of grate or stove, and used in and adapted to heat rooms of any house,
hotel, shop, manufactory or other structure.
Having thus generally described the object, nature, and purpose of my Invention,
I will now proceed to describe it with reference to the sheet of accompanying
drawings. The example of apparatus which I have illustrated is an arrangement and
construction of parts according to this invention applied to a dwelling house, of which
six rooms are shewn in diagram, and heated by apparatus according to my Invention:
like letters in the drawing designate corresponding parts.
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With reference to the drawing, which illustrates in diagram a sectional view of a
houso, a designates a parlour or sitting room, and 6 the kitchen on the ground floor;
cd are rooms on the first floor; and ef rooms on the second floor; y is the fire place
of the sitting room a, and h is the grate of the kitchen b. In the case of the sitting
room a I provide at the back of the fire place g, and behind the grate (not shewn in
the drawing), a chamber i, arranged so that the heat at the back of the grate from the
fire is transmitted to such chamber. The chamber is a closed vessel, such as a
metal cylinder. are pipes or conduits for conveying fresh, cool, or cold air to
the chamber, these pipes may convey the fresh air from the outside of the
house or from any other suitable place. is a pipe or conduit which leads from
the chamber up through the rooms a and c and into the room e. This pipe conveys
the heated air from the chamber i to the place where it is required to be delivered,
and for this purpose it is provided with valves, namely, in the room a it has two
valves m and n, in the room c two valves pq, and in the room e a valver; so that
in operation by closing the valve n and opening the valve m the air passing through
the pipes and into the chamber and being heated therein, will be delivered
into the room a through the valve m. To deliver the heated air to the room c,
valve m is closed and the valve n opened, in the room a. The valve is closed and
the valve opened in the room c; the heated air then passes up the pipe land
through the valve p into the room c. To deliver the heated air to the room e the
valve p is closed and the valve q opened in the room c, and the valve r opened in the
roome the heated air then passes up the pipe l'and through the valve
the room e.
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In the case of the air being heated by the fire in the kitchen grate h, such grate is
provided with a chamber s into which the pipes k k lead, and these pipes convey
fresh, cool air to the chamber s, in like manner to the pipes k¹ for supplying the
chamber i of the grate g, as above described. Leading from the air heating chamber s
of the grate thero is a pipe passing up through the rooms bd and f, and this
pipe is provided with valves m, n, p, q, and r', the operation being similar to that
described above in reference to the rooms a, c, e, and the pipe and valves m, n, p, q,r.
In addition to this pipe there is also provided, in connection with the chambers, a
pipe u, provided with valves v to and leading into the room a. Thus by closing the
valves m' and n' and opening the valves v, ie, the hot air will pass from the hot air
chambers into the room a.
In the above description I have described the apparatus according to my invention
as applied to the heating of rooms, but it will be obvious that it also serves for
ventilating purposes, inasmuch as the air applied to the air heating chamber may

page_text: be fresh air from the outside of the house, and such fresh air after being heated
is then supplied to the room in which it is heated or any other of the rooms to
which the pipes lead. Or, in cases where the air supplied to the heating chamber is
taken from the room in which the air heating chamber is placed, the delivery
conduits may deliver the heated air to another or other rooms and so ventilate the
room from which the air is taken.
The above illustrations are given only as examples of heating and ventilating
apparatus, according to my Invention, as applied to the ordinary fire place of a
dwelling house, and I would therefore have it understood that the application of
my invention is not confined to these particular constructions and arrangements of
parts, as such may be varied, and used and adapted to heat the rooms of any
house, hotel, shop, manufactory, or other structure.
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. The mode substantially as herein described of heating and ventilating buildings,
consisting in conveying air from without the building or other couvenient sourco
to a chamber in connection with the grate or fire place of a room of a house, by
and in which chamber such air is heated, and conveying such heated air by suitable
pipes or conduits to said room or (and) other rooms, such conduits being provided
with valves or dampers by which the flow and delivery of heated air is controlled.
2. An apparatus for heating buildings, consisting of an air heating chamber
disposed at the back of or in connection with an ordinary grate or fire place of a
room of a house; a pipe or pipes by which communication with the outside
atmosphero and the said chamber is made and by which air is supplied to said
chamber; and a pipe or pipes communicating between said chamber and the room
or rooms to be heated, by which the heated air is conveyed from said chamber to
said room or rooms, said pipe or pipes being provided with valves for controlling
the current of heated air; substantially as set forth.
3. The apparatus arranged and adapted to operate as set forth with reference to
the drawings, for the purposes specified.
TL 541 1
T
1000
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.