Improvements in and Apparatus for Ventilating Rooms and Buildings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Ventilating Rooms and
Buildings.
I, DAVID BARON of Sussex Street, Broughton, Manchester, Chimney Sweeper,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the withdrawal of foul air from a room or
building and consists of an enclosed channel or casing running across the ceiling of
a room or building and either let into and flush with the same or having the
appearance of a beam. One end of this channel or casing is closed and the other
end is in communication with an air flue or may be in direct communication with
the outer atmosphere.
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A suitable number of openings or orifices are provided in either one, two or three
sides of this channel or casing for the inlet of foul air which may be induced to
enter the said casing by means of a draught in the air flue produced by a fan or
other means. These inlet openings or orifices are provided with suitable plates or
divisions so arranged as to direct the current of foul air along the channel to the
air flue each orifice helping to induce the foul air to enter through the remaining
orifices as its current of foul air passes them on its way to the said air flue.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Ventilating Rooms and
Buildings.
I, DAVID BARON of Sussex Street, Broughton, Manchester, Chimney Sweeper,
do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object the withdrawal of foul air from a room or
building, and consists of an enclosed channel or casing running entirely or partly
across the ceiling of the said room or building and either let into and flush with the
same or having the appearance of a beam. One end of this channel or casing is
closed and the other end is in communication with an air flue, or may be in direct
communication with the outer atmosphere.
A suitable number of openings or orifices are provided, in either one, two or three
sides of this channel or casing, for the inlet of foul air, which may be induced to
enter the casing by means of a draft in the air produced by a fan or other means.
These inlet openings or orifices are provided with suitable plates or divisions so
arranged as to direct the current of air along the channel to the air flue or outlet
each orifice helping to induce the foul air to enter through the remaining orifices,
as its current of foul air passes them on its way to the said outlet or air flue.
On the accompanying drawing
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Fig. 1 is a perspective view and Fig. 2 a horizontal section of a beam
ventilator made in accordance with my invention, one end of which beam
ventilator may be run into an air shaft or flue or into the outer atmosphere, whilst
the other end is closed.
The foul air from the room entering the ventilator through orifices A, A, A, is
directed by the plates B, B, B, and passes along the central passage C in the

page_text: direction of the arrows, assisting the in-rush of foul air through each of the orifices
which it passes on its way to the outlet D.
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In some cases and as illustrated in Fig. 3 1 employ a Sun
burner E
light gas
to assist the action of the ventilator and I arrange a plate E' over an opening E
in the ventilator above the said burner tending in the same direction as the other
plates B, B.
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The outlet end D of the ventilator, in some cases, may enter an air shaft, where
the action of the ventilator can be increased by the employment of an exhaust fan,
or a blower" employed at the "reverse" end of the ventilator, and in this latter
form the said ventilator can be used as a dust collector for corn mills and other
like places, where required.
Fig. 4 shews a modified form of my improved ventilator as employed for
ventilating the saloon or cabin of a ship a current of air being caused to enter at
the cowl F (placed above the deck) by the forward movement of the vessel in the
direction indicated by the large arrow (or a "blower" as above may be used)
which current of air passes along the central passage of the ventilator as aforesaid
and out at the cowl G inducing on its way an in-rush of foul air from the saloon
The above form
through the inlet orifices H, H, H, in the same manner as above.
of my improved ventilator may be used for ventilating tram cars or other like
moving vehicles.
Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent another modification of my invention and as applied
to the ventilation of railway carriages in which a double form of ventilator is used,
in this case the air being caused to enter by the forward motion of the train through
the funnel I, and out through the orifice K, which current of air as it enters by the
funnel is caused to divide by the plate L, one portion leaving at one side of the
The foul air from
compartment and the remaining portion at the other side.
the compartment enters the ventilator through the orifices M and is discharged
along with the current of air in the same manner as above.
Two funnels are provided to each ventilator (as shewn) one for each direction
in which the train may run, a swinging plate N being used to automatically close
the funnel which is not in use.
Having thus 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 :-
1st. The improved ventilator consisting of an enclosed casing having by
preference the appearance of a beam and designed to fit against the ceiling of a
room and formed with orifices or openings (AA), fitted with plates (BB) and
opening at one end into an air shaft or fue substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 on the accompanying
drawing.
2nd. The improved ventilator combined with a "sun" burner substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in Fig. 3 on the
accompanying drawing.
3rd. The improved ventilator as applied to a ship's cabin or saloon substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Fig. 4 on the accompanying drawing.
4th. The combined or double form of ventilator fitted with valve and funnels as
applied to a railway carriage substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 24th day of July 1893.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.