Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Buildings and the like by Means of Hot Fluids or Electricity.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Buildings and the like by
Means of Hot Fluids or Electricity.
We, JOSEPH ALFRED DARGUE and ERNEST GRIFFITHS, both of 175, Bedford
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Civil and Mechanical Engineer,
respectively, and CLARENCE HUTTON WRIGHT, of The Towers, Neston, in the
County of Chester, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows: -
This invention relates to improved apparatus designed to allow the faces or the
whole of each section of a radiator, set of coils, coil cases, or batteries to be kept
continually clean and to have the dust and dirt removed occasionally without it
mingling afresh with the atmosphere. It is also designed to be used for ventilat-
ing purposes where the heating surfaces are inside a case and the air pass over,
under, or round them.
The invention consists in forming a receiving plate for the dirt near the bottom
of the radiator case or the like. This plate can either slide in and out like a bird-
cage bottom or work on an axis or be capable of being lifted out or removed in
an easy manner. The plate or tray may either form part of the radiator or
heating surface or be placed at the bottom with any fixing or filling which may be
suitable and can be made to tip the dirt into a settling place or be fitted with a
scraping device whereby the dirt can be scraped off the surface to the outside.
Dated the 12th day of November 1897.
Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Buildings and the like by
Means of Hot Fluids or Electricity.
We, JOSEPH ALFRED DARGUE and ERNEST GRIFFITHS, both of 175, Bedford
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Civil and Mechanical Engineer,
respectively, and CLARENCE HUTTON WRIGHT, of The Towers, Neston, in the
County of Chester, Mechanical 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:-
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This invention relates to improved apparatus designed to allow a radiator set
of coils, coil cases, heating-batteries or the like to have the dust and dirt removed
periodically without it mingling afresh with the atmosphere. Our apparatus is

page_text: also designed to be used for ventilating purposes where the heating surfaces are
inside a case and the air passes over, under, through, or around the heating
devices in the case.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, illustrat-
ing a hot water or steam heating device, in which,
Fig. 1 is a side view,
Fig. 2 a transverse section, and
Fig. 3 a sectional plan on Y Z of Fig. 1.
In these A is the radiator having an entrance pipe B preferably at top and an
exit pipe C preferably at the bottom and a series of corrugated water tubes or
spaces D, Fig. 3, connecting these two pipes with air spaces E between or among
them substantially as shown in Fig. 3. F is a plate capable of oscillating on
centre G as shown in dotted lines. The dirt collecting on this plate can thus be
shot down on to the floor below. H is an inlet pipe for fresh air brought from
outside the building. I shown in dotted lines also a regulator to admit air to pass
up through the spaces E in casing J and to escape at the top through
openings K, Fig. 1. L is a second opening into the air space M from
the air of the room which can be used if desirable. It is obvious that the plate F
instead of oscillating in this manner and thus throwing the dirt on to the floor
below could be drawn out of the space M through a slot like the bottom of a bird
cage also that a scraping device could be used for scraping the dirt on this plate
to a spout or hole in the side near the bottom of chamber M not shown.
apparatus can be elevated on legs N as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 so as to allow the
plate F to rotate or can be made with a bottom plate resting on the ground in
which case plate F is made to slide outwards, or have a sliding scraper.
The
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. As an improvement in apparatus for heating buildings and the like by means
of hot fluids or electricity the arrangement of removable or movable floor whereby
the dust falling thereon can be easily and effectively removed without disturbing
the working of the apparatus substantially as described.
2. The general arrangement of heating device with an inlet for fresh air at
one side and an inlet for the air from the room at the other and with an exhaust
for the air at the top in combination with a series of fluted or other tubes or air
space arranged on or in a casing substantially as described.
Dated the 12th day of August 1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.