Improvements in and appertaining to Apparatus or Means for Heating Clothes-drying-closets or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and appertaining to Apparatus or Means for Heating
Clothes-drying-closets or the like.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON of the Firm of W. Summerscales & Sons
Limited of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say :-
It relates to improvements in and appertaining to apparatus or means for heating
clothes-drying-closets or the like and consists of constructing and arranging said
apparatus in such a manner that it shall perform its functions efficiently and that
at comparatively little cost.
In accordance with this invention a series of steam pipes are arranged to extend
across a cavity or box from å steam chest at one side to an outlet chest on the
other, in order that as steam is admitted to the first named chest in which are
arranged deflectors or distributors to cause it to pass evenly through the series of
pipes to the chest on the other side from which it escapes or passes to any other
part as may be desired.
Into the cavity or box, across which the steam pipes extend, au inlet opening is
made for the admission of air which is by appropriate exhausting means as a rotary
fan or the like placed on the opposite side of the box or at the opening forming the
egress, and by suitably arranged deflecting plates, caused to follow such a zig-zag
course between and around said pipes that are its final egress at the opposite side
of the box its temperature is greatly increased and that although the steam pissing
through the pipes may be only at a comparatively low pressure or temperature
since the current of air is by the above described arrangement made to travel over
and impinge upon a heated surface of considerable magnitude.
The egress pipe is arranged to lead to a series of drying-closets and tapers towards
its outer end in order that the current of heated air may be constrained to flow in
an approximately equal volume into each closet, while the series of lateral openings
in it leading to the series of closets have suitably formed flanges to cause each
portion of the said current of air to disperse or spread througnout the closet into
which it is guided.
By arranging the apparatus as above described the current of air may be heated
to any desired degree, while the cost of such heating is comparatively little for
the reason that the heat radiated passes almost entirely into said current of air.
Dated this 13th day of January 1896.
H. C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Keighley, Agent.

page_text: Improvements in and appertaining to Apparatus or Means for Heating
Clothes-drying-closets or the like.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON of the Firm of W. Summerscales & Sons,
Limited of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, 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, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in and appertaining to apparatus or means for heating
clothes-drying-closets or the like and consists of constructing and arranging said
apparatus in such a manner that it shall perform its functions efficiently and that
at comparatively little cost.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings which are illustrative of my invention:
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of apparatus made in accordance with my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of said apparatus.
Fig. 3 is a section on line A B of parts shown by Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 is end elevation of said apparatus.
Fig. 5 is an elevation showing the apparatus as mounted for use, together with
other parts hereinafter explained.
In carrying my invention into effect I make use of a scries of steam pipes a a¹
which arrange to extend across a cavity or box 6 from a steam chest or cavity c
on one side into close proximity with the outer wall 6' on the other side where they
are bent or folded over so that their extremities may enter separate compartments e
and c in order that on steam being admitted through the opening d it may travel
through the compartment c¹ as shown by the arrows along the pipe a into the
compartment then along the pipe a¹ (see Fig. 1) into the compartment whence
it is conducted away through the opening d. Or instead of the pipes a a¹ being
bent as shown they may be in two parts and made to enter a box or cavity formed
at the end b, but I preferably make them as herein shown.
Into the cavity or box bacross which the pipes a a' extend, an inlet opening fis
made for the admission of air which is by appropriate exhausting means (as by the
rotary fan g or other well known mechanism placed at or in connection with the
opening on the other side of the box 6) and by the deflecting plates or partitions k
placed in said box b, caused to follow such a zig-zag course between and around
said pipes a a somewhat as shown by the arrows w, that at its final egress through
the opening h, its temperature is greatly increased and that although the steam
passing through the pipes a al may be only at a comparatively low pressure or
temperature since the current of air is by the above described arrangement made
to travel over and impinge upon a heated surface of considerable magnitude.
The egress pipe m leading from the opening and on the outer side of the fan g,
is arranged to conduct the heated current of air to a series of parts nun and said
pipe m is made of a tapering form in order that the said current of heated air may
be constrained to flow through the openings p in an approximately equal volume
into each part n, while the said openings p have suitably formed flanges s (shown
in sectional detail by Fig. 5A) to cause each portion of the said current of air to
disperse or spread throughout the part into which it is guided.
By arranging the apparatus as above described the current of air may be heated
to any desired degree, while the cost of such heating is comparatively little for the
reason that the heat radiated passes almost entirely into said current of air.

page_text: 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. In apparatus for heating clothes-drying-closets the combination of boxes or
cavities with tubes arranged to extend across and into connection with same
substantially as herein specified.
2. In apparatus for heating clothes-drying-closets the combination of boxes or
cavities and intersecting pipes, a fan or like air exhausting means and a tapering
pipe for distributing said heated air substantially as herein set forth and
described.
3. The several parts forming the apparatus to be used in connection with
clothes-drying-closets in combination, the same being arranged and constructed
substantially as specified.
Dated this 13th day of October 1896.
HENRY C. LONGSDON,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.