GB190715415A - Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Cooling, Heating and Ventilating Purposes. - Google Patents

Abstract

15,415. Williams, L. July 4. Air, cooling, drying, and heating.-Relates to apparatus for cooling, heating, and ventilating the staterooms, cabins, saloons, &c. of passenger steamers travelling between tropical and colder regions. A casing 10, extending from near the floor to near the ceiling and provided with openings at the top and bottom, encloses vertically-arranged cooling g and heating pipes or radiators 17. A powerdriven fan 12, mounted at the upper end of the casing, draws air into the apparatus through the lower opening 11, and discharges it from the upper end by an opening (not shown) in an horizontal direction. The pipes 17 are connected by pairs of cocks 19, 20 to separate supplies of heating and cooling fluids. A dripbasin 23 encircling the upper portion of the casing catches water of condensation, which may be allowed to run into a second drip-pan 24 arranged at the lower end of the casing. In a modification, the coiled pipe is replaced by a series of nested U-tubes, each tube having its supply and discharge ends connected to separate inlet and return.' chambers. The fan is mounted on an horizontal axis. The fan may also be driven by a motor driven by the flow of the circulating fluid. Accord-' ing to the Provisional Specification, the apparatus may also be employed to cool and dry or heat the air in the staterooms, officers', quarters, workrooms, or lavatories of steamships, or in private houses or hotels, or to ventilate these structures without heating or cooling.