US100797A

US100797A - phelps

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Publication number: US100797A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1887-03-15

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To all whom it may conce/rn;

PIIELIJS, or ELMWooD, ILLINOIS.

Lene/rs Paten No. 100,707, damIMmh 15, 1870.

'VENTILATOR `The Schedule referred'to in these'Letters Patent and making part f the same.

Beit known that I, W. E. PHELrs, of Elmwood, in the county of Peoria, and State of Illinois, have invented a' new and useful Method of 'Summer Ventilation for Buildings, 85e., of which thev following is a, specilication.`

The nature and object of my invention consist in providing an economical method for reducing the temperature oi' the air in therooms the summer months. I

The accompanying drawing represents an isometrical view of a house, the root' and flooring being cut away to expose the arrangement of thecellar or foundaton.

A represents the walls of the foundation. B, the ordinary furnace-room for heatingV the building. during cold weather.

O isa room for fuel, &c. f. Eis a chamber containing ice, water,'or other aircooler, through or around which may be conducted an of'buildings ,during air-tube or duchas shown by the `dotted line, e, in the drawing, communicating with air-chamber. D, into which the melted ic'e drains under the partition.

The outer wall of chamber D is pierced nearto the ceiling, with a hole, d', communicating with the outer air,and in which may be tted an airtube,`d, leading to thetop of the house, furnished with the necessary appliances to induce a downward draught of air. 1t also communicates with chamber B by a 4hole or passage, Ll, at the door.v

G is another chamber of the cellar, in which is a lire place, fm', communicating with a chimney or duct, O.V

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`S, the airfpipes leading from furnace-chamber B, and communicating with the upper chambers by registers V.

Air is admitted into chamber D through hole d' or f.

theair-tube fitted thereon, as described, and is cooled either by passing over the ice-water in the bottom of the chamber, or by passing through or around the airtube e in chamber E, and'having thus become cooled, i it passes into chamber B through the aperture in the parttion'between chambers Band D, and iinds its Way into either of 'the furnace pipes or dues, S, and thence by registers V into the rooms.

Whendesirable, the draught may be increased-.by making a fire in fire-place m', which will induce a more rapid circulation of the cooled air.

I claim- 1. The arrangement of ice or other air-cooling chamber, E, with or without air-pipee, and draining into air-chamber D, air-chamber D having airfpassages :l dd, pipes S, and registers V, of an ordinary heating-furnace, the whole combined to 'operate substantially as and for the purpose specified. d

2. The arrangement of fire-place m and iue or duet O, in combination with air-chamber D, cooling-chamber E, as described, pipes S, and registers V, substantially -as and for the purpose specified.

W. E. PHELPS.

Witnesse-sz'- JOHN A. Ruler-IARD, J. B. HARsH.

F is the flooring of the upper chambers of thehousel."