US156912A

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Publication number: US156912A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-11-17
Anticipated expiration: 1891-11-17

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"0. couv-suck. Fire-Place Radiaturs` Patented Nov. 17, 1874.

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PATENT OEEICEo CHESTER COMSTOCK, 0F NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACE RADIATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,912, dated November 17, 1874; application filed October 1, 1874.

To all whom Iit may concern Be it known that I, CHESTER COMSTOGK, of New Canaan, in the county of Faireld and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Fire-Place Radiator, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a face view of my improved fireplace radiator. Fig. 2 isa vertical central section of the same; Fig. 3, a sectional face view of one of the radiating-chambers; Fig.

4 a longitudinal, and Fig. 5 a transverse, section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

`The object of this invention is to utilize the fire-places which are built into nearly all dwelling-houses for locating steam or hot-water radiators.

The invention consists in a steamy-radiator adapted to the recess and configuration of an ordinary fireplace. 1

Dwelling-houses that were built in former years were mostly provided With fire -places for useful purposes, but modern arrangements have made nearly all such Ere-places useless, and they are now constructed more for the sake of ornament than for actual use. At the same time steam-radiators are largely employed, and take away valuable space in rooms, besides being frequently of a form not in harmony with the furniture that may be selected. By adapting a radiator for insertion into a lire-place, I utilize a space that would otherwise be useless, and at the same time am enabled to make the radiator a constant ornament of a room, and very effective besides.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents the mantel of the lire-place, iliade in the usual or suitable style, to embrace and embellish a recess, B, within which my improved radiator C is placed. This radiator consists of one or more hollow radiating-chambers, a a, which are connected with the steam or hot-water supply pipe b and with each other, to insure a proper circulation of steam or hot water through them. A sheet-metal casing or curtain, d, may be arranged at the back of the radiator proper, for the purpose of preventing the walls of the house from becoming overheated, and also for radiating purposes. The face-plate c of the radiator is shaped to conform to the outline ofthe recess in the fire-place, but around the edges of said face-plate e is formed an open space, m, through which the air may enter the recess of the fire-place and escape therefrom. The air will thus become heated by contact with the radiating-surfaces, and circulate, by the con-- In imitation of the ordinary hearth-piece used in front of grates, I use a horizontal radiator, D,projecting forward from the main tire-place radiator C, and containing one or more chambers, f f, for the reception of the hot water or steam from the pipe b, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. A perforated plate, g, embraces and forms the edge of this horizontal radiator D, and allows the radiated air from D to escape into the room. Thus the coldest air of the room, which is at the bottoni, will be warmed by the horizontal hearth-radiator D, and ascend from it into the room, while the topV plate h of such hearth'radiator also serves as a direct radiating-surface.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 I have represented detail views of the steam and hot-Water chain bers a or f, which I prefer to use in my radiator. Every such chamber I prefer to form of two plates, t' and j, which at their edges are bent inward, and joined by bolts l passing through them, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The joint may be made tight by galvanizing the entire chamber, or otherwise.

I claim as my inventionl. A fire-place radiator, C, adapted for in sertion into a fire-place, and constructed of one or more chambers, a, of the radiating front plate e, and of the metal curtain d arranged at the back, all combined substantially as described.

2. In combination with a lire-place radiator, adapted for insertion in a flre-place, and constructed of one or more chambers', and ot' a radiating front plate, the horizontal or hearth radiator D, composed of the chamber or chambers f and perforated face-plate g, f'or use substantially as specified.

CHESTER COMSTOCK.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH F. SILLIMAN, RUssELL L. HALL.