US1712218A - Radiator - Google Patents

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y 7, 1929- w. F. KINNEE ET AL 1,712,218

7 RADIATOR Filed Dec. 1, 1927 Patented May 7, 1929.

Ni STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

WILLIAM F. KINNEE AND LLOYD B. KINN'EE, OF MILWAUKEE; WISCON SIN.

. RADIATOR.

Application filed December 1, 1927. Serial No. 236,949.

This invention relates particularly directed to fier. In using radiators, it has been found that the wall soon becomes soiled adjacent the radiator, and in addition to this, the humidi fying or moistening of the air has to be provided for by auxiliary means.

This invention is designed to provide a radiator construction, in which meansare provided for moistening the air and also in which means are provided for preventing soiling of the wall.

Further objects of this invention are to provide a radiator having the characteristics noted above in which projecting lugs are provided for carrying an apron and a cover or hood, and also in which projecting portions are provided for holding a moistening pan securely in position against either lateral or longitudinal sliding,the projections serving as supports for the cover or hood. I

It will be observed that the hood or cover will also serve the purpose of a seat when it is used in connection with a low radiator, and as a table or shelf when used in connection with a high radiator.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a front view of a radiator with pa s broken away and in section;

figure 2 is an end elevation with parts broken away and in section;

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure l. s

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that a radiator has been provided with end members 1 and intermediate members 2. This radiator ma 1 be for hot water or steam,

as desired. The radiator is also equipped with an intermediate or central member The intermediate member, it will be noted, particularly from Figure 3, is provided with upstanding lugs 4, which lugs serve the purpose of an intermediate support for the hood of radiators of maximum length, and between which a water pan or humidifying pan 5 is positioned. This pan rests on the tops of all of the intermediate sections 2 and abuts upwardly projecting, relatively wide end lugs 6, carried by the end members 1, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. These end lugs 6, it will be noted, are not as narrow as the lugs 4, but are provided with inwardly bevelled or widened portions, as may to radiators and is a radiator hum1d1- be seen from Figure 2, which engage the end corners or end portions of the pan and I thus prevent thefpa-n from slipping longitudinally. v v s The end members ofthe radiator are, pro vided with bosses 7, as indicated in Figures 1 and 2, and the radiator is also provided with a hood or cover 9 of rectan ular construc tion, having downwardly extending mar-. ginal flanges and having a standard filling aperture 10 provided with a'hinged cover,

which cover is, as shown, when closed, preferably flush with the top of the-hood. The bosses 7 are provided for the purpose'of allowing an air space at the end of the hood and also to prevent said cover from becomingexcessively-hot. Thus, these bosses en-' gage the end marginal flanges and thereby prevent lateralmovement of said cover, in addition to the functions previously mentioned.

Further, the end members 1 are provided with rearwardly projecting bosses 12 which receive screws 18, as shown in Figure 2. The bosses 12 are positioned adjacent the upper and lower ends of the members 1 and abut a rear apron 14L.

In the larger sized radiators having the maximum numberof intermediate sections, bosses are positioned acent the upper and lowerends ofthe intermediate members, to thus hold the rear apron-14 securely in place, and providing an airspace between the radiator and apron to control and direct air cur-- rents over the water pan 5 and under the hood 9. r

Further, it is to be noted that the rear apron ll is provided with forwardly turned portions 14 which form shields adjacent the rear and ends of the radiator. The apron extends downwardly below the body of the bosses described above, to secure a uniform product.

Further than this, the rear apron directs the rising air inwardly away from the wall and is itself cooled to a certain extent by this rising air, so that the heated air does not playfreely against the wall atthe rear of the radiator. Further than this, across the water pan the heated air. sweeps and is discharged forwardly of the radiator, "thus throwing the v heated air and the moisture out into the room.

It is to be noted further that the radiator is of attractive and pleasing design as the water pan is completely covered by the hood and as the hood and apron form a unitary portion of the radiator itself.

Although the invention has been described in considerable detail, such description is intended as illustrative rather than limiting as the invention may be variously embodied and as thescope of such invention is to be determined as claimed.

7 We claim a The combination of a radiator provided with end members and a plurality of intermediate members, one of said intermediate members having a pair of projecting spaced lugs, a water'pan carried between said lugs and resting upon the tops of said intermediate members, said end members having upwardly projecting lugs adjacent their upper ends contacting with the ends of said water pan, a rear apron spaced from, and supportedby, the rear of the radiator, a hood having downwardly extending marginal flanges, said radiator having bosses projecting from adjacent its upper ends and contacting with the inner portion of said hood, said apron extending upwardly and under the downwardly extending marginal flanges of the hood.

. In testimony that We claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of \Visconsin. 1

' WILLIAM F. KINNEE. LLOYD B. KINNEE.

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