US1828344A - Water heater and condenser - Google Patents

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0a. 20, 1931. H SCHNHDER 1,828,344

WATER HEATER I AND CONDENSER Filed May 11, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 20, 1931. J SCHNEmER 1,828,344

WATER HEATER AND CONDENSER FiledMay 11. 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Oct; 20, 1931.

H. J. SCHNEIDER 1,828,344 WATER HEATER AND CONDENSER Filed May 11, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Oct. 20, 193i He st tsetiiiaies i sea-ca naesaentser e wisting; we con-Bunsen My present inventionrelates. to water! heat-1: ers and condensers and more particularly to a combined water heater and, steam con:

denser. i

My device is twofold. It not only con;- denses steam but the steam produces: hot water, or in other words, heat which is present in the steam istransferred to the water, there. by chilling the steam to a condensation point m raising the temperature of the water to a substantially high point, or sufiiciently high enough for the requirements of a laundry, tor instance. a

Of course my apparatus might be-useddi 15 rectly as a hot water heater being-attached to a common steam heater, such that steam would be continually condensing in the water heater and returning to the boiler in the form of water, much the same as condensation takes place in a steam radiator, except that in my invention the heat would pass from the steam to the water surrounding the steam coils instead of the atmosphere around a radiator.

In my device the cold water enters the bot- 25 tom 01" the condenser and flows out of the top while the live steam enters the top of the condenser, and the condensed steam, in the form of water, fiows out at the bottom. The

steam is conducted through a series of coils 9 supported in standard fittings, such as cast iron Ls, Ts, return bends and. the like, and any size condenser or heater may be made by adding to or subtracting from the number of units without discarding any of the original equipment, and likewise the apparatus may be easily disassembled for cleaning or repairing without discarding or removing the rest of the apparatus. I I

The principal object of my invention therefore, is a combined water heater and condenser.

Another object is a water heater and condenser composed of a series of similar units any one of which is demountable without 4. disturbing the others;

Other objects and novel features will appear as the description of the operation and construction of the device progresses.

In the drawings illustrating my preferred 5Q embodiment of the invention,

was. Serial N 3523371.

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The cold water circulates upthrough the jacket composed of standard fittings, absorbing the heat from the steam and may be drawn oil the top for either domestic or commercial purposes. The steam may be either the exhaust of a steam engine or live steam rom a steam boiler, such as is used for heating dwelling houses. In either event, steam is utilized to heat the water and. the heat having been transferred from the steam to the water, the condensation of the steam is carried back to the boiler for further use.

In some installations, the units A, B, C, D and E, may take the pace of a radiator for heating a room, while at the same time furnishing hot water for other purposes, and under such conditions, a combination of steam and hot water is present, the steam coils acting as an indirect heating unit for the hot water radiator.

At Fig. 6, I have shown a similar arrangement of the units A, B, C, D, E and F, except that the said units are provided with parallel steam coils such that steam travels down through the units A, D and E, without passing units B, C and F, and vice versa.

In some installations an arrangement of this character would be more desirable than that shown in Figs. 2 and 3, as it allows closer spacing of the units with respect to their vertical heights because no necessity is present for tipping the units for the purpose of drainage of the coils 18 through the pipes 25 as in the case in Figs. 2 and 3.

A common inlet T 35 connects with both sides as A, D, E, and B, C, F, and a common outlet T 36 receives the condensation the same as does the pipe 27 in Fig. 2 and in all other respects the units are identical with those shown and described elsewhere in the specification.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is: r

1. In a water heater, a plurality of de cover plate, and disk and secured to said jacket, steam inlet and outlet openings in said cover plate communicating with chambers formed on the inside of such plate adj acent the said disk, a partition separating said compartments and transversely located between the open ends of said steam tube located in said disk, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a combined water heater and steam condenser the combination of demountable water jackets connected to each other at one endv by a return bend and at the other end by a T, said T closed at one end by a disk provided with a steam tube having its two ends secured in said disk and communicatingwith the side of the disk remote from said water jacket, a cover plate adjacent said remote side of said disk and held to said jacket by meansof bolts passing through said cover plate and disk and secured to said jacket, steam inlet and outlet openings in said cover plate communicating with chambers formed on the inside of such plate, adjacent the said disk, a partition separating said compartments and transversely located between the open ends of said steam tube, located in said disk, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof, I hereby subscribe my name this 18th day of March, 1929.

HENRY J. SCHNEIDER.

mountable water jackets connected to each other at one end by a return bend and at the other end by a T, said T closed at one end by a disk provided with a steam tube having its two ends secured in said disk and. com: municating with the side of the disk remote from said water jacket, a cover plate adjacent said remote side of said disk and held to said int

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