US360319A - Steam-radiator - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. MANSELL.

STEAM RADIATOR. No. 360,319. Patented Mar. 29,1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT rErcE.

ED\V,IN MANSELL, OF COLDV ATER, MXCHIGAN.

STEAM-RADIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,319, dated March 29, 1887,

Application filed October 9, 1886.

Serial No. 215,761. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN MAEsE L, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Goldwater, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Radiators; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical sectional viewof my improved steam-radiator; and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line 00 m, Fig. 1.

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

My invention has relation to that class of steainradiators having series of doubled radiating pipes, and having an inlet-valve at one end of the base and an outlet-valve at the other end of the base; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a radiator having each series of radiating pipes secured to a separate chamber, and having means for blowing off the water of condensation from the drip-chamber by means of the live steam let into the inlet end of the radiator, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.-

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the radiator-pipes, which are secured with their lower ends in the top B of the secondary steanrchamber 0, formed in the base of the radiator, each row of radiator-pipes being secured in a separate chamber, partitions D separating the chambers.

At one end of the secondary chambers the inlet-chamber E is formed, the said chamber communicating with the secondary chambers through valve-seats F in the bottoms of the secondary chambers, and the iulet-ehamber is provided with the steam-pipe G and is supported upon suitable legs, H. At the other end of the secondary chambers the exhaustchamber or dripchamber I is secured, being of the same shape and construction as the steam-chamber, having valve-apertures J, and being supported upon the legs of the radiator.

A pipe K, extends from the inner wall of the steam-chamber to the inner wall of the drip-chamber, conveying steam from the one chamber to the other, and valves L fit upon the valve-seats,having suitably screw-threaded stems M and handwheels N for operating them. The drip-chamber is provided with the drip or exhaust pipe 0. It will now be seen that the steam enters the steam-chamber continually when the generator is in constant operation, and when the valves are closed the steam will pass from the steam-chamber to the dripehamber, driving out all condense-water and preventing the said water from freezing,\vhich it is liable to do in radiators placed in exposed positions.

When one or more of the inlet-valves are opened and their corresponding outlet-valves are also opened, steam will be admitted into the respective secondary chambers and into their respective radiator-pipes, and the steam passing through the connecting-pipe having already driven out all the condense-Water, there will be no water-hammer, as is liable to be heard in other radiators.

Each series of radiating pipes having its own secondary chamber and its own set of pipes, one or more series of the pipes may be supplied with steam, according to the temperature desired to be obtained in the room, and it will be seen that in this manner the temperature of a room may be more perfectly governed than in radiators in which the heat must be regulated by the quantity of steam admitted into the radiator, all the pipes being connected to one common chamber.

Any number of series of pipes may be employed, and the construction of the radiating pipes and of the chambers may be varied according to the style of radiator desired, and the construction of the valves and seats may be varied, removable -seats being used, if de sired, and valve-bodies of any shape and operated by any shape of stems may be used, according to the preference and fancy of the person using the radiator.

lhe shape of the steam-chamber and its appurtenances is similar to the construction of the drip-chamber, so that either end of the radiator may be used for steam inlet or outlet, the shape of both ends being the same,while the functions of the parts are different.

The upper ends of the radiator-pipes may be connected by return-joints I, as shown in the drawings, or they may be closed each separate, and the upper ends are preferably covered with a suitable top, and this top, as well as the pipes and the base, may be ornamented and shaped in any suitable manner, according to the taste and fancy of the manufacturer and purchaser.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a steam-radiator, the combination of a longitudinally-divided secondary steam-chamber having a steanrcliambcwat one end and "Witnesses:

GEORGE IRVIN BoLLEs, RosE BELL CARPENTER.

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