US402357A

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Publication number: US402357A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-04-30
Anticipated expiration: 1906-04-30

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(No Model J J. SHACKLETON.

RADIATOR FOR HEATING BUILDINGS. No. 402,357. Patented Apr. 30, 1889..

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JOSEPH SHACKLETON, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

RADIATOR FOR HEATING BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,357, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed January 16, 1888. Renewed January 8, 1889. Serial No. 295,804. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SHAOKLETON, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Radiators for Heating Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

In many places steam at a high temperature and pressure is conveyed through the streets in pipes and led into buildings and employed for heating purposes; but the steam being at a high temperature causes the radiating-surfaces to be disagreeably hot, and when the steam is shut off the radiator rapidly cools.

The object of my invention is to employ circulating water as the heating medium in the radiator, such water being warmed by steam-pipes within the same. By this means I am able to make use of radiators having a large extent of heating-surface, and to heat those surfaces to a moderate temperature, and the mass of circulating water retains the heat, so that the radiator will continue to warm the apartment for a considerable time after the steam-supply is shut off.

In the drawings, Figure *1 is a vertical section of a radiator with my improvements applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan at the line w' 00.

The radiatoritself is'to be of any suitable size, audit is composed of groups of vertical pipes A, opening at the top into the case B, and at the bottom into the base 0, and usually this base 0 is supported by a case, D, resting upon the floor, into which the atmosphere is admitted by a pipe leading to the outside of the building, and there is an air-space, E, through the base C, that admits the air to pass up between the ranges of pipes A and become warmed by them and then pass out into the apartment.

Within the base C there is a steam-chamber, H, one end of which is connected to the steam-supply pipe K by a cock or.valve, L, and the bot-tom of this chamber H is connected by a pipe, M, and check-valve N to the lower portion of the pipe K, so that Water of condensation from the chamber II runs by the pipe M and check-valve N back to the boiler or source of steam-supply.

From the chamber H the heating-pipes P pass vertically withinthe ranges of pipes A. Each of these pipes P is preferably provided with a vertical partition extending nearly to the top, to insure the circulation of the steam through each pipe. This partition is well known in steam-heating apparatus.

It is advantageous to introduce the steam heating-pipes P only in about three quarters of the vertical radiator-pipes A, the other radiator-pipes A being left without such steampipes, as illustrated in Fig. 1. It will now be apparent that when the radiator-pipes A and base 0 are filled with water the heat from the steam-pipes P will heat the water and cause it to circulate rapidly throughout the entire radiator, such water rising in those pipes A which are provided with the steam pipes P,

and, passing along through the hollow top case, B, the water descends through those radiating-pipes A which are not provided with steam-pipes P and returns to the base, and so on through the base and up again through the pipes A that are provided with the steampipes P. In this manner I am able to produce a rapid circulation of water throughout the entire radiator, and to maintain such radiator at a temperature adapted to heat the air without the radiator being objectionably hot, and this improvement is available in cases where the steam is supplied through pipes laid in the street, and also where there is a steamboiler in some portion of the building. In all instances the mass of water in the radiator is sufficient to insure a continuance of the heat for a considerable period after the steam may be shut off, thus adapting the improvement to dwelling-houses, wherein the sleeping apart ments will be kept warm through the night by the mass of water in the radiator even after the generation. of steam has ceased in the boiler.

I claim as my invention-* 1. The combination, with a radiator com posed of vertical, pipes with a hollow top chamber and a hollow base connected by said pipes, of steam-pipes applied within a portion of the vertical pipes and a steamchamber with which the lower ends of the pipes are connected for heating the water contained in the vertical pipes P, extending up from the the radiator and causing an upward circulasteam-chamber H, within the radiator-pipes tion, the return circulation being through the A, substantially as and for the purposes set vertical pipes that are not provided with forth.

5 steam-pipes, substantially as set forth. Signed by me this 30th day of December, I 5

2. The hollow base 0, vertical radiator- 1887. pipes A, and hollow top chamber, B, in com- JOSEPH SHACKLETON. bination with the steam-chamber H, the sup- Witnesses: ply-pipe K and cock L, the pipe M and check GEO. '1. PINCKNEY, IO valve N, for the water of condensation, and WILLIAM G. MOTT.