US410736A - Heating apparatus - Google Patents

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E. W. OLIN. HEATING APPARATUS.

No. 410,736. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

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EDGAR IV. OLIN, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-THIRDS TO ALLEN E. BURNAM AND JOSEPH \V. JOHNSTON, OF SAME PLACE.

HEATING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,736, dated September 10, 1889. Application filed June 11, 1889. Serial No. 313,847. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDGAR IV. OLIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pueblo, county of Pueblo, and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heating Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to appliances for heating the rooms or apartments of dwellings and other houses, the object being to economize and more fully utilize the heat and to facilitate the distribution of the same throughout the several stories and apartments of the building.

To the above purpose my invention consists in certain peculiar and novel features of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1, 2, and 3 illustrate plan views, respectively, of two, three, and four room houses with myimproved heating apparatus applied thereto- Fig. l is a side elevation of the compartment or casing in which the stove or furnace is placed, certain parts being broken away to show the interior construction. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detached View of a modified form of shutter and its supporting and operating device.

In the said drawings, A designates a casing built either of wood or of non-combustible material, and having at its angles hollow posts B. This casing extends vertically from the floor to the ceiling D of the apartments on the lower floor of the building, as shown in Fig.4. Each side of the casin g is closed at its upper portion by a fixed panel a, and the remaining lower portion of each side is left open. In each side of the casing are placed doors or shutters E E, which work in Vertical grooves Z) in the posts B, and which are also counterbalanced by weights F, attached to cords f, running over pulleys f, set in the posts B, the arrangement being similar to that of window sashes. In order to keep the counter-weights from interfering with each other, the interiors of the posts B are each divided into separate spaces by partitions B, set at right angle to each other, as shown in Fig. 5. A stove G, of any suitable type, is set upon the floor of the casing A, and the smoke pipe or flue of the stove extends upward through an opening II in the top of the casing A. Boxes I I are set into the top of the casing A and open into theinterior of the same, while hot-air pipes 'L' 1; lead from said boxes to registers in the apartments of the upper stories of the building, so that the heat radiated by the stove fills the interior of the casing A and is carried out through the pipes 2', as required.

As before stated, the casing A is preferably located in the first or lower story of the building, and is so placed that each of its sides shall communicate directly with one of the apartments of said story. This will be clearly understood by reference to Figs. 1, 2, and In Fig. 1 J J designate the two apartments of the lower story, said apartments being separated by the wall J into this wall, so that one of its sides communicates directly with the apartmentJ and the other side communicates directly with the apartment J. In Fig. 2 three apartments K K K are shown separated by two walls it It, extending at right angles to each other, and the casing A is set at the angle of junction of said walls. In Fig. 3 four apartments L L L L are shown separated by the two walls Z Z, extending at right angles to each other entirely across the floor. The casing is set in the middle of the floor at the angle of junction of the walls Z l, so that each of its four sides communicates directly with one of the rooms. In all of these figures the casing A is shown as having but four sides; but it will be readily seen that the number of sides may be varied to accord with the number of adjacent rooms without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Usually the shutters E E are placed as shown in Fig. 4-that is, the lower shutter E The casing A is built in proper relation to its open sides.

is partially raised, so as to admit air to support combustion in the heater G and also to be heated. Thus some of the heat will be supplied directly to the apartment on the ground floor and the remainder will be supplied to the upper stories through the pipes 2'. WVhen desired, however, the shutters E E may be both raised, so that almost all of the heat will be supplied to the apartments on the lower floor and but little will be conveyed to the upper stories. gle ordinary heater is made to act as a furnace, and yet with much less consumption of fuel than the latter.

The inner surfaces of the casing A (when the latter is of wood) are .proteeted by a suitable sheet-metal or equivalent non-combustible lining, and in order to further insure against fire the form of shutter shown in Fig. 6 may be substituted for those shown in Fig. 4. In the said Fig. 6 the shutter M is formed of metal slats arranged like those of aVenetian blind, and said shutter is attached at its upper end to a roller N, upon which the shutter may be wound more or less, as desired, the roller being set horizontally in the casing A Thus I haveidevised a simple and e'fficient means for warming the apartments of buildings, and have insured the utmost economy of fuel, combined with the most thorough distribution of heated air.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with adjoining rooms of a building, of a compartment interposed between said rooms and provided with doors which constitute the sides of said compartment and form an intermediate room for the reception of a heater, as and for the purpose specified.

2. Animproved appliance for distributing heat to the apartments of buildings, consisting of a compartment interposed between and communicating with adjacent apartments and provided with adjustable doors which constitute the sides of said compartmentand form an inclosed space for the reception of a heater, substantially as described.

3. An improved appliance for heating the apartments of buildings, consisting of an It will thus be seen that a sincompartment or room interposed between and communicating with adjacent apartments, in combinationwith several sets of adjustable doors, one set for each apartment, applied to and forming the sides of said heater-compartment, whereby the hot air may be conducted to any or all adjoining apartments, as set forth. 7

5. The combination, with adjoining apartments of a building, of a compartment interposed between the same and provided with doors which constitute the sides of said compartment and form an intermediate room for the reception of a heater, said heater-compartment and its doors being provided with an interior lining of zinc or equivalent material, substantially as and for the purpose described.

6. An improved appliance for distributing heat to the apartments of buildings, consisting of an interior compartment interposed between, inclosed by, and communicating directly with adjoining apartments on the same fioor, and provided with adjustable doors, in

stories of the building, substantially as described.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of June, A. D. 1889.

EDGAR \V. OLIN.

WVitnesses:

T. H. SoHooLEY, A. E. BURNAM.

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