US445970A - Switch-board for heat-regulating systems - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

0. W. BRIEDER. SWITCH BOARD FOR HEAT REGULATING SYSTEMS.

Patented Feb. 10,1891.

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CHARLES W. BRIEDER, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

SWITCH-BOARD FOR HEAT-REGULATING SYSTEMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,970, dated February 10, 1891.

Application filed April 11, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. BRIEDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Switch-Board for Heat-Regulating Systems, of which the followin g is a specification.

This invention relates to heating systems, and more especially to the regulators therefor.

The object of the invention is to provide means for regulating the flow of heat to a certain point or room in a building from some point remote from the regulator as well as from the point of exit of the heat. This object I accomplish by the use of a system of regulating heat, more especially that from a furnace, which consists of weighted dampers arranged in the flues near the source of heat, chains, wires, or cords leading therefrom to a desired point or points, and devices at such points for pulling upon said chains and fastening them to set the dampers at any desired angle within the fines, such devices constituting the present invention, all as will be fully explained hereinafter and as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a general section of a building, showing three of the several flues leading from a furnace and the regulating devices therefor. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of one of the so-called switch-boards. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the chains differently arranged. Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective detail of one of the dampers.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter F designates in the present instance a furnace. Leading from said furnace are the fines U, which convey the heat to the different rooms of the building, as the sittingroom S, the parlor I, and the bed-rooms B, of which the drawings show but one.

D are the dampers in said flues near the furnace. Each of the dampers D is of oval shape, whereby it will always occupy an inclined position within a cylindrical flue, and its trunnions or bearings are rods R, which pass through and are journaled in the sides of the flue U, one or both of their extremes, having ordinary handles ll, whereby they can be turned by a person near the furnace each row.

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when desired. These rods R are soldered or otherwise secured to the dampers D, and their inner ends are bent and pass thence down wardly to or nearly to the lower edge of the dampers, whereby the latter are weighted at their point and will normally maintain a closed position within the flue; or the dampers may be provided with a small additional weight, the better to keep them in this position, as will be understood.

XV are wires linked to the lower edge of the dampers, and, passing loosely through holes in the upper sides of the fines, and to the protruding ends of these wires are attached cords, wires, or chains 0, which are led over grooved rollers G or through bell-crank levers to any desired point within the building.

Coming now to the present invention, the letter I designates what I preferably call a switch-board, which is provided with a number of hooks K in its face, arranged as shown in Figs. 2 and 3-that is, one above another, and eyes ibelow the lowermost in One of these switch-boards is secured to the base-board or wainsc-oting of the sitting-room and the chain is led through suitable pulleys between the floor and the ceiling of the room below and behind the lathing to a point directly beneath the switchboard. The chain then emerges and passes through the eye 2', and is provided with a number of rings 0, adapted to engage over one of the .hooks, as will be understood. The heat becoming too intense in the room in question, the ring 0 is disengaged from the hook and moved from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that in Fig. 3, when the damper D in the flue leading to that room will be closed; or, if preferred, the central of the three rings may be engaged over the hook to effect only a partial closing of the damper. The hooks are spaced a distance different from that between the rings, whereby a fine degree of adjustment can be attained by engaging one of the three rings over one or the other of the hooks. It is a notorious factin connection with furnaces that if the register commonly employed at a point where the flue enters the room be closed the hot air that is in the flue between the furnace andthat register is constantly escaping and cooling off and there is yet a considerable drain upon the furnace,

. although no heat is passed into the room. By

theabove-described system, in which the heat is cut off at a pointnear the furnace, this escape of the heat is avoided, as will be obvious, and there is a consequent. saving of fuel. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a system of this character as applied to an ordinary dwelling. In this case it is frequently desirable to turn on the heat in the bed-room B or parlor P, while the family is in the sitting-room S. In order to allow of this being done without descending into the cellar or ascending to the bed-room to operate the register, I lead additional chains 0 from each flue to aswitch-board I, located in the sittingroom, which accommodates several chains and .-'.1ingS, each of which. must be suitably marked .to-indicateto-which flue it leads. A single hook K may-be seated in .the base-board of the severalrooms other than the sitting-room,

and the .ehain and rings may be employed 2 with this. hook, as shown.

Various arrangementsof the chains leading to a oentralsection in some common room injthe building will suggestv themselves and maybeemployed as necessity mayv require. .--There may even be two such stations, if de- .tor-chain-is preferably also led to the roomin The weight attachedto the lower ..-..edge 0f the. damper must of course. be increased according -.to the length and weight of -the;regulator chain or wire andlthe amount of friction thereonin turning corners. -;;-I.claim .as the salient points of this invention- 1. In a heat-regulatin g system, the combination, with a common source of heat, flues lead ing therefrom to several apartments, weighted dampers in said flues near the source of heat, and a cord leading from the heavy edge of each damper to the apartment whose heat it controls, of a chain connected to the end of said cord and having rings in its body, and a switch-board in said apartment having hooks arranged in avertical line and spaced difierently from the spacing of said rings in the chain, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In aheat-regulating system, the combination, with a common source of heat, flues leadin g therefrom to several apartments, weighted dampers in said flues near the source of heat, and a cord leading from the. heavy edge of each damper to the apartmentwhose heat it controls, of a switch-board,substantially as described, in each compartment, a second setof cords leading one from each :damper to a common apartment,ohains connected to said cords and having rings :in their bodies, a switch-board in said common apartment having a number of eyesacross its face near its lower end, through which said iehains and rings pass, andhooks. arranged in vertical lines above said eyes,t-he hooks in each line being farther apart than are said rings, as and for the purpose hereinbefore setforth.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have heretoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES IV. BRIEDER.

' IVitnesses:

J. H. MoCLAY, J. F. Mourns.

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