US489660A

US489660A - John fellow

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Publication number: US489660A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-01-10
Anticipated expiration: 1910-01-10

Description

(No Model.)

. J. PELLOW.

COMBINED WATER HEATER AND SHOWER BATH.

Patented Jan. 10, 1893.

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JOHN PELLOW, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE B. lVILSON, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED WATER-=HEATER AND SHOWER-BATH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,660, dated January 10, 1893. Application filed July 14, 1892. Serial No. 440,068. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: wall and head being formed by the conical Be it known that 1, JOHN PELLOW, a citizen extension A and the annular head D. Openof the United States, residing at Grand Raping in to the top of this chamber, is a pipe J ids, in the county of Kent and State of Michihaving no valve or other means of closing the gan, have invented certain new and useful same, which pipe extends upward and to any Improvements in a Combined Water-Heater convenient point where it terminates in a and Shower-Bath; and I do hereby declare sprinkler K, for the purpose of a shower bath; the following to be a full, clear, and exact deand from the lower part of said chamber exscription of the invention, such as will entends a pipe G provided with a valve G, 60 1o able others skilled in the art to which it apwhich extends to any convenient point to dispertains to make and use the same. charge hot water from said chamber.

My invention relates to improvements in a E is a pipe connected to any convenient combined water heater and shower bath, and water reservoir, or hydrant, which pipe is its object is to provide the same with certain provided with a valve E, and extending 65 new and useful features, hereinafter more through the casing Aabove the burners H, is

fully described and particularly pointed out provided with a cross E, to which are conin the claims, reference being had to the acnected the conical spiral pipe coils F F which companying drawings in which extend upward within the described tubular Figure 1 is a vertical section of a device sections and cups, and passing vertically 7o embodying my invention on the line 11 of through the upper cup B, are closed at their Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 2 a horizontal section of upper ends and perforated with a number of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and, Fig. openings F on their sides adjacent to the up- 3 the same on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. per tubular section 0". Extending from the A represents a cylindrical casing, within supply pipe E to the shower bath pipe J and 75 which are located burners H for gas, gasoline, connecting the same is a pipe L provided or other fuel, which burners are supplied with a valve L. The burners H serve to heat through the pipe 1. Attached to the upper the coils F F, tubular sections 0 O 'O 0 part of the base A, is a truncated conical exand the cups B B B B ,which collectively tension A terminating at its upper end in an present a large and efficient heating surface, 80 o annular head D, said head surrounding and water being turned on by opening the valve attached to the smallest tubular section 0, E, will flow through the pipe E and coils F which section extends above said head, to F and escaping at the openings F is sprayed connect with a smoke pipe and also extends upon the section 0, and running downward below the same a short distance, terminating on the outer surface of the same, accumu- 85 5 in an annular cup 13 surrounding its base, lates in the cup B, whence it over flows and to the outer rim of which cup is attached a passing downward over the successive seelarger tubular section 0, which also has attions G O O and through the cups B and tached another larger annular cup B, to the B finally accummlates in the lower cup B, outer rim of which is attached the upper end whence it passes off at the pipe G when the 0 40 of another still larger tubular section 0, valve G is open. These cups B B B' which has another annular cup B at the botare found to be very effective for strengthentom, to which is attached the upper end of ing the structure against pressure of water another tubular section 0, which also has an from without and also for deflecting and annular cup at the bottom, the outer rim of breaking up the upward current of heated 95 which is attached to the base A near its upair and gases, and also increasing the heatper end, thus making a series of upwardly ing surface of the device. decreasing tubular sections C O C O" in se- By closing the valve G the water will fill ries one above the other, connected at their the device and then overflow at the pipe J, adjacent ends by upwardly open annular escapingin aspray of hotwater at the sprink- 10c cups B B B B which form the inner walls ler K; should said water he too hot, a portion and bottom of a water chamber, the outer of cold water may be added by opening the valve L, more or less, the resistance due to the convolutions of the coils F and the narrowness of the openings F, causing a portion of the water to take the free course through the pipe L, according as the valve L is opened more or less. In case both valve G and E are inadvertently closed no over pressure can be produced to explode the device, as all excess of pressure at once escapes through the pipe J and sprinkler K. Nor is it possible to put full hydrant pressure upon the device, as all excess of pressure over what is necessary to drive the water over, escapes through said pipe J and sprinkler K, which should be large enough to pass freely all the water that can be admitted through the valve E.

The structure can thus be made thin and light, which facilitates rapid heating, and is also cheaper and at the same time is insured against any accident from over pressure, which in case of a device that can be wholly closed and steam generated in the same, can be exploded, regardless of its strength, and is therefore very dangerous.

What I claim is;-

1. In a water heater, the combination with the tubular sections of diiferent diameters, cups at the ends of said sections, and the easing surrounding said sections and cups, of the spiral coils extending upwardly through the lower of said sections and having their upper ends located adjacent to the exterior of the upper of said sections and formed with lateral openings, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a water heater, a series of diminishing tubular sections connected by annular cups, and a truncated conical casing connected to one of said cups at its base, and to one of said tubular sections at its opposite end, and a conical spiral coil within said sections and cups connected to a water supply at one end, and passing through the upper cup at the opposite end, and having a series of openings in the side adjacent to one of said tubular sections, substantially as described.

3. In a water heater, a cylindrical casing, having burners or other heating devices within the same, a tubular conical extension attached to said base, a series of upwardly diminishing tubular sections connected by upwardly open annular cups within said conical extension, a head connecting said extension to the upper tubular section, a transverse pipe in said casing above said heaters, conical spiral coils connected to said pipe and extending upward within said tubular section and cups, said coils passing through the upper cup and having lateral openings in the side adjacent to the upper tubular section, and a discharge pipe attached to the lower annular cup, substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a combined water heater and shower bath, of a casing, tubular sections of different diameters located in said casing, cups at the ends of said sections, the burners, spiral coils extending upward within said tubular sections and having their upper ends located adjacent to the exterior surface of the uppermost section and formed with lateral openings, a permanently-open pipe, J, extending from the upper end of said casing and provided at its outer end with a sprinkler, a valved pipe G extending from the lower cup, a valved pipe E connected with the lower ends of said coils, and a valved pipe L connecting said pipes J and E.

5. A combined water heater and shower bath, consisting of a series of upwardly diminishing tubular sections, annular cups connecting the adjacent ends of the same, a truncated conical outer shell connected to the outer rim of the lower cup at its base and to the upper tubular section at its smaller end, burners in said casing conical spiral coils within saidsections and cups, said spiral coils extending through the uppermost cup and having series of openings in their sides adjacent to the uppermost tubular section, a permanently-open pipe, J, extending from the upper end of said casing and provided at its outer end with a sprinkler, a valved pipe G extending from the lower cup, a valved pipe E connected with the lower ends of said coils, and a valved pipe L connecting said pipes J and E.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FELLOW.

WVitnesses:

LUTHER V. MOULTON, LOIS MOULTON.