US495284A - Radiator - Google Patents

Description

M. A. WILCOX.

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RADIATOR.

(No Model.)

No. 495,284. Patented Apr. 11, 1893.-

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RADIATOR;

"No. 495,284. Patente'dApr. 11, 1893.

.llll' MARGARET A.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

IVATER HEATER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

RADIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,284, dated April 11,1893. Application filed October 29. 1891. Renewed March 1'7, 1893- Serial N0.466,542. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARGARET A. WILOOX,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi cago, in the county of Cook' and State of Illi-' nois, have invented certain new and 'useful Improvements in Radiators, of which tl1e fol-- lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This improvement is designed to provide a tions of parts hereinafter more particularly described and thendefinitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved radiator.

Fig. 2 is a view with the front removed, and partly insection, the better to show the pipes,

drc. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse central section of the same.

Referring now .to the drawings byfigures: 1 represents the back and 2 the front casting, the latter being cast of ornamental form,

but the precise configuration may be left to suit the taste of the manufacturer. In the center is a tube or flue 3, preferably oblong in cross section and broadening from a point about two-fifths of its length from the bottom into a pear-shaped combustion chamber 4 open at front, but is closed by a (preferably glass) door 5. Inside of this, and communicating with the gas supply, is a gas pipe 6, having burners 7, of any approved form or style, to burn the gas supplied to said burners through the pipe 6. Although, for greater convenience, I prefer gas, natural or artificial, it is evident that the burners may be of the class known as vapor burners, in which case gasoline may be supplied to the pipe 6, in any convenient manner.

At 9 and 10 are shown pipes, which lead from and to a heating apparatus, preferably a combined cooker and heater, such as shown in my application, Serial No. 410,239, filed of even date herewith; but I do not limit myself to said heater, as any other may be employed. Starting from the pipe 9, the pipe passes along the bottom of the radiator up the left side ofthe chamber 4 and the tube 3, then over to the extreme left of the radiator, thence down to the bottom, alongwhich it passes to the right-hand side of the chamber 4, up said chamber and the tube 3, to the top, thence downward to the bottom, along the bottom to the left side of the chamber 4, up the left side of said chamber and flue as before, across the top, nearly to the left side of the radiator, thence downward, nearly to the bottom, along the bottom to the right side of chamber 4, up the same and the tube, as before, across the top to nearly the right side of the radiator, then down the side, along the bottom, and again up the left side of the chamber 4 and pipe 3, and so continuing around down 7 the'outside until the end of the pipe, at 10,

is reached, which is the return pipe to the heater.

The operation is as follows: The heating 7o apparatus (not shown) being supplied with water and fuel, either solid or gaseous,.the fire is lighted and the gas in the burners 7 also, and a circulation is induced by the con joint action of the heater and the burners 7, in the system of piping running from 9 to 10, and more especially by the action of the burners 7 on that portion of the pipingcontained in the chamber 4 and tube 3, which is exposed to the direct action of the heat from the gas and the heated products of combustion arising therefrom, that pass up the tube 3. The heated products of combustion may pass off through the flue 11 at the top of the tube 3 to the outer atmosphere, or they may pass to a ventilating apparatus, but which, as it forms no partof the invention here claimed, is not described. In some cases, I leave off the glass door 5, andset a reflector 12 behind the gas jets to deflect the heat from them into the V room that would otherwise be absorbed by the back of the radiator and the wall behind it. With this arrangement, and with the products of combustion passing out through the flue 11, a very good system of heating and ventilation may be obtained, without the ventilating apparatus above referred to, asair necessary to keep up the combustion of the gas is all drawn in from the cold air lying at the bottom of the room, which is combined with 10 7 heat, the water may be kept at a suitable demuch carbonic acid gas given off from the lungs of the persons in the room,which is thus carried off as fast as it falls to the floor. The apparatus in this form is thus much like an open fire in its healthful effects, to say nothing of the cheerful aspect of the blazing of the gas, which may be seen through the opening in the be heightened, if pre front, and which may ferred, by colored glass, or other devices.

This radiator, in conjunction with my heater, to which reference has heretofore been made, will be found to be very convenient in operation, as it can be used in different ways.

For instance, in the fall, or spring, when it may not be necessary to have a very great tion shown, as it is evident that my invention maybe varied in many particulars without departing from the essential features thereof.v

I deem it important that the piping shall be arranged to pass through the heating chamber, then down the outside thereof and again through the heating chamber several times 1n succession, as by this means a very rapid circulation of the water is kept up, owing to the heatbeingapplied to the pipes at so many different points in the circuit, and for the same reason, all of the radiating pipes are kept at a comparatively even and high heat instead of many of them being cooler than others, as in the old style of pipe radiators.

I am aware that it has been proposed in a system of supplying heat to cities to reheat the water at different places along the line by separate furnaces, each requiring a separate attendant. This I consider a very different arrangement from mine which is a combined heater and radiator preferably heated by gas, in which there is a continuous circuit of piping where the water is frequently heated and radiated in one passage through the same radiator.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A combined heater and radiator inclosed in a single casing and having a heating chamber and a continuous circuit of water piping, several sections of said circuitpassing through said heater to absorb heat, and other sections arranged in the circuit between the water heating sections, and acting as radiating surfacesto distribute the heat absorbed by the Water, substantially as described.

2. The combination in a radiator, of gas burners 7, the tapering chamber 4 inclosing said burners, the flue 3 above said chamber 4, a system of piping lining the walls of said chamber 4 and passing through flue 3, said piping being arranged to pass up through the chamber 4 and flue 3 to heat the water and then down the outside thereof, to act as a radiator, several times in succession in a continuouscircuit, thus making a perfect circulation of the water, substantially asidescribed.

3. The combination of a radiator casing 2, a central heating'chamber 4 therein, a flue 3 abovethe chambe ga burner within said chamber 4, a system of radiating water piping, passing up through said chamber and due on one side, out through the hue 3 to the spacebetween the radiator casing and the flue, down said space to act as a radiator, and then again entering the heatingchamber and flue and passing upthrough the same on the opposite side, passes down through the radiator case on theoppositeside it first passed down and again up the heating chamber and line, several times in succession, whereby a continuous circulation is obtained, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in

presence of two witnesses,this 8th day of 0c tober, 1891.

' MARGARET A. WILCOX. Witnesses:

JOHN A. BAUM,

ALBERT J. FIsr iER.

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