US556828A

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Publication number: US556828A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-03-24
Anticipated expiration: 1913-03-24

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H. R. MILLER HOT WATER HEATING APPARATUS.

No. 556,828. Patented Mal. 24, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

HOMER R. MILLER, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASAO1IUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HERBERT E. MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

HOT-WATER H EATING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,828, dated March 24, 1896.

Application filed July 8,1895. Serial No. 555,225. (No model.)

To all whom it may OOH 06 H: preferably formed with transverse or verti- Be it known that I, HOMER R. MILLER, cal corrugations a, which may be made in of South Framingham, county of Middlesex, parallelism, if desired. Interiorly the pas- State of Massachusetts, have invented an 1111- sage a is formed more or less undulating or 5 provement in l-lot-lVaterHeating Apparatus, tortuous-as, for instance, it may be formed of which the following description, in connecin parallelism with the exterior corrugations. tion with the accompanying drawings, is a These thin water-receivers a are placed in specification, like letters and figures on the vertical position side by side and close todrawings representing like parts. gether, there being suflicient space between 10 This invention has for its object to improve them for the passage of the products of comthe construction of hot-water heating appabustion, and they are connected together in ratuses. series by short intermediate connections 2- In accordance with this invention several that is to say, the upper front end of one rethin water-receivers are placed in vertical poceiver is connected to the upper front end of sit-ion side by side quite near together and the one next to it, and the lower rear end of connected in series, and the set of water-rethis latter receiver is connected to the lower ceivers so constructed are provided with an rear end of the next receiver, and so on, thereinletand an outlet connection or pipe. These by providing a continuous passage for the flow thin watenreceivers are each preferably made of water through the entire set of receivers.

20 as a single or one piece casting, and their op- To one of the outside receivers of the set an posite sides are formed with vertical corrugainlet-pipe is connected, and to the other outtions which augment the heatin -surface and side receiver an outlet-pipe is connected, said form fines or passage-ways for the products pipes being connected in circuit with the cirof combustion which pass up between the culatory system.

25 receivers. Interiorly these thin water re- The front ends of the water-receivers have ceivers are formed with an undulating or torformed upon them suitable lugs to, which tuous passage therethrough from end to end rest on supports a secured in the masonry, which retards the progress or flow of the waand thereby supporting the front ends of the ter. This tortuous passage may and preferreceivers, and the rearends thereof rest upon 0 ably will be formed in parallelism with the rollers or other suitable supports which may exterior corrugations, and in addition to rebe provided for them. tarding the circulation at such point provides The lower front end of the receivers are as much exposed water-surface as fire-sun formed obliquely, as shown in Fig. 2, so as face. Supports are provided for. the front to present an unobstructed passage through 3 5 and rear ends of these thin water-receivers, the fire-pot A. and bymeans of the intermediate connections The set of thin water-receivers a are placed by which they are connected in series are sejust above the fire-pot, or between it and the eurely held in Vertical position on their supoutlet for the products of combustion, and ports. The lower front end of these thin wathe exterior corrugations form vertical fines 4o tor-receivers are formed more or less obliquely or passages for the products of combustion,

to present an unobstructed passage to the firein addition to providing greater heating-surpot above which they are placed. face, while the interior undulating or tortu- Figure 1 shows in plan view and partial secous passage retards the flow of water through tion a hot-water heating apparatus embodythe set of receivers that it may be heated to ing my invention, and Fig. 2 a side elevation a greater temperature. 5 of the same. I clai1n- The thinwater-receivers a, six being herein 1. In a water-heating apparatus, the thin shown, are or may be made as a one-piece water-receivers a arranged side by side, and casting of any suitable length and height, but connected together in series as described, the 5o verythin. Exteriorlytheir opposite sides are connections at one end being near the top and at the opposite end near the bottom, and the inlet and outlet connections, substantially as described.

2. In a water-heating apparatus, the thin Water-receivers a arranged side by side, short intermediate connections 2 connecting one end of one receiver to the corresponding end of the next one, and connecting the opposite end of this latter receiver to the corresponding end of the next one, and so on as shown, the connections at one end of the receiver being near the top and at the opposite end near the bottom, and the inlet and outlet connec tions, substantially as described.

3. In a water-heating apparatus, the thin water-receivers o, having their interior passage a formed with corrugated sides, arranged in parallelism and at an angle to the course of the Water therethrough, to thereby provide an undulating passage for the water, of the same width from end to end, and the inlet and outlet connections, substantially as described.

4:- In a water heating apparatus, the thin water-receivers (1, arranged side by side, connected together in series, having their exterior sides corrugated vertically and in. parallelism, and their interior corrugated in parallelism with said exterior corrugations, and the inlet and outlet connections, substantially as described.

5. In a Water-heating apparatus, the Waterreceivers a, arranged side by side, connected together in series as described, having lugs at their forward ends resting on supports secured in the masonry, and their back ends supported on rollers, and the inlet and outlet connections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed in v name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HOMER R. MILLER.