US682497A

US682497A - Apparatus for preventing freezing of water-pipes.

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Publication number: US682497A
Application number: US5453501A
Authority: US
Inventors: Julius Ruehling
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-04-05
Filing date: 1901-04-05
Publication date: 1901-09-10
Anticipated expiration: 1918-09-10

Description

No. 682,497. I Patented Sept. 10, i901.

J. HUHLING. APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING FREEZING OF WATER PIPES.

(Application filed Apr. 5, 1901.)

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS RIIHLING, OF GERA, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING FREEZING OF WATER-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,497, dated September 10, 1901.

Application filed April 5', 1901- S'erlal No. 54,535. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ULIUS RiiHLINe, a citizen of Gera, residing at Ger-a, Reuss Younger Line, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oontrivances to Prevent the Freezing in of Water-Conduits; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a device for preventing the freezing in of water pipes in which the water of the pipes is forced to pass first through a coil of pipe in a heating apparatus before it reaches the floors of a dwelling or other building. There is also above the heating serpentine a reservoir which is fed at the same time with the water heated in the coil, from which reservoir by a separate pipe the vapors developing therein are conducted, by means of branch pipes, to closets or similar apartments for the purpose of warming them.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent, respectively, vertical and horizontal sections through a device constructed in accordance with my invention, the latter on line 2 2 of the former.

The main conducting-pipe b, with a stopvalve a, is provided at the branches 0 d, having valves 0 and d, which are connected by the couplingsfand fwith the heating-coil g. The reservoir A above the'coil gand provided with a safety-valve h is connected by a pipe 1' with the coil 9 and has a glass gage 7.0. For cutting off the pipe 2' from the serpentine g and the conduit 1) no valve or cock is shown in the drawings. The pipe 2' serves as an out-. let for the vapors developing in the reservoir A and may be connected by branch pipes (not shown) leading to the apartments to be heated.

on is the chimney.

To make use of this device it is necessar der possible an easy emptying when desired. The water may be heated with any suitable fuel. reservoir A, thereby causing the vaporization of the water contained therein and already heated in coil g, so that the vapors are led by conduit Z to the apartments to be heated.

While not using this device the valves (3' and d are closed and valve on open ed,whereby the water passes through pipe I) unheated. If for any reason it is desirable to place the device in another room, the couplings f and f may be loosened and connection to the main pipe made in another place.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a heater and a superposed water-tank, of a main water-pipe, a coil of pipe in the fire-box of the heater, valved connections, between the ends of the coil and the main pipe, a valve in the main pipe between said connections, a branch pipe leading from the main pipe, beyond the coil connections, into the water-tank, and a pipe leading from the top of the tank substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a heater and a superposed water-tank surrounding the chimney of the heater, of a main water-pipe, a coil of pipe in the fire-box of the heater, valved connections having interposed couplings between the ends of the coil and the main pipe, a valve in the main pipe between said connections, a branch pipe leading from the main pipe, be yond the coil connections, into the watertank delivering below the water-level thereof, and a pipe leading from the top of the tank substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

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

JULIUS RUIILIN G.

Witnesses:

F. STEPHAN, A. BRAUTIGAM.

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