US96613A - Improvement in heat-radiators - Google Patents

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s. MONTGOMERY PIKE; OrzcINeiN'NATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 96,613, dated November 9, 1869; antezlated October 2.37,' 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HET-RADIATORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part ofthe same.

To all whom. t may concern.-

Be it known that I, S. MONTGOMERY PIKE, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamiltomand State oi Ohio, have invented a new and improved Heat-Radiator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,

, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings,

making a part of' this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan or ltop view of myiuvention,

Figure '2 is a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters of' reference indicate like parts.

My invention consists in the employment of thin solid flanges, a part of which flanges are arranged and cast on one side of a steam, fire, or hot-water heatingpipe, at right angles with the said. pipe, and a part of which are arranged and cast at an yoblique angle with said pipe, the base of each flange on each side being opposite the space between the flanges on the opposite side of' said pipe, each end of' which pipe is provided with transverse arms, which arms are provided with a tenon on one end, and a socket on the other, so that a number of radiators can thus easily and quickly be packed together.

'c designates the main or centre pipe;

b b designate pipe-arms at each end of the main pipe a.

On one end of each arm, b, is a socket, e, to receive the other or tenoned end d.

By this means a number of' radiators can ybe put together, the small end d entering the socket e.

I construct the main pipe a three inches in diameter, with an inside diameter of two and one-half inches. The pipe-arms 7) b are of nearly the same size. v y

The flanges e, I construct three and one-half inches by seven inches, and about One-half of' an inch thick at'the base, and make them taper as thim as can be convenient-ly cast on the Opposite edge. I cast these flanges e on the main pipe a, about onehalfof an inch' apart at the base, and setting them with said base nearly even with the centre of the main pipe a, the

and form afsquare body of fiangesseien-inches square,

with the area or outer surface twelve times greatery thanA the area of the steam or inner surface.

The object of the flanges and theirarrangement is to present as much heated surface as' possible to the air, while I confine the steam inthe centre or heart of the same, where it will keep hot a long time without'condeusing as fast as it would if allowed more room. As the centre of this column of steam Amust contain latent or insensible heat, it is developed and absorbed by the iron. y v Y As the outer surface of the steam-column is conde'nsed to water, it keeps'np the temperature on the outside lsurface sufficient to warm the air properly,

without drawing as much fresh steam 'from the boiler, and consequently saving a large amount of' fuel.

When several of these radiators are connecteththey are boxed and supplied with steam in the usual man:

ner. If desired, iu stocking these radiators, -part of them might be placed with the oblique flanges pointing in .one direction, and'others packed with the oblique ilangespointing in the opposite f direction, the object being to turn heated air passing through them toward different flues.

The object of placingY each flange e opposite, space is to more thoroughly break up and warm the current of air passing through them than it .would if the flanges were placed opposite each other.

ByV my invention,.1 produce an varticle fora radiator which is cheaply and easily cast in one piece.' The central or main pipe is only one ventire piece, while the connecting pipe-arms 11.71 areconvenient of access,

and easily packed, whereas, in some radiators, the

large cent-ral pipe is packed' at a great expense,'and not always tight. It is not only cheaper. in first cost than any other radiator, but by actual usehas provedI to produce the largestamonnt of' heat in 'proportions Ito the fuel used'.

I do not claim, broadly, the use of flanges in radiators, unless the same are constructed and combined as described.,

What I claim as' new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The radiator, consisting of pipe a and flanges, the arrangement of said flanges in the position and'angles herein shown and described.

S. MONTGOMERY PIKE. Witnesses YC. W. WoLco'rT, U JAMES SHEPABD.

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