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L. A. COLBERT.

Hot-Air Register.

No. 30,614. Patented News, 1860.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIN A. GOLBERT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WARMING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,614, dated November 13, 1860.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIN A. COLBERT, of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful improvement in registers for the purpose of receiving and disbursing warm air into rooms of houses, from every warm air generator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and t0 the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to a receiving and disbursing warm air reservoir for parlors and other rooms which require to be heated with warm air from a furnace located in a cellar or other low position, and the nature of my improvement consists in the adaptation and the arrangement of a warm air reservoir of box or niche form and furnished with a door, a bottom passage, a side dampered passage and a top damper-ed passage, all for use in combination with the ordinary furnace hot air flue, draft or chimney flue and flue leading into the chambers above, in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art, to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operations.

First, I construct a receiver A of any suitable metal, and of a box or niche form, such as is made in a wall for statues to stand in, and of discretionary size, with a flat front, with the flange (A) around the front of box, projecting about one and a half inches or more, and with the door (B) hung to the same by hinge, and a catch, to keep the door in its place so that the receiver may be closed up tight. Secondly, I have the collar (C) on the under side of the bottom, of size to fit the warm air pipe, wherein the warm air flows into the receiver through the grated hole (D). Thirdly, I then place the escape valve (E) on the inside of the back, as near the top as possible, for the warm air, when not wanted, to make its escape into the chimney or flue, to pass off entirely. Fourthly, I place valve on the inside of the top to let the warm air go up to next story above, if wanted, which pipe fits on the collar (G) on the outside of the top, which is to be about the same size as the one below;

now closing those two valves on inside of receiver (E and F) and opening the door (B) you will have all the heat thrown into the room. By closing the valve (E) and opening valve (F) and closing the door (B) in front you will throw the heat into the room above. By closing upper valve (F) and opening the back valve (E) and closing the door (B) you let off the warm air into the chimney or flue.

I am aware that a warm air closet is not new, but I am not aware of the existence of a warm air reservoir used in the manner and for the purpose I have described, and provided with a-door for shutting OK the air from the room or letting it into the room and with dampers for retaining the hot air while the door is open, or letting it ofi into the chimney or into rooms above, when the door is closed or when too much hot air has been husbanded. I am also aware that on Plate 68 Figs. 17 and 18 of Pecklets Trait de la Ghaleur the fire place or chimney flue of a building is shown converted into a hot air receiver, but as the chamber has no dampers through which the hot air can pass off through the flue when the dampers leading into the apartments are closed it will not answer the end I have in View, besides this it is very different in its construction and arrangement from my invention. I likewise am aware that in Websters Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy a hot air closet for warming dishes is described and illustrated, but this has no dampers for confining, letting ofi' and distributing the hot air, and is not adapted for the purpose 'I have described. I further am aware that T. H. Parker obtained a patent Aug. 1st, 1848 on a hot air chamber formed in the chimney flue by dividing the flue horizontally with partitions. This arrangement however has no dampers or devices for letting off the hot air when it is not wanted in the room or when the wall and chimney become intensely heated by the confined hot air; therefore it will not serve the purpose I have in view.

Having thus described my invention and shown wherein it differs from all other things before known, I will state that I do not claim anything embraced by the several old devices alluded to in my specification, but

What I do claim as my invention and defurnace hot air flue, draft or chimney flue sire to secure by Letters Patent, is and flue leading into elevated chambers, sub- 10 The adaptation and arrangement of a stantially in the manner and for the pur- Warm air reservoir or receiver A of box poses herein set forth. 7

5 or niche form, and furnished With a door LEWIN A. COLBERT.

B, a bottom passage 0, a side damper-ed Witnesses: passage E, and a top dampered passage F, I. H. ENsoR,

all for use in combination with the ordinary THOMAS W. BROWN.

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