Sturtevant’s Patent Model of a Hot Air Furnace – ca 1869
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| Caption | This model was filed with the application to the US Patent Office for Patent Number 95,281 issued to BF Sturtevant of Jamaica Plain, MA on September 28, 1869. Mr Sturtevant’s patent involved recirculating the air being heated in a room or apartment. He had developed improved designs for rotary blowers in the past, initially to provide ventilating air in the work areas of his factory which made wooden pegs for shoes. In this patent he combined the rotary blower, which would be driven by a steam engine, with a heat exchanger through which passed the exhaust steam of the engine. The exhaust steam travelled through the vertical openings shown in the center of the image of the patent model. The air to be heated passed through several horizontal pipes inside the heat exchanger cylinder. The steam heated these pipes which in turn transferred heat to the air. The blower is at the left of the model. Its inlet air came via the return duct at the right after passing through the heat exchanger. Heated air was forced by the blower into the room at the lower left. The inventor claimed his design improved the efficiency of a furnace by continuously reheating the same air. Only a portion of the heat was lost in the room being heated, and a significant energy savings was claimed over heating cold outside air. Date: 1860s. Record ID: nmah_1063730. |
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| Creator | unknown |
| Artwork medium | unknown |
| Credit | National Museum of American History |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Sturtevant Patent Model Hot Air Furnace model filed application Patent Office Patent Number BF Sturtevant of Jamaica Plain MA September Patents Engineering Architecture Heating Models |
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