Hydro-thermo fireplace and heating system therefor
AssigneeRidgway Steel Fabricators, Inc.
InventorClarence W. Cleer, Jr.
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Abstract
A fireplace jacket assembly and heating system associated therewith. A fireplace jacket assembly including water chambers on five sides of an open wood-burning fireplace having means for providing water communication and circulation therebetween is placed in a conventional heating or hot water system. A pump circulates the water between the component parts of the system including a water storage tank and a radiator, and means are provided responsive to the temperature of water within the storage tank for preventing heating thereof by conventional (i.e., fossil fuel or electricity) means, or by a solar heating system. An opening formed in the bottom of the fireplace jacket provides for greater efficiency.
Claims7
A heating system comprising
- a. a hot water storage tank,
- b. means for heating water in said water storage tank,
- c. means responsive to the temperature of water within said hot water storage tank for preventing operation of said means for heating water in said hot water storage tank,
- d. a fireplace jacket remote from said means for heating water in said water storage tank and comprising means for circulating water directly around an open-hearth woodburning fireplace adapted to have an open fire therein,
- e. a powered pump,
- f. means for transferring the heat of hot water in said storage tank and fireplace jacket to areas remote from but operatively connected to said tank and jacket, and
- g. means for providing operative communication between said pump, fireplace jacket, hot water storage tank, and heat transferring means so that water heated by an open fire in said fireplace will be circulated to and from said storage tank by said pump and will be in operative communication with said heat transfer means, and so that said means for preventing operation of said means for heating water in said hot water storage tank responsive to the water temperature within said tank will prevent operation of said heating means when the water in said tank is heated above a predetermined temperature by an open fire in said fireplace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.