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Control device for a central heating installation
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Inventors: Donkervoort, Dorotheus;
Assignee: Eerste Nederlandse Fabriek van Manometers BV (Schiedam, NL)
Primary Examiner: Camby; John J.
Assistant Examiner: Yuen; Henry C.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lavine; Irvin A.
A device for controlling the heating of a hot water boiler includes a first temperature sensor sensing the temperature of the boiler liquid and operating means adapted to switch a control switch. It also includes an outside temperature sensor to be arranged elsewhere and comprising a liquid-filled reservoir which communicates via a capillary with a tubular coil spring of the control device, which spring also actuates means which are adapted to switch the first switch. The tubular coil spring is arranged to actuate with an outer winding means adapted to change, through this actuation, the relative position of elements of the control switch and hence the temperature at which the control switch is switched under the control of the first temperature sensor. A characteristic feature of this invention is that the outer winding of the tubular coil spring has a plurality of longitudinally spaced coupling elements which can at choice be coupled to one of the means actuated by the outer winding, whereby the effective length of the tubular coil spring can be changed. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A control device for controlling the heating of a hot water boiler comprising: a first temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the boiler water, control switch means, means actuated by said first temperature sensor for switching said control switch means, an outside temperature sensor including a liquid filled reservoir, a tubular coiled spring, means for communicating said tubular coiled spring and said reservoir, said tubular coiled spring having the outer winding thereof movable, means responsive to movement of said outer winding for switching said control switch means whereby to vary the temperature at which said control switch means is switched under the control of the first temperature sensor in response to outside temperature, said outer winding responsive means comprising means for connection to said outer winding at any one of a plurality of locations along said outer winding.
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A control device according to claim 1, said tubular coiled spring having an inner winding, and means for adjusting the position of said inner winding to one of a plurality of fixed positions.
3.
A control device according to claim 1, said control device comprising first and second movable support means, one said support means actuated by said first sensor and the other said support means actuated by said tubular coil spring, said control switch means comprising a reed switch supported on one of said support means, said control switch means further comprising a magnet supported on the other of said support means.
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A control device according to claim 3, wherein the reed switch is carried by the support means actuated by said tubular coil spring.
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A control device according to claim 3, said first temperature sensor is a coiled bi-metallic element, said control device further comprising second switch means, a second coiled bi-metallic element for sensing the temperature of the boiler water, means responsive to boiler pressure, and means comprising said last mentioned means and said second bi-metallic element for switching said switch means
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Heat Accumulators 
