Fireplace heating system with finned tubes or fireplace grate

Claim 1

A fireplace heating system, comprising, in combination: (a) fireplace furnace means arrangeable in a fireplace for heating a fluid passing through the furnace means; (b) fluid storage means connected to the furnace means for feeding fluid to the furnace means and for providing a reservoir of heated fluid; and (c) heat transfer means connected to the furnace means for receiving heated fluid from the furnace means and heating a space in which the heat transfer means is disposed, the heat transfer means being a plurality of radiators connected to the fluid storage means for returning the fluid to the storage means and storing and recycling the fluid so as to form a closed fluid flow system, a pump being inserted between the heat transfer means and the fluid storage means for circulating fluid through the closed fluid flow system, with the storage means being provided with an inlet arranged for adding fluid to the system in order to make up losses, the heat transfer means including a like number of lines as radiators, the lines being connected in parallel with and bypassing the radiators for selectively permitting adjustment of fluid flow through the radiators, and a plurality of valves, each of the lines having one of the valves disposed therein for permitting adjustment of the amount of fluid passed through the radiators, the furnace means including a continuous member bent into a plurality of connected, horizontally extending coils disposed above a hearth of the fireplace for forming a continuous tortuous flow path of the fluid through the fireplace, and the furnace means further including a stand supporting the coils, the stand including a substantially horizontal framework, legs supporting the framework, and a substantially vertically disposed element extending from the framework, with at least some of the coils being arranged extending horizontally on both the framework and along the vertically disposed element for partially surrounding on two sides a fire built on the coils and the remainder of the coils extending above and laterally from said vertically disposed element for partially covering the top of a fire built on the coils, the coils disposed forming a grate for the fire in the fireplace.