Year: 1873

page_text: distance into the room or chamber. The smoke and products of com-
bustion instead of passing from the grate direct into the flue through
an opening in the back or upper part of the stove are first caused
to pass upwards to the top of the stove and then over divisions into
chambers at each side thereof, the smoke and products of combustion
then pass downwards to the bottom of such side chambers whence they
pass by a passage or passages into the flue. As these side chambers
project into the room away from the chimney jambs the heat from the
smoke and products of combustion is radiated from the sides of such
chambers into the room, and the heat is also radiated into the room from 10
the upper part of the stove.
5
In order to facilitate the sweeping of the chimney I arrange a door
in the back of the stove and also under the grate, so as to enable the
flues to be freed from soot. The door at the back of the stove being so
arranged as when open to form a guide to guide the soot away from the 15
back flue when the chimney is being swept.
A sliding or other shutter or blower may be employed in the front
of the stove to regulate the draught as may be required.
Dampers are employed in the side chambers to regulate and direct the
draught as may be required.
By the employment of stoves of the above description a cure for
smokey chimneys will be obtained.
20
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Lette
filed by the said Abraham Steer in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ABRAHAM
STEER, of South Norwood Park, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Abraham Steer, Her special license
that I, the said Abraham Steer, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns,
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page_text: or such others as 1,
teer, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES OR FIRE-PLACES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Abraham Steer, my executors
r administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
0 nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Abraham Steer, do hereby declare
5 the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in stoves or fire-places,
and relates to the employment of means whereby a greater proportion
20 of heat is given off to the room or chamber in which the stove is situated
than heretofore, thereby economising the use of fuel in such stoves.
For this purpose instead of causing the grate to be recessed between the
chimney jambs as heretofore I cause it to project therefrom a short
distance into the room or chamber. The smoke and products of com-
25 bustion instead of passing from the grate direct into the flue through
an opening in the back or upper part of the stove are first caused to
pass upwards to the top of the stove and then over divisions into
chambers at each side thereof, the smoke and products of combustion
then pass downwards to the bottom of such side chambers whence they
30 pass by a passage or passages into the flue. As these side chambers
project into the room away from the chimney jambs the heat from the
smoke and products of combustion is radiated from the sides of sucl
chambers into the room, and the heat is also radiated into the room from
the upper part of the stove.
35 In order to facilitate the sweeping of the chimney I arrange a do
in the back of the stove and also under the grate, so as to enable tl
flues to be freed from soot, The door at the back of the stove being

page_text: room away from the chimney jambs the heat from the smoke and
products of combustion is radiated from the sides of such chambers into
the room; and the heat is also radiated into the room from the upper
part of the stove.
be
5 In order to facilitate the sweeping of the chimney I arrange a door g
in the back of the stove; and I also arrange a door h under the grate a
so as to enable the flues to be freed from soot. The door g at the back
of the stove is so arranged as when fully open and resting against the
Alue at the back to form a guide to guide the soot away from the back
0 flue when the chimney is being swept, and if desired the door g may
set more or less open to allow a portion or all of the smoke and products
of combustion to pass direct into the flue 6 instead of passing first
through the flues or chambers x, by which means more or less of the
heat of the fire may be allowed to pass directly into the flue 6, as may
5 be required to regulate the heat of the room or chamber warmed by the
stove or fire-place. Dampers fitting loosely the chambers x and mounted
on axes of motion and operated by knobs or buttons i are employed
in the chambers x to regulate and direct the draft, as may be
required.
0 If desired hot air chambers may be formed at the backs of the
chambers x by a division plate k as shown at Figures 2 and 3 or at the
sides and top of such chambers, as shown at Figures 7, 8, and 9, and
the air heated in such chambers may be allowed to pass into the room
or into another room or rooms by suitable passages; or if desired a
5 separate hot air chamber may be arranged at the back of the stove, as
shewn at Figures 2, 4, and 5, or in other suitable position, and the outer
air may be conducted thereto through an air-brick and passage m, whilst
the heated air may be conducted therefrom into the apartment or
chamber to be warmed by a passage n.
0 form no part of my present Invention.
5
These hot air chambers however
A sliding or other shutter or blower o may be employed in the front of
the stove to regulate the draught as may be required.
I would here remark that stoves or fire-places constructed according
to my Invention may be designed to suit the taste or convenience of the
purchaser.
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode