AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF STOVE OR FIRE-GRATE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Cardwell Robinson, of No. 1, Avenham
Terrace, Preston, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
"
Sealed the 11th February 1870, and dated the 28th August 1869..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Cardwell
Robinson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 28th August 1869.
I, RICHARD CARDWELL ROBINSON, of No. 1, Avenham Terrace, Preston,
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF STOVE OR FIRE-GRATE," to be
as follows:
My Invention consists in constructing a stove or fire-grate with it's
front and two sides open. The upper part is covered with a roof or hood
made either entirely or in part of fire-clay or terra cotta. There is a
base or bottom made also of the same materials. The stove or fire-grate
can be made in accordance with any style of architecture.
The advantages of this stove or fire-grate are that the fire, instead of
being seen only in front as in stoves at present in use, is exposed at the

page_text: sides of the stove also, and owing to the roof or hood and the base of
the stove being made of fire-clay it can be produced at less cost and will
give out more heat than ordinary stoves or grates.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Cardwell Robinson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
CARDWELL ROBINSON, of No. 1, Avenham Terrace, Preston, in the
County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Richard Cardwell Robinson, Her
special licence that I, the said Richard Cardwell Robinson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Card-
well Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF STOVE OR FIRE-GRATE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Cardwell Robinson, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
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 Richard Cardwell Robinson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that
is to say):

page_text: My Invention consists in constructing a stove or fire-grate with its.
front and two sides open. The upper part is covered with a roof or
hood made either entirely or in part of fire-clay or terra cotta. There
is a base or bottom made also of the same materials. The stove or.
fire-grate can be made in accordance with any shape or style of
architecture.
In the accompanying Drawing is represented one form of my improved
stove or fire-grate, a being the terra cotta roof in one or more pieces;
b, b, b, b, iron or other columns or supports; c, the base, also of terra
cotta or fire-clay; and d, the coal or other fuel. It will be observed
from the Drawing that the fire can be seen and felt both from the front
and sides, so that little or no heat is lost, thus rendering this stove very
economical. The products of combustion pass through a pipe in the
roof a into the ordinary chimney or other convenient passage, and a
suitable brick or bricks may be placed in the wall behind the stove for
the better securing thereof.
The advantages of this stove or fire-grate are that the fire, instead of
being seen only in front as in stoves at present in use, is exposed at the
sides of the stove also, and owing to the roof or hood and the base of
the stove being made of fire-clay or terra cotta it can be manufactured
at less cost and will give out more heat than ordinary stoves or grates,
and the vapours radiating from hot terra cotta being also much more
healthy than those emanating from hot iron the atmosphere in a room
where my improved stove is used is infinitely more pure than when
ordinary stoves are used.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, I claim, the improvements in the construction of stoves or fire-
grates, as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Cardwell Robinson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this 23rd day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1870.