Improvements in Gas Fires.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Fires.
I, ALEXANDER GLEGG of 6 Mount Pleasant Clerkenwell in the County of
Middlesex Brass & Iron Founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
These improvements relate to gas fires having Bunsen burners which inject
flames in front of a register or other grate, which is filled with asbestos or fire
clay.
And my invention consists in constructing a portable Bunsen burner arrange-
ment which can be lifted and placed before any register or other fire place in a
house, and if desired combined with the fire is an arrangement for boiling a kettle
the whole being self contained.
To this end my invention consists of a series of Bunsen burners mounted on a
horizontal tube, which tube takes the form of the bars of the grate, and is supported
at each end by a pillar which telescopes into a base plate.
These pillars within certain limits can be elevated or lowered, and by this means
the Bunsen burners are brought to their proper position in relation to the bars of
the grate in which the fire is required.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification in which
Figure 1, shows a front elevation of the fire and kettle arrangement,
Figure 2, an end elevation showing a 3 way tap which controls both the fire and
the kettle burners.
Figure 3, is a plan showing how the base plates can be angled to suit any
angle of grate.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1, consists of 2 bed plates A A' into which is fitted the pillars B B' the
ends of which are screwed into the bed plates at C C¹ and can be locked at the
required elevation by the nuts D D'. Nuts D D' also fix the bed plates which
are free to swivel round the pillars to the required angle of the grate.
The kettle burner J is mounted on the top of pillar B₁ and the kettle swings
from the support E, its weight falling well within the bed plate A. F is a union
coupling attached to which is a short length of flexible rubber tube, which is
connected with the gas supply, and which permits of the fire being lifted away
from the grate in the act of lighting, which prevents a disagreeable and explosive
noise. G. G1 G2 and G3 are Bunsen burners of any required number mounted
on the horizontal gas supply tube H.
In Figures 1 and 2, the 3 way tap I which receives its gas supply from pipe K
is shown open to both fire burners, and kettle burner J. By turning the tap a
quarter circle towards the right hand the fire will be cut off, and the kettle burner
only remain open. Another turn of a quarter of a circle will cut off the kettle
burner, and supply the fire burners only. A third turn of a quarter circle will
shut off both fire and kettle burners.
Figure 3, shows bed plates A A¹ angled so as to accommodate the various angles
of different grates, and these bed plates are locked in the required angle by the
nuts D & D as already described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1st. A portable gas fire with or without kettle arrangement applied to a register
or other grate as described.
2nd. The elevating or lowering of the burners and fixing them at the proper
height to suit the bars of any register or other grate, substantially as herein
shown and described.
3rd. The angling of the bed plates A A' and fixing them to suit the angle of any
register or other grate.
Dated this 15th day of March 1892.
ALEXANDER GLEGG.