IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Woodcock, of 28, Abingdon Street,
Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES."
Scaled the 5th September 1878, and dated the 11th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Woodcock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th March 1878.
I, WILLIAM WOODCOCK, of 23, Abingdon Street, Westminster, in tho
3 County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES,” to be as
follows, that is to say :—
I make a stove or fire-place similar to those in use in dwelling rooms,
but standing in or with projections from its lower part immersed in a
pan of water, and I set the stove so that the space at the back of it has
no communication with the chimney conveying away the products of
combustion. I either close the chimnoy above the stove with a plate, or

page_text: I enclose the back of the stove with a caso, and I-pass a pipe for tho
products of combustion through the plate or upper part of the case,
making a free access to the space in which the stove stands at the
bottom, either with the air outside the room or with the air near the floor
of the room, and otherwise with the room, so that the cool fresh air from
outside the room or from the floor of the room may take up moisture
from the water in the pan, then be warmed by the heat of the back of
the stove, and pass into the room. I prefer to corrugate or make wings
on the back of the stove.
( I sometimes make the front plate of the stove removable from the back 1
for convenience in setting and for cleaning.
I sometimes make an air passage between the back of the grate and
back plate of the stove, and deflect the air passing up it on to the fuel to
consume the smoke.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said William Woodcock in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 9th September 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WOODCOCK, of 23, Abingdon Street, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters, Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in tho
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, tho said William Woodcock, Her special
licence that I, the said Woodcock, my executors,. administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Woodcock, 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, uso, exercise, and yend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
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page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
AND FIRE-PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Woodcock, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should
particularly describo and ascertain the nature of tho said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
samo to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Lotters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Woodcock, do heroby
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, that is to say :—
I make a stove or fire-place similar to those in uso in dwelling rooms,
but standing in or with projections from its lower part immersed in a
pan of water, and I set the stove so that the space at the back of it has
no communication with the chimney conveying away the products of
combustion. I either close the chimney above the stove with a plate, or
I enclose the back of the stove with a caso, and I pass a pipe for tho
products of combustion through the plate or upper part of the case,
making a free access to the spaco in which the stove stands at the
bottom, cither with the air outside the room or with tho air near the floor
of the room, and otherwise with the room, so that the cool fresh air from
outside the room or from the floor of the room may take up moisturo
from the water in the pan, then be warmed by the heat of the stove,
and pass into the room. I prefer to corrugato or make wings on the back
of the stove.

page_text: as my improvements are applicable to all stoves with open fire-placos,
with or without adjustable doors.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Woodcock, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-three.
A. GUPPER SOUTHEY,
Witness.
WILLIAM WOODCOCK. (L.B.)