Improvements in Fire Grates for Kitchen Ranges and the like Domestic Fire Places.
Year: 1896

page_text: PR OVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire Grates for Kitchen Ranges and the like
Domestic Fire Places.
I, THOMAS HEAPS, of Westgate, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide bars in the front of a fire grate or
fire place, whether vertical or horizontal, which can be easily removed or replaced
for the purpose of cleaning the grate or the bars or for obtaining as in the case
of a kitchen range, easy access to the boiler and oven flues, and I effect this in
the following manner:
I cast a light open frame which I screw or bolt or otherwise secure to the front
of the fireplace, on the vertical sides of the said frame I fix four plain pins two on
each side, the bars I cast or build up of iron or steel or other suitable metal like
a gate. On one side of which I provide two holes a corresponding distance apart
to the pins on the one side of the frame previously referred to, and on the other
side of the gate I provide two longitudinal slots which are extended vertically
to two holes or semi-circular spaces of the same pitch as the pins on the other side
of the frame also previously referred to. The holes being made large enough
in both cases to fit freely on the pins and to allow of a little vertical play when the
parts are in position.
In order to place the bars in position I first enter the pins into the two holes
on the side of the gate and then enter the two other pius into the horizontal
slots on the opposite side of the same to do which I slightly lift the gate. After
the pins have entered the horizontal slots they follow the line of the slots into
the vertical portions, when the gate drops down into position in the Semi-circular
holes at the top of the slots and is thereby held securely in position in front of
the giate.
To remove the bars it is only necessary to slightly raise the gate at the slot
end when it is easily disengaged from the pins. Having been thus disengaged
at one eni it is readily drawn off the pins at the other end and removed.
In some cases I attach, the pins to the range itself instead of to the frame herein
described.
Although my Invention is described as applicable to both horizontal and vertical
bars it is more particularly applicable to a fire place having vertical bars.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1896.
R. HEBER
RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire Grates for Kitchen Ranges and the like
Domestic Fire Places.
I, THOMAS HEAPS, of Westgate, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
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 follow-
ing statement:-
The object of my Invention is to provide bars in the front of a fire grate or
fire place, whether vertical or horizontal, which can be easily removed or replaced
for the purpose of cleaning the grate or the bars or for obtaining as in the case
of a kitchen range, easy access to the boiler and oven flues, and I effect this in
the following manner:
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which,
Fig. 1. is an open frame which I secure to the front of the fire place.
Fig. 2. is an end view of the same.
Fig. 3. is a section of the same taken on the line A. B.
Fig. 4. represents the moveable bars like a gate which fit into the frame Fig. 1.
Figs. 5 and 6. are end views of the same.
Fig. 7. is a front view of a portion of a kitchen range shewing the 'frame
(Fig. 1) secured thereto and also shewing the bars (Fig. 4) fixed in the frame.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
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I cast a light open frame, A, which I screw or bolt or otherwise secure to the
front of the fireplace, B, on the vertical sides of the said frame I fix four plain
pins, C, C & C, C, two on each side, the moveable bars, D, I cast or build up of
iron or steel or other suitable metal like a gate, on one end of which I provide two
holes, E, E, a corresponding distance apart to the pins, C, C, on the one side of
the frame previously referred to, and on the other side of the gate I provide two
longitudinal slots, F, F, which are extended vertically to two holes or semi-
circular spaces, E, E, of the same pitch as the pins C, C on the other side of the
frame also previously referred to. The holes being made large enough 'in both
cases to fit freely on the pins and to allow of a little vertical play when the parts
are in position.
In order to place the moveable bars or gate, D, in position I first enter the
pins C, C, into the two holes, E, E, on the end of the gate, D, and then enter the two
other pins, C, C, into the horizontal slots, F, F, on the opposite end of the same,
to do which I slightly lift the gate. After the pins have entered the hori-
zontal slots they follow the line of the slots into the vertical portions, when the
gate drops down into position in the Semi-circular holes, E, E, at the top of the
slots and is thereby held securely in position in front of the grate, frame or
range.
To remove the bars it is only necessary to slightly raise the gate at the slot
end when it is easily disengaged from the pins. Having been thus disengaged
at one end, it is readily drawn off the pins at the other end and removed.
In some cases I attach the pins, C, C, & C, C, to the range itself instead of
to the frame, A, herein described.
Although my invention is described as applicable to both horizontal and vertical
bars it is more particularly applicable to a fire place having vertical bars as
illustrated.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In fire grates for kitchen ranges and the like domestic fire places, the arrange-
inent and combination of parts and appliances comprising a light open frame, A,
which can be secured to a fire place, B, for the purpose of carrying movable fire
bars, constructed like a gate D, in the manner and for the purposes substantially
as herein described and illustrated.
2. In fire grates for kitchen ranges and the like domestic fire places, the arrange-
ment and combination of parts and appliances comprising the movable fire bars, D,
80 constructed and arranged like a gate that they can be fitted on or taken off from
pins, C, C & C, C, such pins being either attached to a light frame, A, which is
fixed to a fire place or to similar pins attached to the fire place itself, without the
employment of the frame, A, previously referred to, in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 28th day of June 1897.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.