IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH AND USED IN FIRE- GRATES
Year: 1885

page_text: I HORATIUS JOHN BOLTON HOLLAND of N° 12 Whalley Banks Blackburn in
the County of Lancaster Hardware Dealer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH AND USED IN FIRE-
GRATES to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to appliances or apparatus used in fire-grates for the
purpose of economising the amount of coal or fuel used in such firegrates; and also
by arriving at a much slower combustion, and the fire grate being kept clear at
the bottom, a brighter fire and a much more satisfactory result is effected.
I make a lattice framework of round or square wrought-iron of an L shape-the
bars of this lattice framework are held in their position by being riveted to flat
cross-bars--this latticed framework which can be made to fit either a square fire-
place or an oval one (as the case may require to which my invention is applied) is
provided with feet on the bottom but inside of this L shaped latticed framework,
I place or fix two or more flat bars in a longitudinal direction-when so inade
I place them inside or outside the firegrate, the feet preventing the bottom part of
this latticed shaped framework from coming in contact with the bottom bars of
the firegrate and by placing my flat bars across the shaped latticed framework
the cinders are prevented from falling through and causing a fire underneath the
L shaped latticed framework which latter has the effect of burning the bars away
in a very short time.
By the use of my invention the bars underneath are kept comparatively cool and
only allow the dust or small ashes to fall through and by this means a much cleaner
and hotter fire is obtained with a much less consumption of coal or fuel.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus Connected with and Used in
Fire-grates. .
I HORATIUS JOHN BOLTON HOLLAND of N° 12 Whalley Banks Blackburn in
the County of Lancaster Iron and Tin Plate Worker and Hardware Dealer do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
CONNECTED WITH AND USED IN FIRE GRATES and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
. My invention has reference to appliances or apparatus used in fire grates for the
purpose of economising the amount of coal or fuel used in such fire grates, and also
by arriving at a much slower combustion, and the fire grate being kept clear at the
bottom a brighter fire and a much more satisfactory result is effected.
In order that my said invention may be fully understood I will now particularly
describe the same by reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings. Figure 1
is a plan view, figure 2. is a vertical section. A. figures 1. and 2 are flat cross-bars
for the purpose of holding the bars B figures 1 and 2 in their places at or about
equal distances from each other so as to form a kind of latticed frame work of an
L shape see figure 2. Two or more of these bars B. are bent underneath in order
to form feet D. figure 2. for the purpose of resting on the bottom bars of the fire
grate E. figure 2. and also to allow an open space between the fire and the bottom.
When so fitted and placed inside the fire grate as shown at E figure 2. the small
red cinders find their way through the bars B. figure 1. and soon fill up the space
between the bars B. and feet D. figure 2. The result is that in a very short time
the bars B at the bottom figure 1. are burnt away. To prevent this I place across
the bottom part of L shaped lattice frame work two or more flat bars in a longi-
tudinal direction as shown at C. figures 1 and 2. and by the use of my invention
the bars underneath are kept comparatively cool only allowing the ashes or dust to
escape or fall through. By this means a much cleaner and hotter fire is obtained
by much less consumption of coal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is not the frame work as that can be made in various forms. What I claim
as my invention is the application and use of flat bars C. C. figures 1. and 2. on
this or similar arrangements of latticed frame work for the purpose of preventing
the small cinders from escaping or falling through the bottom part of such latticed
frame work substantially as described and illustrated.
AL FOLL
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