IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC FIRE PLACES AND GRATES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JAMES SMITH, of Pine Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC
FIRE PLACES AND GRATES to be as follows:-
The Invention relates mainly to improvements on the Invention for which
British Letters Patent N° 2477 of the year 1882 were granted to me.
The object is to provide a fire place and grate so constructed that bituminous
coal or like carbonaceous fuel will burn so as to produce a clear bright fire with
the emission of little or no smoke.
My Invention consists in constructing and combining a fire place and grate in
the novel manner hereinafter set forth so that coking and combustion of the fuel
takes place in separate parts of the grate and air to support combustion is heated
and admitted to the fuel at the requisite places and in the proper quantities.
The fire place consists of a chamber or recess, partly separated from the flue by
an abutinent or partition. The grate consists of fire bars and sides of usual or
suitable construction, a bottom and back each provided with an air opening or air
openings and a valve or damper or valves or dampers.
The grate is so inade that a coking chamber is left below the lowest bar and that
when fitted into the fire place an air space is left below and at the back of the
said grate through, which air passes past the valves or dampers through bottom and
back of the fire place to support combustion.
In order that a grate constructed and combined under my Invention may not be
disturbed and put out of order it is provided with a inovable or false front
detachable for cleaning.
770
J. T. KING,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: "
I JAMES SMITH of Pine Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC
FIRE PLACES AND GRATES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The Invention relates mainly to improvements on the Invention for which
British Letters Patent No 2477 of the year 1882 were granted to me.
The object is to provide a fire place and grate so constructed that bitumenous
coal or like carbonaceous fuel will burn so as to produce a clear bright fire with
the emission of little or no smoke.
My Invention consists in constructing and combining a fire place and grate in the
novel manner hereinafter set forth so that coking and combustion of the fuel take
place in separate parts of the grate and air to support combustion is heated and
admitted to the fuel at the requisite places and in the proper quantities.
The fire place consists of a chamber or recess partly separated from the flue by
an abutment or partition. The grate consists of fire bars and sides of usual or
suitable construction and a bottom and back each provided with an air opening or
air openings and valve or damper or valves or dampers.
The grate is so made that a coking chamber is left below the lowest bar and that
when fitted into the fire place an air space is left below and at the back of the said
grate through which air passes past the valves or dampers through bottom and
back of the fire place to support combustion.
In order that a grate constructed and combined under my Invention may not
be disturbed and put out of order it is provided with a movable or false front
detachable for cleaning.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a vertical section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section of
a fire place and grate constructed in accordance with my Invention.
a is the fire place chamber or recess partly separated from the flue b by a
products deflecting abutment.or partition c formed solid with the back fire block.
a fire bars at front and partly at the sides. e bottom and back of grate provided
with air openings ff¹ and valves g. g¹. a' coking portion of chamber a below the
level of lowest bar. ij air spaces below and at back of grate. The movable or
false front above referred to is not shewn.
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:
a
First. The combination in domestic fire places and grates of the fire place and
coking chamber a¹ air spaces i and j and valves fand g substantially as set forth.
Second. The parts in combination under the above first claim with the abutment
or partition c substantially as set forth.
Dated this 20th day of September 1884