Improvements in Adjustable False Bottoms for Kitchen and other Ranges, Stoves, and Grates
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application. 28th Jan., 190
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 10th Jan., 1851
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Adjustable False Bottoms for Kitchen and other
Ranges, Stoves, and Grates.
We WILLIAM EDWIN WILLIAMSON of No. 40 Bedford Street Strand in the County
of Middlesex Engineer and ROBERT OSMAN STYLES of No. 9 Sandringham Road
Dalston in the said County of Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of
our said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of adjustable false
bottoms for kitchen and other ranges stoves and grates, its objects being to enable
adjustable false bottoms to be easily and cheaply applied to such ranges stoves and
grates and to be readily raised or lowered to any required beight therein.
To effect this purpose we use a grating (generally similar to an ordinary false
bottom) of suitable size and shape to fit the fireplace to which it is to be applied
and to which grating we attach one two or more legs or pairs of legs loosely hinged
so as to swing from the under side thereof so that when the said grating or false
bottom is raised or lowered it is retained at any required height by the lower ends
of the legs dropping by their own weight into and partly through the open spaces
between the bars of the fixed grate or true bottom of the fireplace or, alternatively,
of any other ordinary grating or ratchet plate or bars of suitable construction which
may be put in on or in place of the fixed or true bottom of the fireplace for the
purpose of retaining the said legs in position.
Dated this Twenty nighth day of January 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Adjustable False Bottoms for Kitchen and other
Ranges, Stoves, and Grates
We WILLIAM EDWIN WILLIAMSON of Bridge House 181 Queen Victoria Street
in the City of London Engineer and ROBERT OSMAN STYLES of the same place
Gentleman 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of adjustable bottoms
for kitchen and other ranges stoves and grates. Its objects being to enable rising
and falling false bottoms to be easily and cheaply applied to such ranges stoves and
grates without being affixed thereto and to he readily raised or lowered to any
required height therein.
Fig. 1. on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a plan of the grating A.
Fig. 2. is a front elevation of the said grating A. showing the lugs or short legs B.
added thereto and also the swinging legs or supports C attached to the lugs B by
the pins D.
Fig. 3. is an end elevation of the said grating A with the lugs B and the legs C
attached as described showing the manner of placing the legs or supports (so that
they will fold inwards to any required point as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 1
and 2.
To effect this purpose we use a grating A generally similar to an ordinary false
bottom and having four lugs or short fixed legs B one at each corner on the under
side. The grating is made of suitable size and shape to loosely fit the fire place to
which it is to be applied and to which grating we attach between the two lugs at each

page_text: end of the said grating one or two legs or supports or preferably a pair of legs or
supports C connected together at the top which legs or pairs of legs are loosely
hinged to the lugs on the under side of the grating by an iron pin D passed through
the top of each of such legs or pairs of legs and through the said lugs the ends of
which pins are rivetted outside the holes made to admit them through the said fixed
lugs so that the said legs or pairs of legs will each swing loosely from the under end
of the grating to which they are affixed and cau be folded flat together when required
without touching each other. When the said grating or false bottom is raised or
lowered in the fire place it is retained at any required height by the lower ends of
the said legs or supports dropping into or partly through the open spaces between
the bars of the fixed grate or true bottom of the fire place or alternatively of any other
ordinary grating or ratchet plate or bars of suitable construction which may be put
in upon or in place of the fixed or true bottom of the fire place for the purpose of
affording a proper bearing for the said legs. The ends or feet E of the said legs or
supports are pointed to correspond with the shape of the bars between which they
rest and are made of such a size as to obtain a grip against such bars at any angle
whether they be upright when the false bottom is raised or sloped by being folded
inwards or crossed when it is lowered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In an adjustable false bottom the combination of an ordinary false bottom with
swinging legs capable of being folded under it substantially as described.
2. In an adjustable false bottom such as described the application of loose legs
with feet shaped to fit between grating bars whereby the false bottom can be maintained
at any height in the fire place without attachment to the stove or range substantially
as described.
Tlated this Thanin
2000
W. E. WILLIAMSON.
RT. OSMAN STYLES.