Improvements in or relating to Domestic Fireplaces.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th May, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Domestic Fireplaces.
JOHN INSHAW of Laburnum House Sutton Street Aston near Birmingham
Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
The Baffler plate or Baffle Plate is made of Iron, Steel, or other suitable material
which works on centres in an Iron frame which is supported on the back part of the
brickwork, which the Baffle plate rests when let down to an angle of about 45 dgs.
Baffling the heat from going at once up the flue, but reflects it to the front passing
over the front edge of the baffle plate,but should the fire be required to burn up
rapidly, the plate is drawn into a perpendicular shape closing the top part of the fire
pace and thus acts as a draw plate. By this adoption a great saving of labour and
fuel, is effected. The Baffler or Baffle Plate is placed at a suitable distance above the
fire in order to give the best results which is determined by the shape of tho grate.
JOHN INSHAW..

page_text: JOHN INSHAW Laburnum House Sutton Street Aston near Birmingham Mechanical
Engineer 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:-
I construct or bend a piece of wrought Iron to correspond with the brickwork or
back and sides of any ordinary fire place, which I call a frame, to which I fit a plate
bafter or baffle plate of similar shape fitted with pivots on each side. I drill a hole
in each end of the Iron frame suitable to receive the pivots on the said plate baffler or
baffleplate. This plate is made of Iron Steel or any other suitable material and works
on the pivots in the holes in the Iron frame which is supported on the back part of
Fire grate, on which the plate baffler or baffleplate rests," when lowered to an angle
of about 45 degs. baffling the heat from going immediately up the flue, and reflecting
it to the front, thus passing over the front edge of the plate baffler or Baffeplate into
the Flue, but should the fire be required to burn up rapidly," the plate bafter or
baffleplate is drawn up perpendicularly against the front of Firegrate and then acts
as a draw plate.
By this adoption a great saving of Labour and Fuel is effected.
The frame carrying tho plate baffler or baffeplate is fixed at a suitable distance
above the fire in order to give the best results, which distance is determined by the
shape of the grate. The plate baffler or baffleplate is also provided with a small Iron
loop or hook for the purpose of lifting or lowering the said plate which may easily be
done by means of a small hooked Rod or Poker.
Description of accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification.
Fig. 1 is a front view of Firegrate with Baffleplate drawn up."
Fig. 2 is also a front view of Fire Grate with Baffleplate let down.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of Baffle Plate.
Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of Fire Grate showing as on figure 1 the
Baffleplate drawn up.
Fig. 5 is also a sectional side elevation of Fire Grate, showing as on Fig. 2 the
Baffleplate let down on Frame.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of Baffle plate.
A is the Baffleplate. B the Fire Grate.
C the Fire Bars. D the Fraine. E the
pivots on which the Baffleplate works F the loop or Hook used for the purpose of
lifting or lowering the Baffleplate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declair what I
claim is,
The adoption of a plate Baffler or Baffleplate applicable to domestic Fireplaces as
herein described, as a means, of economising Fuel and Labour.
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