Improvements in and applicable to Fire-places or Stoves.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 18.91
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and applicable to Fire-places or Stoves.
We, SYDNEY BOURNE, of 4, Hawthorne Villas, Herne Hill Road, Camberwell,
India Rubber Manufacturer, and GEORGE LEONARD, of 63, Trent Road, Brixton
Hill, Engineers' Draughtsman, both in the County of London, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to what are known as register stoves or fire-places, and it
comprises the improved form of register hereinafter described.
A register constructed according to our invention is provided with two plates,
each of which has a series of slots or openings formed therein, the slots or openings
in one plate corresponding with the solid portions of the other plate so that when
the two plates are lying one upon the other all the slots or openings are closed.
We provide means for raising one plate from the other, and we advantageously
employ a cain or eccentric for the purpose.
The chief advantage of our improved register is that it tends to prevent the
escape of the heat which takes place so readily in stoves or fire-places having
registers of ordinary construction.
Dated the 18th day of November 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and applicable to Fire-places or Stoves.
We, SYDNEY BOURNE of 4 Hawthorne Villas Herne Hill Road Camberwell,
India Rubber Manufacturer, and GEORGE LEONARD of 63 Trent Road Brixton
Hill, Engineers' Draughtsman, both in the County of London 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 :-
Our invention relates to what are known as register stoves or fireplaces and it
comprises the improved form of register damper or cover (to take the place of the
ordinary fall door), hereinafter described.
A register constructed according to our invention is provided with two plates,
(one plate hereinafter called the bottom plate of register and the other hereinafter
called the baffle plate) each of which has a series of slots or openings formed
therein, the slots or openings in one plate corresponding with the solid portions of
the other plate so that when the two plates are lying one upon the other, all the
slots or openings are closed.
We provide means for raising one plate from the other, and we advantageously
employ a cam or lever for the purpose which raises or lowers the baffle plate as
desired.
The baffle plate is kept in position by its own weight, and the relative positions of
the two plates is maintained by two guide pins or studs, one at each side, upon
which the baffle plate is free to move, the pins being fixed in the bottom plate of
register.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood we now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures thereon.
The object of this invention being, in a register damper door or cover for stoves
or fireplaces, for the purpose of reflecting or radiating the heat from the fire.

page_text: Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the apparatus fitted to the top portion of a
register stove or fireplace with the baffle plate B shewn open for the egress of the
products of combustion.
Figure 2 is a view looking on the top of battle plate B in the direction of the
arrow marked X.
Figure 3 is a section through the apparatus shewing the lever C nsed for raising
or lowering the baffle plate B and also shewing clearly the relative position of the
slots or openings in the baffle plate and bottom plate of register.
The position of lever C when the baffle plate is resting on the bottom plate of
register is shewn by dotted lines.
Like letters give parts in each of the figures. A is the bottom plate of register,
B the baffle plate, C the cam or lever for raising or lowering the baffle plate, D the
guide pins or studs for maintaining the relative positions of the two plates, E the
Back, and F the front of fireplace. O the openings in the bottom plate of register,
and P the openings or slots in the battle plate.
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 a register damper-door, or cover for stoves or fireplaces, the combination
of the bottom plate A, and the baffle plate B, having slots or openings formed in
then as set forth. The relative positions of the openings being as shewn and
described, for the purpose of reflecting or radiating the heat from the fire.
2). In a register damper-door or cover for fireplaces, the combination of the
bottom plate A. and the baffle plate B, with the lever C for raising or lowering the
baffle plate B, also the guide studs or pins D. for maintaining the relative positions
of the two plates, substantially as herein described and set forth and shewn on the
accompanying drawing.
D
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1901