IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC STOVES OR FIRE PLACES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Cecil Egerton Green at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd June 1882.
CECIL EGERTON GREEN a director of the Company of Ashton. and Green, Limited,
of Bury Street, St Mary Axe, in the City of London IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC
STOVES OR FIRE PLACES
The object of my invention is to consume the smoke and other products of
combustion in domestic stoves or fire places by creating a down draught through
the fire. With this object the grate or fire basket is raised a suitable height above
the level of the floor or hearth. The bottom and front of the grate are fitted with
suitable bars, and the back and sides of the grate are made of fire brick, fire clay or
other similar material. The back extends downwards nearly to the level of the
bottom bars of the grate. In the aperture between the bottom of the back and the
bottom bars is placed a grating which projects a little distance in front of the back
and over the bottom bars. Behind the back is constructed a flue of any convenient
size and shape, and the products of combustion and the draught pass from the fire
over the top of the back in the upper part of the fire place down the flue behind
and through the grating at the bottom of the back. Two flues are made at the
sides of the fire place which have a suitable incline backwards, and their lower ends
open into the space below the bottom bars of the grate, one on each side, and the
products of combustion and the draught after issuing from the grating at the back
pass through the fire to these flues and are led through the same to their junction
above the fire place with the main flue or chimney. An ash pan is made to slide
in below the grate and so fitted as to perfectly close the front of the fire place below
the front bars of the grate between the bottom of the front bars and the floor or
hearth, so that no air can enter the space below the grate from the outside. At
the upper part of the stove or fire place above the top of the back is fitted a door
actuated from the face of the fire place in any convenient manner. When this door
is opened, the products of combustion and the draught pass direct to the chimney
without passing through the described flues, and when the fire is first lighted this
door can be opened and the chimney warmed and the draught established. It can
then be closed, and the products of combustion and the draught made to pass down
the flue behind the back through the fire to the side flues as before described. This
door is so fitted, and the mouth or upper part of the down flue and the top of the

page_text: back of the grate so formed, that when the door is opened to admit the smoke and
other products of combustion direct to the main flue or chimney, it simultaneously
closes the down flue behind the back and vice versa. The flue at the back of the
fire place is constructed in such a manner and with such a forward incline towards
the grate as to induce and assist the draught to enter and pass through the whole
of the fire. The bottom bars of the grate can also be made on an inclined plane
forwards. I can also make a hot air chamber at the back of the fire place behind
the down flue in the brick work if I should so desire. The front of the stove or
fire place can be made of any desired shape or pattern, and a blower can be fitted
to assist in creating a draught through the front of the fire in the grate.