IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Owen, of Rotherham, in the County of
York, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES."
Sealed the 21st April 1863, and dated the 25th October. 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Owen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th October 1862.
I, WILLIAM OWEN, of Rotherham, in the County of York, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates, firstly, to what are known as register stoves, viz.,
such as are furnished with a door opening into the chimney, and it consists in
fitting below or in front of such door, and independent of it, a frame of louvre
plates. This frame moves upon hinges, and is capable of being thrown
entirely back to allow of uninterrupted access to the chimney.
My Invention relates, secondly, to those stoves known as air stoves, and
consists in forming them with hollow radiating chambers instead of with solid
plates, as 'heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Owen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
OWEN, of Rotherham, in the County of York, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the. Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Owen, Her special licence that I, the said
William Owen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Owen, executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Qwen, my executors, or administrators, by an instru
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Owen, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say:
My Invention relates, firstly, to what are known as register stoves, videlicet,
such as are furnished with a door opening into the chimney, and it consists in
fitting below or in front of such door; and independent of it a frame of louvre
plates. This frame moves as upon hinges, and is capable of being thrown
entirely back to allow of uninterrupted access to the chimney..
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view, and Figure 2 a
section through the line x, x, of Figure 1, of a register stove constructed
according to this part of my Invention.
a is the frame of louvre plates, a detached view of which is given at
Figure 3 this frame carries lugs b, b, forming angles with the bottom of the

page_text: frame, which angles fit over the top of the back part c of the stove, so that the
frame a is free to move thereon as upon hinges. The frame of louvre plates
rests in front upon the inner arch d of the stove, but when it is desired to have
uninterrupted access to the chimney it is thrown back against the register
door e, or is altogether removed.
My Invention relates, secondly, to those stoves known as air stoves, and
consists in forming them with hollow radiating chambers instead of with solid
plates, as heretofore. Figure 4 is a side view, and Figure 5 a section through
the line x, x, of Figure 4, of an air stove constructed according to this part of
my Invention,
a, a, are the hollow radiating chambers, which are by
preference formed with apertures b, b, to allow free passage for the air;
c, c, are filling-in pieces between the chambers; and d, d, are bolts passing
through the chambers to keep the whole together.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First, fitting a frame of louvre plates to those stoves known as register
stoves, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2,
and 3 of the accompanying Drawings.
Second, forming those stoves known as air stoves with hollow radiating
chambers, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 4
and 5 of the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Owen, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
JOHN HILL,
Book-keeper,
Rotherham..
WILLIAM OWEN. (L.Ś.)