Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1887
Complete Left, 8th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
We, THOMAS FLETCHER and ALFRED CLARE of Thynne Street Warrington in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Gas Apparatus do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to incandescent Gas Fires and these improvements consist in
a novel construction of the incandescing portions of such fires and the combination
thereof with a fire proof back or heat reflecting surface.
The incandescing portion or those parts of the gas fire rendered incandescent by the
gas flame are constructed of open metal work or of an upper metallic screen or screens
suspended or secured in front of a vertical or approximately vertical fire proof surface
in such a manner that the flames of the gas burner or burners play or impinge upon
the incandescing metal work.
The fire proof surface behind the incandescing part of the fire serves to reflect the
heat into the room and to prevent its loss by radiation backwards.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for Applicants:
:

page_text: We, THOMAS FLETCHER and ALFRED CLARE both of Thynne Street Warrington
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Gas Apparatus, 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 incandescent Gas Fires and these Improvements consist in
the hereinafter described construction of the incandescing portions of such fires and in
the combination thereof with a fire proof back or heat reflecting surface.
The incandescent portions of the gas fire or that portion rendered incandescent by
the gas flame is constructed of open metal work or of an open metallic screen or
screens, suspended or secured in front of a vertical or approximately vertical fire
proof surface in such a manner that the flame from the gas burner or burners plays or
impinges upon the metal work producing incandescence.
The open metal work or metallic screen may most conveniently be cast to the
desired form in any suitable metal such as cast iron.
The fire proof surface behind the incandescing part of the fire may be similar to the
like surface of an ordinary asbestos incandescent gas fire and serves to reflect the heat
into the room and to prevent its loss by radiation backwards.
The two shoots of drawings appended hereto will enable this Invention to be more
readily carried into practical effect.
Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a gas fire having these
Improvements applied thereto; Fig. 3 is a front view and Fig. 4 a side view
partly shaded, of a section of the hereinbefore described incandescing portion of
the fire.
The open metal screen work has an eye, hook or similar device cast upon its upper
edge by means of which it may be suspended from a peg, hook or projection secured
to or formed upon the upper edge of the fire back.
We are aware that open metallic screens have already been used in gas fires, but
they have been constructed and arranged in a different manner to that hereinbefore
described; we do not therefore claim generally as our Invention the construction of
such screens or any other arrangement or combination thereof with fire proof material
than that set forth herein.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we desire it to be understood
that what we claim is :-
(1) In an incandescent gas fire; an open metallic screen constituting the
incandescing portion of the fire and constructed substantially as hereinbefore
described.
(2) In an incandescent gas fire; a fire proof back in combination with an incandescing
portion consisting of an open metallic screen constructed and arranged substantially
as hereinbefore described.