IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BROWN, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Tenth day of April, in the seventh year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Brown, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Frederick Brown, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Frederick Brown, my exors, admiors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Frederick Brown, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Frederick Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a section of a stove constructed according to my
Invention, and Figure 2 is an outside view thereof. a, a, is what I call the
fire pail, (shown separately at Figure 3,) which has within it a suitable
grating or fire bars b, below which is a space for ashes; c is a door for feeding
the fire with coke, which is the proper fuel to be burned in this stove; d is a
door to the ash hole e, such door being provided with a regulator to regulate
the air which is admitted below the fuel to support combustion, the doors c
and d being kept closed when the stove is in use, the regulator being more or
less open, according to the quantity of air which may be required to keep up
the fire to the extent desired. The fire pail is supported on studs or pro-
jections e', e', e¹, and above the fire pail is supported a conical top f, (an
under side view of which is shewn at Figure 4,) leaving a space between it and
the upper part of the fire pail, to allow of air passing up freely, thus
ventilating the room or apartment in which the stove is placed, and there is to
be a pipe fixed to the upper part of the conical top to carry off the products
of combustion, and also the air (passing between the cone and the fire pail), to
a chimney or other convenient outlet, and this carrying off of the air above
the fire pail and under the conical top is an important improvement in the
construction of stoves, as it causes a constant ventilation in the room or place
where the stove is employed, thus avoiding that great objection to closed
stoves, where the only air removed from a room or apartment is that small
quantity which is required for combustion, hence the atmosphere of a room or
place where such closed stoves are used becomes deteriorated by the use
or overheating of such closed stoves, and by persons breathing therein, and
this ventilation above the fire pail also prevents any possibility of accident by
accumulation of gases in the stoves, and renders it less liable to accident
by the overheating of the pipe, which are very common to closed stoves. The
topf is supported in its place on the uprights or standards g,
and in place
of the fire pail being supported from below, as shewn, it may be suspended
from these standards. It will thus be seen that the fire pail is separate from
the other part of the stove, and may be removed in order to empty out the
ashes and to supply fresh materials for lighting a fire therein, this arrange-
ment offering the convenience of the fire pail being removed out of the room
or other place, to be emptied and cleansed, thus preventing any dust being

page_text: thrown into the room or place where the stove is used. When it is desired to
light a fire in the fire pail, some dry wood and shavings or paper with a few
pieces of coke are to be introduced, and the fire pail is to be replaced in the
frame, and a lighted piece of paper is then put through the ash door to light
the shavings or paper on the fire bars above, and when the fire burns freely
the pail is to be filled up to the upper door with coke, when the upper and
lower doors are to be closed, the ventilator being left more or less open,
according to the quickness of combustion desired, and a fresh supply of coke is
to be fed in from time to time as required, and the coke should be broken
to about the size of wallnuts. It should be stated that the ashes should at all
times be removed before lighting a fresh fire. The shape of the fire pail and
also of the frame and upper cone may be varied, so long as the peculiar
character of the Invention be retained, which consist in the arrangement of
the moveable fire pail and the mode of ventilation obtained by allowing the
air to pass between the upper part of the fire pail and the cone or top, and it
will be found that these stoves have all the advantages of closed stoves by the
slow combustion of fuel obtained by the regulated admission of air, with the
further advantages of safety from accident by fire or explosion, ready means of
removing the dust from the room or place where the stove is used, and also
a constant removal of air from the room or other place to a far greater extent
than is required for combustion, thus giving place to fresh air, which may be
constantly coming into the room or place where the stove is employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-four.