Improvements in Domestic Fire Grates.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1890
Complete Sp cification Lefr, 1st Sept., 1891-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Domestic Fire Grates.
1, JOHN BARKER LUPTON, of 6, Grove Terrace, Fillibrook Road, Leytonstone,
in the County of Essex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements applicable to domestic fire grates of all
kinds the object of the improvements being to obtain cleanliness, improved
combustion of the fuel and less waste of fuel than in fire grates of the ordinary
construction.
In carrying out my invention I employ flat bars and I form or place them at an
angle in the grate so that they form as it were a kind of louvre. The bars may be
fixed or removeable; in the latter case suitable means are provided for fixing the
bars in position.
My bars can also be made adjustable so that they may be more or less opened
or closed.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that very little if any of the fuel or dust
will fall from the grate onto the hearth as is the case with ordinary fire grates, the
inclined position of the bars also ensuring a better combustion of the fuel.
In some cases I make my bars corrugated.
Dated the 1st doir of Douamhan 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Domestic Fire Grates.
I, JOHN BARKER LUPTON, of 6, Grove Terrace, Fillibrook Road, Leytonstone,
in the County of Essex, Ironmonger, 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 improvements applicable to domestic fire grates of all
kinds having open fronts, the object of the improvements being to obtain cleanliness
and less waste of fuel than in fire grates of the ordinary construction.
In carrying out my invention I employ flat bars and I form or place them at
an angle in the grate so that they form as it were a kind of louvre. The bars
may be fixed or removable; in the latter case suitable means are provided for
holding the bars in position.
My bars can also be so arranged that they can be moved to close the front
of the grate.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it may
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 a vertical section of a fire grate provided with bars arranged
according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section, and
Figure 4 a vertical section of a fire grate having the bars arranged so that
they may be closed.
Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4 but shewing the bars closed.
In the arrangement shewn in Figures 1 and 2 a. a represent the flat bars
which I employ, the said bars being placed at an angle as shewn.
Price 6d21.
In these figures

page_text: the bars are shewn as being supported at the ends in inclined grooves in the
sides b, b of the grate but they may be cast in one piece therewith.
In Figures 3, 4 and 5, the bars a, a, a are shewn as pivotted at c, c, c to the
sides b, of the grate, and are held in their inclined position by projections d, d, d
on the bar e.
The said bare is pivotted in lugs ff on the frout of the grate
in such a manner that when the side bar e is turned from the position shewn
in full lines in Figures 3 and 4 to the position shewn in dotted lines in Figure 3 and
in full lines in Figure 5, the bars will drop down and close the front as clearly
shewn in Figure 5.
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9, 9, 9 are stops for limiting the upward movement of the pivotted bars and
is a knob or handle for operating the bar e.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that very little if any of the fuel or
dust will fall from the grate onto the hearth as is the case with ordinary fire-
grates, the inclined position of the bars also preventing, as above named, waste
of fuel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) A domestic fire grate, the bars of which are placed at an angle substan-
tially as, and for the purposes, described.
(2.) In a domestic fire grate having inclined bars as described, pivotting the
said bars as, and for the purpose, described.
(3.) The manufacture and use of the improved domestic fire grates herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, and in Figures 3, 4 and 5
of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 1st day of September 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.