A NEW AND IMPROVED STOVE FOR WARMING OFFICES, HALLS, CHURCHES, AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Watson, of St. Albans, in the County of
Herts, Nurseryman and Florist, for the Invention of "A NEW AND
IMPROVED STOVE FOR WARMING OFFICES, HALLS, CHURCHES, AND OTHER
PLACES."
Sealed the 21st November 1873, and dated the 26th May 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th May 1873.
I, JOHN WATSON, of St. Albans, in the County of Herts, Nursery-
man and Florist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW AND IMPROVED STOVE FOR WARMING OFFICES, HALLS, CHURCHES, AND
OTHER PLACES," to be as follows:—
My Invention relates a new and improved stove for warming offices,
halls, churches, and other rooms, and more particularly for the use of
gardeners, and consists of a bell-shaped dome or a cone composed of
fire-clay, the bottom of which is provided with a fire-grate, under which
an ash pan is placed, whilst at the upper part of the bell-shaped dome

page_text: an aperture is made to receive the flue or pipe for the running of the
products of combustion.
The bell-shaped dome is surrounded by a shell or casing of sheet iron
or other suitable metal provided with heat holes.
The said stove is represented in the annexed Drawings, in which Fig. 1
is an external elevation of the dome, with a sectional upper part showing
the thickness of the fire-clay, the front part of the casing being removed;
and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same. In these Figures a is
the bell-shaped dome or cone; b, the fire-chamber; c, the ash pan;
d, the flue; e, the casing; f, the bottom plate or stand; and g, the
feeding door.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Watson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WATSON, of St. Albans, in the County of Herts, Nurseryman and Florist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Watson, Her special licence, that
I, the said John Watson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Watson, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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 "A NEW AND IMPROVED STOVE
FOR WARMING OFFICES, HALLS, CHURCHES, AND OTHER PLACES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said John Watson, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument 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

page_text: 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 John Watson, 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:-
My Invention relates to a new and improved stove for warming offices,
halls, churches, and other places, and consists of a bell-shaped dome
composed of manufactured clay, with which is incorporated a mixture of
a considerable quantity of horse dropping, which has the property of
making the clay porous, and thus prevents it cracking from the intensity
of the heat to which it becomes subject. The general thickness of the
wall or partition of the stove should be about 1 inches, while at the
point where the smoke pipe or chimney is connected to the stove the
thickness of the wall should be about double, or say three inches. The
thickness should also be equally great at the other apertures in the stove,
viz., the feeding door and the cleaning out door. The flanges or lower
portion of the stove is also of greater thickness than the rest of the
dome or body of the stove, and is about 5 inches in depth and three in
thickness.
The dome is enclosed within an outer casing or cylinder of iron, which
fits closely around its flange, and which flange has three apertures for
the admission of the cold air to pass over the heated dome.
The top of this stove is formed of an ornamental character, from
which the air heated passes through the apertures into the apartment in
which the latter is contained, and so heating the atmosphere.
The stove is provided with the usual accessories in the shape of ash
pan and apertures, through which fuel is fed and the ashes removed,
but its construction will be better understood from the accompanying
Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional view of the stove completed,
while Figure 2 is a separate view of the rest ring or stand upon which
the dome is intended to rest. No. 1, in Figure 1, is the feeding door;
2 is the cleaning out door; 3 is the grating box; 4 is the ash door; 5 is
the top; 6, 6, are the air chambers; 7 is the smoke pipe or chimney;
8 is the dome or general wall or partition of the stove; and 9, 9, are the
feet upon which the stove rests on the floor of the room or other apart-

page_text: ment in which it may be placed. In Figure 2 letter A is the opening
to correspond with the opening on the dome, as shown in Figure 3 by
the arrows, which Figure is merely to show the section of the dome.
The above described stove is portable, and may be conveyed from
place to place, and the tube for conveying away the smoke and the 5
noxious products of combustion rapidly fitted.
ment in which it may be placed. In Figure 2 letter A is the opening
to correspond with the opening on the dome, as shown in Figure 3 by
the arrows, which Figure is merely to show the section of the dome.
The above described stove is portable, and may be conveyed from
place to place, and the tube for conveying away the smoke and the
noxious products of combustion rapidly fitted.
The above described stove has the following important advantages:-
1. It is very economical since the consumption of fuel therein is very
small and of the most common character.
2. The heat given therefrom is perfectly wholesome, and since the fire 1
does not come in contact with the iron, but is enclosed by the bell-shaped
dome of fire-clay, the stove will give forth heat several hours after the
fire therein has been extinguished.
3. None of the heat arising from the combustion is wasted since by
the time the products of combustion reach the end of the smoko pipe 1
the whole becomes exausted.
Having thus described my Invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details above enumerated, as these may
obviously be modified without departing from the principles of my a
Invention; what I claim is a stove consisting of a bell-shaped dome or
cone composed of fire-clay, with which is incorporated a considerable
quantity of horse dropping, and surrounded by a shell or casing of iron
or other refracting metal, constructed as above described and as repre-
sented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Watson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.