Year: 1887

page_text: I JAMES BAZELEY PETTER, Ironmonger of Yeovil in the County of Somerset, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is mainly to avoid draught across the apartment from
the doors and windows and the various crevices thereof towards the fire and thus to
produce a more equal temperature at all parts of the room.
This invention consists of a metal plate with or without tiles or other materials laid
therein, forming the hearth and having a narrow grating around and immediately
inside the position for the outer edge of the curb or fender for the admission of
air from a chamber underneath, the said plate being applied in any convenient manner
with fresh air from outside the apartment.
An ashpit and grating may be formed in or on the said hearth plate to receive dust
and ashes from the fire.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fireplaces.
J JAMES BAZELEY PETTER Ironmonger of Yeovil in the County of Somerset
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 in domestic stoves or fireplaces ordinarily
used for heating warming or ventilating and such like purposes sitting and other
rooms and apartments or buildings and has for its object mainly to avoid draught
across the apartment from the doors and windows and the various crevices towards the
fire and thus to produce a more equal temperature at all parts of the room.
This invention consists of a plate of metal or other suitable material with or without
tiles or other materials laid therein forming the hearth and having a narrow grating
around and immediately inside the position for the outer edge of the curb or fender
for the admission of air from a chamber underneath the said plate supplied in any
convenient manner with fresh air from outside the apartment.
An ashpit and grating may be formed in or on the said hearth plate to receive dust
and ashes from the fire.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily carried
into practice I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings Figure 1 of which shows a plan partly in section of a fireplace having
my said improvements applied thereto that part to the left being a half plan below fire
and that to the right being a half plan above the fire and Figure 2 is a sectional side
elevation of such fireplace.
a is a plate of any suitable metal or material on which are arranged and mounted the
tiles or materials forming the hearth.
c is a fireplace or fire basket of any ordinary or suitable construction d is the bottom
grating thereof and e a grating over the ashpit f which latter may however be dispensed
with if desired.
g is the fresh air supply inlet and is the passage or channel leading to gratings or
opening under the kerb or fender k.
A perfectly free and independent air supply is thus set up (in the direction shown
by the arrows Figure 2) for the fire thus obviating great or so much draught as
heretofore being created by the fire from other parts of the room or apartment in which
my improved fireplace is fitted.
my
said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
:-
1. In domestic stoves or fireplaces the arrangement construction and application of

page_text: an independent air supply passage or inlet which opens in front of the fire to supply
the necessary air thereto substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.
2. The improved arrangement and construction of domestic stoves or fireplaces
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and repre-
sented in the drawings hereunto annexed.