IMPROVEMENTS IN KITOHEN GRATES
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Nov., 1888
1 JOSEPH HALL of the Shambles in the City of Worcester of the Firm of
J. & F. Hall, Iron Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN KITOHEN GRATES to be as follows :-
:-
My invention has for its object improvements in the construction of Kitchen
Grates, and consists in making them with the following improvements, making the
Fronts and Ash Pan Fronts in such a manner that Tiles or ornamental iron Panels
may be fitted therein and removed or varied as required, also casting slots in the
sides of the Ovens to carry the Oven Shelves, making the back of the oven door
with a roughed or ornamental surface instead of plain as usual, affixing a support
or bracket at each end of the coves with one or more bars thereon extending from
end cove to end cove in such a way that the bar or bars can be moved backwards
or forwards at will, and cooking utensils suspended from the bars can be moved
laterally. Making the panel over the fire of grating form and hinging it so as to
throw backwards and rest against the back coves when not required. Coring slots
in the frame of the front bars between each of the main bars, the main bars being
either cast with the frame or not, so that an additional bar may be inserted between
every two of the ordinary bars or removed at pleasure.
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1 1911
1000

page_text: I, JOSEPH HALL of the Firm of J. & F. Hall Worcester Foundry, Worcestershire
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 the construction of kitchen grates, and consists in making
then with the following improvements, namely, making the fronts and ash-pan fronts
in such a manner that Tiles or ornamental iron panels may be fitted therein and
removed or varied as required; also, casting one or more slots, in each side of the
ovens for the oven shelves to slide in, so that when the shelves are partly drawn out
they will not overbalance but will bear against the top side of the slots; also, making
the back of the oven door with a roughed or ornamental surface, so that, if hinged at
the bottom side, it will when let down at a right angle to the front of the grate, form
an ornamental rest for dishes; also, affixing a support or bracket at each end of the
coves on which to rest one or more bars extending from end cove to end cove, the bar
or bars being each free to be moved backwards or forwards at will, and thus providing
an improvement on the ordinary crane or sway and allowing cooking utensils hung
on the bars to be moved, without lifting them, over any part of the fire or hobs; also,
making the panel over the fire of grating form and hinging it so as to throw
backwards and rest against the back coves when not required; also, coring or pro-
viding slots in the fire bar frame between each of the main bars, so that if very
fine coal is used, an auxiliary intermediate bar can be slipped between each pair of
slots so as to narrow the spaces between the main bars, as required.
In order to show how iny said improvements are carried out, I hereunto append a
sheet of drawings indicating one manner in which the same may be constructed and
which I will now proceed to describe :-
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts
where they are shewn or repeated.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of a kitchen grate
embodying the above named improvements, and shewing the tiles or iron panels A
fitted into the fronts and ash pan, the grating panel B over the fire, and the manner
in which the said grating can be thrown backwards when not required; also the
slots.cored in the fire bar frame between each of the main bars.
Fig. 3 is a front view of an oven with slots D to receive the shelf E which slides
backwards and forwards therein.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged front view and Fig. 5 a sectional view shewing a method of
fastening in the loose tiles or panels A, by means of small screw pins and nuts F
which hold them fast in suitable recesses or frames formed in the fronts and allowing
of their being removed or varied as required:
Fig. 6 is an enlarged front view and Fig. 7 a sectional view of part of a set of fire
bars shewing more clearly the main or fixed bars G and the intermediate slots C.

page_text: Fig. S is a front view and Fig. 9 a sectional view of my improved crane or sway,
H H are the two supports or brackets and J J bars which can be moved backwards
and forwards at will.
It will be obvious that the above described details may be varied in construction
without departing from the nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Constructing and arranging the parts of kitchen grates in the manner herein before
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.