Improvements in Gas Fire Grates.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
Date of Application, Cord July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Fire Grates.
RICHARD CLAYTON, Chairman of the Cannon Hollow-ware Company
Limited, of Deepfields, in the County of Stafford, Gas Engineers and Iron-
founders, and THOMAS WARD, of the same place, Foundry Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in (or applicable to) the grates
of gas stoves or fires which are constructed with atmospheric burners with fire
brick linings and use asbestos fuel.
Hitherto such atmospheric burners, fire brick linings and asbestos fuel have
not been readily removable. The object of the invention is to enable such atmo-
spheric burners, fire brick linings or asbestos fuel to be readily withdrawn, or
removed by unskilled labour.
We do this by casting the fire front separate and apart from the fire grate or
stove.
We then fix such fire front to the fire grate or stove itself preferably by
wedging the same on the top and screwing the same on the bottom.
RICHARD CLAYTON.
THOMAS WARD.
We, RICHARD CLAYTON, Chairman of the Cannon Hollow-ware Company,
Limited, of Deepfields, in the County of Stafford, Gas Engineers and Iron-
founders, and THOMAS WARD, of the same place, Foundry Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in gas stoves or fires constructed
with atmospheric burners and having firebrick lining and incombustible asbestos
or other filling.
In this type of gas fire or grate as hitherto constructed, the taking out and
replacing of the atmospheric burner, the firebrick lining, or the incombustible
filling, has been more or less troublesome and complicated, and the object of our
invention is to provide a construction in which these operations are rendered as
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page_text: convenient and easy as possible, and well within the capacity of any unskilled
person to perform.
Referring to the accompanying drawing:-
Figure shews a front elevation, and
Figure 2 a section of a gas fire of the kind referred to.
In these drawings, the front or bars of the grate is indicated by the letter A,
the fire clay blacking by the letter B, the position of the incombustible asbestos
or other filling by the letter E, the screw bolts hereinafter referred to by the
letter C, and the burner by the letter D. The other details of the fire place
illustrated may be variously constructed as they form no special feature of our
invention.
The arrangement of the improved gas fire is similar in outward appearance to
that of the ordinary construction, but the front portion A is cast in one piece
and secured to the remainder of the grate casting by the two screws C, and by
being held at the top in the manner shewn in section in Figure 2. It is only
necessary to unscrew the screw bolts C and to draw out the said piece A in order
to detach all the other parts. The filling E and the back plate B are simply
lifted out, and the union connecting the burner D to the gas tube is unscrewed
and the burner D can then be removed.
The replacing of these parts is obvious from the foregoing.
By means of our invention we secure the minimum trouble and loss of time
in cleaning or replacing the parts of the grate, which, as before stated, can be
done by anyone whether skilled in the operation or not.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. An improved gas fire comprising a fixed metal casing, a detachable incom-
bustible backing plate, an asbestos or other filling, a detachable atmospheric gas
burner, and a metal front bolted at its lower part to the metal casing, and easily
detachable therefrom, substantially as described.
2. The improved gas fire, having removable burner, backing plate, filling, and
front, constructed and operating substantially as described with reference to the
accompanying drawings."
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.