IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVE ORNAMENTS OR APPLIANCES FOR SCREENING FIRE-GRATES OR FIRE-PLACES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Young, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVE ORNAMENTS OR
APPLIANCES FOR SCREENING FIRE-GRATES OR FIRE-PLACES."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Young at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1877.
THOMAS YOUNG, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOVE ORNAMENTS OR APPLIANCES FOR SCREENING FIRE-GRATES OR FIRE-
PLACES."
My Invention relates more particularly to the open stoves, grates, or fire-places
employed in the warming of rooms in dwelling houses or other buildings, or adapted
to be so employed.
In some cases, as, for example, in drawing and dining rooms and in other
'entertaining rooms," the fire-places are used for warming purposes during portions
of the year, and are out of use for other portions of the year, and in other cases, as,
for example, in the cases of some bedrooms, the fire-places are only used for warming
purposes on extraordinary occasions.
Hitherto, during the warmer portion of the year attempts have been made to
remove the unsightly appearance of the empty fire-places or grates by placing or
suspending therein stove or grate papers or ornaments, usually composed principally
of white and coloured paper.
The object of my Invention is to render the fire-places ornamental by the
employment of ornamental screens, which enclose, cover, and hide the grates or bars
and the empty spaces within and above the grates. To this end I form, produce,
and manufacture ornamental screens, adapted in form, design, and ornamentation
for differing forms and styles of grates and for differing places of application, and
adapted to be suspended on or from or attached to or fixed on the grates or fire-
places, and to hide or screen the said grates and the said empty spaces..
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page_text: I form the said screens of paper mâché, sheet brass, iron or steel, or of cast metal,
earthenware, potteryware, or china, or of any other suitable material, by the
operations of blocking, pressing, moulding, or casting, as most suitable in each case;
and I make them ornamental in form, or form them with flutes, beads, arabesques,
or raised or embossed designs; or. I ornament them by processes of painting,
enamelling, gilding, electro-plating, printing, or by other suitable processes of
ornamentation, or by the attachment of ornaments or of ornamental designs.
In some cases the screens may be ornamented by means of raised or embossed
designs, and additionally ornamented by the other means indicated, and in some
cases the said screens may be perforated. It is intended that the screen shall
extend over the front bars of the grate and entirely across the opening of the fire-
place, and upwards to the part which hides the throat of the chimney, so as entirely
to screen or hide the grate and the back of the fire-place.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters' Patent filed
by the said Thomas Young in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th May
1878.
THOMAS YOUNG, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOVE ORNAMENTS OR APPLIANCES FOR SCREENING FIRE-GRATES OR FIRE-
PLACES."
My Invention relates more particularly to the open stoves, grates, or fire-places
employed in the warming of rooms in dwelling houses or other buildings, or adapted
to be so employed.
In some cases, as, for example, in drawing and dining rooms and in other
entertaining rooms," the fire-places are used for warming purposes during portions
of the year, and are out of use for other portions of the year, and in other cases, as,
for example, in the cases of some bedrooms, the fire-places are only used for warming
purposes on extraordinary occasions.
Hitherto, during the warmer portion of the year, attempts have been made to
remove the unsightly appearance of the empty fire-places or grates by placing or
suspending therein stove or grate papers or ornaments usually composed principally
of white and coloured paper.
The object of my Invention is to render the fire-places ornamental by the
employment of ornamental screens which enclose, cover, and hide the grates or bars
and the empty spaces within and above the grates. To this end I form, produce,
or manufacture ornamental screens adapted in form, design, and ornamentation for
differing forms and styles of grates and for differing places of application, and
adapted to be suspended on or from or attached to or fixed on the grates or fire-
places, and to hide or screen the said grates and the said empty spaces.
I form the said screens of "papier mâché," brass, iron, or steel, or of cast metal,
earthenware, potteryware, or china, or of any other suitable material; by the
operations of blocking, pressing, moulding, or casting, as most suitable in each case,
and I make them ornamental in form, or form them with flutes, beads, arabesques,
or raised or embossed designs; or I ornament them by processes of painting,

page_text: enamelling, gilding, electro-plating, printing, upholstering, or by other suitable
processes of ornamentation, or by the attachment of ornaments or of ornamental
designs.
In some cases the screens may be ornamented by means of raised or embossed
designs, and additionally ornamented by the other means indicated, and in some
cases the said screens may be perforated. It is intended that the screen shall
extend over the front bars of the grate and entirely across the opening of the fire-
place, and upwards to the part which hides the throat of the chimney, so as entirely
to screen or hide the grate and the back of the fire-place.
The nature and objects of my Invention will be apparent from the foregoing
description; but in order that they may be thoroughly understood I have appended
hereunto a Sheet of Drawings, to which I will now refer.
In the said Drawings, Fig. 1 represents the front_view, and Fig. 2 a vertical
section of a grate screen made in accordance with my Invention.
This screen is or may be made of papier mâché. In practice I prepare metal
obverse and reverse moulds, formed to impart the required configuration and design
to the screen. The sheets of paper, or the mass of papier mâché, is or are pressed
between these moulds by hydraulic or other suitable pressure.
This method of procedure may be varied as is considered to be most suitable in
each case.
The screen represented is designed to hide the whole of the fire-grate, and to fit
upon the inner moulding or edge which forms the margin of the aforesaid empty
space above the fire-bars.
The panel a is painted or ornamented by any of the means herein-before indicated,
the design represented being merely an indication.
The moulded space b may also be painted or ornamented, or may be perforated
with suitably designed apertures if it be desired that the ventilation shall not be
interfered with.
The other Figures indicate some of the forms which may be employed, but it
must be understood that I do not confine myself to any of these shapes, as they
are only examples given by way of illustration.
In some cases the screen may be extended downwards to the hearth, and in such
cases the screen may simply rest upon the hearth, or the screen may extend nearly
to the hearth.
In some cases the screen may be adapted to hide only parts of the grate throat
and flue, and to expose other parts as considered to be most suited for the particular
style of grate to which the screen is to be applied.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which I carry the same into practical effect, I would have it to be
understood in conclusion that I claim,-
First. The fire-grate screens made from paper or papier mâché moulded into
ornamental forms, substantially as set forth and indicated.
Secondly. The screens formed and ornamented, substantially as and for the
purposes set forth and indicated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Young, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
THOMAS YOUNG. (LS.)
166, Oxford St.,
London, W
THOMAS YOUNG. (Ls.)
166, Oxford St.,
London, W