Improvements in or relating to Fireplaces or Stoves.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Fireplaces or Stoves.
WILSON ALFRED HUGHES Inventor Chester Villa Windmill Lane Hampton
Hill do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A frame for the better combustion of fuel in fire grates by establishing a direct
draught with the register by means of wired lattice work sufficiently high to enable
the fuel to be raised to the front of the register, while the bottom of the grate is
filled with fire-clay to the top of the bars. By this means, all air that passes
through up to the chimney, passes through the fire, and is consumed, thereby
producing a more perfect combustion than is possible by any other method and
attaining an entirely incandescent heat without flame or fume. The fuel being
placed in front of the bulged frame instead of as the back as is necessary with
the present system of firing the heat is deflected into the apartment by means
of the wires instead of going to waste up the chimney.
The frame encloses the fire and is a complete protection from the falling of
cinders.
The frame is made of a lattice work of metal supported by strong iron pillars
and is adapted to fit to the inside or to hook on to outside, of the bars of any
fire grate and can be continued up to the top of the register. A portion of the
frame drops from hinges from about the top bar of the grate for the purpose of
lighting the fire and is afterwards secured in its place by a spring or catch.
The frame is fixed about an inch from the bottom bars of the grate to enable
ashes to be cleared, and is kept in place by forks which pass through the bars
forming the bottom of the grate. The frame is made any shape that may be
required, and may be made half or entirely circular three or four sided or in the
shape of a basket, also any depth, and with or without hinges and as a permanent
or temporary fitting in the manufacture of open grates.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of February 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Fireplaces or Stoves.
I, WILSON ALFRED HUGHES, of Chester Villa, Windmill Lane, Hampton
Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, 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 for an incandescent fire frame has for its object to increase the
mass of incandescent fuel in the grate without increasing the consumption and to
ensure that all the air passing up through the chimney shall first pass through the
fuel so that an incandescent heat without any flame or fume is attained, and consists
in providing an openwork or skeletou frame extending from the grate bottom
upwards so as to enclose the whole front of the fire between the grate bottom and
the register sufficient space being left between the register and the skeleton frame
to allow for stoking.

page_text: In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation of
an ordinary firegrate fitted with a skeleton frame arranged and operating according
to this invention and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the openwork frame.
The openwork or skeleton frame A consists of a rigid frame having two
uprights a at the end connected by crossbars band of an open wirework or
netting e secured to the frame. The crossbars are curved similarly to the bars d
of the ordinary grate B and are slightly shorter so that the skeleton frame A will
just fit inside the ordinary bars d. The network c is shown extending to about the
top of the register. Sufficient space e is left between the front of the grate and
the top of the network c to allow for stoking.
In carrying out my invention I have found in practice that a more perfect
combustion is obtained by admitting air into the mass of the fuel.
This is con-
veniently effected by means of short tubes h secured in the frame and projecting
into the fuel. The tubes may be secured by a wire i secured at one end to one side
of the frame and wound round the ends of the tubes successively the other end of
the wire being secured to the other side of the frame.
In lighting the fire the fuel is filled in nearly to the top of the frame A.
It will be readily understood that I do not limit myself to the manner described
of fixing the skeleton frame to the grate as the same may be fixed to the grate
front or to the front of the bars in any convenient way and the ordinary bars may
be dispensed with and the frame be fitted in their places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. An attachment for grates consisting of a skeleton or open frame enclosing
the whole front of the fire place up to the register substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
2. An attachment for grates consisting of a skeleton or open frame enclosing
the whole front of the fire place up to the register and of tubes secured to the said
frame and adapted to convey air into the mass of the fuel substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
3. A fire frame arranged substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
4. A fire frame arranged and operating substantially as described with reference
to the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.