A New or Improved Appliance to be used in Fire-grates to Facilitate the Laying and the Ignition of the Fuel and to Assist Combustion after Ignition.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance to be used in Fire-grates to
Facilitate the Laying and the Ignition of the Fuel and to
Assist Combustion after Ignition.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BALDOCK of Lamport Northampton, Clerk in Holy
Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a certain new or improved appliance to be used in
fire-grates to facilitate the laying and the ignition of the fuel and to assist com-
bustion after ignition.
In carrying this invention into effect certain arched gratings or supports of
metal are provided as follows, so as to be placed and be employed in various
shapes and sizes of fire-grates--the dimensions of the gratings varying accordingly.
In these gratings there will be provided a main portion or bridge and transverse
bars therewith so that the supporting grating will apply either to straight or circular
fronted fire grates.
The bars will be made to project for an equal distance on one side of the
bridge-grating (or main portion or bridge) and on the other side to project more at
the top than at the bottom, that is, in other words, to project more and more from
the lower bars until the summit of the arch is reached.
An arched grating so constructed is applicable to either a straight or circular
fronted fire grate, and can be so applied in either that the fuel will be properly
supplied both before and after ignition.
These arched gratings facilitate the laying of fuel and also the ignition thereof
and moreover they enable ignition to take place at the top of fuel arranged for
burning and when the fuel is ignited they provide free access of air and supply of
oxygen for assisting and supporting the combustion.
Dated this 26th day of February 1892
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance to be used in Fire-grates to
Facilitate the Laying and the Ignition of the Fuel and to
Assist Combustion after Ignition.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BALDOCK, of Lamport, Northampton, Clerk in Holy
Orders, 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 a certain new or improved appliance to be used in fire
grates to facilitate the laying and ignition of the fuel and to assist combustion after
ignition.
The accompanying drawings illustrate an appliance according to my invention
applied to an ordinary fire place. Figs. 1 and 2 are sections on planes parallel to
the front and side respectively. I place on the bottom B of the grate an arched
grating consisting of a pair of arched ribs a a carrying parallel bars which extend
nearly across from the front to the back of the fire place, supporting the fuel but
giving free access of air for its combustion.
In large fire places I may, as shewn in Fig. 3, insert the edges of wing pieces,
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page_text: one of which is shewn separately at Fig. 4, between some of the bars to support
the lateral portions of the fuel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
An appliance for a fire grate consisting of a grated arch placed therein sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 21st day of October 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.