Improvements in and connected with Domestic Fire Grates.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Domestic Fire Grates.
I, JAMES RODGERS, of 46, Henshaw Street, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Self-actor-minder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with domestic fire
grates, the object being to so construct the grate bottom or loose bottom often
placed thereon, that the air can pass more freely through the same and thus a
thorough combustion and saving of fuel is attained whilst smoke is reduced to a
minimum.
To this end my invention consists in forming the grate bottom or loose
bottom or both in comb fashion, i.e. with one or more longitudinal bars and a
row or rows of cross bars projecting therefrom toothlike.
In applying my invention to a rectangular grate I cast the ends of the grate
bottom or loose bottom with two or more central longitudinal bars and the outer
side of each outer bar with a row of cross bars extending to the front and back
of the grate or I may form the back half of the bottom only with the said cross
bars and the front half as ordinary with longitudinal bars.
In applying my invention to semi-circular or the like shaped grates the said
cross bars surround the said longitudinal bars, the latter being formed corre-
spondingly shorter.
Dated this 25th day of January 1899
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
I, JAMES RODGERS, of 46, Henshaw Street, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Self-actor-minder, 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 improvements in and connected with domestic fire
grates, the object being to so construct the grate bottom or loose bottom often
placed thereon, that the air can pass more freely through the same and thus a
thorough combustion and saving of fuel is attained whilst smoke is reduced to a
minimum.
To this end my invention consists in forming the grate bottom or loose

page_text: bottom or both in comb fashion, i.e. with one or more longitudinal bars and a
row or rows of cross bars projecting therefrom tooth like.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, showing in perspective three different
forms in which my invention for example may be carried out in the case of a
loose bottom.
In carrying out my invention and applying same to a rectangular grate,
Fig. 1, I cast the ends a of the loose bottom with one or more central longi-
tudinal bars b, in the present instance with two, and the outer side of each bar,
with a row of cross bars e extending to the front and back of the grate; or I
may form the back of the bottom only with cross bars b, as shown in Fig. 2,
and the front half as ordinary, with longitudinal bars b.
In applying my invention to semi-circular or the like shaped grates I form the
loose bottom with cross bars e surrounding the longitudinal bars b, b, the latter
being formed correspondingly shorter.
A grate bottom constructed in accordance with my invention will also be found
of great advantage for bath boilers fixed at the back of the grate as the bricks
covering the same will be heated to such extent that the water in the boiler will
never go cold and thus explosions through freezing be prevented, provided the
boiler flue is kept clear of ashes and the like.
In each case the loose bottom is furnished with feet & to rest upon the grate
bottom as usually.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
In and connected with domestic fire grates, a grate bottom or loose bottom
formed with one or more longitudinal bars b, b and a row or rows of cross bars c
projecting therefrom, all substantially as set forth.
Dated this 25th day of October 1899
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,. Agents to Applicant.