AN IMPROVED REGISTER STOVE, WHEREBY THE FIRE CAN BE REMOVED BACK A LITTLE OR MUCH AT PLEASURE, OR WHOLLY. EXTINGUISHED, AND THAT WITHOUT MAKING ANY DUST OR DISTURBANCE IN THE ROOM, AND IS ALSO A GREAT SECURITY AGAINST ACCIDENTS HAPPENING BY FIRE
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO: WHOM: THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TUOKER, of Old Store Street, of the Parish of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, in
the County. of Middlesex, Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS. His present Majesty King George the Third has been
graciously pleased to grant unto me His Royal Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth
day of July last, for the making, using, exercising, and vending of an Invention
and discovery,made by me, that is to say, "AN IMPROVED REGISTER STOVE,
WHEREBY THE FIRE CAN BE REMOVED BACK A LITTLE OR MUCH AT PLEASURE, OR
WHOLLY. EXTINGUISHED, AND THAT WITHOUT MAKING ANY DUST OR DISTURBANCE IN
THE ROOM, AND IS ALSO A GREAT SECURITY AGAINST ACCIDENTS HAPPENING BY FIRE;"
and in which said Royal Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if I, the
said. James Tucker, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of those His said Majesty's Letters

page_text: Patent, that then those His said Majesty's Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void.
NOW THEREFORE I, the said James Tucker, in pursuance of such
provisoe contained in the said Royal Letters Patent, do hereby declare and
certify that what is herein-after set forth doth particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, that is to say:
The fireplace or grate is made to move or slide on a frame backwards and
forwards by means of a nut under the same, which acts on a screw that has a
pivot at each end, which screw works in two holes, one in the front of the
stove and the other in the back of the recess herein-after mentioned, and is
turned in the front of the stove by a winder; or this fireplace or grate may be
made to move or slide by a rack and pinion, or a chain and pullies, or to draw,
move, or slide backwards and forwards on the frame by merely drawing or
pushing the same, or it may be made to move on a centre or a pivett in a
collar. This fireplace or grate is so made to move or slide through a
suitable opening or space made in the back of the stove into a recess of a
suitable size, immediately behind the stove, made of iron, copper, brass, brick,
stone, or other proper materials. The frame on which the fireplace or grate
moves or slides consists of two bars of iron, or any other proper metal, running
in a horizontal direction along the under part of the stove from the front
thereof, or nearly so, to the back of the recess. From the top of the recess
there must be a funnell, pipe, or flew to conduct the smoke into the chimney
from the fireplace or grate when it is wholly or partly moved back into such
recess, and at the bottom of the recess there must be a drawer to receive the
ashes from such fireplace or grate, and to draw out at the bottom underneath
the stove; or instead of a drawer a door may be made at the bottom of the
back of the stove to take away the ashes. This fireplace or grate may, by
the means aforesaid, be moved back little or much, and be brought forward
again at pleasure, so as to diminish or increase the heat sent into the room.
When this fireplace or grate is moved fully back into the recess, there is a
register or plate of iron which acts in a frame at the back of the stove, and is
moved downwards and upwards at pleasure in front of the fireplace or grate
by means of two wheels, and a screw and nut, one of which wheels is vertical,
the other horizontal, which cause the screw to act in the nut fixed on the
register or plate turned by a handle or whinch; on this register or plate of iron
may be made to move by a wheel, worm, screw, and nut, likewise turned with
a handle or winch. This register or plate, when let quite down in front of the

page_text: fireplace or grate, so moved back into the recess as aforesaid, will, by excluding
or obstruct the current of air, extinguish the fire without dust or disturbance,
and be a security against accidents happening by fire.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
second day of August, in the thirty-second year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-two