Improvements in and connected with Gas Stoves for Heating.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Gas Stoves for Heating.
We, THOMAS FLETCHER and ALFRED CLARE both of Thynne Street Warrington
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Gas Apparatus, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to gas stoves for heating lobbies, entrance halls, porches,
passages, and other places where a flue to carry off the products of combustion is not
available.
Our Improvements consist in the construction and combination of a condensing
gas stove with a table, hat-stand, umbrella-stand or other similar article. in such a
manner that the condensing gas stove forms an essential part or detail of the arrange-
ment or construction.
In carrying out our Invention we construct or arrange the gas stove in corre-
sponding parts to those which are at present vacant or useless, such for example as
in the part below the table top, or in the part below a hat-stand drawer, or between
two quadrant umbrella stands."
Dated this 4th day of March A 1) 1889
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Gas Stoves for Heating.
We, THOMAS FLETCHER and ALFRED CLARE both of Thynne Street Warrington
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers of Gas Apparatus, 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 gas stoves for heating lobbies, entrance halls, porches,
corridors, passages, and other places where a flue to carry off the products of
combustion is not available.
These Improvements consist in the construction and combination of a condensing
gas heating stove with a table, hat-stand, umbrella-stand, or other similar article in
such a manner that the condensing gas stove forms an essential part or detail of the
arrangement or construction.
In carrying out these Improvements we construct or arrange the gas stove in
those parts or in parts corresponding to those which are at present vacant or useless
in the table, hat-stand, or other similar article, as for example in the space below
the table top, in the part below a hat-stand, or between two quadrant umbrella "
stands.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner our Invention is carried into
effect. In these drawings Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of a gas heating stove
arranged and combined with a table and with a quadrant umbrella stand. Fig. 2 is
a transverse section of the arrangement represented in Fig. 1 but on an enlarged
scale and with the umbrella stand and casing omitted.
The burner A is contained within the vertical tube or passage B to which air may
be supplied through the holes shewn in the central panel of the stove. The upper end
of the passage B opens into a chamber the upper surface of which may form,
support, or be under, the table top, or similar article. From the chamber the gases
pass downwards through tubes D D into the chamber E where the water formed
during combustion and subsequently condensed in the tubes DD and in E, is
collected and whence it may be drained into the vessel H. The vessel H may be
D

page_text: formed and constructed as a drawer as indicated in the. Figure, so that it may be
withdrawn from the stove to discharge the water therefrom, or the water may in
some cases be suffered to drain away through suitable pipes or it may otherwise be
removed as required.
The uncondensed products of the combustion pass upwards from the chamber E
through the tube F whence they issue into the interior of the stove casing from
which they escape through suitable openings.
As represented in the drawings the table top is entirely supported by the gas stove
and this is the arrangement which we prefer to adopt but, as hereinbefore described,
the table or other article and the gas stove may be structurally independent of and
separate from each other in which case the gas stove is constructed and arranged to
combine with the table or similar article and to be arranged in some vacant part
thereof.
We desire it to be understood that we do not claim as part of our present Inven-
tion the construction of a gas stove in which the water formed during combustion is
condensed, as such stoves, but of a different construction, are already in general use
and are commonly known.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,
(1) A condensing gas heating stove constructed and arranged to occupy the space
below or to support a table top, substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
(2) The combination and arrangement of a condensing gas heating stove with a
table, hat-stand, umbrella stand, or other similar article, substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of December A.D. 1889.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.