Fire Places.
Year: 1885

page_text: Fire Places.
I, WILLIAM BERRIDGE, of High Street, Windsor, Berkshire, Ironmonger and
Domestic Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to domestic and
other stoves or fire places, special objects of the Invention being to obtain in a
given size and formation of grate, an increased radiated heat from a given
consumption of fuel, and to cheapen the manufacture of stoves and fire places.
To this end the Invention consists essentially in constructing stoves or fire places
wholly of fire-clay fire-brick or other analogous refractory material with perforated
barred or grated bottoms, fronts and front bars, and other parts required, and in
the application to stoves or fire-places of perforated barred or grated bottoms and
of perforated or open fronts and front bars constructed or formed of such fire-clay
fire-brick or analogous refractory material, the advantages derived being principally
due to such material being a superior conductor of beat than the metal of which
stoves or fire places or such parts thereof have been hitherto constructed.
The improvements are applicable with like advantage to all varieties and forms
of construction of stoves or fire-places and the nature and scope of the Invention
will be thoroughly understood from the following description.
In carrying out the Invention according to some modifications, I construct the
stove or fire place wholly of the said fire brick or analogous material and mould or
form it of a sufficient thickness or strength, and of the desired shape or conformation,
either in one piece, or in parts which can be readily fitted together, so that in case
of accident to any of such parts it may be easily replaced without entailing the
expense of a new stove or fire-place.
When making the stove or fire-place in separate parts, the grate body may be
made in one part, and the barred or open front and perforated or grated bottom
may be made so as to be separately or together removable therefrom, or the sides
and back may be also removable and may be caused to drop into grooves in corner
uprights rising from a common base connecting them in accordance with the desired
conformation of the grate or fire place,

page_text: In other modifications, the body of the stove or fire place may be made of iron,
as usually, in any desired conformation, and I apply thereto either a barred or
open front and perforated or grated bottom made of the said fire-brick or analogous
material, or either of them separately, and if they are both applied they may be
moulded or formed in one piece, or separately.
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
1. The construction of stoves or fire places wholly of fire-clay fire-brick or other
analogous refractory material with perforated barred or grated bottoms, fronts and
front bars, and other parts required, and in one or more parts, substantially as
herein before described.
2. The application to stoves or fire-places of perforated, barred, or grated bottoms,
and perforated or open fronts and front bars, formed of such fire-clay, fire-brick, or
analogous refractory material, and either separately or together, substantially as
herein before described.