IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF REGISTER STOVES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Baker, of 149, High Street, Southwark, in
the County of Surrey, Ironmonger, and Charles Miller, of Flying Horse
Yard, Southwark, in the County of Surrey aforesaid, Builder, for the
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Sealed the 1st April 1856, and dated the 1st October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Baker and Charles
Miller at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 1st October 1855.
We, GEORGE BAKER and CHARLES MILLER, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF REGISTER STOVES,"
to be as follows; and consists of a pair of iron plates to swing from the cheeks
to the front of the stove, with one or two sliding plates behind to slide from
one of the front plates to meet the other, thereby increasing the draught and
lessening the inconvenience arising from smoky chimnies when out of use;
the plates fit flush with the cheeks of the stoves.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Baker and Charles Miller in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
BAKER, of 149, High Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Ironmonger,
and CHARLES MILLER, of Flying Horse Yard, Southwark, in the County of
Surrey aforesaid, Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Baker and Charles Miller, Her special licence that we, the said George
Baker and Charles Miller, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said George Baker and Charles Miller, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF REGISTER
STOVES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Baker
and Charles Miller, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Baker and Charles Miller, do
hereby declare the nature of the said lavention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
The improvements relate to a mode of arranging parts in connection with
register stoves, in order that the draft to such may, when desired, be readily
increased, to lessen, if not to avoid altogether, the inconvenience arising from a
tendency to descent of smoke in chimneys, especially when the fire in the stove
is fresh lighted or fresh fuel is applied in too large quantities; and that when,
from the nature of the fire or otherwise, such inconvenience is not experienced,
the stove may assume the character of an ordinary open fire-place.
And the improvements consist in the application of a pair of iron plates,

page_text: arranged to swing from the checks to the front of the stove, with one or two
sliding plates behind to slide from one of the front plates to meet the other.
But that the nature of our said improvements may be fully understood, we
will proceed to describe the Drawing annexed.
Figure 1 shows a front view of the stove under ordinary circumstances, or
when the improvements are not in requisition; Figure 2 is a sectional plan of
the same; Figure 3 shows a front view of the stove, with the parts constituting
our improvements as they would appear when in position for creating increased
draft in the chimney; Figure 4 is a sectional plan of Figure 3; Figure 5 is a
section of the stove, with the parts in the position indicated by Figures 1 and 2.
In each of these Figures the same letters indicate like parts wherever they
occur.
a, a, are the iron plates, which are formed with pivots a¹, a', by which they
are sustained in sockets formed on or affixed to the cheeks or to the back of
the front of the stove, with a capability of their at one time assuming the posi-
tion indicated by Figures 3 and 4, and at another that indicated by Figures
1, 2, and 5. Each of the plates a, a, is provided with guides a², to receive the
sliding plate b.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
we carry the same into effect, we would have it understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise forms and details of the parts shown, as these
may be varied; but what we do claim is, the application to register stoves of
parts a and b, for the purpose explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Baker and Charles Miller,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-eighth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six.
0 Witness,
BENJ J. B. MILLS,
73, Chancery Lane.
(L.S.)
GEORGE BAKER.
CHARLES MILLER. (L.S.)