IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO ASSIST COMBUSTION IN STOVES OR GRATES
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BROWNE, of Great Portland Street, Portland Place, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of July (One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine), in the thirteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Browne, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Browne, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, and such others as I, the said John Browne, my exors, admiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO
ASSIST COMBUSTION IN STOVES OR GRATES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that I, the said John Browne, shall cause a particular
description of 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, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Browne, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained-in-and-by-the-following statement. thereof,.reference being had to
the-Drawing hereunto-annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of applying apparatus to a stove or grate so as to
produce a hollow or space within the fire made in such stove, such apparatus
having an opening upwards, so as to obtain a draft or upward current through
such apparatus, and thus to improve the fire. The shape of this apparatus
may be varied, but I prefer the one shown in the Drawing, and the apparatus
may be attached to or form part of the lower grating of a stove or grate, or,
what I prefer, it may be separate therefrom.
section, of the apparatus, which is to be recticulate, so that the fuel in the fire
may rest against it on all sides, and the draft pass freely through and amongst
the fuel. The reticulations or openings may be varied from those shown in the
Drawing, but the arrangement shown is convenient, as there will at all-times
be a tendency for some part of the burning fuel to lie within the apparatus.
In lighting the fire I prefer to place some of the wood within as well as out-
side of the apparatus, by which the apparatus will quickly become highly
heated, and induce the currents to pass up through the apparatus, which will
quicken the lighting and burning up of the fire. a is a top, to be placed on
when a kettle or other vessel is placed over the fire, in order not to stop the
passage, as such vessel, when standing on the knobs or projections, will allow
of a free passage through the apparatus. b is an additional chimney or flue,
which will be found advantageous in some fires, in consequence of producing a
better draft.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the details as herein described, so long as the peculiar
character of the Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the application of
an apparatus such as herein described to stoves and grates, for the purposes
above explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Browne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
JOHN (L.S.)
BROWNE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid John Browne came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.