Improvements in Warming Stoves.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
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Improvements in Warming Stoves.
We, ELIZA THORPE, formerly Eliza Rippingille, Lamp and Stove Manu-
facturer, and WILLIAM BRANDON, Foreman, both of the Albion Lamp Company,
Aston Brook Lamp Works, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, du hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same 18 to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The invention has for its object a simple method of imitating in warming stoves
heated by oil or gas, the appearance of an ordinary coal fue
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying diawings, in which :-
Fig. 11s a vertical cross section and Fig. 2 is n front view of an oil warming
stove with the present invention applied thereto.
Fig. 3 is a front view, Fig. 4 is a plan and Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section,
drawn to a larger scale, of the fire imitation screen separately
According to our invention we take an ordinary oil warming stove and apply to
the front thereof unitation grate bars and ash pau, and within the usual front light
opening we place a screen of cloth or other suitable material colored and marked
to imitate, by means of the light passing therethrough, an ordinary coal fire, and at
the lower part of the front light opening, in front of the screen, wo place, at an
angle thereto, a piece of metal, preferably copper, stamped to imitate in shape a
mass of fuel, which, by the colored light from the screen falling thereon, produces
the effect of a glowing fire.
The mam parts of the stove shown at Figs. 1 and 2 are of any ordinary
construction and consist of an external case or body a having a perforated dome or
cover and a front opening formed with inclined sides a¹ and closed at the inner or
back end with strips of glass a c represents an oil lamp placed in the interior of
the case or body a and which may be of any ordinary description.
To the front of the case or body a we fix a plate d formed with an opentug d' of
any ornamental form and fitted with bars and an utation ash pan to represent
an ordinary fire grate, but other suitable arrangements may be adopted to effect
this object, which separately considered forms no part of our present invention.
Within the front opening of the stove, and at a short distance in front of the
glass a, we fix a screen consisting of a piece of crimson cloth e or other suitable
material stained, printed or painted with irregular black marks, spots, figures or
lines for the purpose stated; said screen-clothe 18 sewn or otherwise fixed to a
metal frame connected preferably by hinge joint with a piece of metal
resting on the lower inclined side a' of the front opening of the stove, and such
piece of metal e 13 stamped to imitate in shape a mass of fuel, which, by the
Colored light passing through the screen falling thereon, produces the effect of u
glowing bre. The front edge of the piece of metal e is flanged so as to bear against
the front of the stove, and it is held in position by the plate d, but other suitable
means for retaining the screen e and piece of metal e in position may be adopted.
The lower inclined side a of the front opening of the stove is perforated at a³ to
permit a curent of air to pass up between the glass a' and the screen e in order to
prevent the latter from being unduly heated. By hinging the screen e to the piece
of metal e facility is afforded for slight adjustment of such parts.
The invention is equally applicable to a warning stove heated by gas.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what wo
clain is
CLAIMS
In warming stoves, the peculiar combination and arrangement of means for
imitating an ordinary coal fine, substantially as herein shown and described.
2. In waiming stoves, the placing within the front opening thereof of a screen
constructed substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated
3. In warming stoves, the placing within the front opening thereof of a screen of
the character herein described, and the combination therewith of a piece of metal
covering the lower inclined sido of said opening and made to represent a mass of
Juel, substantially as herein shown and described.
Date: 113 1
1002
HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.