IMPROVED FIRE STOVE OR GRATE
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
YOUNG, of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Third day of February, in the forty-first year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Robert Young, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Robert Young, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend my "IMPROVED FIRE STOVE OR GRATE," within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me,
the said Robert Young, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should in
our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Robert Young, should not particularly describe and ascertain
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, and cause
the sanie to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery. within

page_text: one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Young, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following, that is
to say :-
The fireplace of my said improved fire-stove or grate is made with hinges,
pivots, axles, or centres, fixed either at the back, middle, or front of the top
rail or bar to the back or sides of the fireplace, so that the whole front and
bottom may be lifted up together by taking hold of a hook or knob, or of the
fretwork at the bottom, with a hook, poker, or tongs, or in any other way to
throw the fire into a box underneath, which box has a double front grated, and
is to be stopped by turning the inside front so as to cover the grating; for
which purpose there is a hole left at the bottom, that a poker or any other
instrument may be put in to turn it. The box may be concealed by a deep fret-
work or by a fretwork half the depth, and a bright plate the other half, or by
a bright plate the whole depth, or by bringing forward from each side or from
one side only of the front of the grate, a sliding body or bodies of iron, steel,
brass, or any other metal, either pierced, plain, or ornamented, or by any other
means that may be agreeable to the fancy, and should stand from one inch to
three inches or more, if it should be thought necessary or proper, from the
hearth, so as to admit of a small quantity of dust being swept under. The
box is made to take out by lifting the front and bottom of the fireplace so
that the whole of the fire is thrown into the said box, which, with its contents,
may be taken away at pleasure. There is also a back to my said improved
fire-stove or grate, made either circular, straight, or inverted, inclined or per-
pendicular, grated or plain, so as to discharge (if grated) a certain quantity of
dust into the box underneath, whereby the fire is kept clear and the draught
increased; which back (if grated) may also be closed at pleasure by means of
a sliding piece of iron or other metal, moved by a hook, poker, tongs, or other-
wise. The bottom of my said improved fire-stove or grate is also moveable,
aud may be made to lay on flanches, rims, or stubbs, so that it may be in
a parallel direction with the bottom bar, the bottom bar but one, or in any
other situation that may be desired, by which means a fire may be had of
any depth that may be agrecable.
The whole of the above Invention, or any part thereof, may be applied

page_text: either to register, half register, forest, Rumford, pantheon, or any other kind of
stove or grate by whatsoever name or names they may be called; the bars
in front may be either straight, circular, inverted, or in any other shape or
form that may be thought proper.