CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIREPLACES FOR HEATING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Carrick, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, for
an Invention of CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIREPLACES FOR
HEATING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Carrick at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th May 1881.
JAMES CARRICK, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark.
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOVES AND FIREPLACES FOR HEATING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in stoves and fire places for
heating and other purposes. A stove for heating and other purposes according to
this Invention is constructed as follows
As
Within a chamber that may be made of metal and glass, or wholly of metal,
such as iron, brass, or copper, with suitable doors and adjustable ventilators, is
placed a portable receptacle or basket for containing the fire, having an ash pari
beneath, also portable. A chimney or flue with a conical or hell mouthed opening
is placed above the fire, the narrow end being continued through the side or roof
of the chamber, and forming the means of exit for the products of combustion.
the fire may be placed either at the back, centre, or front of the chamber, the cone.
mouthed chimney or flue is made telescopic so as to suit the position of the fire.
The crown or other convenient part of the stove is arranged to contain a quantity
of water intended for evaporation. Such a stove may also be made to serve as a
combined illuminating and heating apparatus. In this case the chamber is
elongated upwards, and into the extension so formed are introduced ordinary gas
jets or other means of lighting.
Cooking ranges and other apparatus may be constructed in various forms to
operate on the principle of my Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Carrick in the Great Seal Patent Office on
1st November 1881.
the
JAMES CARRICK, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOVES AND FIRE PLACES FOR HEATING AND OTHER PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in stoves and fireplaces for
heating and other purposes. A stove for heating and other purposes, according to
this Invention, is constructed as follows:-Within a chamber that may be made
of metal and glass, or wholly of metal, such as iron, brass, or copper, with suitable
doors and adjustable ventilators, is placed a portable receptacle or basket for
containing the fire, having an ash pan beneath, also portable. A chimney or flue
with a conical or hell mouthed opening is placed above the fire, the narrow end
being continued through the side or roof of the chamber, and forming the means
of exit for the products of combustion. As the fire may be placed either at the
back, centre, or front of the chamber, the cone mouthed chimney or flue is made
telescopic so as to suit the position of the fire. The crown or other convenient
part of the stove is arranged to contain a quantity of water intended for evaporation.
Such a stove inay also be made to serve as a combined illuminating and heating
apparatus. In this case the chamber is elongated upwards, and into the extension
so formed are introduced gas jets or other means of lighting.
Cooking ranges and other apparatus may be constructed in various forms to
operate on the principle of my Invention. And in order that my said Invention
and the manner of performing the same may be properly understood, I now proceed
to describe the several Figures on the explanatory Sheet of Drawings which I have
hereunto appended.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2 is an end elevation; Fig. 3, a vertical section,
and Fig. 4 a plan of a stove or fireplace according to my Invention. a is a closed
chamber in which is placed the portable receptacle or basket to contain the fire.
having an ashpan c beneath it, also portable. The bell-mouthed flue or chimney d
is placed over the fire, the narrow end being continued through the top e of the
chamber, and upwards through a partition f in the ordinary chimney. The back
of the grate is circular in form, as shewn in Fig. 4, and may be made of sheet
iron fixed by means of bolts or rivets to the top e, the bottom g, and the front h.
The top, bottom, and front I make of cast iron, and the chimney of cast or
wrought iron or other metal. The front is provided with a door of glass set in
an iron frame i, and hinged on one side to the front h. It has a fastener and
handle on the other side; k, l, are adjustable ventilators for admitting air to the
chamber a, also hinged to the front h; l. 1, 1, are open spaces to allow the cold air
to pass under and round the back of the grate; m, m, are perforations to allow the
air when heated to pass out; n, n, are glass panels. On the bottom is cast a
pipe o for the purpose either of assisting combustion by introducing air immediately
under the fire, or as a means of introducing gas. Fig. 5 shews a modification
whereby with the same front as in Figure a smaller chamber may conveniently
be used than that shewn in Fig. 4.
"
When the stove or fireplace is in action the fire heats the material of the
chamber, the front part giving off its beat, directly into the room, the back parts
heating the air in the space behind; this heated air then passes through the
perforations at the top of the grate into the room. When the door is open the
action of the stove is similar to that of an open fire, but with a large amount of
heat conducted to the surrounding air by the whole stove.
My stove or fireplace may, as already stated, also be made to serve as a combined
illuminating, heating, and ventilating apparatus. In this case the chamber is

page_text: elongated upwards, and into this extension so formed are introduced ordinary gas
jets or other means of lighting; but I prefer to construct the aforesaid apparatus
as shewn in Figure 6, with a shaft p, about 9 inches by 2 inches, connecting the stove
with a chamber or canopy q, open at the bottom, placed as shewn above the chimney
piece, with a gaselier inside or a gas or oil lamp under it.
The chainber or canopy
is of glass fixed in a metal frame and provided with a tank to contain water for
evaporation.
The chamber or canopy may be placed at any other convenient part of a room,
as the centre of the ceiling immediately over the gaselier, and having the shaft lead
to and connected with it, as already described. When the stove or fireplace is in
action, all the products of combustion arising from the gas or oil lamps within or
under the chamber or canopy will pass through the ventilating shaft into the stove,
and thence to the chimney.
Cooking ranges may also be constructed to operate on the principle of my
Invention, as indicated in Figures 7 and 8 on the Sheet of Drawings, which shew
a chamber or oven divided into two s, s', by the division t, and having a fire in the
centre with an open space in the division to permit the smoke to pass up through
the bell mouthed chimney d. In such a stove, made of suitable materials and
provided with glass doors, ventilators, elceteru, as described with reference to
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, all ordinary cooking operations can efficiently be performed.
Having thus particularly described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not restrict
myself to the precise details shewn, as modifications may be made without departing
from the essential characteristics of my said Invention, as respects which what
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as secured to me by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1. The construction and general arrangement of stoves and fireplaces, substan-
tially as and for the purposes hereinbefore severally described, with reference
respectively to and shewn in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, Fig. 5, Fig. 6, and Figs. 7 and 8
of the accompanying Drawings.
2. The use in combination for heating purposes of a portable receptacle, basket,
or grate, and a glazed chamber enclosing the same and provided with a cone
mouthed or equivalently formed chimney, the arrangement being such that the
fuel does not come into contact with any of the walls of said chamber, substantially
as described and shewn.
3. The use in combination of a portable receptacle, basket, or grate and containing
chamber, such as above referred to, a ventilating shaft and a chamber or canopy
within or below which a gas jet or jets or other illuminator is or are arranged
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Carrick, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 28th day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one
Witness,
WM. BAIRD,
Patent Agen
122, Wellington St.,
Glasgow.
JAMES CARRICK. (.s.)