Improvements in Fire-places.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire-places.
I, CONSTANT BAVEREZ, Hotel Keeper, of Besancon, in the Republic of France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in fire places has for its object to provide an
apparatus for increasing the heat in domestic hearths or fire places. The appa-
ratus which is movable consists in general of two metallic boxes or chambers
one on which the fire is laid being placed horizontally on the hearth, and the
other occupying the back of the fire place. The boxes or chambers communicate
with one another. On the box or chamber which is disposed in the back of the
fire place are arranged one or more pipes opening into the apartment.
In use the cold air enters the horizontal chamber by an air hole formed in the
front of such chamber. This air is heated by contact with the metal on which
the fire is laid, passes into the chamber at the back of the fire-place and escapes
into the apartment through the pipes.
The apparatus may be furnished inside with divisions or baffle plates placed in
different ways, for directing the current of air; it may be made of different
metals and in any dimensions; and the plates forming the boxes or chambers
may be flat or otherwise.
Dated this 28th day of June 1898
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
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I, CONSTANT BAVEREZ, Hotel Keeper, of Besancon, in the Republic of France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement: —
This invention for improvements in fire-places has for its object to provide an
apparatus for increasing the heat in domestic hearths or fire-places."
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a fire-place fitted
with the improved apparatus, Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of the
same. Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrammatic views of different arrangements of baffle
plates.
The apparatus which is movable consists in general of two metallic boxes or
chambers A B and C D, one A B on which the fire is laid being placed horizon-

page_text: tally on the hearth and the other CD) communicating with the box A B and
occupying the back of the fire-place. On the box or chamber C D are arranged
one or more pipes E opening into the apartment.
In use the cold air enters the horizontal chamber A B by an air hole F formed
in the front of such chamber. This air is heated by contact with the metal on
which the fire is laid, passes into the chamber CD) at the back of the fire place
and escapes into the apartment through the pipes E.
The apparatus may be furnished inside with divisions or baffle plates G as
shown in Figs. 3 and 4, placed in different ways for directing the current of air;
it may be made of different metals and in any dimensions; and the plates
forming the boxes or chambers may be flat or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
A. fire-place distinguished by a portable metallic box A B-C D, on the lower
part of which (A B) the fire is made and through which the air to be heated
passes, being afterwards led through the tube E into the apartment substantially
as described.
011
M
1000
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.