IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACES AND FLUES, AND APPARATUS CON- NECTED THEREWITK
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
WELCH, of Saint John's Wood, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-third day of March, in the thirteenth year of Her reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Edward Welch, my exors, admors, and
assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Edward Welch, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and such others as I,
the said Edward Welch, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time hereafter during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACES AND FLUES, AND APPARATUS CON-
NECTED THEREWITK;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
that I, the said Edward Welch, 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 enrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said in part in recited Letters Patent, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Welch, do hereby declare the nature of my Inventions, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed; that is to say, my Inventions consist of,
THE GLOBE WINDGUARD.
Above an ordinary chimney pot, as per Drawing annexed, I fix a metalic
globe or other similar figure, in a round cap, with sides formed to prevent the
wind acting laterally upon the globe, büt open at the top and bottom and
middle of the cap, to allow a ready discharge of the smoke from any downward
current of wind. I fix round the globe, on a spindle, a scraper, to be turned
by the wind to prevent the accumulation of soot upon the globe.
I claim the application of the said metalic globe in the cap so described,
and of the self-acting scraper to keep it clear of soot.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE FORM OF BRICKS FOR CIRCULAR FLUES..
I place six bricks together to form a square.
I draw lines diagonally on
the square, and form four points on the diagonal lines. I draw four
quadrants, touching the inner sides of the bricks, and connect the quadrants
by straight lines, which produces a flue somewhat larger than a circular one,
and gives a form of bricks more easy of manufacture than those produced
from one centre.
angle required.
For the sloping part of the flue, I cast the said bricks to any
I claim the new form of bricks thus produced by the plan of the flue being
drawn from four centres.
THE SYPHON STOVE REGISTER GRATE.
Within the sides of a register grate I fix a plate A from front to back,
extending from the top downwards, to conduct the smoke, when the register
is closed, down the sides and up again, and thence into the flue to heat the
sides of the grate, and make them aid in warming the room when desired.
I claim the application of descending flues to register grates.
ISOLATED KITCHEN RANGE.
I place the fire on one side of a brick oven standing separately from the
wall, and carry the heat from the fire under stewing plates forming the top of
the oven, and I then take the heat in hollow metal boxes (B) from the
stewing plate to other ovens raised above it, giving room behind the fire for
cooking on the stewing plate. I case the top ovens with fire tiles on irou
frames for increased heat, instead of iron casing.
I claim the application of the stewing plate to an isolated brick oven under