An Improvement in Open Grates and Fire-places.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Open Grates and Fire-places.
I, ROBERT JAMES LEE, 39, Gunterston Road, West Kensington, London, Doctor
of Medicine of the University of Cambridge, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
For providing grates or open fire-places with such slots in their sides; or hooks,
or pegs; or other simple structure; as to allow for the facile attachment and
detachment of the regulator described and illustrated in my Patent 3081/92.
The difficulty of constructing regulators, for grates of various sizes and designs,
and already fixed in houses is obviated by preparing grates as described; and
associating them with regulators properly and accurately adaptable.
Dated this 19th day of February 1898.
ROBERT JAMES LEE.
An Improvement in Open Grates and Fire-places.
I, ROBERT JAMES LEE, of 39, Gunterstone Road, London, Doctor of Medicine,
of the University of Cambridge, 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:-
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In Letters Patent No. 3081 of 1892 is described and illustrated an improved
blower to promote combustion with a regulator to regulate the up-draught said
blower and regulator being combined so as to form one apparatus which can be
applied to domestic grates or open fireplaces adapted for the purpose.
Now any difficulty of constructing regulators for grates of various sizes and
designs already fixed in houses is obviated by my present invention which consists
in constructing and preparing open grates and fireplaces (of any suitable type
or character adapted to be fitted with a blower and regulator according to my
invention) with the blower and regulator fitted and provided therein that is while
constructing said grates or fireplaces or so arranging and constructing the latter
that same are adapted and ready to receive said blower and regulator so that by
adopting standard or regular sizes and manufacturing such grates or fireplaces
ready to receive said blower and regulators consequently the blowers and regulators
can be made in quantities of regular sizes or patterns to correspond (and if
desired so as to be interchangeable) whereby the latter can be readily applied in
position on such grates or fireplaces which latter are constructed or provided with
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any suitable means (such as slots or hooks or pegs, etc.) by which the blower and
regulator can be securely mounted in position-said blower regulator being
provided with any suitable means of attachment to the grate and also to one
another if desired.
and
Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate a fireplace built or
constructed and adapted to receive-and act in conjunction with a blower and
regulator, according to my invention :—
Fig. 1 is a front view in elevation.
Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 Fig. 1.
is the flat front plate of the fireplace which is in or about the same vertical
plane as the front vertical bar a of the fireplace.
a* is a slot at each side of the front plate a which thus afford means for holding
the blower in position (on the said front, plate a) this blower b being provided
on the back thereof with the downwardly extending hooks 6 adapted to fit in
the slots a in plate .
is the regulator hinged at to the blower b (or if desired it may be pivoted
to the front plate a) and c is chain and e' handle thereon whereby to raise or lower
said regulator r.
bare handles by which to lift the blower (and regulator combined as shown)
on or off the fireplace.
It will be obvious that my present invention does not include or extend to any
open grates or fireplaces to which the blower and regulator is not applicable and
I therefore make no claim thereto herein.
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:
1. Constructing open grates or fireplaces of the type or character specified with
means provided thereon to readily and securely mount thereon a blower and regu-
lator of the character specified in suchwise that the said blower and regulator
can be readily detached and removed and means to adjust said regulator substan-
tially as and for the purposes set forth.
2. Constructing open grates or fireplaces of the type or character specified in
suchwise that same are adapted to have a blower and regulator combined and used
in conjunction therewith substantially as and for the purposes set forth and illus-
trated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 19th day of November 1908
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.