Improvements in Portable Stoves for Removing Old Paint, which are also applicable for other purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Stoves for Removing Old Paint, which
are also applicable for other purposes.
I, WILLIAM FRYER, of 75 Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, House Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction and arrangement of a portable grate or
stove, and is chiefly designed to meet the requirements of a burning stove for
removing old paint, but which as a portable grate, may be applied to other purposes.
Portable (hand) stoves have already been used for the purpose of removing paint,
but the difficulty in their use, has hitherto been owing to the slow burning of the
fuel, and consequently the low heat given off. To remedy this in a simpler and more
effectual manner than has hitherto been attained, and to further improve their general
construction, is the object of this my invention.
A fire grate of suitable dimensions is provided, having front open bars.
In order to economize fuel and gross weight, this grate is as shallow as convenient
from front to back. At the bottom of the grate, suitable air inlet holes are provided,
whereby the fire is fed at such times when the stove is being held against a flat
surface.
To the upper part of this grate is hinged a lid or cover, which is further perforated,
and which is provided with a catch or fastening, so that if desirable, the said stove
may in use, be turned over without allowing the fuel to fall therefrom.
At the rear of this grate, I now provide one or more flues, extending from the
bottom to the top, and which in some cases, may be extended by means of loose
removable chimneys being telescoped thereinto. At the bottom of these flues are air
inlets, and also perforations are made from such flues into the fire grate, so that
the hot air from the fire, passes into and rises up the flue or chimney, thus creating a
keen draught to the fire.
At the rear part of this flue, provision is made to receive a handle, and between
it and the flue or flues, heat baffling plates may be interposed, between which, are air
spaces, to prevent the heat reaching the hand.
I further make the whole of the bars in one malleable iron casting, and attach
it to the body of the stove, by about four rivets, or by folding over the edge of the
metal of the said body on to the frame of the bars. This dispenses with the separate
attachment of loose bars, as is at present the custom.
Dated this 19th day of February 1890.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Stoves for Removing Old Paint, which
are also applicable for other purposes.
I WILLIAM FRYER, of 75 Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, House Decorator 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 relates to the construction and arrangement of a portable grate or
stove, and is chiefly designed to meet the requirements of a burning stove for
removing old paint, but which as a portable grate, may be applied to other purposes.
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page_text: Portable (hand) stoves have already been used for the purpose of removing paint,
but the difficulty in their use, has hitherto been owing to the slow burning of the
fuel and consequently the low heat given off. To remedy this in a simpler and more
effectual manner than has hitherto been attained, and to further improve their general
construction, is the object of this my invention.
A fire grate of suitable dimensions is provided, having front open bars.
In order to economize fuel and gross weight, this grate is as shallow as convenient
from front to back.
At the bottom of the grate, suitable air inlet holes are provided, whereby the fire
is fed at such times when the stove is being held against a flat surface.
To the upper part of this grate is hinged a lid or cover, which is further perforated,
and which is provided with a catch or fastening, so that if desirable, the said stove may
in use, be turned over without allowing the fuel to fall therefrom.
At the rear of this grate, I now provide one or more flues, extending from the
bottom to the top, and which in some cases, may be extended by means of loose
removable chimneys being telescoped thereinto. At the bottom of these flues are air
inlets, and also perforations are made from such flues into the fire grate, so that the
hot air from the fire, passes into and rises up the flue or chimney, thus creating a
keen draught to the fire.
At the rear part of this flue, provision is made to receive a handle, and between it
and the flue or flues, heat baffling plates may be interposed, between which, are air
spaces, to prevent the heat reaching the hand.
I further make the whole of the bars in one malleable iron casting, and attach it to
the body of the stove, by about four rivets, or by folding over the edge of the metal
of the said body on to the frame of the bars. This dispenses with the separate
attachment of loose bars, as is at present the custom.
Throughout the several views the same reference letters indicate identical parts.
The drawings illustrate this my invention as applied to a paint removing stove.
Fig. 1 is a sectional plan of the stove upon line A B (see Fig. 4).
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the stove upon line CD (see Fig. 4).
Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the stove.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the stove.
a, a etc. are the bars which together with the sides b, b form the front of the grate.
Hitherto in grates of this character, the bars have been rivetted singly to the sides of
the body of the grate, which is costly, but in my stove I make the bars and the sides
all in one frame of malleable iron, which is then rivetted to the body by the
rivets c, c etc.
d, d etc. and e, e etc. are inlet holes whereby air is supplied to the bottom of the
grate when the stove is being held against the work.
fis a hinged lid which, after the fire, or fuel has been put in the grate, is closed
down, its front part g springing over the first bar a¹, and thereby securing it.
h, h are the flues, one or more of which may be used. At the bottom, air inlets i
are provided, while the top is left quite open. The sectional form and size of these
flues may be varied according to the character of the stove, or the work to be done.
j, etc. are air openings from the grate into the flues, so that, as the air which
enters the holes i, becomes heated, it rapidly rises, and in so doing, creates a draught
throughout the fire by means of the air inlets j, j, the top of the flues being open,
freely permits the exit of the air.
k, k are heat baffling plates, between which a current of air passes and thus protects
the handle from the heat of the stove; the said handle and the baffling plates k, k
being carried from the body of the stove by means of the bows m, m¹.
These baffling plates k, k and handle l, with bows m, m³, however do not form any
part of my invention as they are old.
As before intimated although I have illustrated this my invention as applied to a

page_text: paint removing portable stove, it will be readily seen it may be applied to portable
stoves for other purposes, with such minor alterations in the handle etc. as may be
required.
For instance, portable grates are sometimes used, in which the fire is placed, and
the whole is then carried and placed within an ordinary, or other provided fire place.
For such purposes, this my invention would be particularly useful.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a portable stove or grate the combination with the body of the grate, of the
bar frame b, b, having the bars a, a etc. formed in one therewith, substantially as
herein described and illustrated.
2. In a portable stove or grate the combination with the body of the grate, of the
flues h, h, or of one of such or similar flues with or without telescopic extensions, such
flues having air openings i and j, substantially as shown and described, and for the
purposes specified.
3. The general combination and arrangement of the portable stove or grate, having
bar frame a and b, hinged cover f, baffling plates k, k, handle l, air openings d, e, i, j,
with the flues h, k, or one of such flues, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 19th day of November 1890.
CHARLES T. TOWELL,
Applicant's Agent.