IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Ward, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Lead Chaser, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES."
Sealed the 23rd February 1855, and dated the 28th December 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ward at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th December 1854.
I, WILLIAM WARD, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Lead Chaser, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES" to be
as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in stoves where moveable
radiating fire bars are used. Heretofore in constructing stoves with moveable
radiating fire bars (which in front extend beyond the basket or fire-place and
cover the hearth to some extent), the basket or fire-place for containing the
fuel has been made separate from the bars. Now, my improvements consist
of forming each of such description of radiating bars with two uprights, one
at the back end thereof, and the other more or less forward, so that when a
set or series of radiating fire bars are laid in their places, they will by their
several uprights form a basket or fire-place for the fuel, and the front parts
of the radial bars will project beyond such basket or fire-place, and cover the
hearth, as heretofore. By this means, the back ends of the fire bars will

page_text: have much more surface to be heated than heretofore, and the heat will be
conducted by the bars to the parts which extend beyond and in front of the
fire-place; and I also find it desirable to form the two outside bars with
raised cheeks or projections, to form the two sides of the fire-place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Ward in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WARD, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Lead Chaser, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Ward, Her special licence that I, the said William Ward, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Ward, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Ward, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Ward, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say) :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in stoves where moveable
radiating fire bars are used. Heretofore in constructing stoves with move-
able radiating fire bars (which in front extend beyond the basket or fire-place,
and cover the hearth to some extent), the basket or fire-place for containing
the fuel has been made separate from the bars. Now, my improvements

page_text: raised cheeks or projections, to form the two sides of the fire-place.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view, Figure 2 a transverse section, and Figure 3
a plan, of a stove constructed according to my Invention; Figure 4 shows a
side view of one of the bars separately; and Figure 5, a front view of a falling
door which may be used; but it may be omitted, and other forms of backs
applied; and when desired, there may be hollow tubes or passages arranged
for heating air at the back of the stove, as shown at Figure 6, such forms
of stove being suitable for halls and other places where the stove stands out
from the wall.
In constructing stoves according to my Invention, each of the bars which
act as fire bars and also radiators of heat is made with parts of the basket or
fire-place which contains the fuel. The forms and details of construction of a
stove when made to receive bars, constructed according to my Invention, may
be greatly varied, and the bars which serve to conduct and radiate the heat,
and at the same time act as fire bars, may also be greatly varied in form,
depending on the taste of the designer. And I would state, that excepting as
regards the making the bars, each with parts of the basket or fire-place, no
claim is made to the stove shown in the Drawings, the stove, in fact, being in
other respects a Sylvester stove. Each of the bars a is formed with parts
a', a², of the back and front of the basket or fire-place of the stove, and the
outermost one on either side may be made with plates to act as side checks.
In some cases I make the front uprights or parts al only partly to form the
front of the basket or fire-place, and use one or more fixed front bars, as
shown in the transverse section of a stove, Figure 6, where the part a¹ only
rises a short distance from the fire-bar a; in which case I prefer that the front
parts of the bars a, which project into the room and cover the hearth, should

page_text: be on a level with the highest point of the upright a'; but this may be varied.
It will be evident that in thus constructing the bars a of a stove with parts
a¹, a², of the basket or fire-place for the fuel, that the bars a, a', a², will at the
back end take up more of the heat, which will by the conducting powers of
the iron be brought to the front parts and be radiated therefrom, and thus
will they act more advantageously than those heretofore used.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is,
the manufacture of the bars a of a stove with parts a', a³, of the basket or
fire-place.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Ward, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
RICHARD STUART.
WILLIAM WARD. (L.S.)