Improvements in or relating to Domestic Fire Grates or Stoves.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 6th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Domestic Fire Grates or Stoves.
I CLAUDE MORRIS SANSOM of Brougham Chambers Wheeler Gate in the County
of Nottingham Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to domestic fire grates or stoves and is intended to provide
a simple and effective means for radiating heat and economising fuel that is not
unsightly and is readily removed or displaced for the purpose of sweeping or
cleaning.
In carrying out my invention I may hinge or otherwise attach to the back of the
grate or stove at or near the top thereof or at any suitable point therein a flat or
curved lamp block or plate formed of fire clay or any other suitable heat retaining
material and in such a manner that the said lump block or plate shall project or lean
forwards over the fire and towards the front thereof and be there supported so
forming a flat or dome shaped cover thereto-or I may fix any suitable stand
or other device for supporting the said lump block or plate in position over the
fuel.
The lump block or plate may extend over the fire place so as to entirely cover
the fuel and in this case I perforate the lump block or plate in any number of holes
or I may use a lump block or plate that shall only cover a portion of the fire place
or stove and such may be either solid or perforated.
Dated this 31st day of January 1890.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Domestic Fire Grates or Stoves.
I CLAUDE MORRIS SANSOM of Brougham Chambers Wheeler Gate Nottingham in
the County of Nottingham Agent 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 domestic fire grates or stoves and is intended to provide
a simple and effective means for radiating heat and economising fuel, that is not
unsightly and is readily removed or displaced for the purpose of sweeping or
cleaning.
Referring to the accompanying drawings and to the figures and letters of reference
marked thereon
Figure 1 shows a front elevation of a grate fitted with my improved apparatus ;
Figure 2 is a part section of the same and
Figure 3 a part section of a grate in which the apparatus is shown fitted to the
grate in a different manner to that shown in Figures 1 and 2.
In carrying out my invention I hinge pivot or otherwise support or attach to the
back of the grate or stove preferably at or near the top thereof a flat curved or other
suitably shaped block or plate A formed of fire clay or any other desirable heat
retaining material and in such a manner that the said block or plate A shall project
or lean forward and upwardly over the fire and towards the front thereof at an acute
angle. This block or plate may be supported by any suitable means such as B in
Figures 1 and 2 or it may be suspended as in Figure 3 when the grate is so adapted,

page_text: or I may fix a stand or other device for supporting the said block or plate A in
position over the fuel.
The plate or block may extend over the fire-place so as to entirely cover the fuel
and in this case I perforate it with any number of holes or I may use a block or plate
that shall only cover a portion of the fire-place or stove, and such may be either solid
or perforated.
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
In domestic fire grates or stoves the employment of a block or plate (preferably
of fire clay) supported over the fire and projecting upwardly at an acute angle
towards the front of the grate as and for the purposes herein described and substantially
as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of October 1890.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.