IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of Roupell Park, Streatham Hill, in
the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
AND FIRE-PLACES."
Sealed the 26th October 1858, and dated the 3rd May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd May
1858.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Roupell Park, Streatham Hill, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STOVES AND FIRE-PLACES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in stoves and fire-places.
For these purposes a stove or fire-place is formed with a closed ash-pit or
chamber under the fire-bars, and this chamber also extends up behind the
back of the stove or fire-place. This chamber communicates with a second
chamber, against which the ignited fuel on the fire-bars rests, and which is
heated thereby. Above this second chamber there is a grated or other opening
for the passage of air and products of combustion from the fire into the first
chamber, and above such grated or other opening there is a valve or register
opening directly into the chimney. The chamber at the back end below the
fire-bars does not communicate directly with the chimney, but with the second

page_text: or heated chamber, and there are two flues, one at each end of the heated
chamber, which open into the chimney. By this arrangement, when the
register or valve above the fire is open, the action will be as in an ordinary
stove or fire-place, but when such valve or register is closed, the air and
products of combustion will pass through the grating or other opening at the
back of the fire, or down through the fire-bars below the fire into the chamber
at the back and below the fire-bars, and thence into the heated chamber, from
which they pass laterally to the two flues in connection with the chimney.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, of Roupell Park, Streatham Hill, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said John Taylor, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Taylor,
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 AND
FIRE-PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Taylor, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 John Taylor, 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 :-

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in stoves and fire-places,
and consists in arranging them so that they may either be worked as ordinary
stoves or fire-places, the smoke and products of combustion rising from the
ignited fuel passing directly to the chimney; or, by closing the direct passage
to the chimney by a register door, the direction of the draft may be changed
in such manner that the smoke and products of combustion are in part caused
to pass down through the ignited fuel and between the bars, or through
openings at the bottom of the grate, whilst at the same time a portion of the
smoke and products of combustion still rise from the top of the fuel. The
part which passes downwards through the fuel enters a chamber, which
becomes heated partly by the products of combustion passing thus directly
from the fire down into it, and partly by the heated fuel laying against the
back of the grate, which forms one of the walls of the chamber. The smoke
and products of combustion which rise from the top of the fuel are also caused
to pass into the heated chamber before escaping to the chimney, in order that
the smoke may in this chamber be consumed. For this purpose the ash-pit
or space under the grate is closed in front by a door or slide, so as to form a
chamber, which also extends up behind the back of the stove or fire-place.
The smoke and products of combustion from the top of the fuel may be
allowed to pass first into this chamber, and afterwards through the heated
chamber into the chimney; but in carrying out my Invention I have found
that the arrangement of the flues is simplified by changing the direction of
this portion of the draft, and allowing the smoke and products of combustion
from the top of the fuel to enter at the upper part of the heated chamber, and
pass from it into the chamber formed by closing the ash-pit, and thence up
behind the stove or fire-place into the chimney. This being the arrangement
which I prefer to employ is that which I have shown in the annexed Drawing,
which I will now proceed to describe.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 is a transverse section, of a fire-place
or stove arranged according to my Invention. a is the fire-grate; bis the register
door, which, when open, allows the draft to pass directly to the chimney c, and
the fire-place or stove to work in the ordinary manner; d is the heated
chamber, against which the ignited fuel on the fire-bars e rests; f is the door
or slide for closing the ash-pit; g is the opening by which the smoke and
products of combustion from the top of the fuel pass into the heated chamber;
and h is the opening by which the products of combustion pass after the smoke
has been consumed in the heated chamber, into the chamber i, which is

page_text: formed by closing the ash-pit, and also extends up behind the stove or fire-
place, and opens into the chimney..
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
DAVID HAYLOCK.
JOHN TAYLOR. (L.S.)