CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CURING SMOKEY CHIMNEYS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE PURPOSES OF VENTILATION
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
BERINGTON, of Wickworth Place, St Leonards, Shoreditch, Gentleman, and
NICHOLAS RICHARDS, of Cammomile Street, in the City of London, Builder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Nineteenth day of December, in the First year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
James Berington and Nicholas Richards, Her especial license, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that we, the said James Berington and Nicholas
Richards, our exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James
Berington and Nicholas Richards, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CURING SMOKEY
CHIMNEYS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE PURPOSES OF
VENTILATION;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we,
the said James Berington and Nicholas Richards, or one of us, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the
said James Berington and Nicholas Richards, do hereby declare the nature
of our Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists of certain arrangements of apparatus applied in the
chimney above. the grate in such manner as by a variety of currents to ensure
a draft to the fire, and at the same time to counteract any downward current
which would cause the smoke to be driven into the room.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents the section of a chimney and stove or grate together
with my improvements; Figure 2 is an under side view or plan of the plate of
iron or other suitable material and the parts connected therewith; Figure 3 is
a section taken longitudinally at the point or dotted-line a, a, in Figure 1;
Figure 4 is an under side view of the plate which is placed in-the centre of the.part
of the apparatus shown at Figure 2, as will readily be understood hereafter;
Figure 5 is an edge or end view of the parts shown at Figure 4; and Figure 6 is
an end view of the parts shown at Figure 2. In each of these Figures-the-same
letters indicate similar parts wherever they occur. But the description will
be more readily understood by commencing the descriptions of the parts.
Figure 4, b, b, are two plates, from the back of which descends the plate c,
and the ends of the plates b, b, are either turned downwards or have two end
plates e, e, affixed thereto, on which are formed grooves or guides. f.f, for the
reception of the regulator. Figure 7,9, 9, are two angular.plates affixed to-the
plate b, b, there being openings or ways for the passage-of-the smoke at h, h;
and there is also a plate i, i, which runs from end to end-of the plates b, b, and
produce the three openings or passage for the smoke. j, j³, as is clearly
shown in the Drawing; the draft-up such passages being deflected by the plate
k, as is clearly shewn in Figure 1. The centre opening between the plates b, b,
is covered by the parts of the apparatus shown at Figure 4, and it is applied in
the following manner:-1, 1, are two inclined surfaces at the back of the open-
ing which receives the parts Figure 4, the parts 1, 1, being clearly shewn in
Figures 1 and 2. The apparatus, Figure 4, is placed up through-the-opening,
the back resting on the inclined parts 1, 1, the front part of the apparatus is
forced upward, which it is permitted to be by the openings m, m; but so soon as
the apparatus, Figure 4, is in its place, the springs m, m, come under it and
retain it securely, as will readily be understood on examining the Drawing,

page_text: particularly at Figure 1. The apparatus, Figures 4 and 5, consist of the under
plate n, with the openings o, o, o, for the curved flues or pipes p, p, p, as is
shewn in the Figures of the Drawing; these pipes or flues offer three more
openings or passages for the smoke; and it is this combination of openings
or passages arranged and applied as herein described, which enables me to
cure chimneys which are found to smoke; and in order to allow of venti-
lation and to regulate quantity of ventilation when the fire is not used, I
employ the regulator, Figure 7, which sliding in the grooves or guides f, f,
completely closes the chimney, and the only quantity of ventilation which can
take place will be by the regulator or register q, q, which can be set more or
less open for that purpose, as is well understood.
Having thus explained the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
combining the parts thereof, we would remark, that although we have
described the most perfect apparatus which is suitable for the most inveterate
smokey chimney, it will be evident that variations may be made by using
more or less of the arrangement according to the circumstances of the case; we
do not therefore confine ourselves to the precise arrangement shown, so long
as the general principle and mode of combining of apparatus and parts be
retained.
In witness whereof, the said James Berington, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 19th day of June, One thousand eight hundred