IMPROVE- MENTS IN FIRE RANGES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Moorhouse, of Windhill Idle, near Leeds,
in the County of York, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FIRE RANGES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Moorhouse at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th February 1873. .
I, JOHN MOORHOUSE, of Windhill Idle, near Leeds, in the County of
York, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE RANGES," to be as follows :-
This Invention relates to the construction of ranges with the view to
the greater utalizing the heated gases arising from combustion so as to
effect a saving of fuel.
The front bars of the rango I construct closer or nearer each other
than heretofore; and of less depth, the upper portion of the firo
being closed by means of sliding doors, the top of the fire being
covered by a hot plate of the ordinary construction. The back part

page_text: of the bottom bars is provided with a projecting stud, one at each side
of the said grate; the front part of the said bottom bars is supported
by pins attached to knobs projecting from the front of the range.
When these pins are withdrawn the bottom grate is free to swing on the
studs at the back side of the grate, and so as to readily remove dirt or
fino ashes from the fire.
The flues are arranged so as by dampers and "end irons" to change
or divert the heated gases from the oven to the opposite or boiler side
of the fire, and vice versa.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Moorhouse in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MOORHOUSE, of Windhill Idle, near Leeds, in the County of York,
Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Moorhouse, Her special licence
that I, the said John Moorhouse, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Moorhouse, 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 FIRE RANGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Moorhouse, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause

page_text: 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 Moorhouse, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Sheets of Drawings, that
is to say:-
This Invention relates to the construction of ranges with the view
to the greater utilizing the heated gases arising from combustion, so as
to effect a saving of fuel.
The front bars of the range I construct closer or nearer each other
than heretofore, and of less depth, the upper portion of the fire being
closed by means of sliding doors, the top of the fire being covered by
a hot plate of the ordinary construction. The back part of the bottom
bars is provided with projecting studs, one at each side of the said
grate; the front part of the said bottom bars is supported by pins
attached to knobs projecting from the front of the range. When these
pins are withdrawn the bottom grate is free to swing on the studs at the
back side of the grate, and so to readily remove dirt or fino ashes from
the fire.
The flues are arranged so as by dampers and end irons to change or
divert the heated gases from the oven to the opposito or boiler sido of
the fire, and vice versa.
The grate bars may be either vertical or horizontal.
Such being the nature of this my Invention I will now proceed to
explain the same fully by the aid of the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a fire range constructed
according to this Invention; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same with
grate removed, and lugs or projections for fixing the same by means
of bolts; Fig. 3 is a plan view showing hot plate; Fig. 4 is a plan
view of the bottom grate; and Fig. 5 is a view of the front grate
detached.
The front bars of the range A. I construct closer or nearer each other
than heretofore, and of less depth, the upper portion of the fire being
closed by means of sliding doors B, B, the top of the fire being covered
by a hot plate C of the ordinary construction. The back part of the

page_text: bottom bars D is provided with projecting studs E, E, one at each side
of the said grate; the front part of the bottom bars D is supported by
pins F passed through holes in the front of the range. When these pins
are withdrawn the bottom grate D is free to swing on the said studs
E, E, so as to readily remove dirt or finç ashes from the fire. H is a 5
plate having two sliding doors J, J; this plato is placed in the chimney
at the back of the fire, the doors J, J, or one of them being opened when
the disc K of the hot plate C is removed.
The flues are arranged so as by dampers and end irons to change or
divert the heated gases from the oven to the opposite or boiler side of 1
the fire, and vice versa.
The grate bars may be either vertical or horizontal.
Having thus fully described and illustrated by Drawings the nature
and particulars of this my Invention, I wish it to be understood that I
claim, the construction and arrangement of fire ranges, as described and 1
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Moorhouse, have hereunto
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
set
JOHN MOORHOUSE. (L.S.)
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.