AN IMPROVED GRATE, RANGE, OR STOVE, WITH CERTAIN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED THERETO, WHICH WILL EFFECTUALLY PREVENT ANY CHIMNEY FROM SMOKING, AND WILL DRESS AS GREAT A NUMBER OF DISHES IN ANY SPECIES OF COOKERY WITH ONE SMALL FIRE AS HATH HITHERTO BEEN DONE BY THE PRESENT MODES WITH SEVERAL FIRES, AND WITHOUT THE USE OF THAT NOXIOUS ARTICLE CALLED CHAR- COAL, AND WHICH IS ALSO ADVANTAGEOUSLY ADAPTED FOR ALL THE OPERATIONS OF A WASH-HOUSE AND LAUNDRY, BEING FREE FROM DUST OF SOOT AND A MUCH
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
STRATTON, of Cheapside, in the City of London, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventh day of May, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me (together with Samuel Griswould Dorr, formerly of Albany,
in America, but late of Walcot Place, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth,
in the County of Surrey, Clothier) His especial licence that I, the said George
Stratton, together with the said Samuel Griswould Dorr, during the termi
of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, our
Invention of "AN IMPROVED GRATE, RANGE, OR STOVE, WITH CERTAIN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED THERETO, WHICH WILL EFFECTUALLY PREVENT ANY CHIMNEY
FROM SMOKING, AND WILL DRESS AS GREAT A NUMBER OF DISHES IN ANY SPECIES OF
COOKERY WITH ONE SMALL FIRE AS HATH HITHERTO BEEN DONE BY THE PRESENT MODES
WITH SEVERAL FIRES, AND WITHOUT THE USE OF THAT NOXIOUS ARTICLE CALLED CHAR-
COAL, AND WHICH IS ALSO ADVANTAGEOUSLY ADAPTED FOR ALL THE OPERATIONS OF A
WASH-HOUSE AND LAUNDRY, BEING FREE FROM DUST OF SOOT, AND A MUCH

page_text: GREATER DEGREE OF HEAT IS OBTAINED IN THE ROOM OR PLACE WHERE USED, AND
EVERY PURPOSE FULLY ANSWERED, WITH MUCH LESS CONSUMPTION OF FUEL, AND LESS
EXPENCE OF ERECTION, THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN EFFECTED;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us, the said George Stratton and
Samuel Griswould Dorr, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
scals, to 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 His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent (as in and by the same. relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear); and whereas since the passing of the
said Letters Patent, that is to say, on or about the Ninth day of May last,
the said Samuel Griswould Dorr departed this life; and whereas I, the said
George Stratton, have, since the passing of the said Letters Patent, tried
various experiments on that part of the said Invention discovered and com-
municated by the said Samuel Griswould Dorr, consisting of machinery to
supply the place of a jack in the operation of roasting, but find that such
machinery will not answer the intended effect; and whereas also, upon
examining the Rolls of Specifications inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery, T, the said George Stratton, have found out and discovered amongst
such Rolls the Specification of an Invention of principles exactly similar to :
that invented by the said Samuel Griswould Dorr: For which reasons such
part of the Invention is not claimed, and the description thereof is omitted.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the before-mentioned proviso,
1, the said George Stratton, do hereby declare that such part of the said
Invention as belongs to and was discovered by me, is described in the plan or s
Drawings and explanations thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Stratton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventh day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Stratton came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and everything therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Seventh day of June. in the year above written.

page_text: wishing tire in Chimneys as will be hereafter particularly shewn, viz, Fig Lis a front view of a range &c fixed in a Chimney A, are the fronts upon the right and left hand side of the fire place,
Bis the grate or fire place C.Cis a plate which lays flat upon and intirely covers over the top, D,is a Door in the plate immediately over the fire place; F F, G and HH, are registers or dampers; I, is a blower suspended to the top plate, and there may be a plate at the bottom which will
serve as a Hearth plate upon which the machine or stove may stand. Fig 2, is another front view of a range &c fixed in a chimney with the fronts AA, Fig 1, opened to shew the front flues is brick work which when the Doors are shut is flush with the edge of the front flues or a Boiler or
Boilers or an Oven or Ovens or Iron or Stone or any other proper material may be used to fill the space instead of the brickwork IL, are flues proceeding from the top of each check, undaneath the top plate to the Chimney M M, is the inside of the fronts &A, Fig. 1,2,3,4,5,6 are the flues.
Fig 3 is the front view of the back and of the two cheeks of the grate or fire place 0, is the back and PP, are the right and left hand cheeks N, is an aperture in the back and RR, SSS, TTT, are apertures in the cheeks, This machine or stove may be mde of wrought cast iron or of
any other metal or composition of metals or of stone or brickwork or of any other natural or artificial production that may be eligible or parts of one substance and parts of another. Its shape may be square circular semicircular eliptical or any other equally or more
convenient And the size of the whole proportioned to the chimney or place in which it is intended to stand, and the size of the parts proportioned to the whole If it is intended to be fixed as in the Drawing and the width of the whole stove to be four feet, each front
may be nineteen inches and the fire place ten inches or any other proportion may be used according to the quantity of heat required Instead of carrying the smoke and hot air &c directly up the chimney as usual They are by this invention carried through the aper-
-tures in the cheeks, RR, Fig 3, to the flues LL, Fig 2,underneath the hot plate, and likewise through the apertures, SSS, TTT, Fig 3, to the flues 1,2,3,4,5,6, Fig 2, and thence through 8.8, along the sides and then into the Chimney by a flue or flues in the most convenient
place, or be continued along the sides, turn at 9,9, Fig 2, pass along the back and thence into the Chimney by a flue or flues in the most covenient place Or after passing the fronts be carried down the sides, along the flues, underneath the bottom, afterwards up the back, and into the
Chimney by a flue or flues in the most convenient place, or in any other way the workman may prefer. So that these flues may be carried over the whole or part of the insides of the fronts, sides, back, and if necessary underneath the bottom as well as the top by curvelinear flues, or
or any other that may be eligible In the drawing there are six flues but if more eligible the same space may be divided into more or less than 6, or it may contain one only. The partitions forming the flues 1, 2,3,4,5,6, may be rivetted on or cast to the fronts, sides, back, and if necessary
the bottom as well as the top, or formed by any other proper materials, in any other eligible mode. When heat is required from the sides as well as from the fronts and top, the machine or stove may be fixed in the chimney flush with the back, leaving a sufficent space between each
side of the machine or stove and each Jamb of the chimney And if heat be required from the back as well as from the fronts top and sides, the machine or stove may be made to stand out in the room building or place in the manner of a Buzaglo stove Orin either case it
in any other convenient situation. The fronts top sides and back may be made to open in the most covenient manner, either by means of hinges, centres or pivots in collars or in any other convenient mode to clear the flues and ash pits or small doors may be made at convenient places in the fronts
top, sides, and back, to open by the same means for the same purposes or if thought more eligible the whole may be fixed. The register G, Fig1/is intended to prevent a draft through the aperture, N. Fig 3, The registers III, Fig 1, to prevent a draft through the apertures, RR, Fig 3,
and underneath the top plate LL, Fig 2, and the registers FE Fig 1, to prevent a draft through the apertures SS,S,TTT, Fig 3, and so through those immediately connected with the fronts, sides, back and if necessary the bottom, Or registers may be placed in or to any other convenient
part of the flues or in the chimney itself. In the above the whole of the machine or stove is described bat the improvements in it consist in conveying the smoak hot air&c through a flue or flues immediately connected with the front, sides, and back, or any one of them as well
as with the bottom. Amongst the advantages attached to this invention are 1st The great saving in the article of Fael. For as the flame and hot air circulates throng the flaes of this machine, as before described, consequently heating it intensely, a very small
fire will answer every purpose of a very large one in the common way. 2dly Its cleanliness, which crises from the flues being carried behind the back of chimney, and by a Register and Brickwork or other proper materials being placed from the inside of the Breast of the
Chimney to the back thereof So that the whole is enclosed and the chimney has the appearance of a recess by which no dust or soot can fall upon the top plate C, and 3dly by its draft it will prevent the chimney from smoaking. The next part of this Invention to be described
is the mode of extinguishing fire in Chimneys Fig 4, is the section of a Chimney, a, is a plate of iron, copper, or lead, or any other proper material fixed on one side of the chimney, to move up and down in a pivot and collar or centres, or upon hinges, or in any other convenient man-
-ner, and of a sufficient size to cover the aperture of the chimney. b, is a rod which may be made of Iron, or of any other proper material, rising perpendicularly a sufficient height above the top of the chimney. c,c,c,c,c, are pullies, through which a wire, string, chain, or other proper
material may pass from the plate, a, to which it is fixed at, d, or at any other convenient place down the chimney to e, or any other convenient place, so that by tightening the wire, or whatever other material may be used, the plate a, may be suspended between the rod b, and the top of the
chimney, or by loosening it sufficiently be made to fall down upon the top of the chimney, and should the chimney be on fire by obstructing the circulation of the air presently extinguishing it, which may likewise be effected by closing in the Registers at the bottom of the Chimney before described. Or
the plate instead of being made to fall down upon, may lift up, or slide over the top of the chimney, or any other eligible mode may be used, and instead of pullies, cranks may be used, and instead of being placed as in the Drawing, they may be placed in any convenient part, and more or
be used as required, or instead of being suspended by the wire or other material passing through the pulley fastened to the rod, b, there may be a Lever fixed to the plate, a, at g, which the dotted line g, h, represents to which the wire string or other material may be fixed
ath, and after passing a hole in the Chimney pass through the pulley I down the chimner.
less
may
may be placed