Improvements in Domestic Fire-places, Mantel-pieces, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Domestic Fire-places, Mantel-pieces, and the like.
I EDMUND CHARLES MASSEY of 130 Peckham Park Road Peckham in the County
of Surrey Journalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention is designed to provide open fire places or fire grates for domestic
use with their fronts sides backs and fittings of effective appearance and increased
radiating power washable and not liable to rust embellished with any suitable designs
figures devices or ornamentations or in imitation of marble granite porcelain pottery
bronze wood or tiles. My improvements consist in forming upon iron steel or any
other metal suitable for manufacturing open fire places grates brackets and mantel
pieces for domestic use imitations of marble granite porcelain pottery bronze wood
or tiles or any suitable designs figures devices or ornamentations such imitations of
marble granite porcelain pottery bronze wood or tiles and such suitable designs
figures devices or ornamentations being formed on the surface of the metal by
enamelling and being either flat sunk or in relief.
Mantel pieces brackets and over mantels may also be enamelled in the same way.
Dated this Third day of July Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Domestic Fire-places, Mantel-pieces, and the like.
I EDMUND CHARLES MASSEY of 130, Peckham Park Road, l'eckham, Surrey
do bereby 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 has for its object to produce open fire-places for domestic use
which, though formed without the addition or insertion of Tiles or other such orna-
ments, shall be of similarly effective appearance, and have greater radiating power
than the block fire places in géneral use. This Invention has also for its object to
produce in like manner artistic metal mantel pieces, brackets and overmantels.
In carrying out this Invention no novelty is claimed for the form or mode of
manufacturing the fire places or other articles which are the subjects of this Invention;
the several parts of which may be formed of cast, wrought or sheet iron, steel or any
other suitable metal or amalgam, with either plain, embossed or indented surfaces, or
with surfaces partly plain and partly embossed or indented, and the several parts may
be fastened together by the means usually employed in the manufacture of fire-places
and other articles made of cast, wrought or sheet metal. But it is preferred that
screw holes through the exposed surfaces should be avoided as far as possible. The
novelty of this Invention consists in enamelling the exposed surfaces of the various
component parts of the fire-places or other articles and embellishing such surfaces
with any suitable designs, figures, devices or ornamentations, or in imitation of
marble granite, porcelain, pottery, bronze, wood or tiles, such enamelled surfaces,
and such suitable designs, figures, devices or ornamentations thereon being formed
on the metal in white, black and colored enamels. The proper materials, and the
proportions thereof, for employment in preparing the glazes of different colors and
shades will be thoroughly understood by persons skilled in the art of enamelling on
metal. In applying this Invention to articles, or parts, of a curved or other shape
which renders the glaze liable to chip or crack as the castings contract in cooling, it
is preferred in order to guard against such liability that previously to applying the

page_text: wet glazes the surface of the biscuit be coated with a glaze of the usual character, by
dusting the glaze on the biscuit while hot, and burning in the usual manner.
Whatever method of enamelling may be employed for the other parts of fire
places the enamelling of the fire basket or grate should be performed by the method
in use for enamelling cooking utensils, or for preparing and applying other fire-
proof enamel. The proper materials, and mode of applying the same for producing
such fire proof enamels will be thoroughly understood by persons skilled in the art
of enamelling on metal.
The actual fire basket or grate may either be fixed or moveable as may be
preferred, and may either have a metal or fire-brick back or sides. The advantage
of having a moveable fire basket or grate is that it may be removed in summer
time, to make way for flowers, ferns and the like. The imitations of marble, porce-
lain, pottery, bronze, wood or tiles, and the other suitable designs, devices or
ornamentations may be printed from transfer paper on to the biscuit before glazing
in the same way as if the article to be enamelled were formed of pottery or porce-
lain; or may be performed according to any known method of executing ornamenta-
tions on porcelain or metal by enamelling. Mantel-pieces, Brackets and Overmantels
may also be produced and enamelled in the manner above set forth for the production
and ornamentation of fire places.
Among the improvements effected by this Invention are (a) the production of
fire-places, mantel pieces and overmantels of a light and elegant appearance, and
capable of highly artistic embellishment, and (b) the rendering altogether unnecessary
the use of blacklead, for which soap and water may be substituted in cleaning.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. Improved open Fire places for Domestic use, constructed of metal and having
their exposed surfaces enamelled and decorated substantially as described.
2. Mantel-pieces, Overmantels and Brackets made of metal and enamelled and
decorated substantially as described.
Dated this Ninth day of December 1880