improvements in Stove grates, fire-grates, or fire-places
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Apr., 1887,
I CHARLES SWINDELL Bank-Cashier of No. 12 Kenwood Road Sheffield in the
County of York do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It relates to improvements in Stove grates, fire-grates, or fire-places.
The first part of my invention relates to stove-grates, fire places or fire-backs
and to apparatus affixed to or used in connection with the same and hereinafter
described.
It consists of a tube, or tubes of any suitable shape or dimensions so made in
connection with the fire-grate or fire-place that the lower opening shall take in air at
a low elevation and afterwards passing through or in close proximity to the fire shall
terminate at a higher elevation in the flue or smoke shaft where the heated and
rarified air is voided at an accelerated velocity thus promoting an upward current in
such flue, this tube or air-passage may be made of metal, fire-clay, or any other
suitable material or of any such materials used conjointly, or a closed tube or rod of
any shape and of any good-conducting metal may be used instead of an open tube ;
this improvement may either form an integral portion or be incorporated in the
manufacture of stove grates or fire-places, or be applied to any existing stove grate or
fire-place.
The second part of my invention also relates to stove grates, fire-grates and fire-
places and to the front or front bars of the same, and to the construction of such bars,
and is designed to more effectually retain in such fire-places or grates the fuel used
therein. To effect this purpose I use a continuous wire or rod of any suitable
dimensions or section and of any suitable metal, such wire or rod being bent or
twisted in convolutions zig-zags, serpentine turns, or other bends or bays or crimped ;
this will form the front or a portion of the front of such stove-grate or fire-place and
may be incorporated in the manufacture or construction of the same or attached to
any existing stove-grate or fire-place in any convenient manner.
L
LL of Contember 1886

page_text: I CHARLES SWINDELL Bank-Cashier of No. 12 Kenwood Road Sheffield in the
County of York do hereby 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 :-
It relates to improvements in Stove-grates, fire-grates and fire-places and to the
front bars of the same, and is intended to more effectually retain in such grates the
fuel used therein.
To effect this purpose I use a continuous wire or rod of any suitable metal and of
any suitable dimensions or section, bent or twisted into a series of convolutions,
zig-zags, serpentine turns or other bends or bays or crimped; this will form the
front-bars or a portion of the front-bars of such stove-grate fire-place or fire-box; it
may be held in position by lugs flanges or grooves formed in other parts of stove-
grate or fire-place or may be attached in any other manner to any part of such stove
grate or fire-place. In affixing the same to existing stove-grates or fire-places, or
front-bars of such fire-places, each end of such continuous wire or rod may be turned
or bent so as to form an elbow or fork designed to press against sides or other part
of stove-grate and form a spring holding it firmly in position, the flexible and spring-
like character of such series of continuous turns or bends allowing the same to be
expanded or contracted so as to fit a larger or smaller space of front and to follow
curves or angles in front-bars of various shapes.
Now in order that my invention may be clearly understood I have hereto annexed
two sheets of drawings illustrating my improvements as herein before set forth and
in which the same letters of reference indicate the same or similar parts in any of the
figures.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 sheet 1 are representations in single line of continuous wire or rod
twisted into a series of bays, bends or convolutions of various patterns to form front-
bars or portions of front bars of stove-grates or fire-boxes.
Fig. 6 is an elevation of fire-box of stove-grate shewing the application of such
continuous wire shewn in Fig. 1, as front-bars or portion of front-bars to such fire-
box, also lugs bb to retain the same in position. Fig. 5 is back-elevation of front-bars
shewing the manner of retaining such continuous wire in position by means of
flanged or rabated frame a. a. and lugs b. b. the front-bars and frame being detachable
from other parts of fire-box.
Fig. 7 is an elevation of fire-box of different shape to Fig. 5 shewing the application
of continuous wire bent into pattern as in Fig. 3 and retained in position as in
Fig. 6.
Fig. 8 represents a continuous wire as in Fig. 2 applied as front-bars to fire-box of
stove-grate and retained in position at the lower edge or end of such front-bars in
groove c. c. and bored lugs, ring bolts, or staples b. b. formed in or affixed to other
portions of fire-box or stove grate.

page_text: Fig. 9 sheet 2 represents the application of continuous wire as shewn in Fig. 4 to
existing stove-grates and attached by elbows d. d turned at each end of same and
designed to press against the sides of fire-box or stove-grate and so form a spring
holding the same firmly in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;
1. The use in any kind of stove-grate or fire-place of a continuous wire or rod bent
into a series of convolutions zig-zags, serpentine turns, or other bends or bays or
crimped so as to form front-bars or portion of front-bars of such stove-grate or fire-
place, or additional bars thereto.
2. The retaining in position, in any stove-grato or fire-placo, of such continuous
wire or rod bent as described, by means of rabated or flanged frames, grooves, lugs,
eyelets, ring-bolts, or other projections or recesses, forming part of or attached to such
stove-grate or fire-place.
3. The retaining in position in any stove-grate or fire-place of such continuous
wire bent as described, by means of the spring contained in the wire itself thrusting
against parts of said stove-grates or fire-places.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of February One thousand eight hundred and
eighty seven