NEWLY-INVENTED RECEIVER, APPLICABLE TO REGISTER AND OTHER STOVES, BY WHICH MEANS, THE CINDERS AND ASHES ARE WITH CLEANLINESS AND SAFETY CONSTANTLY RETAINED, WHILE THE SAME FORMS AN EASY SUPPORT TO A GENERAL FIRE SCREEN
Year: 1807

page_text: BOUND'S SPECIFICATION.
..:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BOUND, of Ray Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, Smith and Iron Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of July instant,.
hath been graciously pleased, for Himself, His heirs and successors, to give
and grant unto me, the said. William Bound, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His especial licence,. full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
William Bound, my exors, admors,.. and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or.
such others as I, or my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time, agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, for the term
of fourteen years from the date thereof, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, my "NEWLY-INVENTED RECEIVER, APPLICABLE TO REGISTER AND
OTHER STOVES, BY WHICH MEANS, THE CINDERS AND ASHES ARE WITH CLEANLINESS
AND SAFETY CONSTANTLY RETAINED, WHILE THE SAME FORMS AN EASY SUPPORT TO A
GENERAL FIRE SCREEN," therein mentioned, and upon the terms.. and
conditions therein also mentioned; in which said Letters Patent is..contained
a proviso that if I, the. said William Bound, should not, particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of..my said Invention, and in, what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument, in writing under my hand, and, seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court, of Chancery.
within one calendar month next .ensuing the date, thereof, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should be void,
as by the same Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bound, in pursuance of and
obedience to the said proviso contained in the said Letters Patent, do hereby
acknowlege and declare that the description and Specification herein-after
contained with reference to and by the aid of the Drawings in the Schedulo
hereunto annexed, doth particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be made and be performed
(that is to say):
.
I do declare that my said Invention consist of a sloping receiver, which is mailo
of plate iron, or any other metal, and herein-after more particularly described,
with a pan, which receives the dust and ashes from the fire and from the
sloping receiver, which is also made of plate iron, or any other metal, and also
herein-after more particularly described. And I do hereby acknowlege and
declare that the said Invention, as it is more, particularly delineated and
described in the Drawing, Plan, or Figure marked Fig. 2 in the Plan or
Schedule hereunto annexed, and according to the scale therein contained, is
applicable to a register stove, of the heighth in the front of three feet two
inches and an half, and of the breadth of three feet six inches and an half, tho
breadth of the inside of the said stove being two feet seven inches and an half,
and the depth one foot two inches; the width of the fireplace of the said stove
being one foot six inches, and the depth nine inchies, as the same is more par-
ticularly delineated and described in the Drawing or Figure marked: or
numbered 2 in the Plan or Scheduló hereunto annexed; but the same may bo
made to a stove of any other height and dimensions, by altering the scale or
proportions according to the size of the stove to which it is intended to be
applied. And further, Figure 1 of the said Plan shews the sloping receiver,
according to the dimensions laid down in Figure 2. The letters A, A, shew
the hobs of the stove; B, the space or opening of the fireplace or grate, under
which the pan of the receiver is placed to receive the dust and ashes which
fall from the fire into the sloping receiver; C, the bottom part of the stove;
'D, the sloping receiver, the fall or inclination of which is shewn by the
transverse section of the stove, as in Figure 3, at E; F, the front bar of the
sloping receiver, which is made of wrought iron or any other metal, and con-
sists of one piece. The sloping receiver is screwed to this front bar F by a
sufficient number of screws to make the same secure, and on which front bar
the screens, shewn by the elevation in Figure 2, Letter N, rest, and act by
means of a flat plate at the bottom of the screens, fitted to slide on a semi-
circular bead on the top of the front of the sloping receiver. The outward
screen is made of iron, brass, or other metal, framed together and filled in
with brass or iron wire in trellis or in any other form. The plate or screen,

page_text: shewn in black within the outward screen, is made of iron or other metal,
having a grove at the bottom to run on the edge of an interior flat bar, fitted
and fixed by screws to the bar F. G, G, the continuation of the front bar F,
so as to support the screens when put back. H, H, the pilasters of the stove.
I, I, I, I, I, I, the screws and nuts which fasten the whole together. And,
further, the sloping receiver and screens being affixed to a stove, as repre-
sented in Figure 2 in the said Plan hereunto annexed, the Letter K shews
the front or border of the sloping receiver; L, the front of the pan, which
receives the ashes and dust from the fire and from the sloping receiver, which
pan may be made of plate iron or any other metal, and consists of five or
three pieces, as may be thought proper; that is to say, the front, the back, the
bottom, and the two sides thereof, which are dovetailed or screwed together,
and made according to the size of the stove'to which the same is to be applied,
and runs, draws out, or acts upon four rollers, made of iron or any other
metal, which rollers are situated at the extreme corner of the bottom of each
front, and may be drawn out by the knob at (a) at pleasure to be emptied.
M, the ventilator, within which is an iron plate that may be turned round by
the knob (a) to open or shut for the admission or exclusion of the air. E (in
Figure 8, the transverse section), the fall or inclination of the sloping
receiver. N, in Figure 2, the elevation of one set of screens when drawn into
use. The other screens are to be drawn from the opposite side of the register
stove. When the exterior and interior screens are all drawn close, and the
ventilator shut, the fire will soon become extinguished. The front of the
register stove is taken off by four screws, and leave the bar F with the fire
screens and sloping receiver, which is made moveable or a fixture to the
checks of the stove, as may be thought proper. And further, in Figure 4, the
scale from which the several Figures are laid down, being equal to one inch
and a half for every foot.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bound, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of August, in
the
year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid William Bound came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to tho!
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and seven.