IMPROVED FIRE-PLACES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Riley Bamber, of Accrington, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVED FIRE-PLACES FOR ECONOMISING
FUEL.'
Scaled the 1st August 1873, and dated the 6th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Riley Bamber at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th February 1873.
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I, RILEY BAMBER, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, do
5 licreby declare the nature of the said Invention for 'IMPROVED FIRE-
PLACES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to those fire-places in which there are grate
bars at the front and bottom as in the ordinary grates, kitchen ranges,
and in some descriptions of stoves, and consists in each caso in the con-

page_text: struction and employment of a perforated metal back capable of having
its lower and moved nearer to or farther from the front bars in order to
shut off the spaces between the bottom bars, more or less, from the front
bars and regulate the capacity of the fire-place as required. The back
which is full of holes, or made of rods or bars, has at the bottom snugs
or projections which can be entered into any of the spaces between the
bottom and front bars, and also other snugs resting on the bars and the
air passing from below through the perforations to the ignited fuel
sends more heat than usual into the apartment or place in which the
fire-place is used, and at the same time the air prevents the back from
burning away, and in kitchen ranges side plates can be used for di-
minishing the capacity of the fire-place longitudinally, and preventing
the fuel from passing below the boiler or oven when not in use, and
in all cases it will be found that in consequence of the diminished
capacity of the fire-place and the propulsion of the heat into the apart-
ment there will be great economy in fuel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Leiters Patent,
filed by the said Riley Bamber in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RILEY
BAMBER, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in tho
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Riley Bamber, Her special
licence that I, the said Riley Bamber, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Riley Bamber, 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, usc, excrcise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED FIRE-

page_text: PLACES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL,” upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Riley Bamber, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause 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
PLACES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL,” upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Riley Bamber, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause 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 Riley Bamber, 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 :—
The object of this Invention is to economise the use of fuel in the
kinds of fire-places hereafter mentioned by means of certain arrange-
ments hercin-after described, which can be fitted with facility into
position, and if need be moved in accordance with the requirements of
the user of such Invention; the same being also capable of being so
regulated as to send greater heat into the apartment or place in which
the fire-place is situate at times when greater heat is required, or to
diminish the space for fuel, and consequently the heat given off when
(as in summer) that may be considered desirable.
The nature of the said Invention then is to effectuate the above object
by means of the arrangements now to be herein described, or by
any arrangements substantially the same in general character and effect,
that is to say:-
This Invention relates to those fire-places in which there are grate
bars at the front and bottom as in the ordinary grates, kitchen ranges,
and in some descriptions of stoves, and consists in each case in the con-
struction and employment of a perforated metal back, capable of having
its lower end moved nearer to, or farther from, the front bars in order to
shut off the spaces between the bottom bars, more or less, from the front
bars, and so regulate the capacity of the fire-place as required. The back
which is full of holes, or made of rods or bars, has at the bottom snugs or
projections which can be entered into any of the spaces in between the
3 bottom and front bars and also other snugs resting on the bars, and the

page_text: air passing from below through the perforations to the ignited fuel
sends more heat than usual into the apartment or place in which the
fire-place is used, and at the same time the air prevents the back from
burning away; also in kitchen ranges side plates can be used for di-
minishing the capacity of the fire-place longitudinally and preventing
the fuel from passing below the boiler or oven when not in use; and in
all cases it will be found that in consequence of the diminished capacity
of the fire-place, and the propulsion of the heat into the apartment
there will be great economy in fucl.
The foregoing statements particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention and indicate in what manner the same is
to be performed or put in practice, and in further compliance with
the said condition in the said Letters Patent contained, I will now
further and particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the same
is to be performed or carried out in practice, by referring to the
Drawings accompanying these presents.
Fig. 1, front view; Fig. 2, transverse section; Fig. 3, view of my
new arrangement or economiser for kitchen ranges.
In these Drawings A denotes the boiler; B represents the back of the 2
fire-place; C, front of fire-place; D, the oven; E, the new arrange-
ment or economiser perforated and hollow at the back; F is firo
space; G is the space for air to pass under the economiser to the oven
and boiler; H is the side or end; it is a thin flange and prevents the
fire from getting behind the new arrangement or economiser.
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In register grates my new arrangement or economiser is plainer than
in kitchen ranges (see Fig. 3). They are made without the bend at the
bottom and have no snugs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed or put
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in practice, I hereby declare that I claim, the Invention of improved
fire-places for economising fuel as herein-before described, wherein the
use of the arrangements which I have herein termed the economiser, or

page_text: any arrangements substantially the same, are particular and important
features.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Riley Bamber, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fourth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
Witness,
WILLIAM BAMBER,
28, Percy Street,
Accrington.
RILEY BAMBER. (L.S.)