A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO FIRE-GRATES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Green, of Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Beer Retailer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO FIRE-GRATES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL.”
Sealed tho 18th June 1875, and dated the 5th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Green at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th January 1875.
I, JOSIAH GREEN, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Beer
Retailer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO FIRE-GRATES FOR ECONOMISING
FUEL," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a new or improved apparatus to be applied
to fire-grates for economising fuel constructed in the following
manner-The said apparatus consists of a portable and detachable

page_text: frame of bars or basket, which is hooked to or otherwise suspended in
front of an ordinary grate. The said frame or basket has an oblong
rectilinear figure in plan, the back end which is presented to the fire-
grate being open. The bottom of the frame is flat, and the front is
inclined or curved from the bottom upwards. On the top of the bars 5
at the open back of the frame are hooks by which the apparatus may be
hooked to the top bar of the fire-grate, so as to suspend the said
apparatus in the middle of the front of the grate, the apparatus pro-
jecting some distance into the room.
When the apparatus is in use it is filled with coal or fuel like an 1
ordinary grate. By the large surface of burning fuel, which is exposed
combined with the projecting position of the apparatus, a large amount
of heat is radiated into the room or apartment, and fuel thereby
economized.
When a small fire only is required the apparatus suspended in front of 1
the grate is used alone without burning fuel in the said grate, but the
ordinary fire-grate and the apparatus may be used together for heating
the room or apartment.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Josiah Green in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
GREEN, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Beer Retailer, send 2
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc- {

page_text: cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Josiah Green, Her special
license that I, the said Josiah Green, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Josiah Green, 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, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Ohannel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IK-
PROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO FIRE-GRATES FOR ECONOMISING FUEL," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Josiah Green, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Josiah Green, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :—
My Invention consists of a new or improved apparatus to be applied
to fire-grates for economizing fuel constructed in the following
manner: The said apparatus consists of a portable and detachablo
frame of bars or basket, which is hooked to or otherwise suspended in
front of an ordinary grate. The said frame or basket has an oblong
rectilinear figure in plan, the back end which is presented to the fire
being open. The bottom of the frame is flat, and the front is inclined
or curved from the bottom upwards. On the tops of the bars at the open
back of the frame are hooks by which the apparatus may be hooked to
the top bar, by preference of the fire-grate, so as to suspend the said
apparatus in the middle of the front of the grato, the apparatus pro-
jecting some distance into the room.
When the apparatus is in use it is filled with coal or fuel like an
ordinary grate. By the large surface of burning fuel, which is exposed
combined with the projecting position of the apparatus, a large amount

page_text: of heat is radiated into the room or apartment, and fuel thereby
economized.
When a small fire only is required the apparatus suspended in front of
tho grate is used alone without burning fuel in the said grate, but tho
ordinary fire-grate and the apparatus may be used together for heating i
the room or apartment.
I prefer to make the apparatus by casting, but it may be made of
wrought-iron bars connected together.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation,
Figure 2 in section, Figure 3 in plan, and Figure 4 in front elevation 1
an apparatns constructed according to my Invention.
Figure 5 represents in perspective the said apparatus applied to a fire-
grate.
The said apparatus consists of a detachable frame of bars or basket
hooked (or otherwise suspended) in front of the fire-grate, as represented 1
in Figure 5. The said frame of bars or basket has the oblong rectan-
gular figure in plan, seen in Figure 3, and is open at the top b, and at
the back a, the said open back a being presented to the fire-grate. On
the top of the bars at the open back a of the frame or basket are the
books c, c, by which the apparatus is hooked to the top bar of the fire- 2
grate, so as to suspend it in the middle of the front of the said fire-grate,
as seen in Figure 5. When so suspended the apparatus projects some
distance into the room or apartment. The part marked d, e, of the frame
of bars or basket, which said part constitutes the bottom and front of the
said frame or basket is nearly flat, where it joins the vertical bars of the 2
open back a, but the other part is inclined or curved from the bottom
upwards, as seen in Figures 1, 2, and 5.
When the frame of bars or basket is suspended in front of the grate
for uso it possesses the advantages heroin-before pointed out. When
it is required to promote the combustion of the fuel in the basket prior 8
to suspending it at the front of the grate the frame or basket containing
the ignited fuel may be placed in the grate itself.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
claim as my Invention, the new or improved apparatus to be applied to 3

page_text: fire-grates for economizing fuel, the said apparatus being constructed
and used substantially as herein-before described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah Green, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM SHRIMPTON,
Redditch.
JOSIAH GREEN. (L.S.) ·