IMPROVE- MENTS IN REGISTER GRATES
Year: 1884

page_text: .I AUSTIN VINCENT BROOKS of High Street Glastonbury, Somershire Boot
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN REGISTER GRATES" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in hoods for register grates for
the prevention of smoky chimnies and down draught and for brightening up dull
and low fires the object being to provide a hood to the grates that may be applied
or removed and raised and lowered and fixed in position as required.
This portable hood is provided with a sliding peak attached thereto arranged, so
as to be pulled down at will, and the hood is furnished with a thumbscrew at the
top of the hood and. with side catches for purposes of attachment and support.
Upon the portable hoods are cork covered holders or handles for purposes of
manipulation or handling in adjusting or removing the hoods and drawing out the
sliding peak as required.
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The hoods are made of sheet metal of this or that kind and ornamented as
desired.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I AUSTIN VINCENT BROOKS, of No 20 High Street. Glastonbury in the County
of Somerset, Boot Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN HOODS OR BLOWERS FOR REGISTER GRATES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The object being to provide a Hood or Blower to Register Grates for the
prevention of smokey chimnies and down draughts and for brightening up dull
and low fires, in the following manner, The Blower or Hood is made of sheet
metal, of this or that kind, cut or blocked, and consists of a body shaped and bent
conveniently for application as shown in the drawing; having at its curved apex
an inner metal catch A, with an outer thumbscrew B, for the purpose of fixing in
place to any Register Grate, and suitably ornamented. It is provided with two
combined metal and cork holders CC one on either side for adjusting or removing
the hood. At the top of the hood, and rivited inside the same, is a 'metal curved
peak D, so shaped and bent as shown in the drawing, as to form a continuation of
the hood on the inside of the Register Grate, by which arrangement the down
draught is chiefly prevented. At the lower portion of the hood and rivited to the
same at the lower corners by pegs or rivets is a metal peak E which by the
foregoing arrangement is made to slide inwards or drawn downwards at will.
For this purpose a thin strip of metal F fitted with a cork and metal holder is
attached to the said peak on the inside and passes through a small aperture in the
lower part of the body of the hood Gas shown in the drawing.
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
1st-That-on-its application-to-Register Grates with smokey chimnies-in-bad-or-
gusty weather, the up draught is promoted and established, and the fire brightened
by concentrating and strengthening the draught at the point necessary for the
more complete combustion of the fuel.
2nd That it effectually prevents the down draught, partially by the whole
general arrangement, whereby the fire is quickened, but chiefly by the upper
metal curved inner peak D, which checks and catches the down draught and
prevents its egress into the room.
3rd The handles or knobs for holding and fixing being constructed of combined
metal or cork, are hereby made non-conductors of heat.
4th The whole arrangement or invention by promoting a more complete com-
bustion of the fuel than is possible with an ordinary open Register Grate is
economical, producing a maximum volume of heat at a reduced expenditure of fuel
and almost entirely doing away with the necessity of stirring &°,
Dated this 23rd day of January 1885.