Improvements in or relating to Ash Shoots and Pans for Slow-combustion Stoves or Fireplaces.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Ash Shoots and Pans for
Slow-combustion Stoves or Fireplaces.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK ROBINS "Stoneleigh" Bath Road Banbury Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention, is to be applied to ordinary pattern slow combustion stoves as
drawn.
In the accompanying drawings-
Figure I is a slow combustion stove of ordinary construction, not fitted with my
invention.
Figures II, III, IV, & V. are, a perspective view in front elevation, a longi-
tudinal section, a plan, & a perspective view in back elevation, respectively of a
fret with an ash shoot & a pan constructed according to my invention.
Figure VI shows a shoot & a pan in one piece but separate from the fret, &
Figure VII is a longitudinal section of the same showing the relative positions of
the shoot & pan & the fret when in use.
Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.
The apparatus to which my invention relates may be composed of a shoot A
& fret B cast in one piece & loose pan C, as shown in Figures II, III, IV & V.
The pan C is attached to the shoot A by the hook D on shoot (see Figures III,
IV &V) so that on the shoot being withdrawn from the stove the ashes which
have dropped into it (the shoot A) are shot into the pan C.
Also, the shoot A & pan C may be made in one piece of sheet iron or other
metal as shown in Figures VI & VII, to be applied to slow combustion stoves
retaining the fret B now in common use.
I wish specially to protect the idea of the shoot A as applied to slow combustion
stoves for catching & shooting the ashes, either as a movable part of the stove or
as a separate part or as applied in any other manner made in any metal & of any
size or shape whatsoever.
Dated this 10th dor of Faben 1806
Slow-combustion Stoves or Fireplaces.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK ROBINS, of Stoneleigh, Bath Road, Banbury, Oxford-
shire 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 :-
My invention relates to slow combustion stoves or fireplaces of ordinary

page_text: ' construction. Such stoves are provided with a filling piece or "fret" adapted to
fit more or less closely between the hearth and the lowest bar of the stove, thus
checking the draught and consequently hindering the combustion of the fuel. The
face of the fret is commonly inclined so that ashes dropping from the bars of the
stove on to the fret are projected outward over the hearth in an untidy and even
dangerous manner. My invention has for its object to prevent the ashes being
scattered in the manner described and it consists in a shoot and pan, the shoot
being made in one piece with or connected to the fret and being adapted to collect
the said ashes and deliver them sooner or later into the pan.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I will further describe the same with reference to the drawings accompanying
my Provisional Specification.
Figure I is a front elevation of a slow combustion stove of ordinary construction
not fitted with my invention.
Figures II, III, IV and V are, a perspective view in front elevation, a longi-
tudinal section, a plan, and a perspective view in back elevation, respectively, of a
fret with an ash shoot and a pan constructed according to my invention.
Figure VI shows a shoot and pan in one piece with but separate from the
fret, and
Figure VII is a longitudinal section of the same showing the relative positions
of the shoot and pan and the fret when in use.
In the several figures corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference; where shown.
The apparatus to which my invention relates may be composed of a shoot A and
a fret B cast in one piece and a loose pan C', as shown in Figures II, III, IV
and V, though the shoot and fret may be made separately and afterwards bolted
or otherwise fastened together, if desired. The pan C is attached to the shoot A
by the hook D which may be cast on the shoot and fret or otherwise secured
thereto (Figures III, IV and V). The ashes drop into the shoot A and on the
said shoot being drawn from the stove, they the said ashes are shot into the pan C,
which being connected to the shoot, is withdrawn with it, but may be readily
unhooked therefrom when desired.
I do not confine myself to the details shown in the drawings as these may be
varied or modified as desired without departing from the nature of my invention,
and the parts may be constructed in any suitable known manner of any suitable
known material; but I make no claim to the modification shown in Figures VI
and VII.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what-I
claim is,
1. In combination with a slow-combustion stove or fireplace, an ash-shoot and
pan; the said shoot being made in one piece with or connected to the fret of the
stove or fireplace, and being adapted to deliver any ashes caught by it into the
said pan, substantially as set forth.
2. In an ash-shoot and pan such as referred to in the preceeding claim,
attaching the pan to the shoot by a hook substantially as and for the purpose set
.forth.
3. The ash-shoot and pan for slow combustion stoves or fireplaces constructed
and adapted to operate substantially as herein described and as illustrated by
Figures II, III and IV of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 2nd day of November 1896.
G. DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18 Hertford Street, Coventry, Patent Agent for the Applicant.