A FENDER GAS STOVE
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Thomas Symons, of Wednesbury, in the County
of Stafford, for the Invention of "A FENDER GAS STOVE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Thomas Symons at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st September 1877.
WILLIAM THOMAS SYMONS, of Wednesbury, in the County of Stafford. "A
FENDER GAS STOVE."
The object of this Invention, which relates to a fender gas stove, is to produce in
a novel, useful, and ornamental manner certain improved means of generating beat
and of diffusing light for warming and lighting rooms, or other places, and which
will more effectually diffuse warmth and cheerfulness in such places than fire-grates
or stoves do.
The peculiar novelty of the Invention consists in applying gas for heating and
lighting purposes to any form of fender, whether open or enclosed at the front or
sides. Within the fender I arrange a frame or case of iron or other suitable material,
and plain or ornamental in design, provided at parts with bright sheet copper or
other reflective metal, or other suitable material to augment the radiation and
luminative effect. In front of this I arrange (conveniently for the reflection of the
light and radiation of the heat) a series of jets, which, being arranged so low, in
comparison to the body of fire in a grate, will more effectually diffuse light, warmth,
and cheerfulness, and will attain the object of the Invention.
The above-mentioned frame may be fixed to the fender, or it may be arranged to
be removable therefrom for being cleaned and polished.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Thomas Symons in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
February 1878.
WILLIAM THOMAS SYMONS, of Wednesbury, in the County of Stafford. 'A
FENDER GAS STOVE."
The object of this Invention, which relates to a fender gas stove, is to produce in
a novel, useful, and ornamental manner improved means of generating and diffusing
heat and light for warming and lighting rooms or other places, and which, by giving
the heat a lower and a more extended range, will more effectively diffuse warmth
and cheerfulness in such places than ordinary fire-grates or stoves do.
The peculiar novelty of the Invention consists in applying gas for such heating
and lighting purposes to any form of fender, whether open or enclosed at the front
or sides.
Fenders are usual pieces of furniture or adjuncts to the fire-places of rooms or
apartments, and they may be used after the manner of this Invention with great
advantage as a means ready at all times of warming and diffusing light in rooms
and other places.
In carrying out my Invention I arrange within the fender 1 (as shewn on the
accompanying Drawing), a frame or case 2, formed of iron or other suitable metal or
material, and of a plain or ornamental design, and provided at parts with reflecting
surfaces 3 formed of bright sheet copper or other suitable bright metal or material
to augment the radiation and luminative effect. In front of this frame or case 2 I
arrange (conveniently for the reflection of the light and radiation of the heat) a gas
pipe 4, carrying a series of jets 5, which, being arranged so low, in comparison to
the body of fire in a grate, will more effectually diffuse warmth, light, and cheerful-
ness, and fully attain the object of the Invention.
The frame or case 2 may either be fixed to the fender, or it may be arranged to be
removable therefrom for being cleaned or polished.
The diffusion of the heat and light may be otherwise effected than by the means
above described, and I may use other heating and illuminating agents than gas
with such fender stoves.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention the application
to fenders of suitable means, substantially such as are herein-above described, and as
illustrated on the accompanying Drawing, by which both heat and artificial light
may be diffused throughout rooms or other places with greater advantage, in
comparison to an ordinary stove or fire-grate, as to lowness of position and to the
extended heating range afforded.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Thomas Symone, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
WILLIAM THOMAS SYMONS. (L.S.)