IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR MANUFACTURING FIRE GRATES
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I SHERMAN
CONVERSE, of New York, in the United States of America, at present residing
in Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, Gentleman, send greeting."
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of November, in the third year
of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Sherman Converse, His
especial licence, that I, the said Sherman Converse, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Sherman Converse, my exors, admors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING
OR MANUFACTURING FIRE GRATES," communicated to me by a certain foreigner
residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said Sherman Converse, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in the High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next imme-
diately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sherman Converse, do hereby describe the manner in which the said Inven-
tion is to be performed, by the following description thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: Firstly, in attaching to the common open grate a chamber constructed of
iron or other suitable material, connected by an opening with the back of said
grate in such manner that the flame and smoke shall pass laterally through
the same to the chimney or flue, through an opening or passage constructed
for that purpose.
Secondly, in elongating the said chamber, the same being constructed of iron
or other suitable material, to any convenient height above the bars or fire-
place of the open grate, and placing the said elongated chamber, when neces-
sary, within the common brick flue in such manner that the air of the room
may pass around it on the outside, and become heated.
Thirdly, in governing the passage communicating with the said chamber,
whether elongated or not, by a valve which shall regulate the size of the opening,
and consequently the rate of the burning in the fire-place.
I shall now enumerate the contrivances and parts of contrivances which I
alone claim as new and useful, protesting that I claim none other than such
as are herein-after enumerated; namely, I claim the combination of the before-
mentioned chamber and vale with the common or open grate.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sherman Converse, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I SHERMAN
CONVERSE, of New York, in the United States of America, at present residing
in Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of November, in the third year
of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Sherman Converse, His
especial licence, that I, the said Sherman Converse, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Sherman Converse, my exors, adiñors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING
OR MANUFACTURING FIRE GRATES," communicated to me by a certain foreigner
residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said Sherman Converse, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in the High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next imme-
diately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sherman Converse, do hereby describe the manner in which the said Inven-
tion is to be performed, by the following description thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: Firstly, in attaching to the common open grate a chamber constructed of
iron or other suitable material, connected by an opening with the back of said
grate in such manner that the flame and smoke shall pass laterally through
the same to the chimney or flue, through an opening or passage constructed
for that purpose.
Secondly; in elongating the said chamber, the same being constructed of iron
or other suitable material, to any convenient height above the bars or fire-
place of the open grate, and placing the said elongated chamber, when neces-
sary, within the common brick flue in such manner that the air of the room
may pass around it on the outside, and become heated.
Thirdly, in governing the passage communicating with the said chamber,
whether elongated or not, by a valve which shall regulate the size of the opening,
and consequently the rate of the burning in the fire-place.
I shall now enumerate the contrivances and parts of contrivances which I
alone claim as new and useful, protesting that I claim, none other than such
as are herein-after enumerated; namely, I claim the combination of the before-
mentioned chamber and vale with the common or open grate.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sherman Converse, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.