IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND GRATES OR FIRE-PLACES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brookes, of 73, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND GRATES OR FIRE-PLACES."-A com-
munication.
Sealed the 26th July 1853, and dated the 31st May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brookes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 31st May 1853.
I, WILLIAM BROOKES, of 73, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND GRATES OR FIRE-PLACES," to
be as follows:-
The Improvements consist in applying glass silvered on the inner
side to stoves, grates, & fire-places as a means of ornamenting and of
reflecting and radiating the heat from the fire.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Brookes in the Great Seal Patent Oflice,
on the 30th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BROOKES, of 73, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Brookes, Her special licence that
I, the said William Brookes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Brookes, 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 Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, au Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES AND
GRATES OR FIRE-PLACE3," communicated to me from abroad, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Brookes, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and scal, should particularly de-
scribe 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Brookes, do hereby de-
clare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The Improvements consist in applying glass silvered on one side to
stoves, grates, or fire-places in such manner that the radiant heat from
the burning fuel in such stoves, grates, or fire-places will be readily
reflected and refracted into the apartment in which such stove, grate,
or fire-place is situated, whilst the application of such silvered glass as

page_text: a coating to stoves, grates, or fire-places will contribute to their orna-
mental effect. But that the Invention may be fully understood I will
proceed to describe the means pursued in carrying the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a front view; Figure 2, a side sectional view; and
Figure 3, a sectional plan of one arrangement of stove with glass
surfaces applied according to the Invention. It may be here stated
that the form or arrangement of stoves, grates, or fire-places being
numerous it has not been thought necessary to show more than one of
the simplest forms to illustrate the Invention. a, a, a, are the surfaces
of glass, which are silvered on their inner side, or that side next the
framing, and the same is affixed at such angles as may most answer
the object sought by ornamental metal or other mouldings 6, 6, be-
tween which and the glass are pieces of cork, india rubber, or other
clastic material to prevent injury to the glass in putting the parts
together, and pieces of cork or other elastic material are also applied
at parts of the surface of the glass, next the frame of the stove, grate,
or fire-place, for the same purpose. The cork or other like non-
conducting material also serves to prevent the two free conduction of
heat to the glass from the metal. The mouldings are affixed by screws
c, at suitable intervals.
Having thus explained the nature of the said Invention, as com-
municated to me, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details shown and described. But what I claim
is, the application of silvered glass to stoves, grates, or fire-places, as
explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brookes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 30th day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
WILLIAM BROOKES. (L.S.)
Witness, BENJN MILLS.