Improvements in or relating to Fire Grates
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr, 1895
Complete Specification Left 29th Jan, 1896-Accepted, 4th Apr,
1896
Improvements in or relating to Fire Grates
I, MARK FERGUSON of Wark-on lyne in the County of Northumberland,
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention has reference to improvements in oi relating to fire grates and has
for its object to economise and at the same time to effect improved combustion of
the fuel
To effect my purpose I propose to construct in met il a box or frame of suitable
form adapted to stand at or about the back of the fireplace and formed with bars
and spaces or closed and open portions as desired therein
The front may be constiucted to incline or lean forward somewhat and the fuel
1s intended to lie in front of and against the aforesaid frame so that air can enter
below and behind the frame and then find exit through the openings between the
bars or solid parts whereby improved combustion will ensue and greater heat be
delivered into the room
The frame thus becomes hot and acts as an hot air receiving and discharging
chamber to aid combustion
If desired fireclay balls might be inser ed in the chamber to increase the heat
radiation
The apparatus may be fitted to any ordinary fire-place by placing it as above
described and by filling in with masonry or otherwise around it as desired
Dated this 29th day of April 1895
A CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3 St Nicholas Buildings, New castle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent
Improvements in or relating to Fire Grates
MARK FERGUSON Clock Jobber and Photographer Town Hall Wark-on-Tyne
Northumberland 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
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The coal economiser is a metal casting intended to be placed in the back of the
ordinary fire place, and to lay in a slanting position from back to front, having a
grated front, and recessed back, and raised in the front with feet, which serve the
double purpose of casting the " economisei again t the back brickwork, thereby
preventing the coal dropping in the back of same and making space at bottom
wherein to insert a poker to clean the a hes that have fallen through the grated
front
economiser
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The
when placed is de cubed above, will fill nearly half the fire
place which part is of no available ue, and instead of the air playing on the front
of the fire, and conveying the heat directly into the chimney, it will go into the
bach recess of the economiser, and thereby tend to throw the heat into the room,

page_text: In fire places which are only used for heating of rooms, the principles of the
economiser can be carried out in fire brick moulds
EXPLANATION OF DRAWINGS
A A are solid metal sides 2 inches wide at the top, and 4 inches wide at the
bottom inch thick and 9 inches long
B is solid metal 8 inches in front, 8 inches at the back, and tinch thick
C is solid metal front bottom bar, 11 inches in front, and x inch thick,
Joining D D
D D are solid metal feet 1 inch at the base, tapering back to a point, in order
that the economiser may fall close to the back of the fire place at the top
E E are the bars forming the grated front
Having now particularly described, and ascertained, the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
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That by the air passing into the back recess of the economiser, and forcing the
heat into the room, will produce the best effects, from the least consumption
of coal
Dated this 27th day of January 1896
MARK FERGUSON,
Wark-on-Tyne, Northumberland