IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND OTHER KILNS." FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND OTHER KILNS.
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard William Abbotts, of Burton-on-Trent, in
the County of Stafford, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND OTHER KILNS."
FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND OTHER KILNS.'
Sealed the 12th October 1866, and dated the 23rd April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard William Abbotts
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd April 1866.
J, RICHARD WILLIAM ABBOTTS, of Burton-on-Trent, in the County of
Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN THE FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND OTHER KILNS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the fire-places or furnaces
of malt and other kilns. Heretofore in the fire-places or furnaces of malt
and other kilns it has very generally been the practice to have the four-side.
plates all set on the frame of fire-bars, and the dross or clinkers are raked
from between the fire-bars, also the construction is such that there is very com-
monly a quantity of fuel against the back and front plates which does not
burn well. Now according to my. Invention two opposite plates of the fire-,
place (the front and back ones) are set so far from the bars that the dross

page_text: or clinkers may be raked from the bars under the lower edges of such front
and back plates, at the same time air can pass freely to the fire under these
two plates, by which a clear and bright fire is more readily insured and
maintained, and consèquently the fuel is more advantageously burned. The
two side plates rest on and are supported by the frame and do not require
any fastening, they incline outwards and from each other. These sides
extend beyond or are of a greater length than the fire-bars both at the back
and the front. Across the front and the back ends of the fire-bars the other
plates before mentioned are placed, and they incline more than the side
plates, whilst the inner and lower edge, or that edge of each plate which
comes next the fire, projects into the fire-place and over the ends of the fire-
bars, by which the fuel on each end of the fire-bars is sustained and prevented
falling away, notwithstanding the lower parts or edges of the front and back
plates are, as above stated, at a distance above the fire-bars. The upper
and outer edges of the back and front plates extend beyond the ends of the
fire-bars.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard William Abbotts in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd October 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WILLIAM ABBOTTS, of Burton-on-Trent, in the County of Stafford, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard William Abbotts, Her special licence that I, the said Richard William
Abbotts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard William Abbotts, 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, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FIRE-PLACES OR FURNACES OF MALT AND
OTHER KILNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
William Abbotts, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe 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
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard William Abbotts, do hereby
declare 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:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the fire-places or furnaces
of malt and other kilns. Heretofore in the fire-places or furnaces of malt
and other kilns it has very generally been the practice to have the four side
plates all set on the frame of fire-bars, and the dross or clinkers are raked
from between the fire-bars, also the construction is such that there is very
commonly a quantity of fuel against the back and front plates which
does not burn well. Now according to my Invention two opposite plates of
the fire-place (the front and back ones) are set so far from the bars that
the dross or clinkers may be raked from the bars under the lower edges of
such front and back plates, at the same time air can pass freely to the fire
under these two plates, by which a clear and bright fire is more readily
insured and maintained, and consequently the fuel is more advantageously
burned. The two side plates rest on and are supported by the frame and do
not require any fastening, they incline outwards and from each other.
sides extend beyond or are of a greater length than the fire-bars both at the
back and the front. Across the front and the back ends of the fire-bars the
other plates before mentioned are placed, and they incline more than the
side plates, whilst the inner and lower edge, or that edge of each plate
which comes next the fire, projects into the fire-place and over the ends of
the fire-bars, by which the fuel on each end of the fire-bars is sustained and
prevented falling away, notwithstanding the lower parts or edges of the
front and back plates are, as above stated, at a distance above the fire-bars.
The upper and outer edges of the back and front plates extend beyond the
ends of the fire-bars.
These
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.

page_text: a, a, are the fire-bars; b and c are the front and back inclined plates
which do not come down to the bars, but leave spaces d, d, for the passage
of air; e, e, are the inclined side plates. The frame f,f, which supports the
fire-bars is supported as heretofore or in any convenient manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard William Abbotts, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
R. W. ABBOTTS. (L.S.)