IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC
Year: 1884

page_text: We, GEORGE HENRY BROWN and ALFRED BROWN, at the Office for Patents,
17 and 18 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Ironfounders.
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC
to be as follows:-
FIREPLACES
In domestic fireplaces it is customary to fasten the range to the long front and
short front permanently by means of bolts and nuts, making most parts of the
grate difficult of access and expensive to repair.
The present means also of reducing the size of the fire space is by false bottoms
or by raising the bottom bars.
Now our invention is designed to obviate the evils attendant on this mode of
construction and to provide a grate at once easy of access and capable of baving
the fire-space readily reduced.
We cast on the back or face of the long front and short front a vertical groove
or slide into which our moveable sliding range may be moved easily up or down
according to the wish of the user so as to increase or reduce the height of the fire-
space, or may be lifted out bodily so as to obtain access to the other parts of the
fireplace.
We secure the range to the long front and short front by wrought pins, or screws
or hooks, sufficiently long to go through the range and both parts of the slide.
The range and fronts are provided with such a number of holes or cavities as may
be required for the pins, screws, or hooks to fit into and so fix the moveable range
in the requisite position.
The moveable range is advantageously made without a fall-bar but may be
made with a fall-bar and can be adapted to all kinds of domestic fireplaces.
Dated this 21st day of July 1884.
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, GEORGE HENRY BROWN and ALFRED BROWN of 224 Abbey Street, Derby,
in the county of Derby, Ironfounders do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC FIRE PLACES, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
In domestic fire places it is customary to fasten the range to the long front and
short front permanently by means of bolts and nuts, making most parts of the grate
difficult of access and expensive to repair.
The present means also of reducing the size of the fire-space is by false bottoms
or by raising the bottom bars.
Now our invention is designed to obviate the evils attendant on this mode of
construction and to provide a grate at once easy of access and capable of having
the fire space readily reduced.
We cast on the back or face of the long front and short front a vertical groove or
slide into which our moveable sliding range may be moved easily up or down
according to the wish of the user so as to increase or reduce the height of the fire-
space, or may be lifted out bodily so as to obtain access to the other parts of the
fire-place.
We secure the range to the long front and short front by wrought pins, or hooks,
or screws, sufficiently long to go through the range and both parts of the slide.
The range and fronts are provided with such a number of holes or cavities as may
be required for the pins, or hooks, or screws to fit into and so fix the moveable range
in the requisite position.
The moveable range is advantageously made without a fall bar, but may be made
with a fall bar, and can be adapted to all kinds of domestic fireplaces.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows a front elevation Fig. 2 a plan of our before described Improved
Domestic Fireplace.
A and A¹ on Figs 1 and 2 is a moveable sliding range which can be moved up or
down the grooves C and C¹ on Fig. 2. The knobs B. B'. B'. B³ shown on Fig. 1
and Fig 2. are provided with wrought iron pins which are passed through holes
provided in the fronts and also through holes or cavities in the moveable range as
shown by dotted circles E. E'. E². E³. E³. E³. Eº. E³. E³. E³. E¹º, E¹ to fix the moveable
range in the requisite position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed. We declare that what we claim is
The construction of Domestic Fire places with a moveable sliding range substantially
as herein described.
Dated this 20th day of Novemben 100%