IM- PROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES." PROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Schofield, of Ashton-under-Lync, in
the County of Lancaster, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES."
PROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Schofield at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th May 1874.
I, SAMUEL SCHOFIELD, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES," to be as
follows:
My Invention consists in placing a cage or grate to contain the fuel:
in front of the ordinary grate bars, which cage or grate is covered by a
lid, whereby the heat is diffused into the apartment to be heated.
In applying my Invention to an ordinary kitchen range I suspend the
cage to the top bar, and I partially close the space between the otlier..

page_text: bars. The products of combustion are conveyed from the cage under a
plate that covers the old grate and into the flues for heating the ovens
and boilers, but when my Invention is applied to a new range the cage
or grate is secured to the front plate and the ordinary grate bars are
dispensed with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Schofield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th November 1874..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SCHOFIELD, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Iron-
founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Schofield, Her special licence,
that I, the said Samuel Schofield, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Schofield, 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
AND APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE-PLACES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Schofield, my executors or administra-
tors, by an instrument in writing 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 Samuel Schofield, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the sanic
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say) :-
:-

page_text: .My. Invention consists in placing a cage or grate to contain the
fuel in front of the ordinary grate bars, which cage or grate is covered-
by a lid, whereby the heat is diffused into the apartment to be heated..
In applying my Invention to an ordinary kitchen range I suspend the
cage to the top bar, and I partially close the space between the other
bars. The products of combustion are conveyed from the cage under a
plate that covers the old grate and into the flues for heating the ovens
and boilers and to the chimney.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is a section of an ordinary kitchen grate to which my im-
provements are applied; Fig. 2 is a front view; and Fig. 3, a plan of tho
same.
a is a cage or grate, the ends of which are closed by the plates b, b,
to which hooks are cast for suspending the cage to the top bar c of the
ordinary grate bars. The upper part of the cage is closed by the lid d
in which are holes for the cooking pans. c, c, are the lower grate bars,
which are partially closed by the plate f and by fire-bricks or other-
wise.
I
The ordinary grate is closed by the plate 9, which serves as a hot
hearth, and in which is a hole for a pan. The fuel is contained in the
cage a, thereby diffusing the heat into the apartment, and the products
of combustion are conveyed under the plate g to the flue h, in which is
a damper i to regulate the draught to the chimney. When the damper i
is closed the products of combustion pass as usual through the flues
around the over and boiler. The fire-box j is placed in the inside of the
old fire-grate to assist in heating the oven.
When my Invention is applied to a new kitchen range the cage or
grate a is suspended to the front plate and the ordinary grate bars are
dispensed with.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described the
manner of performing the same, I wish to remark that I do not intend
to limit myself to the application thereof to kitchen ranges, as it may
applied to other fire-grates. I claim the use of the cage or grate a sus-
be

page_text: pended to or placed in front of ordinary fire-grates or in lieu thereof,
whereby fuel is economised and the heat is more advantageously applied
for cooking and heating.
'
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Scliofield, have hereto sot
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, One thousand 5
eight hundred and seventy-four.
SAMUEL SCHOFIELD. (L.S.)