IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND WARMING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gideon Blake, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND
WARMING."
Sealed the 21st July 1863, and dated the 29th January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gideon Blake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
January 1863.
I, GIDEON BLAKE, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR HEATING AND WARMING," to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to the construction of stoves of corrugated or
undulated or zig-zaged iron or fire-clay (or equivalents thereof). A fire placed
inside the improved corrugated stove is the usual source of heat, but steam, hot
water, or a gas flame is applicable.
These stoves I purpose to construct as follows:-In the first place I use
plain sheets of iron to form the case, to which the corrugated iron is fastened
by means of rivets, bolts, or otherwise, such corrugated iron deriving its heat
through the case of the stove partly by radiation and partly by conduction,
but the stoves may be constructed without such cases of plain sheets of iron
when the corrugated iron forms the case deriving its heat directly from the
fire or furnace. In this form the corrugated stove may be constructed of fire-
clay (burnt in the usual way) or of cast iron or wrought iron. I also purpose

page_text: to construct these stoves with a secondary case or cases through which the
products of combustion are conveyed before reaching the chimney; the
number of which secondary cases may be increased to any extent.
Further, in some cases I purpose adopting a corrugated iron stove provided
with a hot water or steam boiler, the boiler being heated by same fire as 5
Likewise pipes may be introduced for generating steam, heating water,
or other uses, and also tubes for beating air.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gideon Blake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GIDEON
BLAKE, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the 29th day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto I, the
said Gideon Blake, Her special licence that I, the said Gideon Blake, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Gideon
Blake, 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 APPARATUS
FOR HEATING AND WARMING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Gideon Blake, my executors or administrators, 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 Gideon Blake, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
These improvements, the nature whereof hath been set forth and described
in and by the Provisional Specification, (which was left and recorded on appli-

page_text: cation for the said Letters Patent), in the words or to the effect of the
statement hereafter following, which statement I hereby declare to be a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, viz:-
The said improvements relate to the construction of stoves of corrugated or
waved or zig-zaged iron (or other suitable metal) or fire-clay. A fire placed
inside the improved stove is the usual source of heat, but steam; hot water, or a
gas flame is applicable. In the first place I prefer to use plain sheets of iron
to form the case to which the corrugated iron or material is fastened by means
of rivets, bolts, or otherwise, such corrugated iron or material deriving its heat
through the case of the stove partly by radiation and partly by conduction; but
my stoves may be constructed without such cases of plain sheets of iron when
the corrugated iron or material forms the case deriving its heat directly from
the fire or furnace. In this form the corrugated stove may be constructed of
fire-clay (burnt in the usual way) or of cast iron or wrought iron. In some.
cases I construct stoves with a secondary case or cases through which the
products of combustion are conveyed before reaching the chimney. The
number of which secondary cases may be increased to any suitable extent.
. Further, I sometimes adopt a corrugated iron stove provided with a hot
water or steam boiler, the boiler being heated by the same fire as the stove;
likewise pipes may be introduced for generating steam, heating water, or
other uses, also tubes for heating air.
Having thus particularly described the nature of the said Invention, I
now proceed to particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the
same is to be performed by reference to the Drawings accompanying this
Specification, as follows:-
Fig. 1 vertical section, and Fig. 2 horizontal section, shewing the corrugated
iron applied to a common grate.
A is the fire-place; B, the case or body of the grate; C, the corrugated
iron; D, channel for conveying cold air to the grate; E, the channel for con-
veying warm air from the grate.
Fig. 3 vertical section, and Fig. 4 horizontal section of the corrugated
stove.
A, the furnace; B, the case of stove; C, the corrugated iron fastened
to the case of the stove with rivets, bolts, or other suitable means; D, the
channel for supplying cold air to the stove; E, the channel for conveying warm
air from the stove.
Fig. 5 is a vertical section, and Fig. 6 a horizontal section of the corrugated
stove with a secondary case, through which the products of combustion are
conveyed before reaching the chimney.

page_text: A, the furnace; B, the case of stove; C, the corrugated iron; D, the
channel for supplying cold air; E, the channel for conveying warm air from
the stove; F, the secondary case, through which the products of combustion
pass in course to the chimney. The number of these cases may be increased
to any suitable extent.
Fig. 7 is vertical section, and Fig. 8 a horizontal section of the corrugated
stove with the semicircular secondary case, through which the products of
combustion pass to the chimney. The same letters of reference are used in
said Figs. 7 and 8 as those adopted with regard to Figs. 5 and 6 as aforesaid.
Fig. 9 is a vertical section shewing the construction of the corrugated stove
with a coil for generating hot water. A, the furnace; B, the case of the
stove; C, the corrugated iron; D, the channel for supplying cold air; E, the
channel for conveying warm air from the stove; G, coil for generating hot
water. A boiler for generating either hot water or steam may be placed in
connection with the stoves.
The corrugated stoves shewn in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, are
shewn as constructed, in the first place, of plain sheets of iron, which I call
the case, to which corrugated iron is fastened by means of rivets (or otherwise),
such corrugated iron deriving its heat from the fire or flame through the case
of the stove, partly by radiation and partly by conduction; but these stoves
may be constructed without cases of plain sheets of iron, the corrugated
iron itself forming the case, and deriving its heat directly from the fire or
furnace.
Figures 10, 11, 12, and 13, will illustrate this mode of construction.
Fig. 10, is a vertical section, and Fig. 11, a horizontal section of a corrugated
iron stove, deriving its heat from gas jets.
A, A, are the gas jets, one for each corrugation; B, B, the corrugated case
deriving its heat directly from the gas jets; C is an ornimental enclosure for
the stove.
Fig. 12, is a vertical section at F, G, of a corrugated stove. This form of
stove is especially adapted for the use of cast iron or of fire-clay in its con-
struction.
A, the furnace; B, the corrugated case deriving its heat directly from the
furnace without the intervention of a plain case; D, the channels for supply-
ing cold air to the stove; E, the channel for conveying warm air from the
stove.
In all the accompanying Drawings wherever H is placed it denotes fire-brick
for protecting the stove from direct contact with the fire, and K denotes the
walls of masonry or brickwork in which the stoves are fixed. These improved

page_text: arrangements of stoves may however be used independently of any such walls
by providing outer cases for the same on a similar plan to that shewn at
Figs. 10 and 11 at C, C. Other modifications of the corrugated stove might
be shewn, but I consider what I have shewn and described as sufficient for the
practical man.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that what I claim as novel and original in respect of the said Invention is the
use of corrugated or undulated, or zig-zaged iron or fire-clay, or material in
the construction of stoves as herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gideon Blake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 24th day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand and eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
JOHN SHERWOOD,
Solicitor,
10, Spencer St.,
Leamington.
GIDEON BLAKE. (L.8.)