IMPROVED GAS FIRES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Robert Breach, of 4,
Bridgewater-Square,
Barbican, City of London, Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
GAS FIRES."
Sealed the 13th February 1872, and dated the 21st August 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Robert Breach
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st August 1871.
I, JOHN ROBERT BREACH, of 4, Bridgewater Square, Barbican, Oity
of London, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED GAS FIRES," to be as follows:-
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My apparatus for producing a fire in the ordinary fire-place by gas
instead of coals or coke is made of fire-brick or other suitable material
of various shapes-to-fit-the-fire-place-where-it-is-intended-to-be used.
The back of the apparatus is a solid piece, and the front, top, and
sides are made as a cover to the back, leaving a space between the
inside of the front and the back of about half an inch. The bottom of
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page_text: the front part is left sufficiently open to introduce gas burners, and
at the top of the back I leave a small opening to carry into the chimney
of the room any fumes that may remain when the gas is burning. I
find that the flames from the gas burners being confined in the narrow
space aforementioned, the front, top, and sides of the apparatus become i
red hot, thus giving the appearance and the genial heat of a coke fire.
I do not confine myself to the use of gas from coal, but use paraffin,
naptha, oil, or similar agents where they are preferable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Robert Breach in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th February 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ROBERT BREACH, of 4, Bridgewater Square, Barbican, City of London,
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Robert Breach, Her special licence.
that I, the said John Robert Breach, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Robert Breach, 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 "IMPROVED GAS FIRES." upon
the condition (amongst others), that I, the said John Robert Breach,
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 John Robert Breach, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is :

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
My apparatus for producing a fire in the ordinary fire-place. by gas
instead of coals or coke is made of fire-brick or other suitable material
3 of various shapes to fit the fire-place where it is intended to be used.
The back of the apparatus is a solid piece, and the front, top, and
sides are made as a cover to the back, leaving a space between the
inside of the front and the back of about half an inch. The bottom of
the front part is left sufficiently open to introduce gas, burners, and at
the top of the back I leave a small opening to carry into the chimney
of the room any fumes that- may remain when the gas is burning. I
find that the flames from the gas burners being confined in the narrow
space aforementioned, the front, top, and sides of the apparatus become
red hot, thus giving the appearance and the genial heat of a coke fire.
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I do not confine myself to the use of gas from coal, but uso paraffin,
naphtha, oil, or similar agents where they are preferable. The manner
the same is to be performed is,—
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First. I make the apparatus as before described of any required
shape to fit the fire-place for which it is intended.
Second. I place at the bottom of the apparatus between the covering
and the back ordinary gas burners, or gas and air burners, and light
these so as to burn the gas or gas and air mixed in the narrow space
provided for that purpose.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I.claim, the arrango-
ment of the gas or gas and air burners in the manner described. :
In witness whereof, I, the said John Robert Breach, have hereunto
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set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN ROBERT BREACH. (L.S.)