Improvements in Warming Stoves.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Warming Stoves.
We, ELIZA THORPE, formerly ELIZA RIPPINGILLE, Lamp and Stove Manu-
facturer, and WILLIAM BRANDON, Foreman, both of The Albion Lamp Company,
Aston Brook Lamp Works, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object a cheap and simple method of imitating in
warming stoves heated by oil or gas the appearance of an ordinary coal fire.
We, by preference, apply to an ordinary warming stove heated by oil or gas,
imitation grate bars and ash-pan as heretofore; and we close the front light
opening of the stove with strips of suitably colored glass, in front of or behind
which we place a sheet of cast or sheet metal or other suitable opaque material
shaped and perforated to imitate lumps of fuel and held in position by suitable
clips or other fastening means.
This arrangement may be used either alone or in combination with a piece of
metal stamped to imitate in shape a mass of fuel and placed at an angle within the
front light opening, as described in Specification No. 9360 of the year 1895.
Dated this 14th day of January 1896.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
We, ELIZA THORPE, formerly ELIZA RIPPINGILLE, Lamp and Stove Manu-
facturer and WILLIAM BRANDON, Foreman, both of The Albion Lamp Company,
Aston Brook Lamp Works, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The invention has for its object a cheap and simple method of imitating in
warming stoves heated by oil or gas the appearance of an ordinary coal fire.
We by preference apply to an ordinary warming stove heated by oil or gas
imitation grate bars and ash pan preferably as shown and described in the
Specification of Patent No. 9360 of the year 1895 and we close the front light
opening of the stove with strips of suitably colored glass, in front or behind which
we place a sheet or screen of cast or sheet metal or other suitable opaque material
shaped and perforated to imitate lumps of fuel, smoke and flames and held in
position by suitable clips or other fastening means.
This arrangement may be used either alone or in combination with a piece of
metal stamped to imitate in shape a mass of fuel and placed at an angle within the
front light opening at the base thereof as described in aforesaid specification.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a
vertical cross section of the improved warming stove, Fig. 2 is a front view,

page_text: Fig. 3 is a horizontal section and Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section drawn to a larger
scale of the fire imitation screen separately.
The main parts of the stove shown at Fig. 1 are of any ordinary construction
and as shown may consist of an external case or body a having a perforated dome
or cover band a front opening formed with inclined sides a' and closed at the inner
or back end with strips of coloured, generally ruby glass a. c represents an oil
lamp placed in the interior of the case or body a and which may be of any ordinary
or well known description.
To the front of the case or body a is fixed as heretofore a plate d formed with
an opening d¹ of any ornamental form, and fitted with bars d to represent an
ordinary fire grate but other suitable arrangements may be adopted to effect this
object.
Within the opening of the stove, behind, or it may be in front of, the glass a
we fix a sheet or screen e of cast or sheet metal or other suitable opaque material
shaped and perforated to imitate lumps of coal, smoke and flames, see Fig. 2, such
sheet e being held in position by wires e fastened to the inclined sides a¹ of the
front opening and passed through holes in the screen e or through lugs e formed
on the latter and bent to secure the parts together or other suitable fastening
means may be employed.
This arrangement of opaque perforated sheet e with colored glass a³ may be used
either alone or as shown in the drawings in combination with a piece of metal e
stamped to imitate in shape a mass of fuel and placed at an angle within the front
light opening as described in the aforesaid specification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In warming stoves the combination with a colored glass front of a sheet or
screen e of metal or other suitable opaque material shaped and perforated to
imitate lumps of fuel, smoke and flames, substantially as herein shown and
described.
2. In warming stoves the improved combination and arrangement of parts for
imitating the appearance of an ordinary coal fire substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dated October 14th 1896.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.