Improvements in Gas Fires.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
I, WILLIAM BRUCE DICK of Lytton House, Putney Hill, London, Manu-
facturer of Fire Appliances and Gas Stoves do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in gas fires and has for its object simplicity
in construction and less consumption of gas.
The invention consists of a hollow casting of iron or other suitable metal or
material, and of any suitable shape, and fitting into this casting there is a brick
preferably curved having a series of rows of narrow slots or cut-outs and between
these rows there are small holes into which pencils of asbestos are placed..
Between the casting and brick there is a sheet of gauze which prevents any
firing back. At one end of the casting there is a hole into which a Bunsen
bulb or other suitable bulb is attached. As the gas passes through the bulb it
fills the chamber in the casting and oozes through the perforations in the gauze
and out of the slots or cut-outs when it is lit and a fine and regular heat is
given off.
Dated this 5th day of August 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas Fires.
I, WILLIAM BRUCE DICK, of Lytton House, Putney Hill, London, Manu-
facturer of Fire Appliances and Gas Stores, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in gas fires, and has for its object simplicity
in construction and less consumption of gas.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings which I will now
proceed to describe.
Figure 1 is a front elevation showing my improvements.
Figure 2 is a section.
The invention consists of a hollow casting A of iron or other suitable metal or
material and of any suitable shape, and fitting into this casting there is a brick B
preferably curved having a series of rows of narrow slots or cut-outs C which
constitute the burners, and between these rows there are small holes D, into which
pencils of asbestos H are placed with their outer ends fluffed as shewn. Between
the casting and brick there is a sheet of gauze E which prevents any firing back.
At one end of the casting there is a hole into which the tube F for supplying the
gas is fixed. As the gas passes through the tube it fills the chamber G in the
casting A, and oozes through the perforations in the gauze E and out of the slots
or cut-outs C, when it is lit, and a fine and regular heat is given off.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In gas fires, the combination of the hollow casting A, brick B, slots C, and
holes D, with asbestos pencils H, and gauze E, all arranged substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 27th day of May 1893.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents,