IM- PROVEMENTS IN STOVE GRATES, FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF RADIATING HEAT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKING OR WARMING LARGE ROOMS."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas William Simmons, Stove Maker, of 76, Seymour
Street, Euston Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN STOVE GRATES, FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF RADIATING
HEAT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKING OR WARMING LARGE ROOMS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas William Simmons at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th June 1878.
THOMAS WILLIAM SIMMONS, Stove Maker, of 76, Seymour Street, Euston Square,
in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVE GRATES, FOR INCREASING
THE EFFICIENCY OF RADIATING HEAT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKING OR WARMING
LARGE ROOMS."
My Invention is applicable to the grates of any description of the usual houschold
stoves, and is particularly applicable to the description of grate known as the
kitchener, or hot-plate cooking apparatus, and the open fire hot-air stoves.
When applying my Invention to an ordinary kitchener or the usual household
stoves, I construct the fire opening with four or more recess plates, made partly or
wholly of cast iron or steel, or other suitable material.
These recess plates may be flat, or convex, or concave, or fluted, or any other
shape, to suit the design or pattern of the stove to be fitted with my Invention.
These plates may be formed separate and fitted together, or they may be formed
of one piece of metal, by being cast, or forged, or made of porcelain, as may be
required, to suit the design or pattern of the stove to be fitted with my Invention.
These improved plates may be either a separate part applicable to various descrip-
tions or patterns of grates, or may be attached to or fitted with a grate, so as to be
a component part of a complete grate.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas William Simmons in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th December 1878.
THOMAS WILLIAM SIMMONS, Stove Maker, of 76, Seymour St., Euston Square, in
the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVE GRATES, FOR INCREASING THE
EFFICIENCY OF RADIATING HEAT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKING OR WARMING
LARGE ROOMS."
My Invention is applicable to the grates of any description of the usual household
stoves, and is particularly applicable to the description of grate known as the
kitchener or hot-plate cooking apparatus, and the open fire hot-air stoves.
When applying my Invention to an ordinary kitchener, or the usual household
stoves, I construct the fire opening with one, two, or more recess plates, made partly
or wholly of cast iron or steel, or other suitable material.
These recess plates may be flat, or convex, or concave, or fluted, or any other
shape, to suit the design or pattern of the stove to be fitted with my Invention.
These plates may be formed separate and fitted together, or they may be formed
of one piece of metal by being cast or forged, or made of porcelain, as may be
required to suit the design or pattern of the stove to be fitted with my Invention.
These improved plates may be cither a separate part applicable to various patterns
or descriptions of grates, or may be attached to or fitted with a grate, so as to be a
component part of a complete grate.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood, I will in this place refer to
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1, front elevation, represents my
Invention as fitted and attached so as to be a component part of a complete
kitchener. Section, Fig. 2, explains positions of recess plates and draught cheek,
In the said Figures, A are the recess plates; B is the draught cheek; C, the ashes
drawer; D, the kitchener front; E, the top of kitchener; F, fire bottom bars; and
G, the front fire bars.
Having now fully described and indicated the nature of my Invention, and the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I would in conclusion have it
understood that I claim the employment of these plates and cheeks in one, two, or
more, for the purposes therein indicated, fitted, and arranged as herein-before set
forth and indicated, or any slight modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas William Simmons, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,
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ΕΥΤΙΚΑ ΓΑΝΤΩ
(L.S.)
STATUTETTAL SHOTTT