Improvements for Making Certain Parts of Fire-grates Easily Accessible for Inserting Tiles or other Ornamentation.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1898
Improvements for Making Certain Parts of Fire-grates Easily
Accessible for Inserting Tiles or other Ornamentation.
FRANCIS NEWCOME BUTLER, The High School, Minehead, Somerset, School-
Master, 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:
The object of my invention is to make it possible without the aid of screws, lugs
or similar contrivances to fix or remove the tiles, ornamental plate or other orna-
mentation forming the cheeks or panels of fire-grates after the fire-grates have
been fixed in the walls.
To effect this I make a part or the whole of the outer or inner or both jamb
moulds on each side of the fire-grate removable-preferably the outer.
In making a fire-grate according to my invention, I make a part or the whole
of the jamb-mould removable either throughout the whole or a part both of its
length and width. At each end of the removable jamb-mould I form a rounded
ridge or dove-tail sloping downwards and inwards and in each case fitting into a
rounded or dove-tailed groove made at or near the extreme bottom of the upper
unremovable part of the jamb-mould and at the top of the lower unremovable part
of the jamb-mould.
Both the interior jamb-moulds must be so made that a part of their edges over-
laps the panel of tiles or other ornamentation, and the edges of the two outer jamb-
moulds made according to my invention must overlap in like manner, but in such
a way as not to interfere with the working of the dove-tails.
After the fire-grate has been fixed the space at the back of the tiled-cheek or
other ornamentation must be filled in with suitable materials leaving a smooth
surface for the tiles or other ornamentation to rest against, sufficient space only
being left between the filling and the jamb-moulds to hold the tiles or other orna-
mentation firmly in position.
The tiles or ornamentation can then be slipped into position by taking out the
removable part of the jamb-mould, which is again put into position as soon as the
whole of the tiles or ornamentation has been inserted. In this way the ornamenta-
tion or tiles are held firmly in position, and in case of grates already fixed can
readily be removed or renewed at any time by removing the removable part of the
jamb mould.
I will now describe with regard to the accompanying drawing the way in which
my invention is to be carried out.
Figure 1 shows the application of my invention to a grate.
Figure 1 represents the plan showing the usual position of the jamb-mould.
Figure 2 represents an enlarged elevation of a part of the jamb-mould.
Figure 3 represents the side elevation of a part of the jamb-mould showing the
slope of the dove-tails in the removable parts.
Figure 4 represents the side elevation of a part of the jamb-mould showing the
way in which the dove-tails and grooves are used.
A, a, are the two sides of the lower parts of the jamb-mould which form one piece
with the rest of the grate and are not removable.

page_text: C, c, are the corresponding sides of the top parts of the jamb-mould forming one
piece with the rest of the grate and are unremovable.
B, b, are the two portions of the jamb-mould either of which may be made
separately removable or both may be made in one piece and removable.
The removable portions B, b, may be extended, if required, to the whole lengt
as at or about E for inserting longer tiles or ornamentation.
D), is the tiles or ornamentation.
After the space behind D) has been suitably filled in, take out the removable
part B of the jamb-mould and in the opening left there insert the tiles or other
ornamentation 1) from the bottom, pushing them upwards till the whole orna
mentation is inserted, then push the jamb-mould B into the grooves in C, and A,
when the whole is held in position by the two overlapping edges of the jamb-
moulds.
The grooves and dove-tails shown in Figure 4 A, B, and C may run either
throughout the whole thickness of the jamb-mould or partly throughout its
thickness.
my
inven-
I do not limit myself to any particular measurements in any part of
tion, as these may be varied to suit the particular kinds of grates with which they
are to be used. In grates having tiles or ornamentation in the top canopy F the
jamb or horizontal moulds may be made removable in a similar manner to that
indicated above.
The shape of the jamb-moulds may be varied, that is, they may be straight or
curved and so forth and may be ornamented or plain, as in every case the dove-
tails and grooves and other details of my invention would be employed in sub-
stantially the same manner.
My improvements may be used for holding tiles or any other kind of ornamenta-
tion of any suitable kind or shape, and with any kind of suitable grate.
The outer jamb-moulds, where desired, may be made of wood instead of iron or
any other material or substance, and in this case it would be desirable to have the
whole length of the jamb-mould from B to E in Figure 1, made removable in one
piece.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The improvements for fixing or removing, without the aid of screws, lugs, or
similar contrivances, the tiles, ornamental plate or other ornamentation forming
the cheeks, or panels of fire-grates, after the fire-grates have been fixed, as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, that is to say,-
making the whole or a part of the outer or inner or any member of the jamb-moulds
on each side or at the top of the grate removable by means of grooves and dove-
tails, which grooves and dovetails and other parts of the grate with which they
are to be used are constructed and combined or arranged substantially as above
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said Francis Newcome Butler have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord One 4
thousand eight hundred and ninety eight.
Witness:
WM. TAMLYN,
Minehead.
FRANCIS NEWCOME BUTLER.