IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOMESTIC OR PLACES SIMILAR FIRE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Scott Morton, of Edinburgh, in the County of
Mid Lothian, North Britain, Decorative Architect, for an Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOMESTIC OR
PLACES
SIMILAR FIRE-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Scott Morton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1882.
WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North
Britain, Decorative Architect. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOMESTIC
OR SIMILAR FIREPLACES
ور
This Invention has for its object to introduce in connection with domestic or
similar fireplaces novel arrangements for containing supplies of coal or fuel; and
these arrangements whilst convenient and such as to utilise hitherto unoccupied
parts or spaces in a manner consistent with or conducive to the general ornamen-
tation, dispense with separate scuttles or coal boxes which notwithstanding the
waste of artistic effort that has been bestowed on them are generally unornamental
and unsightly
In one con-
The Invention is applicable with suitable modifications to various forms or
styles of fireplaces. In a fireplace having hobs at the sides of the grate the
Invention is carried out by fitting a movable panel in the front or vertical face of
cach or of one of the hobs and in utilising the space under the hob as a receptacle
for fuel, care being taken to provide an air space between the receptacle and the
grate to prevent the fuel in the receptacle from being overheated.
venient modification the panel is hinged or centered at the bottom and arranged to
be opened outwards to a convenient angle. A shell or box for the coals is fixed to
or formed in one piece with the panel so that when the panel is opened the coals
are drawn or tilted forward conveniently for being taken out. Or there may be a
separate loose box or shell for the coals, which box can be removed for filling or
CU

page_text: emptying and which may be placed within a shell or other holder provided on the
inner side of the panel.
In a common form of sitting-room fireplace having the grate in the middle of an
iron front or frame generally of an ornamental character and sometimes decorated
with tiles, a movable panel or door by preference of an ornamental character
consistent with the general design is by this Invention arranged at one side or at
each side of the grate and the fuel receptacle on the inner side of the panel may
be arranged like that for the hob fireplace or in any suitable manner.
cases in which from the construction of the fireplace the improved fuel receptacle
cannot be arranged between the fireplace and mantel piece it is by this Invention
arranged or constructed in the mantel piece itself.
And in

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Scott Morton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd December 1882.
WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North
Britain, Decorative Architect. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOMESTIC
OR SIMILAR FIREPLACES
"
My said Invention has for its object to introduce in connection with domestic or
similar fireplaces novel arrangements for containing supplies of coal or fuel; and
these arrangements whilst convenient and such as to utilise hitherto unoccupied
parts or spaces in a manner consistent with or conducive to the general ornamen-
tation, dispense with separate scuttles or coal boxes, which notwithstanding the
waste of artistic effort that has been bestowed on them are generally unornamental
and unsightly
My Invention is applicable, with suitable modifications to various forms or styles
of fireplaces. In a fireplace having hobs at the sides of the grate my Invention
is carried out by fitting a movable panel in the front or vertical face of each or of
one of the hobs, and in utilising the space under the hob as a receptacle for fuel
care being taken to provide an air space between the receptacle and the grate, to
prevent the fuel in the receptacle from becoming heated; or a non-conducting screen
may be inserted instead of or in addition to the air space. In one convenient
modification the panel is hinged or centered at the bottom and arranged to be
opened outwards to a convenient angle. A shell or box for the coals is fixed to or
formed in one piece with the panel so that when the panel is opened the coals aro
drawn or tilted forward conveniently for being taken out. Or there may be a
separate loose box or shell for the coals, which box can be removed for filling or
emptying, and which may be placed within a shell or other holder provided on
the inner side of the panel.
In a common form of sitting-room fireplace having the grate in the middle of an
iron front or frame, generally of an ornamental character and sometimes decorated
with tiles, a movable panel or door by preference of an ornamental character
consistent with the general design, is by my Invention arranged at one side or at
each side of the grate, and gives access to an internal fuel receptacle of any
convenient kind. And in cases in which from the construction of the fireplace
the improved fuel receptacle cannot be conveniently arranged between the grate
and the sides of the mantlepiece it is by my Invention arranged or constructed in
the mantelpiece itself
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and representing two examples of my improved fire-
places.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a front elevation of a
fireplace with hobs, figure, 2, is a horizontal section; and figures, 3, and 4, are
vertical sections showing a fuel receptacle as closed in one figure and as open in
the other. Figure, 5, is a front elevation of a fireplace with an ornamental front
and mantelpiece combined. In these drawings the same reference numerals are
used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In the arrangement shown in figures, 1, to +, each hob has a movable panel or
door, 6, fitted to its front or vertical face, each panel, 6, being hinged at the bottom
so as to open in the manner indicated in figure, 4. A movable shell or box, 7, is
in each case provided for the coals or fuel, and rests in and upon a holder, 8,
adapted to the shape of the bottom of the movable box, 7, and fixed or formed upon

page_text: the panel or door, 6. In order to prevent heat from the grate or firebox, 9, from
acting to an undesirable degree upon the fuel in the receptacles, 7, an air space, 10,
is provided between them, and in addition a slab, 11, of fire brick or other non-
⚫ conducting material is placed outside of each side plate of the grate, 9. Openings, 12,
are also provided to give access to air, which can circulate freely about the fuel
receptacles, 7, and pass off by upper openings to the chimney, or into the room.
In the fireplace shown in figure, 5, the movable panels or doors, 6, are arranged
at the sides of the fire grate, 9. The internal fuel receptacles may be like those
shown in figures 2, 3, 4, or they may be arranged in any other convenient.
way, and the doors or panels, 6, may be hinged at the side or bottom as may be
preferred.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same I have to state that I do not restrict myself to the precise
details herein described or delineated, but that what I believe to be novel and
original and claim as the Invention secured to me by and in terms of the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is :-
The constructing of domestic and similar fireplaces with fuel receptacles formed
in the hobs or sides substantially as herein before described
In Witness whereof, I, the said William Scott Morton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
Witness.
EDMUND HUNT.
Patent Agent
Glasgow.
W. SCOTT MORTON (L.S.)