Specification of Thomas Deakin : register stove and apparatus for supplying coal thereto.

  • Deakin, Thomas.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Deakin : register stove and apparatus for supplying coal thereto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deakin s Improved Stove Grate or Fire-place. meet, their Invention of “ A new and impeoved Stove Geate oe Fiee-place in which said Letters Patent are contained a proviso for making the same void in case the said Thomas Deakin and John Richard Haynes, or one of them, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing 5 under their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear. 10 NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Thomas Deakin, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven¬ tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed (that is to say) :— We make of iron or other metal a reservoir or box to supply a stove with coals, which reservoir or box we place behind the fire part of the stove, as shewn 15 a, a, in the Drawing hereto annexed. In this box and the fire part communi¬ cating therewith, coals are intended to be put once in each day. I he box and fire part should be made of capacity to contain coals sufficient for one day’s consumption. As the coals in the fire part consume, others in the box are wound out of it into the fire by a screw B in the Drawing acting upon a plate within 20 the box, as after-mentioned; this screw may be turned by a poker or any other pointed instrument, for which purpose the head of the screw should be perforated with holes; the screw passes under the fire part, and the head of it is seen beneath the front of it at C in the Drawing annexed. This screw passes to and works in a female screw in an arm attached to a plate within the box, 25 shewn in the annexed Drawing by dotted lines. When the screw is turned one way, it propels the plate forward, and thereby drives the coals into the fire part; when the screw is turned the contrary way, it moves the the plate backwards. Above the fire and over the mouth or entrance from the fire part to the box, we form a register, as at D in the annexed Drawing, regulating an opening E 30 communicating with the chimney, by and through which opening the effluvia which arises from the burning coals is carried off; I say effluvia, because the coals passing horizontally into the fire, the smoke is partially or wholly con¬ sumed. This register we make to slide up and down in a frame, and the register and its frame may be drawn out (the frame working with pins in 35 sockets) to carry off the smoke which necessarily arises at first lighting the fire ; but when once the fire has burnt clear, it is intended to push in the register and draw it nearly down. The other parts of the stove are made in the usual manner, of iron or other metals, and of various shapes according to .the fancy