Specification of Richard Weightman : register stoves, grates, &c.

  • Weightman, Richard.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Richard Weightman : register stoves, grates, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Weiglitmans Improved Stove or Grate. Both of these are moveable backwards or forwards by means of a worm or worms, a screw and handle, a key, or any contrivance that answers the same purpose, from the front or any other part of the stove or chimney front. The utility of this part of the Invention is to increase or diminish the space that 5 holds the fire, and when moved quite forward, the foot or shelf being drawn over the grating or bottom of the fire, or close under the same, prevents the air from leading the fire, and consequently it will go out, and when moved quite backwards the same foot or shelf uncovers the mouth of the inclosed ash¬ pit, box, or receiver (next to be described), into which the ashes, coals, and 10 fire may be thrown when not wanted in the fore part or body of the grate. For a further explanation of this, see the Drawings marked C and D. C represents the back of the stove next the fire; D, the back of the same next the brickwork of the chimney. The space under the fire is inclosed, which forms the ash-pit, box, or receiver before mentioned, and may be made of iron > • * ' 3 r 15 or other metal, of stone, bricks, or any production of nature or art, so that the same does not burn or consume, and is required to be made air-tight. In the front of this there is a contrivance to open and shut, by which the ash-pit, box, or receiver may be emptied of the ashes, cinders, and coals that fall from the fire, and into this ash-pit, box, or receiver external air, the air of the room, or 20 from any other part of the building, may be introduced by means of a hole, tube, or channel through the grating or bottom of the fire, which passing upwards through the body of the fuel in the grate causes the same to burn more briskly, and a slider or stop may be fixed to any part of the stove or room to shut the whole tube or channel through which the air comes, should 25 the fire burn too fast. The Drawing E represents the front of the inclosed ash-pit, box, or receiver. Any one or more or altogether of these improve¬ ments may be applied to all sorts of stoves or grates, either to the polished loose standing ones, or to the cast, fronted, Forrest, Bath, or pantheon stoves, as more fully appears by the Drawings F, G, H, and I. F represents a polished 30 or loose stove; G, a Forrest or Bath stove; H, a pantheon or circle stove; I, an inclosed or what is commonly called a register stove. The part of the improvements represented by the Drawings C and E is peculiarly useful wdien applied to kitchen grates, to which may be fixed a smoke jack with an additional power from the axle of the worm wheel by an extra pinion and 35 wheel, by which means the size of the jack is very much reduced, and con¬ sequently may be used to answer in the modern shallow chimnies where others could not be fixed, and will be found in most cases a compleat cure for smoky chimnies, as well as a great saving in the consumption of fuel. This more fully appears by the Drawing marked K, and when the chimney is a very