US114075A - Improvement in fire-places - Google Patents

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J. E. WOOD. Improvement in-Fire-Place-s. 114,075. Patented Apri|25,i871.

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Letters Patent No. 114,015, dated April 25, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN FIRE-PLACES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part at the same.

I, JONATHAN E. W001), of Webster, in the county of hciota and-State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fire-Grate Tile, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of th'is'invention relates to the making of peculiar tiles of fire-clay, whichare burned in a kiln, and are set in the fire-place inthemanner represented in the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing-- Fignre l is a perspective view.

Fi ure 2 is a view of the diiferent tiles detached.

B represent the side tiles or jambs of the fireplace. The back edges are slanted, as seen, and against which the back tilesA and 0 rest.

The tiles 0 may be of the two forms represented, in order to make the opening below for a dust or ash-pit of two different sizes, as may be desired. 1

The fire-basket D sits jnsttat the top of the said opening.

When the tile 0, having the small opening in it, is in use, the jambs B B are slanted ofi clear down to the hearth, as seen by dotted line in fig. 2.

ing the whole a-very neat appearance.

Having described my invention,

The clay tiles A-B B 0, when made in the form and fitted together as represented, forming a fire-place having an inclined top and back and straight sides, as and for the purpose herein described.

J ONATHAN E. WOOD.

Witnesses:

MIRANDA SEARL, J. J. EMORY.

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