US552282A

US552282A - Fireplace-grate

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Publication number: US552282A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1912-12-31

Description

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w. E. FITCH. FIREPLACE GRATE.

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W. B. PITCH. FIREPLACE GRATE.

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Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEETQE.

IVILLIAM E. FITCH, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

FIREPLACE-G RATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 552,282, dated December 31, 1895.

Application filed August 18, 1893. Serial No- 483,466. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM E. FITCH, a citizen of the United States. residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Portable Fireplaces,

of which the following is a full, clear, and

exact description.

This invention relates to that class of portable fireplaces which comprise a back or lining and a grate proper, and the object of my invention is twofold, namely-first, to supply such fireplaces with a basket front by which the fire may be controlled or regulated and by which also the ashes may be kept within the fireplacethat is to say, may be prevented from falling out into the roomand, second, to provide for such fireplaces what is known in the trade as a summer front, by means of which the fireplace may be closed up and be given a presentable appearance when not in use.

Having thus stated the principle of my invention, I will proceed now to set forth the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, and then will particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement or combination which I claim as my invention.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssection taken in the plane of line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section, on a larger scale, of the double-basket front and its connections; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modification. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line 4, Fig. 4, of one end of the double-basket front; and Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section taken in the plane of line 5 5, Fig. 1.

The back or lining herein shown is composed of the rear wall a and side walls b, which are made with the rabbet or molding c to receive the firebrick or tile (Z, and these walls are also adapted to receive and support the grate c, which may be of any approved construction. This back or lining is also supplied with a top f, which is provided with dampers g and h, one of which, as g, may be made of a fixed grid and a sliding grid movable above or upon the fixed grid, like a common stove-damper, and either or both of which may be hinged to the top so as to be capable of being turned up, as in Fig. 5. I do not limit my invention, however", to a top having a damper or dampers, and yet I prefer to employ dampers at that point for obtaining the best results in starting and maintaining the fire. The facing is composed of the pilasters Z i and hooded cross-piece 70, made in three, more or less, pieces and suitably secured to the back.

The basket or front of the grate is composed of a grid Z having rearwardly-projecting hooks m, which enter slots n in the molding c and engage the edges of such slots to hold such grid in position to confine the fuel.

0 is a grid having the movable grid 0 fitted to it to form a damper. This grid 0 is made with the rearwardly-turned top o ,which overlaps the grid Z. The grid 0 is secured to the grid Zby buttons or other fastenings 0 at the top and by resting against one or more projections 0 at the bottom of grid Z. It will be observed that the grids Z and o are separated from one another by a considerable space 1), and into this space fall the ashes and cinders which escape through the grid Z. The grids Z and o 0 constitute what I call the doublebasket front with damper. Below the damper composed of the grids 0 and o I arrange the base-damper, ash-guard 0r crown-piece 9", which may be composed of a suitable fiXed grid and a sliding grid. This base-damper is of suitable configuration or design to make a pleasing finish, and in the preferred form its sides overlap the pilasters Z Z, as seen in Fig. 1. The lower edge of the double-basket front rests upon or meets the upper edge of the base-damper, and between and beyond them projects the shakersocket s. The ashes and cinders falling through space p are concealed by and confined behind the base-damper.

The summer front t, so called, as above stated, is a casting of ornamental construe tion and adapted to be fitted and held between the hooded cross-piece 7c and the top of the double-basket front, and for this purpose said summer front may be made longer than the opening above the double-basket front so as to be slipped up behind and within the frame until its hook t is free to be passed behind the inneredge of the double-basket front, when it is dropped down upon the upper edge of such front. Lugs 10 u projecting inwardly from the pilasters support the summer front from falling in. (See dotted lines, Fig. 1 and in Figs. 2 and 5.) In Figs. 4 and 4: I have shown the double-basket front having the grid Zprovided with the outwardly-turned top 0 instead of having an inwardly-turned top on the grid 0, and I have shown said grid 0 secured to grid Z by screw-bolts r fitted to sockets w on grid 1. In Fig. i the return end 0" of the grid 0 is shown in detail, as is also the screw-bolt 'v.

The base and double-basket-front dampers in connection with the chimney-flue connection, whatever it may be, whether a simple opening in the back or the dampers shown in the drawings, make it possible to control the fire very perfectly and to maintain a fire for a considerable length of time. Moreover, the ash-guard and the double-basket front confine the ashes and cinders within the fireplace and concealed from view. In addition to these practically useful functions, the ashguard and double-basket front and the summer front add materially to the appearance and finish of the article.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A portable fire-place having a double basket front provided with a damper, and a grate having a front grid to which the double basket front is secured, substantially as described.

2. In a portable fire-place, a double basket front, composed of a grate and a grid therefor to confine the fuel, and a damper-grid secured to and in front of such first-named grid and separated therefrom by a space sufficient to permit the escape of ashes and cinders, substantially as described.

3. In a portable fire-place, a double basket front composed of a grate and a grid therefor to confine the fuel and a damper-grid secured to and in front of such first-named grid, and separated therefrom by an ash and cinder space, and a top extending between the fuel grid and the damper-grid to cover such space, substantially as described.

4. As an improved article of manufacture, a portable fire-place composed essentially of a double basket front having a damper, an ash-guard 0r base-damper, a facing, a summer front confined between such basket damper and facing, a grate and a lining or back, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of August, A. D. 1893.

WILLIAM E. FITCH. \Vitnesses:

EAGAN M. BIGLEY, W. T. HALE.