Specification of Louis Joseph Francois Julien Count de Robien : Fire-places.

  • Robien, Louis Joseph Francois Julien, comte de.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Louis Joseph Francois Julien Count de Robien : Fire-places. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    %'. Holiens Invention of a Fire-place. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Louis Joseph Francois Julien Count de Robicn, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the plan and description thereof hereunto annexed, and in manner following (that is to say):— This oeconomical stove is of a circular, ellyptical, or rectangular form. It 5 stands detached, and is brought forward into the room. It is furnished with a moveable reflector of a spherical, ellyptical, flat, or cylindrical form. This reflector has a cover of similar shapes, or even flat. This stove has a hole in its centre, in which is fixed a hollow channel in a perpendicular or inclined position, projecting below and above the grate 10 of the stove ; but the upper part of this channel is pierced to admit the air ascending from below to the fire in the grate. The construction must vary according to the construction of the chimnies to which it is applied. The reflector and cover may be suspended by a collar, a pin, or by the supporters, or by a chain inclining from the reflector. The annexed Drawing and the 15 explanatory references will be found to answer the above description. The advantages derived from this stove are the following:—A greater quantity of heat from the same quantity of fuel used in common stoves, and consequently a saving in the fuel, as the reflector throws the heat into the room, or upon the stove itself, if required, as is the case in kitchen ranges or forges, where 20 the greatest part of the heat is lost in chimnies constructed in the common manner. In kitchen chimnies, the reflector throwing back upon the stove the heat (which commonly ascends through the chimney), it surrounds the vessels placed upon the fire, and accelerates the boiling of meat, vegetables, See. In forges the reflector gathers and concentrates the heat upon the metals to be 25 heated. Heat flues, or pipes for communicating the heat, may also be adapted to this oeconomical stove or grate (as will be seen by the annexed Drawing), and may be used to great advantage. This stove or grate is a more certain preventive of smoke, as it prevents the smoke of the adjacent flues from coming into the room. The cover of the reflector is an additional 30 means of preventing smoke in case it should be brought back again by the cylindric aperture through which it escapes, as it forms a reservoir, where, meeting with the least resistance, it is carried. The vertical channel or flue in the middle of the grate causes a more perfect combustion by the free cir¬ culation of air, and by that means diminishes the quantity of smoke. In 35 short, none of the heat produced by the fire is lost, but all reflected into the room, upon the vessels on the lire, or upon the metals which are heated in a forge. The Drawings hereunto annexed, and forming part of this my Speci¬ fication, will serve further to explain the principles of my said Invention, as
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