A Description of a New-Invented Stove-Grate / Shewing Its Uses and Advantages Over All Others, Both in Point of Expence, and Every Purpose of a Chamber Fire

A DESCRIPTION Of a New-Invented Stove-Grate ,
SHEWING ITS Uses and Advantages OVER ALL OTHERS; Both in Point of Expence, and every Purpose of a ChamberFire.
LONDON : Printed by J. Towers in Piccadilly ;
And published by the Inventor, J. Durno, and sold by him at his House in Jermyn-Street ; R. Davis, the Corner of Sackville-Street, Piccadilly ; and M. Cooper in Paternoster-Row . 1753.
The State of the Weather in this Island is so extremely variable and uncertain, that the Inhabitants are obliged to keep Fires to sit by near Eight Months in the Year.
And ever since the Duty laid upon Coals, the Article of Fire has been so very expensive in many Parts of the Kingdom, particularly in this Metropolis, that it is to be hoped, any Attempt to make our Rooms more warm and comfortable, and that at a much less Expence than usual; always free from Smoke, and equally chearful as with the common Fires; will meet with the Favour of the Publick.
These are some of the Advantages proposed by a new-invented Stove-Grate, the Description and Uses whereof are contained in the following Sheets.
And surely, if ever any Invention, discovered by a Mechanick, deserved the Attention of the Publick, this may justly lay claim to it; since not only every Family, but every Individual, is in some degree interested in it; and more especially as it is not offered as uncertain Theory, but its Uses and Advantages, over all others, have been confirmed by Trial and Experience: For one of the smallest Size of these Stove-Grates has been set up, ever since the beginning of last Winter, in a common Room at the Inventor’s House, where several curious and ingenious Persons have been to see and observe the Effects of it; and it has appeared to the Satisfaction of the best Judges, that this same Room, built of common Quartering, and covered with Laths and Plaister,
with a Pair of large folding Doors at one End, and a Door opening to the Stair Case at the other End, in which four or five Pecks of Coals had usually been consumed every Day in a common Grate and Chimney, has been kept warm, ever since the New Stove was erected, with no greater Quantity than one Peck of Coals a Day; and with this singular Advantage, that the Warmth is diffused, more regularly and uniformly, over the whole Room, than it was before.