Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
264 words
A combined stove and fireplace assembly including a housing having interconnected opposite side, front, rear, and top and bottom walls, said front wall having a large opening formed therein whose upstanding side edges are spaced inwardly of said side walls, a pair of opposite side closure doors hingedly supported from opposite side portions of said front wall and swingable horizontally between coplanar positions closing said opening with their free swinging edges in close juxtaposition and open positions with said doors swung outwardly and rearwardly into position closely paralleling the outer surfaces of the forward portions of said side walls, a rear portion of said assembly having a flue outlet opening formed therein, said front wall including a horizontally outwardly projecting hearth spaced slightly below the lower marginal poertion of said large opening, an upright screen structure having front and rear sides and support legs including at least portions thereof spaced forward of the opposite side marginal portions of said screen structure, said screen structure, including said legs being removably positionable on said hearth with the periphery of said screen structure at least closely juxtaposition the outer surfaces of said front wall extending about said large opening, said hearth including a raised curb extending about its outer periphery, said curb including opposite end inwardly curving portions, said legs being closely embraced by said inwardly curving portions of said curb when said screen structure is disposed on said hearth, whereby said inwardly curving curb portions serve to limit forward displacement and lateral shifting of said legs, and thus said screen structure, relative to said large opening.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
264 words
A combined stove and fireplace assembly including a housing having interconnected opposite side, front, rear, and top and bottom walls, said front wall having a large opening formed therein whose upstanding side edges are spaced inwardly of said side walls, a pair of opposite side closure doors hingedly supported from opposite side portions of said front wall and swingable horizontally between coplanar positions closing said opening with their free swinging edges in close juxtaposition and open positions with said doors swung outwardly and rearwardly into position closely paralleling the outer surfaces of the forward portions of said side walls, a rear portion of said assembly having a flue outlet opening formed therein, said front wall including a horizontally outwardly projecting hearth spaced slightly below the lower marginal poertion of said large opening, an upright screen structure having front and rear sides and support legs including at least portions thereof spaced forward of the opposite side marginal portions of said screen structure, said screen structure, including said legs being removably positionable on said hearth with the periphery of said screen structure at least closely juxtaposition the outer surfaces of said front wall extending about said large opening, said hearth including a raised curb extending about its outer periphery, said curb including opposite end inwardly curving portions, said legs being closely embraced by said inwardly curving portions of said curb when said screen structure is disposed on said hearth, whereby said inwardly curving curb portions serve to limit forward displacement and lateral shifting of said legs, and thus said screen structure, relative to said large opening.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
The combination of claim 1 wherein said bottom wall and the lower portions of said rear and side walls include fireproof materials lining their inner surfaces.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The combination of claim 1 wherein said doors include draft air openings formed therethrough and damper means operative to selectively close said draft air openings.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
51 words
The combination of claim 1 wherein said front and rear portions of said top wall comprise low and higher elevation portions whose rear and front marginal portions are interconnected by means of a rearwardly and upwardly inclined intermediate portion, said rear portion of said top wall having said flue opening therein.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
40 words
The combination of claim 4 wherein said housing includes a warming plate supported therefrom for vertical adjustment relative thereto and positioned in spaced relation above at least one rear corner portion of said higher elevation portion of said top wall.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
27 words
The combination of claim 1 wherein said front wall includes a downwardly inclined eyebrow spaced above and extending along the upper marginal edge of sid large opening.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
The combination of claim 1 wherein said front wall includes an outwardly opening channel member extending about said large opening, said doors including inwardly opening peripheral channel portions interdigitated with said channel member when said doors are in the closed positions thereof.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
37 words
The combination of claim 4 including a convection air passage defining plate generally paralleling and supported from said rear wall in spaced relation rearwardly thereof, the lower end of said plate projecting downwardly below said bottom wall.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
38 words
The combination of claim 8 wherein said plate is slightly upwardly convergent toward said rear wall and includes forwardly directed flanges closing the opposite sides of the convention air passage defined between said plate and said rear wall.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
93 words
The combination of claim 9, includng a horizontal warming plate provided at each rear corner of said top wall including an eccentrically disposed depending threaded support shank threadedly supported from the corresponding rear corner portion of said assembly, said plates being vertically threadedly adjustable relative to said assembly and selectively swingable between positions substantially vertically registered with adjacent portions of said top wall, substantially fully out of vertical registry with said top wall and in vertical registry with the adjacent corresponding side portions of the upper discharge end of said convection air passage.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
114 words
A combined stove and fireplace assembly including a housing having interconnected opposite, side, front, rear and top and bottom walls, said front wall having a large opening formed therein, a closure shiftably supported from said housing into and out of closing relation with said opening, a horizontal warming plate provided at each rear corner of said top wall including an eccentrically disposed depending threaded support shank threadedly supported from the corresponding rear corner portion of said assembly, said plates being vertically threadedly adjustable relative to said assembly and selectively swingable between positions substantially fully vertically registered with adjacent portions of said top wall and substantially fully out of vertical registry with said top wall.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
114 words
A combined stove and fireplace assembly including a housing having interconnected opposite, side, front, rear and top and bottom walls, said front wall having a large opening formed therein, a closure shiftably supported from said housing into and out of closing relation with said opening, a horizontal warming plate provided at each rear corner of said top wall including an eccentrically disposed depending threaded support shank threadedly supported from the corresponding rear corner portion of said assembly, said plates being vertically threadedly adjustable relative to said assembly and selectively swingable between positions substantially fully vertically registered with adjacent portions of said top wall and substantially fully out of vertical registry with said top wall.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
66 words
The combination of claim 11 including a convection air passage defining plate generally paralleling and supported from said rear wall in spaced relation rearwardly thereof, the lower end of said plate projecting downwardly below said bottom wall, said warming plates also being swingable inwardly toward each other in vertical registry with the adjacent corresponding side portions of the upper discharge end of said convection air passage.