A NEW FIRE-GUARD STOVE, WHEREBY ACCIDENTS FROM FIRE IN HOUSES AND OTHER PLACES THAT HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN OCCASIONED BY GRATES AND STOVES MADE ON ANY OTHER CON- STRUCTION ARE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED, AND WHICH WILL RENDER THE USUAL FIRE GUARDS FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER PURPOSES UNNECESSARY
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING, I,
JOSHUA JOWETT, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Ironmonger,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of May,
in the forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said Joshua Jowett, His special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Joshua Jowett, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should and lawfully might during the term of years therein ex-
pressed make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, "A NEW FIRE-GUARD STOVE,
WHEREBY ACCIDENTS FROM FIRE IN HOUSES AND OTHER PLACES THAT HAVE
HERETOFORE BEEN OCCASIONED BY GRATES AND STOVES MADE ON ANY OTHER CON-
STRUCTION ARE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED, AND WHICH WILL RENDER THE USUAL
FIRE GUARDS FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER PURPOSES UNNECESSARY;" in which said

page_text: Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Joshua
Jowett, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joshua Jowett, do hereby declare that the following is a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my Invention, and of the manner in which the same is
to be performed (that is to say):-
:-
The fire guard may be attached or fixed to any stove which will admit of
two centers or pivots being placed perpendicular in front of the back or at the
back of the back of the stove, with a lever crank to each projecting from the
fire guard to guide the guard's action, the stove admitting of a groove on
either side for the guard to pass through as the levers shall direct; and when
such fire guard is so fixed or fastened to any such stove, it then becomes a fire-
guard stove. The fire guard may be made either of a solid plate or open work
of brass, iron, copper, plated or silver wire, or cast, stamped, or wrought open
work of any metal or compound of metals. The principle of the action of the
fire guard in conjunction with the stove is its being united to two centers or
pivots placed perpendicular one to the other, and is connected to the two centers
fixed to the stove by means of two lever cranks, one end of each being
fixed to the guard, and the other end of each to the centers or pivots, by which
the guard swings in a rotary direction, passing through a groove formed in the
stove on either side, to swing before the fire when required, and being brought
into use by means of a handle or nob fastened to the front edge of the frame
of the guard for that purpose; or, instead of drawing it out with the hand as
before described, it may be brought into use by means of a spring being
fastened to the crank, and pressing against the cheek ör back of the stove to
throw the guard forward; or by means of a balance fastened to any part of
such fire guard, and working with a line or chain through pullies fixed to the
stove, or by means of the combined force of the spring and balance. The
tire guard may, if thought necessary, be devided into two parts; yet, acting
upon the same principle, and in the same manner as is herein-before described,
except only that when the guard is divided, the stove may (if necessary) have a
groove on each side for the guards to pass through, instead of a groove on one

page_text: side as is berein-before mentioned, in which case the double guard will meet
or close in the center of the front of the fire.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this four-
teenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and four.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
WM. SPEAR, Gray's Inn.
Is. CECIL,
Clerk to Cardale Halward and Spear,
Gray's Inn.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of June, in the
forty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Joshua Jowett came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and thirty-
seventh years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand