An Improved Ash and Fire Guard for Kitchen or other Open Grates.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1894-Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ash and Fire Guard for Kitchen or other
Open Grates.
JOHN TUCKER WILLIAMS 11 Ffynone Street Swansea Glamorganshire,.
Monumental Sculptor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
That inside the ash guard I provide a place or places for a slide or slides made
of sheet metal or wire netting or any suitable material, and to be fitted in such a
manner as would not make the guard unsightly and that at any time if required
the sheet metal slide may be raised up in front of the fire bars and secured by a
hook or hooks or in any suitable way to the height required at once stopping the
heat coming out into the room and a safe guard against sparks setting fire to.
anything and also be a great saving of fuel.
Dated this 21st day of August 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ash and Fire Guard for Kitchen or other
Open Grates.
I JOHN TUCKER WILLIAMS, of 11 Ffynone Street, Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan, Monumental Sculptor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to provide an improved ash and fire guard for
kitchen or other open grates so constructed that it can be extended at will before.
the fire bars to form a fire guard or closed to act as an ash guard only, and consists
essentially in connecting to the ash guard an extensible screen arranged free to
slide vertically in a telescopic or other manner to any required height in front of
the fire bars of the grate.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings :—
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of a combined ash and fire guard constructed
according to this invention, in which the screen a is shown in its lowered position,
in the ash guard front b.
Figs. 2, 3 and 4 represent the same in front elevation and in vertical and
horizontal section respectively, the screen a occupying its extended position, and a
hooked lever c connected to it engaging with the bars d and preventing it from.
falling down. The ashguard front b is bent round to form channels e in which the
edges of the screen or guard a slide.
Fig. 5 shows a front elevation of the same, the parts a and b being detached for
the admission of air through the space f which thus allows the screen a to act as a
blower. The guard or screen a may be made of wire gauze, netting, or perforated
plate as preferred.
Figs. 6 and 7 show a front elevation and part vertical section of a collapsable
ash and fire guard in its contracted condition as applied to an ordinary slow com-
bustion stove, and Figs. 8 and 9 represent the same in its extended form, as
when used as a combined ash and fireguard.

page_text: Several plates g are connected together by studs or rivets h working in slots i
which permit the fireguard to be extended before the bars or closed into the ash
guard at pleasure, as will be readily understood, the said fire guard being retained
in any desired position by means of the projecting arm / which engages with the
fire bars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A combined ash and fire guard comprising a screen sliding in the ash pan
front and held in any position by a hooked lever engaging with the fire bars the
whole arranged and constructed substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1
to 5 of the drawings.
2. A combined ash and fire guard arranged and constructed substantially as
described with reference to Figs. 6 to 9 of the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of May 1804
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.