Improved Draughters for Fire Places.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
1 MATTHEW WILSON of Culmore Road Asylum Road, Peckham, Surrey, Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to manufacture improved draughters for Fire places
with ventilators to regulate the heat by opening more or less the valve or valves and
thus induce or determine the quantity of air passing through into the chimney.
These draughters may be composed of paper or of wood properly prepared to resist
the action of heat and fire or they may be of metal and of any desired shape or
configuration the ventilator being fitted in to form part of same.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said M. Wilson.
Improved Draughters for Fire Places.
1 MATTHEW WILSON of Culmore Road, Asylum Road, Peckham, Surrey, Gentleman
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:
The object of this invention is to manufacture improved draughters of fire places
with ventilators to regulate the heat by opening more or less the valve or valves and
thus reduce or determine the quantity of air passing through into the chimney.
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page_text: These draughters are preferably composed of metal of flat or curved form with
hangers or feet to enable them to rest upon the bars of a fire grate or to stand upon
the hearth, they may be rigid or be made to fold down by a division at the bottom
and to rest upon the fender or hearth front either directly or by flap hinged or other-
wise to lie horizontally to serve as plate warmers, each draughter being provided with
a butterfly valve, a slide valve, or it may be a flap valve capable of being opened or
closed to regulate the draught.
The appliance may be hung from the top of the fire opening or from the sides.
The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings in which at
Figures 1 and 2 I show elevation and section of a fire screen A provided with a
butterfly or circular reciprocating valve B fitted on the face thereof and capable of
being turned by the small button to the right or left to the desired extent and so regu-
late the air openings. This screen has two long feet C and two short feet D the latter
to rest inside the bars, and the longer feet serving as stays on the outside as indicated
at Figure 3 which shows one of my screens as a draughter in position.
The long feet C also serve as runners for entering between the bars and the bottom
grate as at Figure 4, the short feet fitting under the grate to give rigidity.
The opposite end of the screen has a fold down flap E to serve as a foot when the
screen is set as a plate warmer. This arrangement also assists the draught of air to
the fire by concentrating it under the screen and directing it into the ash pit. F.
The screen or draughter shown at Figures 5 and 6 has only short feet D, the long
feet, so to speak, being provided by an elongation G of the screen itself which
may be
hinged if desired.
These draughters may be ornamented to any desired extent and when not in use
for draughting purposes, may be employed as fire screens only.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :--
Providing a fire screen with ventilating valves capable of movement to serve as
draughter for regulating the admission of air to the chimney and also capable of
folding down or of being placed in a horizontal position to act as plate warmers and
as draughters to the ash pit as herein described and substantially as shown.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said M. Wilson.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said M. Wilson.