Improvements in Stove Guards, Fire Guards, Clothes Horses, and the like
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 3rd Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stove Guards, Fire Guards, Clothes Horses, and
the like.
I WILLIAM RICHARD HATTON of 316 Latimer Road Wormwood Scrubs
London W. Starch and Blue Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved stove guard, fire guard clothes horse
and the like and is constructed of metal uprights and bars, or of corrugated iron or
other sheets having arms & bars attached. The uprights or sheets are fitted with
stout heavy feet which enable the guard or clothes horse to stand firmly round a
stove. Instead of the arms & bars being attached to the shects, the sheets which
may consist of zinc or galvanized or corrugated iron or of any other metallic or
non-combustible material, may be attached to the uprights or bars by means of
brackets which holds the sheet some three or four inches from the bars thus the
bars whilst supporting the sheets may be utilized for hanging clothes on for the
purposes of drying, at the same time the sheets act as a guard and protect
the workers from the heat of the stove.
Dated 10th Jane of T... 1006
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stove Guards, Fire Guards, Clothes Horses, and
the like.
1, WILLIAM RICHARD HATTON, of 316 Latimer Road Wormwood Scrubs,
London W. Starch and Blue Manufacturer 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 consists of an improved stove guard, fire guard, clothes horse
and the like, and is constructed of metal uprights and bars, or of corrugated iron
or other sheets having arms and bars attached. The uprights or sheets are fitted
with stout heavy feet, which enable the guard or clothes horse to stand firmly
round a stove. Instead of the arms and bars being attached to the sheets the
sheets which may consist of zinc or galvanized or corrugated iron or of any other
metallic or non-combustible material may be attached to the uprights or bars by
means of brackets which holds the sheet some three or four inches from the bars
thus the bars whilst supporting the sheets may be utilized for hanging clothes on
for the purposes of drying, at the same time the sheets act as a guard and protect
the workers from the heat of the stove.
In my improvements for the clothes horse and fire guard I make the shield
fitted with brackets as shown in Fig. A, this shield is then fitted on to the arms of
an upright clothes horse as shown in Figs. B & C.

page_text: 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.
Firstly. An improved combined clothes horse and fire guard made substantially
as herein above described and set forth.
Secondly. The combination of a shield and clothes horse capable of being fitted
round a stove or fire and made as set forth above.
Dated this Third day of March 1907
W. R. HATTON.