Improvements in and relating to Fire Guards for Stoves, Ranges and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1999
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1899
Date of Application,
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Fire Guards for Stoves, Ranges
and the like.
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JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, Architect and Surveyor, 3, Broad Street Buildings, Liver-
pool Street, London, E.C., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The words "stoves, ranges " and the like are to be interpreted to include tile
and other register stoves, mantel registers, grates, kitcheners (open & close fire)
interiors and the like" and the same may be manufactured in any kind of material,
and "
my invention 18;-
That a grooving or groovings are to be cast or formed in or on the stove, and
such groovings are to be continued into a boxing which is to be connected to the
main body of the stove and adjacent to such groovings; Boxings are to be formed.
In the boxings, adjustable weights are to rise and fall; and connected to such
weights lines or chains are to iun over pulley wheels & connected to a metallic
or other fire guard, so that by such adjustable weights, the fire guard, is automati-
cally removed, and boxed from sight, when released from use.
Bolts, locks, springs, and the like may be used.
Improvements in and relating to Fire Guards for Stoves, Ranges
and the like.
I, JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, Architect and Surveyor, 3, Broad Street Buildings,
Liverpool Street, London, E.C., 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 the invention is the protection of life and property from loss and
injury or damage by fire, and also to form an ornament to fire-places in any
building; the guard entirely enclosing all means of access to the fire.
"
The word stove is intended to be interpreted to include tile and other register
stoves, mantel-registers, grates, kitcheners (open and close fire) interiors, and the
like, which may be manufactured of iron, steel, brass, copper, or any other metal
or material
At the rear of the face of stove, or on the face of stove, or at the side of stove

page_text: or in any position practicable, as any stove may require, boxings are to be formed
in which adjustable weights may rise and fall, as at AA, Fig. 1 and connected to
such weights, flexable metallic lines or chains, to be also connected to each side
or stile of a fire guard as at BB Fig. 2 hung in the groovings formed adjacent to
boxings, as at CC, Fig. 1.
The flexable metallic lines or chains to run over the pulley wheels, as at D,
Fig. 4 the weights being capable of lifting the said guard into an iron-framed or
other fire proof boxing at E, Fig. 3.
The said boxing at E, Fig. 3 to be fixed in a manner to receive the guard.
The boxings for weights AA, Fig. 1 may be cast on the stove, or may be
manufactured separately and fixed with screws or bolts, or the like, and the said
boxings may be detatchable so as to fix in any position.
The boxing at E, Fig. 3 to receive the guard may be manufactured in pieces,
or in one, separate from the main body of the stove.
The boxings at AA, Fig. 1 and the boxing at E, Fig. 3 for weights & guard
respectively may be manufactured in one piece separate from main body of stove,
with all required flanges, plates, and the like connected to same for properly fixing
the same in any position.
The groovings and pulley wheels of boxings may be placed as in drawings or
the same groovings and pulley wheels may be run at right angles to those shown
in drawings. Single, double, or more grooves in number may be made for the
purpose of receiving the guard in one, two or more lengths.
The guard to be made with a sufficiently strong frame and completed with steel,
iron, brass, copper, or other wire, or to be made of ornamental wrought art metal
of any kind, or of any other material.
The guard may be manufactured without any hinged joints, so as to run up
inside boxing E, Fig. 3, in one unfolding frame, or the same may be hinged and
Jointed and so folding for the purpose of shortening it, so as the same may be run
up into a boxing of less height, so that it may not require to run above the mantel
shelf, when found desirable, or the guard may be made telescopic for shortening
same, but in any case the guard as a whole to rise automatically by adjustable
weights, as at FF Fig. 2.
Brass or other knobbed bolts to be fitted in guard at GG Fig. 2 bolting same,
when down, into slots formed in the stove, as at H Fig. 3.
That a lock be made in or attached to the guard, say at I Fig. 2 so as to lock
the guard when down on to hearth at K, Fig. 3, but the same may be locked at
any other position, in each case with a moveable key.
Wheels to be fixed on the guard for the effuctual running of guard in groovings,
as shown in drawings.
The lines and weights to be connected by hooks and eyes and to run from same
over pulley wheels and threaded through or connected to a sunk eye formed in the
stile of the guard.
The bottom rail of guard to be formed plainly or ornamentally in any metal or
material and of sufficient width on base to shut in the opening of the boxing, as
at E, Fig. 3 when it has received the guard.
All boxings to be manufactured with moveable plates or pocket pieces for pur-
poses of repairing when required.
Where the boxing at E, Fig. 3 is manufactured of sufficient height the same
may be rabbeted to receive silvered glass and ornamental frame forming an over-
mantel.
A part of the groovings in which the guard is run to be detatchable for the
purpose of cleaning interior of the groovings and the guard and the framing of
guard to be manufactured so that the wire or other material can be readily removed
for repairs or renewal.
Any spring for latches, bolts, or locks, or for the more effectual working of the
invention may be used.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
An automatically removed and boxed from sight fire guard (when released from
use) as in accordance with foregoing specification.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of February 1899.