IMPROVEMENTS IN CHIMNEY POTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM BEDDOWS of 59 Darley Street, Farnworth near Bolton, in the
County of Lancaster, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHIMNEY POTS," to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of chimney pots, and to the method of
fixing them securely in position on the top of the chimney, and bas for its object
principally the prevention of accidents and damage arising from the falling of the.
same during high-winds, storms and equinoctial gales.
I accomplish this by making the chimney pots of terra-cotta or other materials or
substances as usual, provided with suitable snugs or projections on the base or
otherwise, having holes or slots, through which is passed bolts or other round or flat
iron stays, firmly secured into the brick or stone work in the inside or on the
outside of the chimney as desired, being provided with suitable nuts and cotters for
fastening the same.
In building new chimneys the metallic stays can be built in as the work proceeds,.
the top ends being bent under from the inside to the position of the hole or slot in
the snugs or projections on the outside.
In applying my improvements to existing chimneys, the pots are placed on as
usual; the metallic stays being fixed on the outside of the chimney, the bottom end
of which are bent and driven in the joint of the brick or stone work, being
strengthened and fastened by intermediate holes in which are driven nails in the
various joints up the chimney.
Where two chimney pots come together on one chimney, the snugs or projections
on the sides coming together are reduced in size, being provided with half slots or
holes in and through which can be placed bolts or stays having either nuts or cotters,
the latter being placed immediately over the centre joint, by which they are held,
or by providing them with holes in which can be driven staples into the brick or
stone work joints, thus tieing the two pots together; the stay rods being placed on
the outsides as before stated.
The advantages accruing from this invention are, that in the event of high-winds,'
storms or equinoctial gales, the danger to life and property from the effects of falling
chimney pots will be reduced to a minimum, at the same time resulting in
considerable economy in repairing property from this cause.
Dated this twenty-eighth day of January 1884
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I WILLIAM BEDDOWS of 59 Darley Street, Farnworth near Bolton, in the
County of Lancaster, Grocer, do bereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHIMNEY POTS," and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to the construction of chimney pots and the method of
fixing them securely in position on the top of the chimney, and has for its object
principally the prevention of accidents and damage arising from the falling of the
same during high-winds, storms, and equinoctial gales.
Fig. 1 is a part sectional elevation of a double chimney with the chimney
pots A fixed thereon. The chimney pots A. are made as usual of terra-cotta or
other suitable materials or substances with the snugs or projections B on the
outsides provided with the holes or slots to receive the bolt C or the slotted metallic
stay E.
The metallic stays E are of suitable shape and passed down the inside of
the chimney, being secured thereto by the nails F or other equivalents, which
can be easily accomplished when building new chimneys. The metallic stays E
are bent at the top end under the bottom of the chimney pots, and secured to the
same by the nut G or the cotters H. When two pots come together as in Fig. 1,
they are secured or tied together by the metallic plate I and the stay J, being
secured by the cotter H.
Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1 shewing two pots and their connections on a double
chimney.
Fig. 3 is a part sectional elevation of a chimney capable of holding or seating
four pots, shewing the metallic stays E placed outside the chimney, which will be
necessary in adapting my invention to existing chimneys, and secured as before
described.
Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 3 shewing the cap of the chimney grooved or cut away
to admit the metallic stays E.
Fig. 5 is an outside elevation of a chimney with single pots secured thereon by
the metallic stays E, the latter being secured outside; the snugs or projections B
on the pots being similar on both sides as in Fig. 6, which is a plan of Fig. 5.
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 :-
Constructing chimney pots with the snugs or projections B, and the method of
securing them to the chimneys, for the purpose herein set forth, substantially as
described and as shewn on the drawings or any mere modification or imitation
thereof.
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