Improvements in Combined Fire Guards and Ash Fenders
Year: 1895

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in Combined Fire Guards and Ash Fenders.
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I, WILLIAM BATTENSBY of Park Close, Blaydon-on-Tyne in the County of
Durham, Pattern Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described add
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention, relates to that class of fender usually employed with. kitchen
ranges to retain the ashes falling from tlie fire'in and more immediately in front of
the space beneath the grate but it is applicable to similar fenders, sometimes
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termed Giles for Sumas purposes to remouture places in genera
improvements consist in the construction of these fenders in combination with
wire-work or other fire screens or guards, fitted to them in such a way that the
latter may be lowered within said fenders or raised to project more or less from the
upper edge of such fenders upwardly in front of the fireplace or grate.
The fire guard may be made of the same general shape as the fender and of the
same height to lie closely to the inside of the fender and the latter is made with
one or more vertical recessed grooves or channels on its inner side, cach said
groove being preferably made, with ratchet teeth on one of its sides and plain upon
the other side. To the fire guard are rotatably 'secured one or more projecting 1
shafts having on them wings or pawls and projecting into the aforesaid recessed
groove or grooves and extending through vertical slots in said grooves where it or
they is or are. provided with a knob or knobs by which means the fire guard may
be raised or lowered from outside the fender. The wings on the shaft engage, ther
one with the ratchet teeth the other obliquely against the opposite plain wall of
the groove so that the fire guard may be retained at any height within the limits
of its movements.
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The shaft may be solidly attached to the guard or rivetted thereon or secured by
a nut or nuts, or it may be hollow and engage over a fixed pin on the guard or over
one or two of the stronger wires of the latter having their ends bent outwards to
carry said hollow, shaft.
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Fig. 1 is an, elevation Fig. 2 a plan and Figs. 3 and 4 vertical sections" at the
centre of the combined fire-guard and ash fender. A is the ash fender of usual
shape with a cored.out projection C at the middle running vertically having one of
its internal sides E provided with or in the form of a rack or ratchet bar the other
side F being plain. D'is a slot in projection C-running nearly the whole height of
the fender. K is a shaft or bolt having fixed to it or, in one piece with it two arms
or wings J in line with each other. G is a handle screwed on or otherwise fixed to:
bolt K or it may be in one piece therewith, or as in Fig. 4; handle G and wings J
may be in one piece; the united lengths of wings J must be a little greater than
the distance between the sides E and F. The bolt K connects wings J and
handle, G to the wire, guard, B which is shaped to the form of fender A and
slides-in two recesses N at the ends of the fender A. Gis so shaped that
its weight always keeps the wings J against sides E and F and it will there-
fore hold the guard B at whatever height it may be lifted, by means of the
ratchet, teeth E. In place of the recesses N a wire L may be arranged as in
Fig. 4 being fixed to the top of guard B, passing through a hole in the top of
fender A and fixed at the bottom to the guard B then bent to form a spindle for
the handle G and wings J. A ring M shown in the dotted lines in Fig 1 may be
fixed to or in one piece with the guard B-to facilitate lifting, Hare the ordinary
handles of the ash fender. For large fenders two or more ratchet holders may be
provided similar to that, shown in the centre of the fender illustrated in the
drawings.
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An ash fender usually reaches to the bottom bar of the grate and if the wire
guard is about the same height then when raised by the handle G to its full
height will come up to the top bar of the grate, thus while it prevents the clothes
of women and children catching fire, it still does not prevent passage of the heat
into the room, and can be easily raised or lowered either by hand or by means of a
poker or the like when required.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A. A combined ash fender and fire guard the latter being adapted to slide up
and down within the former and to be held at the desired height by means of
ratchet devices for the purnose set forth.
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page_text: 2. The construction of combined ash fender and fire guard with the ratchet
devices for adjustment of the height of the latter substantially as described and
illustrated in the annexed drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.