An Improved Fire Screen or Mantle.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, on Aug., 1097
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1898-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Screen or Mantle.
SAMUEL MARSH, 17 & 18, Tothill Street, Westminster, Solicitors Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A screen or mantle to suspend in front of around or over and close to the
grate stove or the like for the purpose of obviating the scorching effects of the
fire without materially reducing the heat evolved by the fire and to prevent
the products of combustion from entering the room. It is made of a network
or streamers or the like of asbestos or other suitable substance or material fixed
on or to or connected with or to a frame or supports or to the apparatus which
contains the fire. The asbestos or the like may be woven or placed with or round
a thread of wire or other support or it may be threaded through or connected to
or with beads balls rings discs or the like.
The framework or supports may be so constructed as to readily permit the
attachment and removal of the network or streamers.
The network or streamers or the like may be so made as to permit of the
same being moved wholly or in part to one side or up or down or otherwise as
required.
Dated this 4th day of August 1897. '
SAMUEL MARSH.
I, SAMUEL MARSI, of 17 and 18, Tothill Street, Westminster, Solicitors
Manager, 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:-
My invention consists of a fire screen or mantle to suspend in front of around
or at the side. or over and close to the grate stove or the like for the purpose of
intercepting the scorching effects of the fire without materially reducing the heat
evolved by the fire. It is made of a network or streamers of asbestos in yarn
or other convenient form so made woven or netted that there shall be apertures
interstices openings or the like in the network or in or between the streamers
small enough to intercept or destroy the scorching effects of the fire but large
enough to allow a sufficiency of heat from the fire to pass through. This asbestos
fire screen or mantle may be made wholly of network or of streamers or partly
of one and partly of the other or the one or the other may be combined with
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page_text: asbestos beads balls discs rings or the like. The asbestos network or streamers
may be made woven netted or placed with or round a thread of wire or other
support and may be fixed on to or connected with or to frames or supports or to
the apparatus which contains the fire by rings or any other usual device or
method and may be so attached to or suspended from rings or rollers or the like
as to permit the same to be moved wholly or in part to one side or up and down
or otherwise as required, in a similar manner to curtains or blinds.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. I represents an asbestos screen on swing
rods formed partly of the network (a) and partly of the streamers (b) and
weighted at the ends with asbestos balls or discs (c).
Fig. II represents an asbestos network screen (a) which can be drawn wholly
to one side or the other of the stand on which it is suspended.
Fig. III represents an asbestos network screen in two parts (a) (a) each of
which can be drawn close to the other or to one side of the stand on which it is
suspended.
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
1. A fire screen or mantle, to be placed before the fire in grates stoves and the
like, made of asbestos network or streamers with apertures interstices openings
or the like in the network or in or between the streamers small enough to intercept
or destroy the scorching effects of the fire but large enough to allow a sufficiency
of heat from the fire to pass through which network or streamers is or are fixed on
to or connected with frames or supports or to the apparatus containing the fire,
substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The asbestos network or streamers as set forth in Claim 1 attached to or
suspended from rings or rollers or the like so that it or they can be drawn apart
or together or up and down as required, in a similar manner to curtains or blinds.
3. In combination with the network or streamers of asbestos as set forth in
Claims 1 and 2 asbestos beads balls discs, rings or the like.
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