Improvements in Ash Curbs to Fire Places and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ash Curbs to Fire Places and in the Manufacture of
the same.
We, BENJAMIN ADDICOTT and GEORGE HOLLAND, of Staniforth Works, Stani-
forth Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in ash curbs to fire places by
which we obtain a simple cheap and substantial article in one piece which is
easy to manufacture and effective in appearance.
fu carrying our invention into effect we form our curb from sheets of brass
copper, or other suitable metal which is stamped rolled or otherwise formed into
a zig-zag section with the angles running vertically, and the whole length of
metal shaped on plan to fit the fire grate as may be required. For finishing
off the top of the curb we slit down the front of each angle a sufficient distance
to allow the top parts of the sides of each projecting √ to be bent over so as to
meet and form a splayed cover to the projecting Vs the edges being then brazed
together at the joint of the splay.
It will be necessary when slitting down the front of the V to cut a piece of
the metal out wider at the top than at the bottom varying in width as may be
by the more or less acute angles of the V so that the edges will be straight and
for the purpose of retaining a straight edge at the top of the splay the sheet
may be shaped before being formed into the zig zags so as to provide sulfi-
cient of the sheet for this purpose.
Datad this 15th day of Tuno 1898
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.
Improvements in Ash Curbs to Fire Places and in the Manufacture of
the same.
We, BENJAMIN ADDICOTT, and GEORGE HOLLAND. of Staniforth Works, Stani-
forth Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention has for its object improvements in ash curbs to fireplaces by

page_text: which we obtain a simple cheap and substantial article in one piece which is
easy to manufacture and very effective in appearance.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice we have appended hereunto one sheet of drawing upon which we
have fully illustrated the nature of our said invention..
Figure 1 is an elevation of the front of part of the sheet after being formed
into a zig-zag section and prior to forming the splayed tops.
Figure 2 is a back elevation of Figure 1 but shewing the curb after the tops
are formed.
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the line 1-2.
Figure 4 is part plan and part sectional plan of the curb.
Figure 5 is a inside view of part of the curb when finished.
Figure 6 is a front elevation of the curb complete.
Figure 7 shews a modification with the tops and angles of an irregular pitch.
Figure 8 is a part plan shewing a modified section.
Figure 9 is a part elevation shewing a modification in the top.
In carrying our invention into effect we form our curb from a sheet of brass
copper or other suitable metal A which is stamped rolled, bent or otherwise
formed into the zig-zag section shewn in section at Figure 4 with the angles a¹
and a running vertically and the whole length of the curb curved or otherwise
shaped as may be desired to suit any form of fire grate. For finishing off the
top of the curb we slit each alternate angle a² a certain distance down at a after
which the top parts and of the sides of each projecting V are bent over
at a and a until the two sides meet and form a splayed cover at the rear of
the projecting Vs as shewn at Figure 2 and 3 the edges being either left slightly
open at the joint, as there shewn or folded quite close and brazed together. We
may provide a stiffening iron rod such as B Figure 4 in which case suitable
knobs C and studs D with screw pins e¹ and d' and nuts and 2 are provided
for bolting the same to the inside of the curb but we do not confine ourselves to
this. In cases where the pointed tops are required to be steeper in proportion
to the angles to which the zig-zag portion of the curb is bent it will be found
advisable to cut away portions of the metal at 8 and a Figure 7 which would vary
in width as may be required by the more or less acute angle of the V and in order
that the edges 10 may form a straight joint and not overlap and for the purpose
of retaining a straight edge to the splay at all.
In such cases the sheet A may be cut out to the required shape before being
bent into the zig-zag form. We may vary the arrangement of bending the sheets
and have the Vs alternate with a plain space as shewn in Figure 8 or we may
have them bent as shewn but cut and bend each alternate top to be straight as
shewn by Figure 9.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:--
In ash curbs to fire-places the zig-zag or partly zig-zag sheet A having the
top cut and bent substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and illus-
trated upon the accompanying drawing.
LEWIS WM. GOOLD,
Agent for Applicant, 5, Corporation Street, Birmingham.