An Improved Fire Screen, acting as Draw Plate for Domestic Fire Places.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Screen, acting as Draw Plate for Domestic
Fire Places.
I, DOROTHY ANNIE GARNER (married) of No. 6, Matheson Road, West
Kensington County of London W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:--
This apparatus consists of a pedestal, formed of brass, iron, or other metal; fixed
na claw, foot, or feet, also formed of brass, iron, or other metal. Attached to
this pedestal, by a piece of metal, are laths, formed, of brass, iron, or other metal,
placed one over the other, from between one to two feet deep, and made to open,
and shut. They are joined together by bars, or some other method, which will
make them work back, and forwards. The pedestal is placed inside the fender,
and the lath part is placed against the grate, leaving space underneath to allow of
draught.
D 1741 dor of Babe 1901
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Screen, acting as Draw Plate for Domestic
Fire Places.
1, DOROTHY ANNIE GARNER of 6 Matheson Road, West Kensington, London,
Gentlewoman, 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:-
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The object of my invention is to provide a convenient apparatus for use as a
blowing
blower or draught inducer for occasional use in
fires
or blazing up
in the grates of living rooms and of such a nature that it can be made of an
ornamental character and may moreover be used as a fire screen.
In describing my invention reference will be made to the accompanying drawings
and the letters marked thereon, Figure 1 being a perspective view of my apparatus
and Figure 2 a detail of a part thereof.
In carrying out my invention I provide a vertical rod, tube or standard A
standing on a base or on feet such as B and provided with a screwed cap or finial C
capable of being detached for the purpose of passing a sleeve or collar D over the
standard and free to travel up or down the same and be fixed at any point by a
thumbscrew or similar device E. Projecting from this sleeve or collar Dare short
arms F within which is pivotted a bar or arm G projecting upwardly and forwardly.
and capable of being adjusted by set screw H and set at various angles. At the
upper extremity of this bar or arm G I pivot and hang in any well known manner
as at a flat plate of suitable material free to depend therefrom. At or near
the centre of this plate I attach a tube or slide K. Í also provide a number of
other plates of less width such as L, L, L, L and on these I fix or fit tubes or
slides M, M, N, N arranged to telescope within the main tube K. The tops
and bottoms of these smaller plates may travel in a ledge or groove formed at the
top and bottom of the main plate K and this may be effected by simply returning
the top and bottom edges or the ledge may be attached.
Thus the side plates may
slide over each other and over the main plate K and be hidden by the same or may
be pulled out for use as either a screen or blower.

page_text: It will be seen that the stand carrying the screen or blower may be placed on
the hearth and near the fire the height adjusted by the screw E on collar D and
the screen or blower arranged by means of set screw H so as to cover the front
of the fire the side plates L, L, L, L being drawn out according to the width
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The fire screen and blower or draught inducer constructed substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings or any mere
modification thereof.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.