Improvements in Kitchen Range Bars.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Range Bars.
1, JOSEPH HALL of the Shambles in the City of Worcester of the Firm of
J. & F. Hall Iron Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGE BARS" to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object improvements in Kitchen Range bars in order to
enable the user to vary the depth of the fire when desired, so as to economise fuel,
and consists in arranging a second removable or falling Jockey bar immediately below
the usual falling or jockey bar and to answer a similar purpose, so that either the one
or the other may be used as desired. I prefer to construct the top falling or jockey
bar in such a manner as to securely lock the second falling or jockey bar when in an
upright position, so that such movements as poking the fire will not cause the latter
to fall, I also prefer to so arrange that the top bar may be placed and used in the
position occupied by the second falling or jockey bar, on the latter being removed.
Dated 17th day of December 1888.
JOSEPH HALL,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Range Bars.
I JOSEPH HALL of the Shambles in the City of Worcester of the Firm of
J. & F. Hall, Iron Merchants 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 has for its object improvements in Kitchen Range Bars in order to
enable the user to vary the depth of the Fire when desired so as to economise Fuel,
and consists in arranging a second removable or falling Jockey Bar immediately below
the usual falling or Jockey bar and to answer a similar purpose, so that either the one
or the other may be used as desired. I prefer to construct the top falling or jockey
bar in such a manner as to securely lock the second falling or jockey bar when in an
upright position so that such movements as poking the fire will not cause the latter to
fall, I also prefer to so arrange that the top bar may be placed and used in the position
occupied by the second falling or jockey bar on the latter being removed. In order
to show how my said invention can be carried out I hereunto append a sheet of
drawings indicating one manner in which the same may be constructed and which I
will now proceed to describe. In these drawings the same reference letters are used
to mark the same or like parts where they are shewn or repeated, Fig. 1 is a side
elevation of a set of my improved bars Fig. 2 is a front elevation and Fig. 3 a sectional
view shewing the falling bars in their vertical and horizontal positions, A is the top
falling bar and is pivotted on two pins B, B working in the bar frame and when let
down in a horizontal position part of the falling bar strikes against the lng D and is
held by it in an horizontal position as shewn in Fig. 3, one of the pivots B, B, works
in a hole E and the other in a slot F which allows of the bar A boing removed at
will. Immediately under the bar A is a second falling bar G pivotted on pins H, H
working respectively in a hole J and slot K in a similar manner to bar A, the hole J
being by preference placed so as to come under the slot F and the slot K under the
hole E as by this arrangement when both falling bars are in their vertical positions,
the bar A locks the bar G in its place and prevents its being displaced until the bar A
is,removed. When the bar A is removed the bar G can be worked in a precisely
similar manner to that described for bar A the bar G being held in a horizontal

page_text: position by the lug L. In altering either falling bar from the vertical to the hori-
zontal position it is lifted slightly at the end nearest to the slot F or K as the case
may be and then falls into the desired position against the lug D or L. The falling
bar A is also so made that it can be used in the position occupied by G when the
latter is removed. The horizontal bars may be made of a sloping section as shewn or
they may be made flat, square, round or of any other suitable section.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and shown
one way of working out the same, I declare that I do not bind myself to the precise
form shewn but what I claim is :-
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Constructing Range Bars with two falling bars on the principle described herein
and shewn on the drawings.