Fireguards or Firescreens.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1852-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Fireguards or Firescreens.
I, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE TAYLOR, Private Tutor and Examiner, residing
at 10 King Street, High Street, Oxford, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
For the purpose of fireguards or firescreens I employ flexible curtains consisting
of metal rings or links of various patterns attached in various ways to the firegrate
or to the mantel-piece and capable of being withdrawn in any way usual with
ordinary curtains."
The advantages of this plan are that the fireguard is always ready to be used
and forms an ornamental attachment to the fireplace when not in actual use.
Dated this 29th February 1892.
W. W. TAYLOR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Fireguards or Firescreens.
I, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE TAYLOR, of 10, King Street, High Street, Oxford,
in the County of Oxford, Private Tutor and Examiner, 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 relates to fire-guards or fire-screens and consists in the employ-
ment of flexible curtains consisting of metal rings or links adapted to the fire-grate
or to the mantle-piece and capable of being withdrawn in any way usual with
ordinary curtains.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
:-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mantle-piece and fire-place having my fire-
guard or fire-screen applied thereto, and
Figure 2 is a view of a portion of one of the metal curtains drawn to an enlarged
scale.
a, a are the two parts or curtains forming my guard or screen each of which as
shewn most clearly in Figure 2 is composed of a series of links 6 connected by
another series of links c and supported by larger rings d upon a rod e carried
between the jambs of the mantle-piece.
When the fire-guard or fire-screen is to be used the curtains are drawn across
the front of the fire-place and when not in use are drawn back and held by bands
or chains f,f
It is to be understood that instead of making the curtains of links of the shape
shewn the links may be made of any other suitable shape and that the curtain may
be supported and held back in any desirable manner.
The advantages of this invention are that the fire-guard is always ready to be
used and forms an ornamental attachment to the fire-place when not in actual use.
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-guard or fire-screen composed of metal links united together to form
curtains the said curtains being mounted so that they can be readily drawn before
the fire-place, substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The manufacture and use of fire-guards or fire-screens, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
Dated the 2nd day. of December 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.