New or Improved Bearer to Carry Projecting Chimney, with Connection for Stove Pipe and Sliding Plate for Sweeping Flue.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th June, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Bearer to Carry Projecting Chimney, with
Connection for Stove Pipe and Sliding Plate for Sweeping Flue.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE HUGHES, of 121 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Architect
and Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of the invention is to provide an improved means of carrying any
projecting chimney into which a stove pipe has to be connected, and combined
therewith to provide means for attaching the stove pipe and for cleaning the flue.
The bearer to carry the brickwork, stonework, or other material of which the
chimney is formed, consists of a cast iron plate or frame, the back portion of which
is built in the wall and the front portion of which supports the projecting breast.
In the plate or frame is a hole of the size and shape of the flue in the chinney.
The side and back edges of the hole are grooved to receive a cast iron sliding
plate, and across the front of the hole the plate or frame is reduced in thickness so
as to allow the side grooves to be continued through to the front edge, and to enable
the sliding plate to be withdrawn from the frame. The sliding plate, which fits
into the grooves in the frame, has a socket projecting downwards to receive the
stove pipe, and the front edge of the plate is flanged top and bottom, the flanges
forming a front at right angles with the plate and the bottom flange serving the
purpose of a handle for drawing out the plate. To sweep the flue, the stove pipe is
disconnected from the socket and the sliding plate withdrawn.
The foregoing describes the bearer in its plain form for use in factory buildings,
such as for the flues in tin-plate workers shops.
For similar projecting chimneys in public rooms, offices, dwellings, and wherever
appearance has to be studied, the projecting part of the bearer can have a flange
round the top to hide the joint between the top surface of the bearer and the bed
of the brickwork or other material resting on same, and the face formed by the
flange and the edge of the plate can be molded or otherwise ornamented. The
front of the sliding plate can also be made in an ornamental form.
Plain or ornamental brackets, one or more on each side of the hole, can be added
under the projecting part of the bearer, either for additional strength, as in the
case of chimneys of more than ordinary projection, or for ornamental appearance.
The bearer can be adapted for flues of all shapes, either square, oblong, polygonal,
circular, or any other plan.
The socket to receive the stove pipe can be either round, oval, or of any other
section, and the socket may be formed for the stove pipe to fit on outside or to
fit into it.
When the stove is not required for use the pipe can be removed and a cap placed
on the socket to close the flue.
The bearer is intended to be made of cast iron for ordinary purposes, but both
frame and sliding plate can be made of wrought iron, or can be either cast or
wrought in any other metal, and the sliding plate can also be formed of sheet iron.
By omitting the stove pipe connection, the bearer can also be utilized for
projecting ventilation shafts, the sliding plate in that case forming a valve for
opening and closing.
Dated this 6th day of September 1890.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Bearer to Carry Projecting Chimney, with
Connection for Stove Pipe and Sliding Plate for Sweeping Flue.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE HUGHES, 121, C'ulmore Row Birmingham, Architect
& Surveyor, 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 :-
The object of the invention is to provide an improved means of carrying any
projecting chimney into which a stove pipe has to be connected, and combined
therewith to provide means for attaching the stove pipe and for cleaning the flue.
The bearer to carry the brickwork, stonework, or other material of which the
chuney is formed, consists of a cast iron plate or frame, the back portion of which
is built in the wall and the front portion of which supports the projecting breast.
In the plate or frame is a hole of the size and shape of the flue in the chimney.
The side and back edges of the hole are grooved to receive a cast iron sliding plate,
and across the front of the hole the plate or frame is reduced in thickness so as to
allow the side grooves to be continued through to the front edge, and to enable the
sliding plate to be withdrawn from the frame. The sliding plate, which fits into
the grooves in the frame, has a socket projecting downwards to receive the stove
pipe, and the front edge of the plate is flanged top and bottom, the flanges forming
a front at right angles with the plate and the bottom flange serving the purpose
of a handle for drawing out the plate. To sweep the fine, the stove pipe is discon-
nected from the socket and the sliding plate withdrawn.
The foregoing describes the bearer in its plain form for use in factory buildings,
such as for the flues in tin-plate workers shops.
For similar projecting chimneys in public rooms, offices, dwellings, and wherever
appearance has to be studied, the projecting part of the bearer can have a flange
round the top to hide the joint between the top surface of the bearer and the bed of
the brickwork or other material resting on same, and the face formed by the flauge
and the edge of the plate can be molded or otherwise ornamented. The front of
the sliding plate can also be made in an ornamental form.
Plain or ornamental brackets, one or more on each side of the hole, can be added
under the projecting part of the bearer, either for additional strength, as in the
case of chimneys of more than ordinary projection, or for ornamental appearance.
The bearer can be adapted for flues of all shapes, either square, oblong, polygonal,
circular, or any other plan.
The socket to receive the stove pipe can be either round, oval, or of any other
section, and the socket may be formed for the stove pipe to fit on outside or to fit
into it. The socket can also be either tapered or of the same bore throughout, and
the lower end of the socket can be flanged either inside or outside.
When the stove is not required for use the pipe can be removed and a cap placed
on the socket to close the flue.
The bearor is intended to be made of cast iron for ordinary purposes, but both
frame and sliding plate can be made of wrought iron, or can be either cast or
wrought in any other metal, and the sliding plate can also be formed of sheet iron.
By omitting the stove pipe connection, the bearer can also be utilized for
projecting ventilation shafts, the sliding plate in that case forming a valve for
opening and closing.
The bearer in its plain form is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, viz. :—
Figure 1. Plan.
Figure 2. Section on line A. B.
Figure 3. Section on line CD and

page_text: marked and the back portion f. The hole in the plate or frame for the flue is
marked and the grooves in the side and back edges of the hole are marked gl.
The sliding plate is marked h, the socket to receive the stove pipe is marked ',
and the front of the sliding plate is marked h³.
The alternative plans illustrated by Figures 5 and 6 shew the method of adapting
the bearer to flucs which are other than square.
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 :-
1. The construction and arrangement of a plain bearer, fitted with a sliding plate
and socket, to carry a projecting chimney, flue, or air shaft, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.
2. The construction and arrangement of a similar bearer and plate, either
circular in plan as shewn by Figure 5, or octagonal as shewn by Figure 6, or of any
other geometrical form.
3. The construction and arrangement of a similar bearer and plate in any
ornamental form as hereinbefore described.
FRED. G. HUGHES,
121, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Architect and Surveyor.