A PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD FOR THE PREVENTION OF FIRE, APPLICABLE ALIKE BOTH TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, AND WHICH SAID PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A REVIVER.
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Boyell, of Derby Road, in the Town o
Nottingham, Plumber, for the Invention of "A PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD
FOR THE PREVENTION OF FIRE, APPLICABLE ALIKE BOTH TO PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE BUILDINGS, AND WHICH SAID PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD IS ALSO
APPLICABLE AS A REVIVER.".
Sealed the 8th September 1854, and dated the 8th March 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Boyell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
March 1854.
I, RICHARD BOYELL, of Derby Road, in the Town of Nottingham, Plumber,
5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A PORTABLE SAFETY
GUARD FOR THE PREVENTION OF FIRE, APPLICABLE ALIKE BOTH TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
BUILDINGS, AND WHICH SAID PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A
REVIVER," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the arrangement and construction of certain
malleable material, either of brass or iron, forming a plain or ornamental sheet
fitted to the size of each fire-grate so as to cover the entire grate containing
the fire. A fire in a grate provided with this guard may be left alone in
perfect safety. By the application of my said Invention, therefore, a fire in
any room may be left alone for any period of time without the slightest.harm.

page_text: arising to the property contained therein from fire, and should the fire be
afterwards required within any moderate period of time, the same can be
at once quickly revived by the admission of air. through a valve fitted in the
guard.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Boyell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
September 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BOYELL, of Derby Road, in the Town of Nottingham, Plumber, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Boyell, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Boyell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said Richard
Boyell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD FOR
THE PREVENTION OF FIRE, APPLICABLE ALIKE BOTH TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS,
AND WHICH SAID PORTABLE SAFETY GUARD IS ALSO APPLICABLE AS A REVIVER," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Boyell, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Boyell, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
My portable safety guard consists of a plain or ornamental sheet of metal,
which is fitted to a fire-grate so as to cover the grate containing the fire
either wholly or partially, as may be required. A valve is fitted to the
guard through which air may be admitted to the fire when the guard is used
as a reviver.

page_text: Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed represents a front view; and Figure 2
an end view of my portable safety guard. A is the guard; a, a, are two hooks
which fit on the top of the fire-grate; and b, b, are two other hooks near the
bottom which hook on to each side of the grate, the hooks holding the guard
close to the grate; c is a slide to cover the hole d, through which air is supplied
to the fire when it requires reviving; when it is required to burn slowly or to
be quite put out, the slide must be nearly or quite closed. This guard reaches
from the hearth to the top of the grate. Figures 3 and 4 represent a front
and end view of another guard which covers the front and bottom of the fire
grate, and is fastened by the hooks a, a, resting on the top bar. To damp the
fire, the slide c is closed, as shewn at Figure 4. The fire is revived by the slide
being drawn from over the air hole d. These guards may be made of any size,
and to fit any grate, and they may be constructed of iron or brass, plain or
ornamented, or of iron and brass combined.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as the said
Invention is, the construction of a portable safety fire guard in the manner
herein-before described, and the use of the same as a damper or a reviver.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Boyell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, One thousand eight.
hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
WILLIAM SLATER.
RICHARD BOYELL. (L.S.)