IMPROVEMENTS IN ASH-GUARDS FOR DOMESTIC FIRE- PLACES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Selley of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN ASH-GUARDS FOR DOMESTIC FIRE-
PLACES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Selley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1882.
WALTER SELLEY of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
IN ASH-GUARDS FOR DOMESTIC FIRE PLACES
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
This invention relates to the construction of the vertical ash guards or screen's
which are frequently employed in connection with domestic fire places for the
purpose of preventing the ashes from falling forwards onto the fender and for
hiding those beneath the grate.
The object of the invention is to render such ash-guards applicable for cooking
and other similar purposes, and the invention consists in the combination therewith
of a hinged perforated shelf which when out of use forms an ornamental addition
to the screen, but which can be raised up so as to form a shelf for supporting any
article that is required to be kept warm, and can also be turned over so as to
form a support for a tin for cooking bacon or other articles of food in front of
the fire.
The shelf is also provided with a slide fixed upon pillars and supporting a hook
or fork whereon to hang bread or other articles to be toasted or cooked in front of
the fire.
WALTER SELLEY of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
IN ASH-GUARDS FOR DOMESTIC FIRE PLACES"
"IMPROVEMENTS
DEECIFICATION In pursuance or the conditions of the Letters ratent nied by
the said Walter Selley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st October
1882.
WALTER SELLEY of Manchester in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ASH-GUARDS FOR DOMESTIC FIRE PLACES
"
This invention relates to the construction of the vertical ash guards or screens
which are frequently employed in connection with domestic fire places for the
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page_text: purpose of preventing the ashes from falling forwards onto the fender and also for
hiding those beneath the grate.
The object of the invention is to render such ash-guards applicable for cooking,
heating smoothing-irons, and other similar purposes
Such being the nature and object of my said invention I will now proceed
to describe the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annexed hereunto a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have
marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in
the following explanation thereof
Fig. 1. in the annexed drawing represents a front elevation of my improved ash
guard when not in use and Fig. 2 is a section of the same.
The invention consists, principally in the combination with the ash-guard a, a of
a hinged perforated shelf b, b which when out of use forms an ornamental addition
to the screen as shown at Figs 1. and 2. but which can be raised up so as to form
a shelf for supporting any article that is required to be kept warm as shown in
section at Fig. 3. a prop cc, being provided, which falls into its place when the
shelf is raised and it can also be turned over as shown at plan view Fig. 4 and end
_view Fig. 5 so as to form a support for a tin for cooking bacon or other articles of
-food in front of the fire or for heating-smoothing irons.
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The shelf b, b, is also provided with an adjustable arm d, d fixed upon-a-pillar_ce
and supporting a hook or fork f, f whereon to hang bread or other articles-to-be
toasted or cooked in front of the fire.
This pillar c, e with its adjustable arm and fork can be removed entirely when
not required as shown at Figs 1, 2. 3.
The height of the arm may also be adjusted-by-altering the position on the
pillar e, e of the spring collar g.
The height of the shelf may also be adjusted as shown or it may be raised as
high as the position drawn-in-dotted_lines_Fig. 1. by means of the set screws and
slots h, h.
Instead of the pillar and adjustable arın, two pillars and an adjustable slide may
be employed.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
details shown and described, but I claim as my Invention the combination with
an ash-guard or screen of an adjustable toast stand, bread toaster cooking apparatus,
and smoothing iron heater constructed and applied substantially in the manner
herein before set forth and described.
In witness whereof I the said Walter Selley have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
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