Year: 1886

page_text: Date or Application, 9th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 10th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Feb., 1887
I WILLIAM FREDERICK BARTON MASSEY-MAINWARING of No 30 Grosvenor Place
Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex Bachelor of Laws do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in fire guards the
objects of which improvements are to admit of access to the fire being conveniently
obtained without removing the guard and to render fire guards capable of use as fire
screens and as supports for articles required to be placed before the fire.
According to my said improvements I form the guard of three or other number of
leaves each consisting of a sheet or sheets of wire netting or perforated metal or other
suitable material secured in or to frames which leaves are arranged in parallel planes
and so connected together that they may be placed or adjusted and retained in
position either face to face or one above or beyond the other the guard being in a
closed or collapsed state when the said leaves are in the former position and in an
open or extended state when they are in the latter position. The said levers are
supported by a suitable base to which one of them is connected or jointed so that it
and the other leaves connected to it may be placed in either a vertical or a horizontal
position.
Fire guards constructed as hereinbefore described when in the collapsed state do
not prevent access to the fire consequently it is not necessary to remove the guard
from before the fire when it is required to stir or feed it. When the guard is closed
and the frames are placed in the horizontal position the guard forms a convenient
support for dishes or other articles.
In order to render fire guards constructed as hereinbefore described capable of use
as fire screens I arrange two or more sheets of perforated metal or other material face
to face in each of the said frames or in one or more of them so that by varying the
relative positions of the said sheets the extent or amount of obstruction offered by
them to the passage of heat radiated from the fire may be varied. Or I otherwise
arrange the obstructing parts of the guard so that the extent or amount of obstruction
may be readily varied.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I WILLIAM FREDERICK BARTON MASSEY-MAINWARING of No 30 Grosvenor Place
Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex Bachelor of Laws do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in fire guards the
objects of which improvements are to admit of access to the fire being conveniently
obtained without removing the guard and to render fire guards capable of use as fire
screens and as supports for articles required to be placed before the fire.
According to my
said improvements I form the guard of three or other number of
leaves each consisting of a sheet or sheets of wire netting or perforated metal or other
suitable material secured in or to frames which leaves are arranged in parallel
planes and so connected together that they may be placed or adjusted and retained
in position either face to face or one above or beyond the other the guard being in a
closed or collapsed state when the said leaves are in the former position and in an
open or extended state when they are in the latter position. The said leaves are
supported by a suitable base to which one of them is connected or jointed so that it
and the other leaves connected to it may be placed in either a vertical or a horizontal
position.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation Figure 2 a plan and
Figure 3 a side elevation of a fire guard constructed according to my invention and
consisting of three leaves the guard being in the open or extended state and the leaves
being so arranged and connected that the upper of the said leaves are capable of
being slidden downward when the guard is required to be closed or collapsed Figure 4
is a vertical section of the said guard taken on the line A Figure 1. Figure 5 is a
side elevation thereof showing the leaves in the closed or collapsed state and Figure 6
is a section corresponding to the section Figure 4 and showing the collapsed screen
with the leaves in the horizontal position Figures 7 and 8 are details herein after
referred to.
In the following description the same letters and figures of reference indicate the
same parts in all the Figures of the drawings.
The several leaves of the guard illustrated in the Figures hereinbefore referred to
consist each of a sheet of wire netting a secured in a frame which frames are marked
respectively b, 6, d and are connected together as herein after described e is the base
which forms the support of the guard and to which the feet d'd' of the lowermost

page_text: frame d are jointed. The several sheets of wire netting a a are respectively secured
to their frames by means of bars bedd (see Figures 2 and 4) screwed or
rivetted to the upper and lower sides of the frames bed between which bars and
the said frames bed the upper and lower edges of the said sheets are confined. The
several frames bedare secured together by means of headed studs c²²³ ³ passing
through slots in the frames d and screwed or rivetted in the frame e.
Portions of the two frames 6 and thus connected are shown drawn to a large
scale in front and side elevation in Figures 7 and 8. In order to provide for the said
frames sliding with sufficient freedom and to prevent their descent except when
pressed downward springs are placed between the heads of the studs c³ and the
frames and d one of which springs is shown in Figures 7 and 8 and marked c¹.
The arrangement and method of connection hereinbefore described of the said frame
admit of several leaves of the guard being readily extended to the full extent as shown
in Figures 1, 3 and 4 or partially extended or entirely closed as shown in Figure 5
and also admit of the guard being placed in a horizontal position as shown in Figure 6
whether the guard be in the extended or closed state.
Figure 9 is a front elevation of a portion of a fire guard constructed according to
my invention showing the frames so arranged and connected as to be capable of being
folded parallel to each other when it is desired to lower the guard and Figure 10 is a
section of the same taken on the line B Figure 9. Referring to the said Figures the
several frames bed have knuckles formed on them and are jointed or hinged
together by screws which pass through holes in the said knuckles and are secured
by nuts. The feet d'd of the frame d in this arrangement are formed and
connected to the base as hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 to 5.
In some cases provide the base of the guard with means for securing it to the
bars of a fire grate as shown in Figures 11 and 12 Figure 11 being a front elevation
of a guard consisting of two leaves extended and Figure 12 the same closed.
Figure 13 is a vertical section taken on the line C Figure 11 showing the said guard
open and secured to a fire grate. Referring to the said Figures 11, 12 and 13 gg
are arms formed on or secured to the base e and h, are hooks having screw threads
formed on their shanks which pass through the said arms and carry nuts
means of which the bar of the grate to which the fire guard is to be secured is
gripped between the arms g, g and the hooks h, has shown in the said Figure 13.
The parts of the guard illustrated in Figures 11 12 and 13 which are not herein
described are formed and arranged as hereinbefore described with reference to
Figures 9 and 10.
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Fire guards constructed as hereinbefore described when in the collapsed state do
not prevent access to the fire consequently it is not necessary to remove the guard
from before the fire when it is required to stir or feed it. When the guard is closed
and the leaves thereof are placed in the horizontal position the guard forms a
convenient support for dishes or other articles.
In order to render fire guards constructed as hereinbefore described capable of use
as fire screens I arrange two or more sheets of perforated metal or other material face
to face in each of the frames or in one or more of them so that the relative positions
of the said perforated sheets and consequently the extent or amount of obstruction
offered by the said sheets to the passage of heat radiated from the fire may be readily
varied. Or I arrange the obstructing parts of the guard in any other way which will
admit of the extent or amount of obstruction offered by them to the passage of heat
from the fire being readily varied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed I declare that what I claim is
First Fire guards constructed substantially as hereinbefore described that is to say
fire guards so constructed that they may be lowered or closed in order to obtain free

page_text: access to the front of the fire without removing them and when closed will serve as
supports for articles required to be kept warm."
Secondly Fire guards constructed of two or more leaves so connected to each
other and to a base or support so as to be capable of being slidden or folded parallel
to each other and of being lowered so as to entirely expose the front of the fire
without removing them.
Thirdly The arrangement herein before described whereby fire guards constructed
as hereinbefore described are rendered capable of use as fire screens that is to say the
arrangement in the frames of such fire guards of two or more sheets of perforated
material so that the amount of obstruction offered thereby to the passage of heat from
the fire may be varied by varying the relative positions of the said sheets.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.