An Improved Construction of Chimney Pot or Top and an Improved Method of Fixing or Setting same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of Chimney Pot or Top and an Improved
Method of Fixing or Setting same.
I JOHN KIMM of 16 Paradise Street Sheffield in the County of York Engraver and
Etcher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to and consists in an improved construction or method of
making and fixing or setting chimney pots or tops in or on the chimneys of houses
or buildings whereby there can be no danger of the chimney pots or tops being
blown down and damaging the roofs or other parts of houses or buildings, or of falling
on and wounding passengers in the streets below.
These improved chimney pots or tops will be absolutely weather-proof round the
collar or base parts thereof. They will be made in the usual way, that is, of clay or
pot, or they can be made or cast in metals or in any other suitable material, and they
can be adapted to existing patterns of chimney pots or tops, either round square or
octagon, or of any desired shape or pattern.
Instead of the chimney pots or tops being set on the top or outside the bricks or
stones of the chimney and there secured or collared with mortar or cement in the
usual way, according to my invention the chimney pot or top is constructed with a
collar or flange and base, the collar or flange slopes from its utmost thickness at the
side of the pot to its outer edge and the bottom is made flat so as to rest on the top of
the bricks, thus forming a perfect or right angle with the base which is inserted inside
the chimney to a depth of from about nine to twelve inches or to any required
dimensions; and when properly set in good mortar, cement, or other suitable
substance, the pot will be absolutely immovable even in a gale of wind.
When required a groove or a series of studs can be made in the underside of the
collar or flange to serve as keys to hold the mortar or cement in fixing or setting the
chimney pot or top.
The foregoing description applies to my improved chimney pot or top as made or
cast in one piece.
A modification in the construction of the chimney pot or top and in setting or fixing
the same is as follows:-The collar or flange and the base can be made or cast in a
separate piece, which can be set or fixed as described and then the pot proper can be
placed inside the collar or flange and pushed down to the level of the top of the bricks,
or the base may be continued above the top of the collar or flange and the pot put on
outside that and pushed down until it rests on the top of the collar or flange.
By the adoption of this invention the necessity of collaring with mortar or cement
as employed at present is done away with, and these improved chimney pots or tops
cannot be blown down, thus saving much expense in the repair of broken roofs or
other parts of buildings, and the renewal of chimney pots, and the possible expense
occasioned by reason of accidents to passengers in the streets or roads adjacent.
*1.1000
BRISTOW HUNT,
Aldine Chambers, High Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of Chimney Pot or Top and an Improved
Method of Fixing or Setting same.
I JOHN KIMM of 16 Paradise Street Sheffield in the County of York Engraver
and Etcher 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

page_text: the following statement in writing, and on reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings:-
This Invention relates to and consists in an improved construction or method of
making and fixing or setting chimney pots or tops in or on the chimneys of houses
or buildings, whereby there can be no danger of the chimney pots or tops being
blown down and damaging the roofs or other parts of houses or buildings, or of
falling on and wounding passengers in the streets below.
My improved chimney pots or tops will be absolutely weather-proof, and also
waterproof, round the collar or base parts thereof. They will be made in the usual
way, that is, of clay or pot or terra-cotta, or they can be made or cast in metals or
in any other suitable material, and can be adapted to existing patterns or forms of
chimney pots or tops, either round square or octagon or any desired shape or pattern,
and of any size or dimensions.
In order that my said invention may be fully understood, the modes in which I
prefer to carry it out in practice are illustrated on the accompanying sheet of
explanatory drawings which is marked with Figures and letters of reference corre-
sponding with those in the following description thereof, the same letters of reference
indicating like parts in all the Figures of the drawing.
Figure 1, is an outside elevation of my improved chimney pot, or top as made
complete and ready for use.
Figure 2, is a section of the same.
Figure 3, is an outside elevation of a modified form of my chimney pot or top made
so that another or separate pot or top can be placed within it.
Figure 4, is a section of the same showing an inside ledge on which the inside
separate pot or top will rest when in place.
Figure 5, is an outside elevation of a modification of Figure 3, showing where a
separate pot or top can be placed over and will rest on the collar or flange in the base
of the chimney pot or top.
And Figure 6, is a section of Figure 5, showing where the separate pot or top will
rest on the collar or flange.
According to this invention, instead of chimney pots or tops being set on the top or
outside the bricks or stones of a chimney and there secured or collared with mortar or
cement in the usual way,-my chimney pot or top is constructed or formed with a
surrounding collar or flange a, and a base ; the collar or flange is so shaped that it
slopes from its utmost thickness at the side of the pot or top to its outer edge and the
bottom is made flat so as to rest on the top of the bricks or stones thus forming a
perfect or right angle with the base b, which base is inserted inside the chimney to a
depth of from about nine to twelve inches, or to any required distance or dimensions.
It is then properly and securely fixed and set in good mortar, cement, or other suitable
fixing substance, and when so fixed and set the pot or top becomes absolutely im-
movable even in a gale of wind.
When required a groove or a series of studs can be made in the underside of the
collar or flange a, to serve,-as keys would,-to hold the mortar or cement in fixing
or setting the chimney pot or top.
The foregoing description applies to, and Figures 1, and 2, on the drawing repre-
sent, my chimney pot or top as made or cast all in one piece.
A modification in the construction of the chimney pot or top is shown at Figures 3,
and 4. The collar or flange a, and the base b, are bere made or cast in a separate
piece to the top proper of the chimney pot, and can be set or fixed as described in
reference to Figure 1; then the top proper, that is,-a separate or ordinary pot or
top, is placed inside the upper portion c, of the collar or flange a, and pushed down to
the level of the ledge c¹, (Figure 4) made in the collar or flange a.
Or, according to the modification of Figure 3, as shown at Figures 5, and 6, the
base 6, is continued up above the top of the collar or flange a, as shown at d, and the
separate or an ordinary pot or top is put on outside the portion d, and pushed down
until it rests on the top of the collar or flange a; and it is secured thereon either by
cement or in any convenient and suitable manner.

page_text: By the adopiton of this invention the necessity for collaring with mortar or cement
as employed at present is done away with.
These improved chimney pots or tops when fixed cannot be blown down; they are
weather and water proof, they will prevent the rain or wet from penetrating down to
and through the roofs of houses as so frequently happens when the mortar or cement
collaring gets worn away or is defective; and the result will be the saving of much
expense in the repairs of broken or injured roofs or other parts of buildings and the
renewal of chimney pots or tops, besides the possible expense occasioned by reason of
accidents happening to passengers in the streets or roads adjacent on chimney pots or
tops, as hitherto made and fixed, being blown down.
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 novel and improved construction of weather-proof chimney pot or top
having an outside surrounding collar or flange thereon, and the method of fixing or
setting the same, substantially as hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in
Figures 1, and 2, of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. The modification of chimney pot or top so made as to hold within it a separate
or upper pot or top, as hereinbefore described and as shown at Figures 3, and 4, on
the accompanying drawing.
3. The modification of chimney pot or top so made that a separate or upper pot or
top can be placed and fixed outside the same, as hereinbefore described and as shown
at Figures 5, and 6, on the accompanying drawing.
Dated is it day o
BRISTOW HUNT,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
BRISTOW HUNT,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.