Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 6th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 11th May, 1888
1, THOMAS WALTER WOODHOUSE, C.E., of No. 35, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to improvements in fire-stove ornaments, or screens for
concealing the empty grates of stoves.
In carrying it into effect, I cut a screen and a support for it from a sheet of cardboard,
metal, or any other suitable material.
The screen is preferably oval in shape, but I do not confine myself to this detail as
the shape may be varied. I prefer, however, that the bottom edge of the screen
should receive an approximately oval outline.
The support consists of a band of the same material as the screen; and is, preferably,
cut from the same sheet. This band is of a suitable width, and is approximately semi-
annular in plan; one and the same cut producing the bottom edge the screen, and
the top edge of the support. In making this cut, I form an extension upon the
top edge of the support at the centre thereof, which extension is cut out of the
substance of the screen. The edge of this extension makes two angles where it joins
the top edge of the support; and two notches are formed in the bottom edge of the
screen, which notches are placed at a proper distance from each other to adapt them
to the purpose of engaging in the angles in the support.
The extremities of the support are provided with a suitable device by which they
can be drawn together. The act of drawing them together causes the support to assume
the shape of part of the envelope of a cone.
The screen stands upon the support-the notches in the angles therein and rests
against the stove; or a leg, after the manner of an easel-leg, may be provided for the
purpose of supporting the screen in the desired position. The cavity in the bottom of
the screen caused by the formation of the central extension upon the top of the support
is concealed behind the latter when the screen is in use.
Both screen and support may be ornamented in any convenient or suitable
manner.
D
1011 1.
1000
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

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I, THOMAS WALTER WOODHOUSE, C.E., of No. 35, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.,
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:
My invention relates to improvements in fire stove ornaments, or screens, adapted
to the double purpose of screening the empty grate of the stove, and of, at the same
time, presenting an ornamental appearance.
In order that the said invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, I will proceed to describe them in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as
part of this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the screen.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the screen-stand before it is bent into shape as such.
Fig. 3. is a perspective view of screen and stand; and
Fig. 4 illustrates a modified form of screen and stand.
Both screen, A, and stand, B, are stamped out of cardboard, metal, or other suitable
material at one operation; and are also thereby divided along the line, a, which,
therefore, defines both the bottom edge of the screen, and the top edge of the
stand.
The screen and stand may, if preferred, be made from separate sheets.
The screen is illustrated as oval in shape with an approximately square top; but I
wish it to be distinctly understood, that in manufacturing screens and stands according
to the present invention, I do not confine myself to the shape of the screen, nor to the
style of ornamentation of either the screen and stand, inasmuch as both the shape of
the former, and the ornamentation of both, may be such as the fancy or the taste of
the designer engaged on their production may suggest, or the requirements of any
particular set of circumstances for which the screen is being made, may dictate.
The stand is approximately semi-annular in plan.
The border line of the central portion of the stand is led in such a direction that it
encroaches, so to speak, upon the area of the screen. The central extention, b, produced
thereby has two sides, 61, which form a pair of angles, 62, with the top edge of the stand.
A pair of angular notches, a', is formed in the lower edge of the screen, A, opposite
the said pair of angles.
The ends, c, of the stand are provided with a suitable device by means of which they
can be drawn together. This device is represented in the figures as consisting of a
piece of cord, e, fast to one end, and a hole, c², in the other end, through which the
cord is adapted to be drawn and tied.
The act of drawing the two ends, c, of the stand together naturally causes the stand

page_text: to assume a conical form, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The angles, 62, are thereby approxi-
mated accordingly, and the notches, a¹, in the bottom of the screen will be too far apart
for them to engage in the said angles.
The sides of the screen are therefore bent back and the centre of the screen bulged
forward, until the two notches, a', are brought as near to each other as are the
angles, 6. The notches are then dropped on to the angles when the natural resilience
of the screen will cause them to engage with the angles as rigidly as will be necessary
to retain the screen in the desired position.
But as the ends, c, of the stand are drawn close together while the sides of the
screen are not approximated more than an inch or two, it follows that the central
extensión, b, will stand up high enough to conceal the indentations produced in the
bottom edge of the screen by cutting the said extension out of it.
Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of my invention. The screen, A, and stand, B, are
hinged along the line d. The sides, e, e, of the screen are severed therefrom by
cuts e, e¹, extending nearly to the top, and are adapted by means of tabs, e², to engage
in slots, f, cut in the stand.
In the figure, the left side is shown as disengaged from the stand, and the right
hand side as engaged by means of its tab with the slot in the stand.
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. A screen and its stand produced by complete severing cuts from one and the
same sheet of material, and adapted by means of notches and angles to engage with
each other after the stand has been caused to assume a conical shape.
2. In a stand for a screen, the combination of central extension, adjacent angles
adapted to engage with corresponding notches in the screen, and a device by which the
screen can be caused to assume and retain a conical shape.-
3. The combination of stand, screen, and connecting devices, substantially as
illustrated in the accompanying figures and described therewith.
1
11000
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.