A Combined Fireguard and Hanging Trivet.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1891-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Fireguard and Hanging Trivet.
1 JOHN ALEXANDER MACMEIKAN of The Gables Gt. Missenden Buck
Barrister at Law do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In constructing the frame of a combined fireguard or trivet I so arrange the
hooks or fastenings that its position may be altered from the vertical to the
horizontal by detaching certain hooks and hooking it on differently: the object
being that it should answer the double purpose of a fireguard and trivet upon which
to set things in front of the fire. To give additional firmness I may use an
auxiliary rod or rods or chain or chains or other means hooked on to the grate bar:
and the apparatus may be so made as to hook on to and be an adjunct to an
ordinary fireguard.
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S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Fireguard and Hanging Trivet.
I, JOHN ALEXANDER MACMEIKAN of The Gables, Great Missenden, Bucks,
Barrister-at-Law 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 :-
This invention relates to the ordinary wire fireguard or sparkguard and is
designed to construct in such a manner as to enable it to be used occasionally for a
horizontal shelf or hanging trivet before the fire, whereon anything can be
kept hot.
My improvements consist in changing the form of the hooks whereby the
fireguard is hung on the bars, and also in some cases in adding a supplemental
hook and forked foot for greater safety and convenience.
I will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 shews a side view of a fireguard in a vertical position, having my improved
form of hook, which is so constructed that in addition to the upper or ordinary
crook b, it carries also a lower additional crook c, which I add for the purpose of
carrying out my invention.
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Fig. 2 shews the same guard y, in the horizontal position, acting as a trivet. It
will be seen that the crook c, now engages with one of the bars a, of the grate, and
that with the aid of the projection d, it holds the guards firmly in the horizontal
position, so that a dish, as shewn, can be placed upon it.
Fig. 3 shows a back elevation of the guard g, and indicates the position of the
hooks and of the wire stays e, e which support the outer edges of the guard, and
make them rigid with the hooks.
The advantage of this form of convertible guard and trivet is that the alteration
is of a simple and inexpensive kind, and the change of position is easily made
without reversing the guard.
In Figs. 4, 5, 6, I shew a similar guard with a modified convertible
arrangement.
f, is a semicircular or angular forked foot, which may serve as a foot when it is
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page_text: desired to stand the guard on the ground and which will engage with the bar or
moulding of the grate when it is desired to use the guard as a horizontal tray or
trivet. h, is a hanging hook attached to the guard by a folding wire or chain, so
that it hangs down out of the way when the guard is in the vertical position, as in
Figs. 4 and 6, and hooks on to the bar of the grate as shewn in Fig. 5, when the
guard is used horizontally as shewn in Fig. 5. The hanging hook / may be added
to the form of guard shewn in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 if desired, and would be especially
useful in large sizes. Fig. 6 shews a front elevation of the guard of which a side
or end view is shewn in Figs. 4 and 5.
In this instance the hook h, is attached to the front of the guard which allows
the front to be uppermost when used as a trivet.
In this case the hooks which engage with the grate are out of the way of the
dish to be warmed. The grate-hooks can however be made to fold, as is often
done, and in that case the hook h, can be placed on the back of the guard.
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. In a fireguard or sparkguard the addition of a lower crook c, and stay e, to
the ordinary hook, with or without the hanging hook h, as herein described and set
forth.
2. In a fireguard or sparkguard the combination of the forked foot f, with the
hanging hook h, as herein explained and set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1891.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.