Improvements in "Hangers "9 66 or Trivets" for Stoves or Grates.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in "Hangers "9
66
or Trivets" for Stoves or Grates.
I, JAMES CARPENTER, of Westend, near Southampton in the county of South-
ampton Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN HANGERS OR "
"3
TRIVETS FOR STOVES OR GRATES, to be as
follows:-
The arrangement according to my Invention consists of plates of any suitable
shape which I call "service plates" fixed on centres by which, they are mounted in
the supports or carriers by which they are secured to the grate bars so that the
sail plates may be turned or shifted laterally or vertically as required.
For this purpose the support or carrier may consist of a frame constructed of
two uprights or crossbars, one on each side of the grate with hooks at top so that
the apparatus may be hung upon any grate or stove.
The lower ends of these uprights are either screwed or fitted with rack teeth to
allow the service plates to be shifted and fixed vertically on the said uprights.
A horizontal bar connects the lower ends of the uprights and upon this bar the
service plates are centered so as to allow the service plates to be moved as desired
to or from in front of or over the fire.
When the cross bars are used to support the service plates they may be centered
together to open out and close upon each other to give the required adjustment of
the trivets with respect to the fire..

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I JAMES CARPENTER of Westend near Southampton in the County of South-
ampton Mechanical Engineer 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 :-
The arrangement according to my Invention consists of plates of any suitable
shape which I call "service plates" fixed on centres by which they are mounted in
the supports or carriers by which they are secured to the grate bars so that the
said plates may be turned or shifted laterally or vertically as required For this
purpose the support or carrier may consist of a frame constructed of two uprights
or cross bars one on each side of the grate with hooks at top so that the apparatus
may be bung upon any grate or stove--The lower ends of these uprights may be
either screwed or fitted with rack teeth to allow the service plates to be shifted
and fixed vertically on the said uprights.
A horizontal bar connects the lower ends of the uprights and upon this bar the
service plates are centered so as to allow the service plates to be moved upon their
centres as desired to or from in front of, or over the fire.
When the cross bars are used to support the service plates the said bars may be
centered together to open out and close upon each other to give the required
adjustment of the trivets with respect to the fire and in this case the servico
plates may be fixed to the cross bars.
And in order that my Invention may be thoroughly understood I will explain
with reference to the accompanying drawings ways in which it may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side view and Figure 2 in plan a simple form of a trivet
or hanger constructed according to my Invention A are the bars of the grate
with which the hanger or trivet is used; B is an upright or stem with a hook or
hooks b at top to take over or engage with the top bar of the grate and with a
hole at 6 in which is received the pin or projection c of the "service plate" C.
The stem B passes through an opening in the second hook D which takes over or
engages with the lower bar as shewn The service plate O can be brought into
any required position in front of or over the fire by turning it upon its pin or
centre c The hole 6 may be in the position, shewn in dot and pick lines in
Figure 1 instead of in that shewn in full lines-Figures 3 and 4 are an end view
and a plan respectively of an arrangement wherein the hangers or uprights B
look over the top bar of the grate from inside, and bear upon the outer side of the
lower bar but they can be secure. as shewn in Figure 6 if desired-The uprights
are joined by the Hat bar B2 which has in it two holes 6º for the reception of the
centre pins c of two service plates C-Figures 5 and 6 represent in plan and end
view respectively the arrangement wherein the cross bars B (carried by the
uprights B hooked to the bars as before described) are centered together at d.
Each end of each bar B' carries a service plate C and one may also be provided
over the centre d as shewn at C³.
This arrangement may be closed so that the service plates are close to the fire as
shewn in full lines or the bars B' may be opened out on their centre d as shewn in
dotted lines.
In Figure 6 the uprights B are shewn as hooking over the upper bar from the
outside and the service plates C as being formed in one therewith but the said

page_text: uprights may be hooked over from the inside as shewn in Figure 7 and the
service plates may be provided with pins c inserted into holes in which they can
turn as before described Several pairs of bars B³ may be used if desired each pair
being centered together as at d'and the adjacent ends of the pairs pinned or
centered together so that the series constitutes an arrangement of bars or narrow
service plates capable of being moved to and from the fire after the manner of
lazy tongs.
Figures 8 and 9 are a plan and an end elevation of the arrangement wherein the
hangers or uprights B are provided with rack teeth 63 with one or other of which
engages the cross pin d³ of each upright the said pins being situated between the
two cheek pieces d³ fixed to or formed with the bar B in which are the holes for
the centre pins c of the service plates C. Other holes may also be formed. at the
top of the uprights or hangers B for the reception of the centre pins c³ of additional
service plates C as shewn in Figure 9 and in dotted lines in Figure 8. The centre
holes for these service plates may be situated as shewn in dot and pick lines if
preferred. In order to prevent the hanger tipping up when the service plates are
turned over the fire, a steadying piece x may be employed as shewn by dotted lines
in Figure 9. Figure 10 shews a front view of the cheek pieces ds and cross pin d².
It will be seen that when in the position shewn the pins d and the cheek pieces d³
and the inward parts of the bar D at d bear against the uprights B and keep the
bar B in position whilst by turning up the bar B the cheek pieces d³ will allow
of the said bar B being adjusted higher or lower upon the hangers B and on the
said bar being turned down again the pins d will engage with the teeth 6*
opposite which they have been brought. Rotating screws may be used as the
uprights to adjust the bar B2 by rotating them in screw nuts formed on or fixed to
the said bar B³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Inven.
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
First A hanger or trivet consisting of an upright or uprights which can be
secured to the grate bars and a service plate or service plates connected therewith
by a pin or centre joint or joints upon which the service plate or plates can be
turned substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Second-The arrangement and combination of parts forming the hanger or trivet
hereinbefore described and shewn in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Third: The arrangement and combination of parts forming the compound
hanger or trivet hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying Drawings.
Fourth-The arrangement of trivet or hanger and centered service plates or
carrier bars substantially as herein before described and illustrated under one
modification in Figures 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying Drawings.
Fifth-In hangers or trivets the toothed, screwed, or equivalently formed
uprights, upon which the service plate carrier or bar can be adjusted vertically
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 8, 9 and 10 of
the accompanying Drawings whether the said uprights be provided with centres
for extra service plates C³ or not.