Improvements in Fire Brasses and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in Fire Brasses and in the Manufacture of
the same.
We HENRY SHELDON of 17 Belmont Row, Birmingham Brass Founder and
FRANCIS WILLIAM GREEN of 73 Saint James Street, Birmingham Brass Founder
and both in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of the said
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 has for its object improvements in fire brasses and in the
manufacture of the same, i.e. tongs, poker and fire shovel by which we are enabled
to make them more substantially than formerly, and at less cost besides adding to
their appearance.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice we have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which some
parts of the brasses are illustrated.
Figure 1. is an illustration of the upper part of a pair of tongs.
Figure 2. is also an illustration of the same tongs but with the joint cover A
removed and also the handle B removed.
Figure 3. is an illustration of the same tongs with handle B removed but the
joint cover A. in position.
Figure 4. shows the lower part of a poker.
In making fire brasses we use either iron or steel rods covered with brass from
which we not only form the body part of the said irons but also other parts such
for instance as the bows of the tongs and the body of the point of the poker and
the core of the handles of both tongs poker and shovel.
Hitherto the bows of tongs have been cast in brass and screwed on say at C to
the straight parts or leg D. i.e. the bows E and E¹ have been cast metal.
Now we
make our irons as follows:-We take a straight rod and screw the top F and the
bottom for the solid bottom ends which however is no part of our invention and
we then bend the female bow E and in like manner the male part E' We then
cut or shoulder down the end of E¹ by a special tool or in a special machine or
otherwise and then slot out the female part E to receive the part E' when the two
are secured together by a pin or rivet H as seen at figure 2. The joint cover A is
then placed over the joint as seen at Figure 3 and the handle is next screwed on as
seen in its finished condition at Figure 1. The ferruls K may thus be fixed in

page_text: any desired position according to the design of the tongs as they will slide up and
down upon the wire before being fixed. The general design of the bows of the
handle and joint cover and configuration of the same may be greatly varied and
any section rods may be used such for instance as octagon, hexagon, round, oval or
other sections. In some cases we carry the female part E upwards until the screw
part F issues through the handle and thus the part E becomes the core of the
handle which may then be stamped out of sheet metal and slided on either separate
to the joint cover A or in one piece with the said joint cover. The part or parts A
and B are then kept on by a suitable screw ball or nut. The poker and shovel
handles may of course be likewise so formed with a hollow metal stamped handle.
It will be obvious that a cast hollow handle may be so fixed upon the core or rod E
carried through it. The point of the poker may be likewise formed of sheet metal
by carrying the rod or body down and then placing a capsul over the end which
is closed into a recess or notch or otherwise secured so as to form the end M in
appearance much the same as if it were solid and screwed on at m'. The ferrule N
slides up the rod and may be fixed at any desired position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is—
The improvements in fire brasses and in the manufacture of the same of the bow
of the tongs made from the brass cased metal rods which is sometimes carried
through the handle or other part for strength simplicity and cheapness substantially
as and for the purpose herein set forth.