An Improved Sliding Blower for Register Stoves, and Means for Removing same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sliding Blower for Register Stoves, and Means for
Removing same.
We, RICHARD CORKER, SAMUEL LEVERSIDGE & JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON, Ferham
Works Rotherham in the County of York, Ironfounders, & ALBERT WOOLHOUSE,
of the same address foreman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This improvement in sliding blowers and in the method by which they are released
from the Stove, has for its object to enable the blower to be readily removed from the
Stove when desired without disturbing the Stove itself, making it more convenient
to execute repairs to the masonry, and to sweep the chimney.
It consists in a peculiar arrangement of the vertical slide-groove in which the
edge of the sliding blower moves when being raised or lowered.
One
groove is straight, but the other is made with a short bend outwards at a
little distance from the top, after which it continues straight down to its lowest point,
terminating in a suitable recess or aperture.
The sliding blower or canopy, has one of its edges made straight to fit into the
straight sliding groove in the stove, as before described; the other edge is also
made straight except at its lowest point at which place it is made wider so as to
form a projection capable of entering the recess or aperture before mentioned.
When the blower or canopy is in any position within its ordinary range of adjust-
ment, its top edge will bear against the top portion of the groove, and the projection
on its lower edge will bear against the groove past the short bend before mentioned,
and will therefore be held steady and perfectly secure from displacement; if however
the blower is drawn down to its very lowest position, the projection may be passed
into the aperture, and the top edge having passed the short bend into the wider
groove, the opposite edge can be drawn out of its groove, and the blower be released
and removed. It can be replaced by a reverse movement.
Dated the 18th day of March 1889.
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sliding Blower for Register Stoves, and Means for
Removing same.
We, RICHARD CORKER, SAMUEL LEVERSIDGE and JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON,
Ferham Works, Rotherham in the County of York, Ironfounders, and ALBERT WOOL-
BOUSE, of the same address, foreman 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 improvement in sliding blowers and in the method by which it is released and
removed from the stove has for its object to enable the said blower to be very readily
removed from the stove whenever necessary or desirable without disturbing the stove
itself, thus making it very convenient to execute any repairs of the masonry, and also
for sweeping the chimney.
The annexed sheets of drawings illustrates our invention, and similar letters of
reference will indicate similar parts in any of the figures.
Fig. 1, elevation of complete stove.
Fig. 2, same stove with canopy blower & side plates removed.
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page_text: Fig. 4 shows how the blower is removed.
The invention consists chiefly in the peculiar arrangement or construction of the
blower B, and of the sliding spaces or grooves.A and. A in which the edges of the
blower, moves when being raised or lowered.
The groove or space A¹ is made straight, but the other one A is made with a short
outward bend C at a little distance from the top, thus separating them, or placing them
further apart, after which they run parallel down to their lowest point, where the one.
marked A terminates in a recess or aperture D.
A rack E is arranged on each side of the stove to engage with the bottom edges of
the blower B, and support it at any desired height.
The sliding canopy or blower B, has one of its edges F made straight to fit into
the straight sliding groove or space A¹ before mentioned; the other edge of the
blower marked F¹ is also made straight as shown, until it reaches its lowest point,
where it widens so as to form a projection G, suitably shaped to enable it to enter and
pass into the recess or aperture 1).
Such a blower is usually made to slide at the back of a fixed canopy such as H,
shown in Fig. 1, the shape or configuration of which may be varied the one illustrated
being given as an example only.
When the blower B, is raised or lowered to any position within its ordinary limit
of adjustment upon the racks E, its top edge will run between and bear against the
top or narrow part of the guiding grooves or spaces A & A', the point of the pro-
jection G upon the lower part of the edge F, will also slide against the edge of the
wider portion below the short bend C before mentioned, and thus the blower will be.
held steady and not be liable to displacement.
When however the canopy H is removed and the blower is drawn down to its
very lowest position, the top edge will have passed the bend C, and entered the wider
part, and the projection G may then be passed into the recess or aperture D.
This position and the canopy H being removed allows of sufficient freedom of
motion, to permit the opposite edge of the blower to be drawn out of the groove or
space A', which releases the blower and enables it to be removed.
The reverse movements to those above described places the blower in position
again.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion, and the manner in which it is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. In combination with register stoves, a sliding blower having a projection on
one of its edges, working in a groove or guiding space formed with a short bend in
its upper part, and having a recess at its lowest point for the purpose of enabling the
blower to be removed, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. As a means for removing blowers from register stoves, without disturbing the
stove itself, the combination of a projection G upon the blower B, with a groove or
guide A, having a bend C, and an aperture or recess D, in or upon the stove,
arranged and working together for the purpose specified, and as illustrated.
Dated the 19th day of December 1889.
RUBI. F. DRURY, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicants.