A New or Improved Cinder Catcher and Fire Guard.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left 7th Oct. 1220 Accepted, 0th Nov, 1880
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Cinder Catcher and Fire Guard.
I, ALFRED THISTLEWOOD, of 24, Brougham Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Bookseller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the new or improved cinder catcher and fire guard herein
described which is designed more particularly for use when roasting or cooking
before a fire grate to prevent the cinders falling from between the bars.
In carrying out this invention I provide a screen or guard which is made of woven
wire, or may consist of several vertical strands of wire with but a few cross strands,
supported round the edges by a strong wire frame. This frame is by preference of
rectangular form to match the open bars of the grate or it may be of round, polygonal
or other shape. The said frame has a hook or hooks by which it can be hung from
one or others of the bars of the fire grate. 1 prefer to use two of the said hooks
and to make them by bending the wire which forms the frame into the required
hooked shape.
When in use the said cinder catcher and guard is hung by the said hook or hooks
from one or other of the bars of the fire grate so as to lie Hat against the said bars and
prevent cinders falling out and also to serve as a fire guard.
Dated this 31st day of January 1889.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Cinder Catcher and Fire Guard.
1, ALFRED THISTLEWOOD, of 24, Brougham Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Bookseller, 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 consists of the new or improved cinder catcher and fire guard herein
described which is designed more particularly for use when roasting or cooking before
a fire grate to prevent the cinders falling from between the bars.
In carrying out this invention I provide a screen or guard which is made of woven
wire, or may consist of several vertical strands of wire with but a few cross strands,
supported round the edges by a strong wire frame. This frame is by preference of
rectangular form to match the open bars of the grate or it may be of round, polygonal
or other shape. The said frame has a hook or hooks by which it can be hung from
one or other of the bars of the fire grate. I prefer to use two of the said hooks and
to make them by bending the wire which forms the frame into the required hooked
shape.
When in use the said cinder catcher and guard is hung by the said hook or hooks
from one or other of the bars of the fire grate so as to lie flat against the said bars and
prevent cinders falling out and also to serve as a fire guard.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which my said invention is to be performed.
Fig. 1 shews part of a fire grate with my new or improved cinder catcher and fire
guard in position and Fig. 2 shews the said cinder catcher and fire guard separately;
Fig. 3 shews a modified form of the same made with cross strands of wire, and
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 illustrate further modifications of the same for use with different kinds
of fire grates.

page_text: a is the screen or guard consisting of vertical fine wire strands close enough together
to prevent the cinders falling through, and 6 is the strong wire frame round the edge
to which the ends of the strands are fixed this wire frame being preferably of rect-
angular shape to suit the front of the fire grate. c¹² are the two hooks which are
preferably formed at the top edge by bending the top wire to the required shape as
shewn these hooks being made of a size to fit on to the top bar. The fine wire strands
forming the screen or guard are preferably arranged vertically as shown and
strengthened and kept the proper distance apart hy fine wires e woven across them
certain distances apart, but they may be inclined and cross each other and form a
lattice pattern as shewn by Fig. 3 or be woven together or otherwise suitably arranged
but I prefer the vertical arrangement as it offers no resistance to the heat passing
therethrough. As will be seen by an examination of Fig. 1 the cinder catcher or fire
guard lies close against the bars and effectually prevents any cinders falling out from
between the bars and in this respect it differs materially from an ordinary wire fire
guard. d is a side loop or handle by which the cinder catcher or fire guard can be
fifted on and off the bars.
The examples illustrated by Figs. 4 and 6 are intended for use for sitting-room and
bed-room grates which have curved fronts and the example illustrated by Fig. 5 is for
those grates which have bevelled sides.
In conclusion I wish it to be understood that I do not make any broad claim to the
use of a wire screen supported from the bars of a fire grate to act as a fire guard
as I am well aware that such articles are well known and in overy day use, but
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. The new or improved cinder catcher and fire guard herein before described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawing; that is to say, an article for the purposes
described consisting of a portable screen formed of strands of fine wire side by side
or interlaced or woven together and supported by an outer strong wire frame furnished
with hooks by which the said screen can be hung from the bar or bars of a fire grate
so as to lie close against the said bars for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
2. In a cinder catcher and fire guard constructed so as to hang from and lio close
against the bars of a fire grate, the strong wire frame b for supporting the strands of
wire forming the screen the said frame having the hooks c¹ c³ formed in a piece there-
with for the purpose of hooking on to one of the bars of the fire grate substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of October 1889.