IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE BLOWERS FOR HASTENING COMBUSTION AND ABATING SMOKE IN FIRE GRATES OR OPEN STOVES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph John Lish, of Bucklersbury, in the City of
London, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE BLOWERS FOR
HASTENING COMBUSTION AND ABATING SMOKE IN FIRE GRATES OR OPEN
STOVES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph John Lish at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th March 1882.
JOSEPH JOHN LISH of Bucklersbury in the City of London, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FIRE BLOWERS FOR HASTENING COMBUSTION AND ABATING SMOKE IN FIRE-
GRATES OR OPEN STOVES."
The object of this invention is to provide an improved fire-blower for use with
any ordinary domestic fire-grate or open stove, which blower will hasten the
combustion of anthracite coal or other fuel and be easily adapted to the various
sizes and forms of fire-places, at the same time ensuring effective draught.
My improvements consist in having a fire resisting piece or sheet of metal or
other suitable material or fabric capable of being easily bent or adapted by the
hand or by the force of the draught to any ordinary form of fireplace or open
stove and suitably supported.
For this purpose I make the piece or sheet of such a thickness and pliability
as to be easily bent to fit the opening of the firegrate or open stove, and I, in
some instances stiffen the piece or sheet in certain directions by rivetting, or
otherwise attaching metal bands or bars, which bands or bars being prolonged
beyond the edge or edges of the piece or sheet serve to support the piece or sheet
whilst in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph John Lish in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th September 1882.
JOSEPH JOHN LISH of Bucklersbury in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN FIRE BLOWERS FOR HASTENING COMBUSTION AND ABATING SMOKE IN FIRE
GRATES OR OPEN STOVES
"
The object of this Invention is to provide an improved fire blower for use with
any ordinary domestic fire grate or open stove, which blower will hasten the
combustion of anthracite coal or other fuel and be easily adapted to the various
sizes and forms of fire places, at the same time ensuring effective draught.
My improvements consist in having a fire-resisting piece or sheet of metal or
other suitable material or fabric, capable of being easily bent or adapted by the
hand or by the force of the draught to any ordinary form of fire place or open
stove, and suitably supported.
For this purpose I make the piece or sheet of such a thickness and pliability as
to be easily bent to fit the opening of the fire grate or open stove, and I preferably
stiffen the piece or sheet in certain directions by rivetting or otherwise attaching
metal bands or bars, which bands or bars being prolonged beyond the edge or edges
of the piece or sheet serve to support the piece or sheet whilst in use.
The construction of my improved pliable fire-proof blower will be readily
perceived on reference to the accompanying drawing in which I have shown
various views of such a blower arranged to suit fire places or open stoves of three
different kinds.
Fig: 1 is a plan view, Fig: 2 an elevation, and Fig: 3 a vertical section of a
fire place showing the blower in place.
In these figures A is the flexible fire-proof blower which is attached by hooks B
to the bar C, and is bent or shaped to suit the contour of the grate or fire place.
The blower A is stiffened by the metal bands or thin bars D which bands or
bars it will be seen are preferably bent to form handles in front and hooks at the
hack. Or the handles and hooks may be made and attached to the blower
separately.
I have found that a sheet of soft iron, of about No. 32 wire gauge thickness, is
well suited to form a blower which will adapt itself to the form of the grate but
I do not limit myself to this exact thickness which may vary according to the size
of the apperture to be covered. The stiffening of the blower when and where
necessary may be economically effected by the use of hoop or band iron which
may be easily bent to shape so as to form. the handles and hooks, and rivetted or
otherwise secured to the flexible fire-proof blower.
Referring again to the drawing Fig: 4 is a plan view, Fig: 5 an elevation and
Fig: 6 a section of another form of fire grate showing the flexible blower in
position, the same letters of reference indicating similar parts to those already
described and the blower being hooked onto the grate as in the previous example.
Fig 7 is a plan showing the blower adapted to another form of firegrate.
Figures 8 and 9 are an elevation and section of a grate similar to that drawn in
Figures 2 and 3, but shewing another mode of supporting the blower.
In this case the blower, instead of being attached to the bars by hooks B as
shewn in the preceding Figures is supported by the handles E which are downward
prolongations of the stiffening bars D so arranged as to rest on the hearth or floor,
and form as it were feet. These supporting handles or feet may be made of band
iron or other suitable fire proof stiffening material, and be secured to the blower
in any convenient way.

page_text: Fig: 10 is a section on an enlarged scale of the lower portion of one of my
blowers showing the bent handles and hooks B by which it is attached to the
grate. Each of the handles and hooks is there represented as formed in one with
the stiffening bands out of a single strip of iron or equivalent material rivetted to
the pliable fire resisting blower.
I would remark that the details shown on the drawing may be varied without
departing from the nature of my Invention, and I do not limit myself to the
precise form or material of which the flexible fire proof blowers therein shewn are
composed nor to the manner in which they may be supported or stiffened although
I prefer to use soft iron or copper as above described.
The flexible blowers will be adapted to suit the contour of the grate to which
they are applied, either by the pressure produced by the draught or it may be by
hand.
Having now set forth the nature of my said Invention of "Improvements in
Fire Blowers for hastening combustion and abating smoke in fire grates or open
stoves" and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to
be understood that I claim
Constructing pliable fire-resisting blowers for open stoves or fire grates as and
for the purpose described with reference to the drawing.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph John Lish have hereunto set my
hand and seal the First day of September in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
JOSEPH J. LISH. (L.S.)