Improved Rake Support for Steam Boilers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improved Rake Support for Steam Boilers.
We, JAMES WHITTLE and EDWARD WHITTLE, both of Mitchell Street Ironworks,
Newton Heath, Manchester, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to an improved support or carrier to be applied
to the front of a boiler as a bearer for the handle of a rake scraper or fireiron. It
consists of a bar extending across the front of the boiler and carrying one or more
bowls or loose bushes which may be slid to any part of the bar as for instance
from opposite one flue to opposite another. The periphery of the bowl or bush.
is preferably channelled in cross section to receive the handle of the rake. The
bar is supported in brackets adapted to be cramped or otherwise secured to the
boiler at any convenient height. The brackets have notches or similar devices to
enable the bar to be held at such distance from the front of the boiler as may
be convenient in each case.
Such a device as above described not merely serves as a support for the handle
of a scraper rake or fireiron thus minimising the muscular effort needed to operate
the same but acts as a guard to prevent the handle striking and disfiguring the
lower edge of the opening of the flue.
T
101
A L
1000
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M.Inst.C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
We, JAMES WHITTLE and EDWARD WHITTLE, both of Mitchell Street Ironworks,
Newton Heath, near Manchester, Engineers, 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:-
'
Our said invention relates to an improved support or carrier to be applied to the
front of a boiler as a bearer for the handle or shaft of a rake scraper fire iron
or the like.
In order that our said invention may be more clearly understood we will describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a boiler showing one form of our said inven-
tion in position thereon.
Figure 2 is a section through one of the flues at of Figure 1. Figure 2
illustrates a detail to be hereinafter described. Figure 3 illustrates in elevation

page_text: part of the front of a boiler showing another form of our said invention.
Figure 4 is a section through the flue at y-y of Figure 3.
One form of our said invention as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 consists of
a straight bar a extending across the front of the boiler b and carrying one or
more bowls or loose bushes c which may be slid to any part of the bar a as
for instance from opposite one flue f to opposite another flue f. The periphery
of the bowl or bush c is channelled in cross section to receive the handle of the
tiro iron d. The bar a is supported in brackets e e adapted to be cramped or
otherwise secured to the boiler at any convenient height. These brackets have
notches e e2 to enable the bar a to be held at such distance from the front of the
boiler as may be convenient in each case. In order to prevent the bar a moving
endwise in the brackets e we form a neck a¹ therein or apply a collar or shoulder
as shown in Figure 2.
In another form of our said invention illustrated in elevation in Figure 3 and
in section in Figure 4 we use a curved bar A. swinging in brackets or slings. E
secured at the upper edge of the flue f to the front of the boiler as shown. The
curved rod A carries a bowl C at its lower part.
The above described apparatus not merely serves as a support for the handle of
a fireiron or the like thus minimising the muscular effort needed to operate the
same but acts as a guard to prevent the handle striking and disfiguring the lower
edge of the opening of the flue.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
A straight or curved bar mounted in brackets or otherwise suitably carried at
the front of a steam boiler and provided with one or more bowls or loose bushes
to form a support for the handle of a scraper or fire irou substantially as set
forth and shown.
eenth day of May 1899.
E. T. WHITELOW, A,M.Inst.C.E.,
70, Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.