IM- PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-IRONS, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO FENDERS, TO STOVE GRATES, AND OTHER FIRE-PLACES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Kendrick, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Designer and Modeller, and Simeon Davies, of Dudley,
in the County of Worcester, Whitesmith, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-IRONS, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO
FENDERS, TO STOVE GRATES, AND OTHER FIRE-PLACES."
Sealed the 15th December 1868, and dated the 18th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Kendrick and
Simeon Davies at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 18th July 1868.
We, THOMAS KENDRICK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Designer and Modeller, and SIMEON DAVIES, of Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Whitesmith, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-IRONS, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE
TO FENDERS, TO STOVE GRATES, AND OTHER FIRE-PLACES," to be as follows:-
In the manufacture of fire-irons called "tongs "it has been the custom
hitherto to forge the same in separate pieces, such as legs, bow, and
head or handle.

page_text: Now the first part of our Invention consists in casting the head, bow,
and one leg in an entire piece, either in brass, iron, or other materials,
On the sides of the bow or contiguous thereto. there are two projections,
by means of which the tongs will open when the said projections are
pressed simultaneously.
The second part of our Invention relates to ornamenting fire-irons,
namely, poker, tongs, and shovel, and consists in the application of
ornamental metal tube to the legs and handles of these articles.
The third part of our Invention consists in the application of
ornamental metal tube to certain parts of fenders known as the bar
or rod, the bead, and the moulding, or the said bar may be cast so as to
produce an ornamental design in a fender.
And, further, the ornamental metal tube is applicable to stove grates
in which we affix portions of the said tube round the arch and upon the
plate in various outlines for ornamental effect.
SPECIFICATION în pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon Davies in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 9th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
KENDRICK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Designer and
Modeller, and SIMEON DAVIES, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester,
Whitesmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon Davies,
Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Kenrick and Simeon
Davies, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we
the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon Davies, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-

page_text: IRONS, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO FENDERS, TO STOVE GRATES,
AND OTHER FIRE-PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon Davies, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon
Davies, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
In the manufacture of fire-irons designated "tongs" it has been
the custom of the trade hitherto to forge the same in separate pieces,
namely, legs, bow, and head or handle.
Now the first part of our Invention consists in casting the head,
bow, and one leg in an entire piece, either in brass, iron, or other suitable
metal. On the side of the bow or contiguous thereto there are two
projections, by means of which the tongs are extended when the said
projections are pressed simultaneously. In certain cases we prefer to
cast the head and bow in an entire piece and attach a leg made with
ornamental metal tubing, such leg to be screwed, rivetted, or otherwise
united to the other parts. The poker we cast in brass or other material
minus the end, namely, that part to which it may be necessary to
apply a piece of iron or steel known to the trade as the shank, being
the remotest end from the handle. The head and shank of a shovel
is cast in one piece, and the pan is attached to it in the ordinary way.
In casting these articles or portions of the same it is matter of choice
whether we cast them in a solid form, or by means of a core render them
partially hollow so as to economise the weight of metal.
The second part of our Invention relates to ornamenting fire-irons,
namely, poker, tongs, and shovel, and consists in the application of
ornamental metal tubing to the legs and handles of these articles. In
ornamenting a poker we take a piece of metal tubing, brass we prefer,
and slide it upon the neck of the poker, and afterwards screw, solder, or
rivet a knob, which constitutes a head and handle, and in addition we
pass other pieces of metal tube of uniform or various ornamental patterns

page_text: over the shank, either wholly or in part covering the same. The mode
of applying ornamental tube to tongs and shovel is identical with that
of ornamenting a poker above referred to.
The third part of our Invention consists in the application of
ornamental metal tube to certain parts of fenders known as the bar
or rod, the bead, and moulding. Hitherto it has been the practice to
use a steel or iron bar in the upper part of a fender, in lieu of which we
substitute a piece of ornamental metal tube, either lacquered, plated, or
gilt; and when desirable we cast a brass rod with an ornamental design
or pattern upon its surface and use it instead of metal tube. In
ornamenting the lower part of a fender, namely, the bead and moulding,
we apply pieces of ornamental metal tube, brass we prefer, and affix
them in any convenient manner.
Having now described our Invention, and the manner in which the
same may be accomplished, we declare that we wish it to be understood
that we do not restrict ourselves to the precise mode of arranging the
ornamental parts in fire-irons and fenders; but what we claim is,
essentially the casting of the head, bow, and one leg of a pair of tongs
in an entire piece, and also in the application of ornamental metal tube
to fire-irons and fenders generally, for the purpose above recited.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Kendrick and Simeon
Davies, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-
eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
THOMAS KENDRICK. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
SIMEON DAVIES.
(L.S.)