US1271656A - Flue-cleaner. - Google Patents

Description

T. E. BLAUVELT & L I. FOOSHEE.

FLuE CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. I9l7.

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THOMAS ELSWORTH BLAUVELTVAN D JOHN JACKSON FOOSHEE, OF HURLEY, NEVI MEXICO.

FLUTE-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1918.

Application led March 22, 1917. Serial No. 156,713.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS E. BLAUVELT and JOHN JAcnsoN Foosrmn, citizens of the United States, residing at Hurley, in the county of Grant and State of New Mexico, have invented certain useful Improvements in Flue-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The invention relates to a flue cleaner.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a Hue cleaner wherein soot, ashes, dust or the like accumulated within a flue can be readily and easily removed with despatch without possibility of the liying particles scattering or permeating the atmosphere, and also eliminating the soiling of the hands and the clothes of the user.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a flue cleaner of this character which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and eflicient in use, readily and easily operable and inexpensive in manufacture.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part hereinafter set forth.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the appended claim.

In vthe accompanying drawings Figure l is a fragmentary sectional view through a ceiling with a flue in elevation, showing the cleaner constructed in accordr lance with the invention applied;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the cleaner;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the scraper or wiper used with the flue cleaner.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings. Y

Referring to the drawings in detail,` A designates a portion of a flue which is, mounted in the ceiling of a room or inclosure in the ordinary well known manner, with the end of the line protruded a distance beyond said ceiling for the attachment of a stove pipe to the flue, as usual.

The flue cleaner'comprises a thimble or sleeve 5 which is formed with a staff` 6 con'- stituting a handle, and which may be of any desired length for permitting the proper reach in the use of the cleaner, as hereinafter described.

Connected to and depending from the thimble or sleeve 5 is a tubi-form sack or bag 7 made from fabric, although it may be made from other flexible material and constitutes a receiver for soot, ashes, dust or other like matter, the open end of the sack or bag 7 in this instance being formed with a easement 8 which receives the thimble or sleeve 5, and in this manner the latter reinforces the same so that it may be telescoped onto the protruded end of the line, although said sack or bag can be otherwise mounted, and when carried by the thimble or sleeve and engaged on the flue will serve to catch the scrapings or wipings from within the same for the cleaning of the flue, the handle being designed to permit the application of the flue cleaner to the flue when the latter is in or beyond reach.

Formed in the body of the sack or bag 7 is a reinforced eyelet 9, through which slides the stem 10 of a wiper or scraper which is formed with a ring-like head 1l at right angles to the stem 10, and upon this head is adapted to be wrapped a suitable cloth, and on reciprocating the scraper or wiper the soot, ashes, dust or the like can be removed from the wall of the flue interiorly thereof and deposited or caught within the bag or sack, in this manner enabling the thorough cleaning df the flue with despatch without possibility of the scattering' of the scrapings or wipings or the permeating of the atmosphere therewith and the soiling of the hands and clothes of the user of the cleaner.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and manner of use of the herein described flue cleaner will be readily apparent' and, therefore, a more extended explanation has been omitted.

Having thus described our invention, we claim: c

A flue cleaner of the character described, including a receiving sack, the body of which is formed with an eyelet, the upper portion of the body of the sack being folded inwardly upon itself, and secured to the main portion of the body to form a casement, a supporting thimble mounted within the easement and snugly engaged thereby and serving to reinforce the sack and hold i close relation to the thimble and the sack for facilitating the telescoping of the thimble on the flue, the thilmble serving to hold the inner portion of the easement in close relation to the flue, a scraping element disposed Within the sack and a stem on the 10 scraping element projected through the eyelet.

In testimony whereof We aflx our signatures.

THOMAS ELSWORTH BLAUVELT. 'JOHN JACKSON FOOSHEE.

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