US255836A

US255836A - Stove-pipe retainer

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Publication number: US255836A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-04-04
Anticipated expiration: 1899-04-04

Description

(No Model.)

A. 0. BRIGGS.

STOVE PIPE RETAINER.

No. 255,836. Patented Apr. 4,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED O. BRIGGS, OFGOLUMBIA CITY, INDIANA.

STOVE-Pl PE RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,836, dated April 4, 1882.

Application filed January 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED 0. Bmcres, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golumbia City, in the county of Whitley and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Stove-Pipe Retainer, ot'which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the application and use of certain mechanical devices for the purpose of retaining stove-pipes in proper posithe mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure l is a view in perspective of my stove-pipe retainer, shown separate and apart from the pipe and. flue in connection with which it is used; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section, showing the retainer in use in connection with the stove-pipeand flue or chimney.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both figures. l

The retainer, Fig. 1, is usually constructed of a piece of hoop'iron about one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness, three-fourths of an inch wide, and as long as the thickness of the fluewall may render necessary. This piece of iron is split at one end about one inch, and one side or half is turned up to form the upper flange, E, and the other half is turned down to form the lower flange, H. The main portion S of the retainer is as long as the thick ness of the flue-wall may require, and on its outer end is formed the loop K, on the under side of the retainer, corresponding with lower flange, H, as shown. It is intended that the distance between the inner edges of loop K and flange H shall correspond with the fluewall where the pipe is inserted.

A, Fig. 2, represents the walls of the flue or chimney, and B the space or hollow within the same.

0 represents the stove-pipe inserted in the stove-pipe hole in the flue. To the lower outer surface of pipe 0 is riveted the loop L at a convenient distance from the inner end of the pipe, as shown.

The practical application of my invention is as follows: The retainer is first placed at the inner and lower side of the stove-pipe hole, the thickness of the flue-wall filling the space between flange H and loop K, with flange E pointing upward, as shown. The stove-pipe is then inserted until its end touches flange E. A wire, 0, is then passed through loops K and L, which are then drawn toward each other as forcibly as may be desired by twisting the ends of the wire together. After the parts described are placed in the relative positions indicated it is plainly evident that the pipe cannot pass any deeper into the flue, because it is stopped by the flange E of the retainer, which latter cannot pass any deeper into the flue, because it is prevented by its loop K striking against the flue-wall. Neither can the pipe be withdrawn from the flue, because its loop L is, by means of wire 0,1irmly attached to loop K of the retainer, which cannot be withdrawn from the flue, because it is prevented by its flange H coming in contact with the inside ofthe wall ot'theflue, as shown.

it is well known that large numbers of destructive fires are caused by the ordinary careless modes of putting up stove pipes, there being under such modes no absolute certainty that the pipe may not slip out of the hole at almost any time, or slip into the flue so far as to interrupt or entirely check. the draft or communicate tire to the soot in the flue.

By the application and use of my invention the dangers and annoyances referred to are all efl'ectually avoided by constantly retaining the pipe in its proper position, as herein described and illustrated.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a stove-pipe and chimney-flue, the retainer, as described, having upper flange, E, lower flange, H, and loop K, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of pipe 0 and loop L, wire 0, loop K, flange E, and flange H with flue-wall A, all substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

ALFRED O. BRIGGS.

Witnesses I. E. LAURENCE, O. H. WOODWORTH.

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