US558101A - Fire-guard and soot-catcher - Google Patents

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(No Model) G, A. 'PIOKLE. FIRE GUARD AND SOOT GATGHER.

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' To all whom it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

GABRIEL A. PICKLE, OF EAGLE LAKE, MINNESOTA;

FIRE-GUARD AND SOOT-CATCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,101, dated April 14, 1896.

Application filed April 15, 1895. Serial No. 545,776. (No model.)

Be it known that I, GABRIEL A. PICKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eagle Lake, in the county of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota, have invented anew and useful Fire-Guard-and Soot-Catcher, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in fire-guards and soot-catchers.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device adapted to be readily connected with an ordinary stovepipe and designed to be interposed between a stove and a chimney to prevent ignited particles of combustion from passing through the stovepipe or flue and entering a chimney and burning out the latter.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a device which will not interfere with the draft of the stove, and which will collect the soot and prevent the same clogging the stovepipe or flue.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fire-guard and soot-catcher constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a stovepipe-section, designed to form a portion of a stovepipe, extending from a stove to a chimney. The stovepipesection 1 is provided in its bottom with a longitudinal opening 2, located at the mouth of a tapering soot-receptacle 3, depending from the stovepipe-section 1.

The tapering soot-receptacle is composed of substantially triangular sides, secured at their upper edges at 4 to the outer faces of the opposite sides of the stovepipe-section 1, and the sides of the soot-receptacle are provided at their inclined edges with inwardlyextending laterally-disposed flanges 5, overlapping, secured together, and forming the end walls of the soot-receptacle. The substantially triangular sides are provided at their truncated lower ends with inwardly-extending supporting-flanges 6, forming ways,

flanges 5, which form the end Walls of the re ceptacle, have their upper edges cut away or recessed to conform tothe configuration of the adjacent portion of the stovepipe-section 1.

Within the stovepipe-section 1 is arranged a circular shield or deflector 9, consisting of a disk of imperforate sheet metal, secured to the stovepipe-section 1 by L-shaped plates or knees 10, and having its bottom portion 11 bent at a slight angle in the direction of the stove, the products of combustion passing through the pipe-section 1 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings. This shield or deflector does not interfere with the draft of the stove, and the sparks and other products of combustion passing through the stovepipe impinge against the deflector or shield and are stopped in their outward passage and are caused to fall into the receptacle 3. This also prevents the stovepipe from filling up and becoming clogged, and there is no liability of the chimney burning out.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it may be readily applied to any ordinary stovepipe connection between the stove and chimney, and that, while checking-and stopping sparks and other products of combustion and causing the same to collect in the receptacle, it does not interfere with the draft of the stove.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim. is

1. Ina device of the class described, the combination of a horizontal stovepipe-section provided at its bottom with a longitudinal opening, a fixed depending circular deflector or shield arranged within the stovepipe-section and constructed of sheet metal and being of the same diameter as the interior of the same and located centrally of the longitudinal opening, and having its bottom por tion bent at an angle in the direct-ion of the stove to present a concave surface to the products of combustion, and a substantially triangular receptacle depending from the stovepipe and surrounding the opening thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a horizontal stovepipe-section provided at its bottom with alongitudinal opening, a rigidly-mounted imperforate deflector or shield arranged within the stovepipe-section at the opening thereof, and a substantially triangular receptacle depending from the stovepipe-section and arranged beneath the opening thereof, and composed of the opposite sides secured at their upper edges to the stovepipe-section and provided at their inclined edges with inwardly-extending transverse flanges overlapping and forming the end walls of the receptacle and recessed at their upper ends to conform to the configuration of the stovepipe-section, said sides being provided at their lower edges with horizontal supporting-flanges 6, and a removable sliding bottom 7 arranged on the flanges 6, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GABRIEL A. PIOKLE.

IVitnesses:

CHARLES HOWARD, J. D. MORRIS.

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