US802977A - Flue-stopper. - Google Patents

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No. 802,977. PATENTED OCT. 31, 1905.

H. DIXON. FLUE STOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY18,1904.

WIT/V55 HENRY DIXON, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

FLUE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31,1905.

Application filed July 18,1904. Serial No. 216,974.

To all whom, it 777/Cby concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY DIXON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flue-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in flue-stoppers, the features of which will be fully hereinafter described and claimed.

My invention consists in a holding device formed by interweaving a wire into prepared orifices of the plate.

The objects are economy in construction and to so form the plate with its interwoven wire that the paper for the wall of the room may be secured over the stopper and present a plane surface.

The mechanism is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in the central line of Fig. l with the wire omitted.

Like letters and numerals designate like parts in the two Views.

The circular plate A is formed of metal with a depression of its center, which adapts it to the reception of the holding-wire. The four orifices 1 are made in the beveled portion of said plate, and in line with each two of these are raised port-ions 2, simply cut through said plate and the intervening portion pressed outward. Two series of orifices extend across said plate in parallel lines, and these series serve for the attachment of the holding-wire. The holding-wire B is bent at its center in form of a semicircle, or may have other form of bend, and the ends are passed through the two series of orifices of the plate, and the ends of said wire are then joined by twisting or other method. A spring-wire is used, and in introducing the stopper into the flue the bowed free ends are bent back and entered until the plate rests against the surface of the wall, where it is held by the resiliency of said wire. In this position the wall-paper may be pasted over the same and preserve a plane surface.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is In a flue-stopperthe combination of a plate having its central portion depressed and provided with two parallel series of openings, some of Which are in the sides of said depressed portion, a resilient holder consisting of straight parallel sides and bowed ends, said straight sides passing through the openings so as to lie in part within the depression of the plate, the remainder lying on the opposite side of said plate.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY DIXON. Witnesses:

B. PIGKERING, O. J. MATTERN.

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