IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC ASH PANS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sigmund Goldstein, of the City of Manchester,
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOMESTIC ASH
PANS."
Scaled the 6th October 1875, and dated tho 7th April 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sigmund Goldstein at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th April 1875.
I, SIGMUND GOLDSTEIN of the City of Manchester, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ IMPROVEMENTS IN
DOMESTIC ASH PANS," to be as follows:
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The improvements relate to domestic ash pans or dust preventers, and
consist in so constructing the same that they shall form an apparatus
for sifting or dividing the cinders from the ashes as the same are
deposited therein by the action of the fire, whereby greater cleanliness
is ensured, and a saving in labour is effected.
I construct my improved ash pan of any suitable or convenient shape
(but by preference of a similar shape to that of the ordinary domestic

page_text: dust preventer so far as the front elevation is concerned), and of sheet or
cast iron or other suitable metal. I provide in the front two openings
for drawers or boxes or other receptacles, which drawers or boxes are
made the one longer than the other, the bottom one being the longest.
These drawers or boxes extend (when in position) underneath the
fire-grate, and act as receptacles, the one for ashes and the other
for cinders, the bottom drawer or box being for cinders. Over these
drawers or boxes, and covering the upper one is stretched a wire
netting or riddle, or it may be a sheet of iron or other metal pierced
with slots or holes for the purpose of preventing the larger portions of
coal or cinder from falling through into the upper drawer or box, this
same riddle or sieve being placed at an angle or incline so as to enable
the larger portions of coal or cinder to fall or roll into that portion of
the lower drawer or box which projects further underneath the fire-grate
than the upper, this end of the lower drawer or box being formed with
an incline in the opposite direction to assist the equable filling of all
parts thereof, by which means an apparatus is provided, whereby the
ashes falling from a kitchen or other fire-grate arc sifted from the
cinders automatically and caught in soparate receptacles, which can be.
drawn out separately without involving the removal of the body of the
ash pan or dust preventer from the fire-place, thus forming a dust pro-
venter or ash pan and cinder sifter combined.
I construct a modification of my improvements for use underneath
low lying fire-grates by making the same with one drawer or box only
for ashes, and allowing the cinders to rest upon the before-mentioned
wire sieve or perforated plate, which in this case may be kept in a
horizontal position, and may be made either stationary or removable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sigmund Goldstein in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 7th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIGMUND
GOLDSTEIN, of the City of Manchester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year
of our Loid One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in tho

page_text: thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Sigmund Goldstein, Her
special licence, that I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sigmund
Goldstein, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times there-
after 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 DOMESTIC ASH PANS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of tho said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :―
The improvements relate to domestic ash pans or dust preventers, and
consist in so constructing the same that they shall form an apparatus
for sifting or dividing the cinders from the ashes as the same are
3 deposited therein by the action of the fire, whereby greater cleanliness
is ensured, and a saving in labor is effected
I construct my improved ash pan of any suitable or convenient shape
(but by preference of a similar shape to that of the ordinary dust pre-
venter so far as the front elevation is concerned), and of sheet or cast
iron or other suitable metal I provide in the front two openings for
drawers or boxes or other receptacles, which drawers or boxes are made
the one longer than the other, the bottom one being the longest. These
drawers or boxes extend when in position underneath the fire-grate, and
act as receptacles, the one for ashes and the other for cinders, the bottom
drawer or box being for cinders. Over these drawers or boxes and
covering the upper one is stretched a wire netting or riddle, or it may
be a sheet of iron or other metal pierced with slots or holes for the
purpose of preventing the larger portions of coal or cinder from falling

page_text: through into the upper drawer or box, this same riddle or sieve being
placed at an angle or incline so as to enable the larger portion of coal or
cinder to fall or roll into that portion of the lower drawer or box which
projects farther underneath the fire-grate than the upper, this end of the
lower drawer or box being formed with an incline in the opposite
direction to assist the equable filling of all parts thereof.
And in order that this my said Invention may be the more readily
understood, and carried into practical effect, I have hereunto annexed a
Drawing illustrative of my combined ash pan and cinder sifter drawn to
a scale of about one-fourth full size
Fig. 1 represents a front exterior view of the apparatus; Fig. 2, a side
sectional view; Fig. 3, a plan, and Fig. 4, a transverse section of Fig. 2
through the line a - b. Similar letters marked on the several views,
and herein-after mentioned, are used to denote similar parts
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In-all-the views A is a metallic casing designed to project into and to
occupy the cavity or space below the fire-place, such casing being similar
in appearance at the front to the ordinary dust preventer placed in front
of the ash place in kitchen langes, the sloping portion A' constituting a
hopper to catch any cinders or dust which may fall out in front of the
fire-bars. The casing A has two apertures in its front to receive the two
drawers B and C, herein-after called the dust drawer and the cinder
drawer respectively, the dust drawer B running upon brackets B', and
projecting as far back beneath the fire-grate as it extends, whilst the
cinder drawer C rests upon the bottom of the casing A, and projects
beyond the back of the dust drawer, as seen more clearly in Figs. 2 and
Above the dust drawer B, and in a sloping direction, is fixed the
wirework screen D, which is secured in position in the casing A by the
back extremity of the two outside wires on either side passing into
staples E arranged in or secured to the sides of the casing A. to receive
them, whilst the front portion of such wirework rests against the a
hopper A'. This screen D forms a self-acting sieve or riddle to separate
the dust and ash which falls through its mesh into the dust drawer B
from the cinders and larger particles which roll down such wire screen,
and are received into the cinder drawer O
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I wish it to be understood that instead of a wire screen I may use a 3
metallic plate perforated with suitable slots or holes for the same purpose.
I thus construct an apparatus, by means of which the ashes falling from

page_text: a kitchen or other fire are sifted from the cinders automatically, and
caught in separate receptacles, either of which can be drawn out
separately by their respective knobs or handles F and G without
involving the removal of the body of the ash pan or dust preventer A
from the fire-place, and thus formung a dust preventer or ash pan and
cinder sifter combined.
I construct a modification of my improvements for use underneath
low lying fire-grates by making the samo with one drawer or box only
for ashes, and which I prefer to rest directly upon the hearthstone, the
before-mentioned wire sieve or perforated plate being in this case sup-
ported in a horizontal position upon a skeleton casing capable of removal
without at the same time removing the dust drawer, and thus the cinders
rest upon such horizontal sieve or perforated plate, whilst the dust and
ash fall through into the drawer beneath. The advantage of thus
separating the dust and ashes from the cinders is that the cinder drawer
may be withdrawn at any time from its casing, and its contents emptied
on to thic fire, and this without creating the least dust in virtue of the
separating process which it has previously undergone.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
my said Invention, together with the best methods with which I am
acquainted for carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details,
relative proportions, or dimensions of the apparatus hercin-before
described and illustrated on the accompanying Drawing, as the samo
may be considerably varied without departing from the Invention, and
that what I claim is, the combined apparatus whereby the dust and
ashes of a fire-place arc separated from the cinders and lodged in
separate and distinct receptacles self-actingly, as and for the purposes
herein-before described and illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sigmund Goldstein, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.