COMBINATION OF A SHOVEL RIDDLE AND SIVE
Year: 1886

page_text: ELLIS JONES Commercial Traveller 22 Portia Terrace Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A COMBINATION OF
A SHOVEL RIDDLE AND SIVE to be as follows:-
The novelty of this Invention consists in a combination of a shovel riddle
and sive.
The shovel to be stamped cut pierced or cast with holes in the bottom or blade
of the said shovel.
With a joint in the handle, or leaver or spring wereby a slide can be made to
work so as to close the holes or open them as may be required.
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I purpose doing this either by making the handle in two parts with a joint in
part of the handle or by seperate leaver or spring so that when the handle leaver
or spring is moved the said shovel may be made to act as a shovel riddle or sive by
coverring or uncovering the holes or slots in the blade.
This Invention as for its object the seperating the large meterial from the
smaller more especially for domestic purposes for separating sinders from the
smaller ash.

page_text: ELLIS JONES of 22 Portia Terrace Swansea in the County of Glamorgan
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A. COM-
BINATION OF A SHOVEL RIDDLE AND SIEVE and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
A shovel made of any metal or combination of metals to be stamped cut pierced
or cast with holes or slots in the bottom or blade of the said shovel sometimes
termed the pan with a slide made with holes or slots corresponding with those in
the said shovel. To hold the slide on the said shovel I purpose either stamping
part of the side of the pan or blade so as to cause it to hold the said slide on the
face of the said blade, or by rivetting small brackets on the side of the said pan or
blade or by casting slots or grooves near the bottom of the pan or blade to allow
the said slide, to move over the holes or slots.
I purpose connecting the slide with a screw in the handle by rivetting a rod to
the said slide then passing the same through a hollow handle and connecting the
same with a screw formed at the top of the handle so that when the said top of
the handle is turned it will cause the slide to move on the pan or blade so as to
open or close the holes or slots therein as may be required. If preferable the slido
can also be worked by lever in which case I purpose stamping or cutting or having
cast a hole in the back of the pan or blade under the handle or near where the
handle is fixed allowing part of the slide to be made so that it will project through
the said pan or blade and to have a hole made therein so as to allow the end of a
lever to work the slide backwards or forwards as may be required the handle to
have a joint made at the bottom near the pan or blade so as to allow the lever to
be rivetted thereto. The joint or hinge may be made the same as joints are usually
made in scissors. The handle may be made in two parts. The lever may be made
so that it can be fixed to part of the handle so that when one half of the handle is
lifted or closed it will cause the slide to move.
The invention may be worked also by lever in the following way. I make half
a joint in the handle near the part that is fastened to the pan or blade and form
the other part of the joint with the lever by fixing a rivet or screw through the
handle and lever, then I make the one end of the lever pass on to the said hole in
the slide hereinbefore mentioned and the other end rest on the handle so that when
the lever is moved it will cause the said slide to move as required to open or close
the holes or slots in the pan or blade.

page_text: Fig. 3. Longitudinal section showing slide open with the slots or holes
uncovered.
A The Pan or shovel.
A. 1. The handle for the said pan or shovel.
B. The slide.
C. Joint and lever working the slide and which closes or opens the holes or slots.
D. Brackets or studs holding on pan or blade.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1.) A Shovel stamped cut pierced or cast with holes or slots in the bottom pan
or blade and with a slide with similar holes or slots to correspond with those in
the shovel,
2 The Working of the same in the wov hersinbefore described