Improvements in Trays and other Receptacles for Tobacco Ashes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application. 7th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1806
I, THOMAS CARTER BEELEY, of Hyde Junction Iron Works, Hyde, in the
County of Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in trays and other receptacles for tobacco
ashes, and the chief object of my improvements is to provide an appliance which
will enable the ashes and waste tobacco to be readily removed from the smoker's
pipe without injury to the pipe and without scattering the ashes.
In applying my improvements to a receptacle of the form commonly fixed on the
sills of the windows in railway carriages, cabs, and the like, I solder, screw or
otherwise secure to the bottom of the receptacle a thimble or other suitably shaped
piece preferably made of sheet metal the sides and top of which are nicked or
struck up in order to form small or sharp projections on the outer surface of the
metal; or scrapers or projections may be secured to or fitted movably on the
thimble or other suitably shaped piece which in this case may be either hollow
or solid as preferred and in either case if hollow may or may not be open at the
top and if fitted movably the scrapers may be actuated as required by a lever or
other device.
To clean out a tobacco pipe the bowl is pressed over and on to the thimble
piece and slightly turned in the hand when by means of the projections or scrapers
the ashes and waste tobacco can he rapidly removed and the inside of the bowl
thoroughly cleaned out.
If desired a lid may be attached to the receptacle in order to prevent the ashes
scattering and the thimble shaped piece may be secured to the inside of the lid
instead of to the bottom of the receptacle.
In like manner my improvements may be applied to ordinary open ash trays for
use in smoking rooms and other places.
DL .
1005
Improvements in Trays and other Receptacles for Tobacco Ashes.
1, THOMAS CARTER BEELEY, of Hyde Junction Iron Works, Hyde, in the
County of Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in trays and other receptacles for tobacco
ashes, and the chief object of my improvements is to provide an appliance which
will enable the ashes and waste tobacco to be readily removed from the smoker's
pipe without injury to the pipe and without scattering the ashes.
In applying my improvements to a receptacle of the form commonly fixed on the

page_text: sills of windows in railway carriages, cabs, and the like, I solder screw or
otherwise secure to the bottom of the receptacle a thimble or other suitably
shaped piece preferably made of sheet metal the sides and top of which are
nicked or struck up in order to form small or sharp projections on the outer
surface of the metal; or scrapers or projections may be secured to or fitted
movably on the thimble or other suitably shaped piece which in this case may be
either hollow or solid as preferred and in either case if hollow may or may not be
open at the top and if fitted movably the scrapers may be actuated as required by
a lever or other device.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a front elevation with part of the front side removed and Fig. 2 a
plan of one form of my improved ash tray or receptacle for railway carriages, cabs
and the like, and Fig. 3 is an end sectional elevation of the same illustrating the
mode of removing ashes from a tobacco pipe.
Figures 4 and 5 are front sectional elevations of my improved ash receptacle
with alternative forms of scrapers.
Fig. 6 is a plan of an ordinary circular ash tray fitted with a scraper according
to my invention.
In Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, a designates the box or receptacle for tobacco
ashes which may or may not be fitted with a lid as shown in Fig. 3, and c is the
thimble shaped piece secured inside to the bottom of the box a.
To clean out a tobacco pipe the bowl d as shown in Fig. 3 is pressed over and
on to the thimble piece c and slightly turned in the band when by means of the
projections or scrapers the ashes and waste tobacco can be rapidly removed and the
inside of the bowl thoroughly cleaned out.
In Figures 4 and 5 the scraper c is shown made as a screw instead of a thimble
shaped piece as in the previous arrangement.
In Figure 6 the scraper c is shown applied to an ordinary open ash tray for use
in smoking rooms and other places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not limit myself to any particular form of scraper or any particular
construction of ash tray or receptacle but I declare that what I claim is :-
The combination with a tray or other receptacle for tobacco ashes, of a scraper
or appliance which will enable the ashes and waste tobacco to be readily removed
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 31st day of August 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.