IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Ezard at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th October 1881.
CHARLES EZARD, of Bradford, in the County of Lancaster.
ASH PANS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
The object of this Invention is to manufacture the screens or "Venetians" of
domestic ash-pans in a more economical manner than heretofore, and to afford a
better facility for cleaning certain portions of the same.
I make the body of the screen entirely of cast-iron with a curved moulding in
front, which may be of any desired and more or less ornamental pattern or design;
the upper portion of the body is flat and sloping slightly forwards, and having
cast therein radiating apertures through which, when open, the ashes can fall into
the pan.
To open or close these apertures I have a curved slide made of polished steel and
furnished with corresponding apertures.
The cast iron body is made with two or more small curved slots near to its
backward edge, and the curved steel slide is provided with corresponding
projecting pins or pegs which keep the slide in its place, but at the same time
allow of its being shifted sideways so as to open or close the apertures when
required.
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This slide can be easily lifted off and replaced at any time, and thus facility is
afforded for cleaning and polishing the upper sloping surface of the body of the
screen or "Venetian."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Ezard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th April
1882.
CHARLES EZARD, of Bradford, in the County of Lancaster.
ASH-PANS."
IMPROVEMENTS IN
The object of this Invention is to manufacture the screens or "Venetians" of
domestic ash-pans in a more economical manner than heretofore, and to afford a
better facility for cleaning certain portions of the same.
or
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed
carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly
understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof,
and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with
those in the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a plan view of the ashpan and screen or
"Venetian" with the slide removed; Fig. 2 is a plan of the slide detached; and
Fig. 3 is a plan view_of_the_ashpan_with-the-screen-in-position.
a, a, is the ashpan. I make the body of the screen (Fig. 1) entirely of cast iron,
with a curved moulding b, b, in front, which may be of any desired and more or
less ornamental pattern or design; the upper portion c, c, of the body is flat and
sloping slightly forwards, and having cast therein radiating apertures d, d, through
which, when open, the ashes can fall into the pan a, a.
To open or close these apertures I have a curved slide e, e, (Fig. 2), made also of
cast metal and furnished with corresponding apertures. The cast iron body (Fig. 1)
is made with two or more small curved slots f, f, near to its backward edge, and
the curved slide e, e, Fig. 2, is provided with corresponding projecting pins or
pegs g, g, which keep the slide e, e, in its place, but at the same time allow of its
being shifted sideways so as to open or close the apertures d, d, when required.
This slide e, e, can be easily lifted off and replaced at any time, and thus facility
is afforded for cleaning and polishing the upper sloping surface c, c, of the body of
the screen or "Venetian."
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or inay be performed or carried into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the improvements
in ash pans, as above particularly described and illustrated by the Drawings
annexed, and especially I claim the construction of the detachable slide, whereby
greater facility is afforded for cleaning and polishing the bright upper surface of
the Venetian."
"
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Ezard, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.