Improvements in Dust Bins or Ash Pans for Domestic Use.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dust Bins or Ash Pans for Domestic Use.
I WILLIAM ROBERT NEWBERY of High Bickington Chulmleigh in the
County of Devon Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My present invention relates to dust bins or ash pans used for domestic purposes
the object thereof being to arrange an efficient apparatus whereby cinders or ashes
can be easily and expeditiously sifted to attain which I form a box or receptacle
preferably oblong in shape and composed of wood or other suitable material and
inade with a strong bottom.
On the inside of the two oblong sides of said box and near the upper edges
thereof I form a horizontal groove at the under-side of each of which I arrange or
secure a piece of hoop iron or strip of metal or hard material.
Two or more vertical slots extend on either inner side of said box from the top
edges thereof to the horizontal grooves for the purpose hereinafter stated.
I employ a sifter arranged with an open top and oblong in form which is
considerably shorter in length and somewhat shorter in width to the length and
width of the inside of the box and the said sifter is arranged with two or more
projections on each side thereof which rest in the horizontal grooves after having
passed down the vertical slots.
The bottom of the sifter is preferably composed of perforated zinc which is
securely fixed to the sides with nails or screws.
Suitable handles are secured to the box or receptacle and also the sifter.
The apparatus is worked as follows:-
After the cinders and ashes have been deposited into the sifter it is pulled back-
wards and forwards from one end of the box to the other thus causing the fine ashes
to drop through the meshes of the perforated zinc bottom and leaving the cinders in
the sifter as will be well understood.
Dated this 19th day of November 1891.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Sheffield and Barnsley, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dust Bins or Ash Pans for Domestic Use.
1, WILLIAM ROBERT NEWBERY of High Bickington Chulmleigh in the
County of Devon, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My present invention relates to dust bins used for domestic purposes, the object
thereof being to arrange an efficient apparatus, whereby cinders or ashes can be
easily and expeditiously sifted, to attain which I arrange an apparatus substantially
as set forth in the accompanying sheet of drawings of which the following is a
description :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation Fig. 2 a cross sectional elevation taken on line A. A of
Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 a plan looking from the top of my improved dust bin or ash pan.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view I form a box
or receptacle B preferably oblong in shape as shown and composed either of wood
metal or other suitable material and it made with a strong bottom part.

page_text: On the inside of the two oblong sides of box or receptacle B and near the
upper edges thereof, I form a horizontal groove 63 and at the underside of cach
said groove, I arrange or secure a piece of hoop iron or strip of metal or other
hard material . Two or more vertical slots 5 extend on either innerside of said
box from the top edges thereof to the horizontal grooves for the purpose herein-
after stated.
My said improved dust bin or ash pan is arranged with a sifter C which has an
open top and is preferably oblong in form but is considerably shorter in length and
somewhat shorter in width to the length and width of the inside of box B. and the
said sifter is arranged with two or more projections c¹ on each side thereof while
resting in the horizontal groove 63 after having passed down the vertical slots 65.
The bottom 2 of the sifter C. is preferably composed of perforated zinc which is
securely fixed to the sides of sifter with nails or screws. Suitable handles bare
secured to the end of box B and suitable handles c³ are secured to the sifter C as
shown. The said apparatus is worked as follows.
After the cinders and ashes have been deposited into the sifter C. the said
sifter C is pulled backwards & forwards from one end of the box to the other and
this motion causes the fine ashes to drop through the meshes of the perforated zinc
bottom e² and the cinders are left in the sifter C which may be removed from the
box B when required as will be well understood.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is-
In dust bins or ash pans for domestic use the combination of a box or receptacle B
having grooves and with a sifter C having a perforated bottom and arranged
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of March 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Agent for the Applicant.