Year: 1886

page_text: I, RICHARD THOMPSON MACAN of Dawlish House Manor Park Road, Willesden,
in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My improved dustbin is designed to supply at a moderate price a convenient
receptacle for ashes and refuse, and at the same time to render easy the saving of
cinders and their separation from worthless matter.
My dustbin consists of a case or enclosure of galvanized iron of about 2 feet
square and 2 feet high, the top of which is half covered by a fixed lid, while a
inoveable cover hinged to the fixed lid or made to slide under or over it, covers the
other half.
Below this cover is a loose iron frame resting on the edge of the bin, in the
middle of which frame, is a grating of strong wire or perforated metal the sides
being left in plain unperforated iron sloping rapidly towards the grating in the
centre. The whole frame with its perforations forms a cinder screen and slopes
gradually from the back towards the front of the bin and terminates in a lip or
spout about 8 inches wide, which projects some 6 inches through an opening in the
front of the bin. The open part of the cover is over the hinder part of this sloping
screen so that when ashes are thrown in, the dust passes through the apertures and
the cinders are easily tipped or raked forward through the lip or spout into a coal-
box held in front of the bin.
In the front or side of the bin, and below the aforesaid screen is a door, which
either lifts up or is hinged at its lower edge, which when opened fully, admits of
the dust being easily removed from the lower chamber of the bin.
This door does not close quite tightly at its upper edge but remains open to
the extent of a few inches so as to form a slanting shelf and aperture whereby
refuse not suitable for screening can be at once placed in the lower chamber of the
dustbin.
Wings or side pieces are attached to the door or to the bin, so as to prevent any
refuse falling out sideways.
The effect of the foregoing arrangement of parts is that cinders can be easily
separated from dust and other refuse.
The bin can be mounted on wheels and furnished with handles for convenience
of moving, if required.

page_text: I, RICHARD THOMPSON MACAN of Dawlish House, Manor Park Road, Willesden
in the County of Middlesex 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 improved dustbin to designed to supply householders and others at a moderate
cost with a convenient receptacle for ashes and refuse, in combination with a simple
self-acting sifting apparatus, whereby cinders and useful substances may be easily
separated from refuse and worthless matter.
My dustbin consists of a case or enclosure of the ordinary rectangalar shape
preferably made of galvanised iron or similar material and which can be mounted
on wheels if preferred and can be made in various sizes say about 2 feet to 3 feet
square the height being about one-fourth more than the size of the square.
The top of the bin is more than half-covered by a fixed lid, while a moveable
cover is hinged to the fixed lid and closes the remaining portion.
This moveable cover occupies the upper and back part of the top of the bin.
Below both the fixed and open part of the cover, is a loose iron frame resting
on the back edge of the bin and sloping steeply down to an opening in the front
through which it projects.
This frame carries a grating or screen of strong wire network or of perforated
metal of suitable mesh.
This screen slopes from the sides towards the centre and from the back towards
the front, and terminates in a projecting spout or lip about 6 to 8 inches wide
projected through the opening before referred to.
The open part of the cover being over the hinder part of the sloping screen, it
follows that when ashes are thrown in, the dust falls through the screen into the
chamber beneath, while the cinders flow forward of their own accord towards the
spout in the front where they are stopped by a small sliding door. On this door
being lifted they flow out into a coalbox placed beneath the spout to receive them.
In the front or side of the bin as may be most convenient and below the
aforesaid spout is a door for emptying the bin which is by preference hinged at its
lower edge.
When fully open this door allows the refuse to be easily removed from the lower
chamber of the bin.
Hooks or chains are provided which will hold the door partly open at its upper
edge so as to form a slanting shelf and aperture whereby refuse not suitable for
screening.can be at once placed in the lower chamber of the dustbin. Wings or
triangular side-pieces are attached to this door, and slots or enclosed spaces are
formed in the bin to receive these wings when the cover is closed. These wings
are employed to prevent any refuse falling out at the side of the door. It will be

page_text: 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 dustbin consisting of a dust-chamber, above which is a covered sloping self-
acting screen, preferably formed of open wire work, whereby cinders are auto-
matically separated from ashes and delivered by means of a spout or lip into a
vessel outside the bin, as herein described and set forth.
2. A combined portable or stationary dustbin and automatic cinder-sifter, acting
by gravitation, and requiring no manual labour to separate the cinders, and having
a special opening to the dust-chamber whereby substances unsuitable for sifting
may be passed directly into the bin, as herein described and set forth.