AN IMPROVED DUST PAN
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Louis Adam Tarin, of Mount Street,
Grosvenor Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED DUST PAN."
Sealed the 30th July 1853, and dated the 31st January 1853...
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marc Louis Adam
Tarin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 31st January 1853.
I, MARC LOUIS ADAM TARIN, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED DUST PAN" to be as follows:-..
This Invention consists in a new and peculiar form of construc-
tion of dust pan, whereby the chamber or receptacle for the dirt or
dust is so constructed as to prevent the pan from turning over
or upsetting; and in order to explain the construction thereof
more completely I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1, exhibits a side elevation of the dust pan above mentioned;
Fig. 2, is a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a perspective view
thereof. At each of these Figures similar letters of reference are
employed to denote corresponding parts. A, B, marks the bottom
of the dust pan, which is of peculiar form, and it is this part
which constitutes this Invention; the principle of construction
thereof consisting in making the receptacle B', as shewn, and the
part B, sloping; D, marks the sides of the dust pan; E, the back, and
F, the handle thereof. The operator, in using this dust pan places
it in the position exhibited at Figs. 1, and 3, and holding it by the
handle F with one hand sweeps the dirt up the sloping part B
with the other hand into the receptacle B¹; and as the lower edge of
the sloping part B, as also the bottom edges of the sides D, rest
upon the surface of the road or way to be swept, it will appear
evident that the operator has nothing else to do but to hold it
in that position until the receptacle B₁ is filled; and further, the
dust pan thus constructed may at all times be left in the
position exhibited, without the fear or possibility of upsetting,
whether the said dust pan be empty or filled; and this Invention
is particularly applicable for "street orderlies " to collect the
dust and dirt in, but more particularly for domestic purposes,
and will be found infinitely superior to the dust pans as hitherto
constructed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
'Patent; filed by the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin.in the 'Great
Seal Patent Office on the 30th July 1853..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
MARC LOUIS ADAM TARIN, of Mount Street, Grosvenor, Square, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in

page_text: the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Marc Louis Adam
Tarin, Her special licence that I, the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Island's, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED DUST PAN," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendár months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by. the following statement thereof, and by reference
to the illustrative Drawing. hereunto. annexed, and the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively as
follows (that is to say):
My. Invention consists in a new and peculiar form of construction
of dust pan, whereby the objection attending dust pans as hitherto
constructed, videlicet, that of turning over or upsetting when in
use, is entirely prevented; and in order to explain ny said Inven-
tion as completely as possible I will proceed to describe the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, and
which I have found answer well in practice, reference being had
to the illustrative Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thercon respectively, as
follows:
.

page_text: Figure 1, exhibits a side elevation of a dust pan constructed
according to my said Invention; Figure 2, is a front elevation;
and Figure 3, is a perspective view thereof. At each of these
Figures I employ similar letters of reference to denote correspond-
ing parts, in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each
of the Figures respectively. A, B, marks the bottom of the dust
pan, which is of a new and peculiar construction, and forms the
essential feature in my said Invention, the principle whereof con-
sists in making the part or receptacle B' recessed as exhibited,
and the part B sloping; D, marks the sides of the dust pan; E,
the back; and F, the handle thereof; all of which parts are con-
nected together, and to the bottom A, in the manner usually
practised in the manufacture of articles of similar character. In
using this dust pan the operator places it in the position exhi-
bited at Figures 1, and 3, and holding it by the handle F with
one hand sweeps the dirt or dust up the sloping part B with the
other hand into the receptacle B¹, the lower edge of the sloping
part B, and the bottom edges of the sides and back D, and E,
resting upon the surface of the part to be swept. By thus con-
structing the dust pan it will appear evident that the operator
has nothing else to do but to hold the dust pan until the re-
ceptacle B¹ is filled, in which state it may be left without the fear
of upsetting, or of the contents coming out whilst being carried,
and thereby constitutes an improvement upon dust pans as hitherto
constructed. And I would remark that dust pans constructed
according to my said Invention are well adapted for the use of
street orderly's for collecting dirt and dust, but will be found
more particularly adapted for domestic purposes for the reasons.
before mentioned.
.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be and may be performed, I claim.
as of my Invention of an improved dust pan the constructing

page_text: of dust pans in the manner herein-before particularly described,
set forth, and represented by the illustrative Drawing hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Louis Adam Tarin, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this
day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.
Witness,
MARC LOUIS ADAM TARIN. (L.S.)
RICHARD WM. WINDLE,
Alcester.