Improvements in Coal Boxes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coal Boxes.
We, ALFRED EDMUND WALKER and ARTHUR WALKER, trading together as
A. E. & A. WALKER, of Broad Street, Bromyard, Worcestershire, and Teme
Street, Tenbury, Worcestershire, Ironmongers and Implement Agents, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to so construct domestic coal boxes that they will
contain coal and slack separately thus enabling either coal or slack to be taken
from the coal box as may be required.
We will describe our invention as applied to one of those coal boxes which has
an inclined door at the front and is rectangular in plan.
We divide the coal box into two compartments for containing, the coal and slack
respectively either by a partition running vertically from the front to the back of
the box, so that the compartments are side by side, or by a horizontal partition so
that one compartment is above the other.
This partition may either be fixed in the box or in the usual removable inner
sheet metal lining case of the same, or the partition may be formed by providing
two removable sheet metal lining cases in the coal box either side by side or one
above the other.
Dated this 19th day of May 1800
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coal Boxes.
We, ALFRED EDMUND WALKER and ARTHUR WALKER, trading together as
A. E. & A. WALKER, of Broad Street, Bromyard, Herefordshire, and Teme Street,
Tenbury, Worcestershire, Ironmongers and Implement Agents, 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:-
This invention consists in constructing domestic coal boxes as herein described so
that they will contain coal and slack separately, thus enabling either coal or slack
to be taken from the coal box as required.
We will describe our invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Figure 1 represents a coal box constructed internally according to this
invention, Fig. 2 shews a modified form of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 shew a
further modification.
In carrying out this invention we divide the coal box A into two compart-
ments B and C for containing the coal and slack respectively by a partition D
running either vertically from the front to the back of the box (Figs. 1 and 2) so
that the compartments are side by side, or by a horizontal partition D (Figs. 3 and 4)
so that one compartment is above the other.
The partition D may (and this is what we prefer) be formed by providing two
removable sheet metal lining cases E and F in the coal box either side by side
(see Fig. 1) or one above the other (see Figs. 3 and 4) or the partition may be
fixed in the coal box A or fixed in the usual removable inner sheet metal lining
case G of the same (see Fig. 2).
When the compartments are arranged one above the other as in Figs. 3 and 4 we
prefer to provide a separate lid for each compartment as shewn.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination with the coal box A of the two sheet metal lining cases E F
fitting therein either side by side or one above the other so as to contain coal
and slack separately substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by
Figs. 1, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with the coal box A of the vertical partition D either
secured therein or in the removable sheet metal lining case G dividing the case into
two compartments to contain coal and slack separately substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of February 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.