IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SIFTING Cinders OR ASHES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Chippindale, of Potternewton, near Leeds,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SIFTING Cinders OR ASHES.”
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MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SIFTING CINDERS OR ASHES.'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Chippindale at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1874.
I, ISAAC CHIPPINDALE, of Potternewton, near Leeds, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SIFTING CINDERS OR ASHES,"
to be as follows:―
My Invention consists of an apparatus whereby the cinders may be
separated from the ashes, and is particularly applicable to kitchen fire-
grates, but it may also be applied to other fire-grates, and is as hereafter
described.
I provide a tray or loose box open at the top. Into this is fitted, so
as to work freely, a riddle or sieve, into which the cinders and ashes
which fall from the fire are first received.

page_text: The riddle or sieve with the box are placed within the opening under
the fire-grate, and there receive the cinders or ashes as they pass from
the fire-grate.
The riddle or sieve is provided with rockers by which means a rocking
motion may be given thereto by hand. When the rocking motion is 5
given to the riddle or sieve the small particles or ashes pass into the box
or tray, leaving the cinders in the riddle or sieve clean and fit to be
raised on to the fire.
The whole apparatus being placed within the opening under the fire-
grate is enclosed therein by means of a suitable cover, which may be 1
of a similar construction to those now in use for keeping back the
ashes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Isaac Chippindale in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
CHIPPINDALE, of Potter-Newton, near Leeds, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Chippindale, Her special
licence that I, the said Isaac Chippindale, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Isaac Chippin-
dale, 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 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR SIFTING CINDERS OR
ASHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Isaac
Chippindale, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should

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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 calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Isaac Chippindale, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to
say:
My Invention consists of an apparatus whereby the cinders may be
separated from the ashes, and is particularly applicable to kitchen
fire-grates, but it may also be applied to other fire-grates, and is as here-
after described.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood reference is
given to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side
elevation; Fig. 2, an end elevation; Fig. 3, a plan looking at the top;
Fig. 4, a plan of tray or loose box looking at the top; Fig. 5, a side
elevation of tray or loose box; Fig. 6, an end elevation of tray or
loose box.
I provide a tray or loose box a open at the top. Into this is fitted, so
as to work freely, a riddle or sieve b, into which the cinders and ashes
which fall from the fire are first received.
The riddle or sieve with the box a are placed within the opening
under the fire-grate, and there receive the cinders or ashes as they pass
from the fire-grate.
The riddle or sieve is provided with rockers c, by means of which
a rocking motion may be given thereto by hand. When the rocking
motion is given to the riddle or sieve the small particles or ashes pass
into the box or tray a, leaving the cinders in the riddle or sieve 6 clean
and fit to be reused on the fire.
The whole apparatus being placed within the opening under the fire-
grate is enclosed therein by means of a suitable cover d, which may be
of a similar construction to those now in use for keeping back the
ashes.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark in con-
clusion that I do not limit myself to the exact limits, details, and
configuration of parts I have explained and shewn, as the same may of
course be varied or modified without in any way departing from the
nature of my Invention; but what I do claim and desire to be secured
to me by Letters Patent is, a cinder sifting apparatus consisting of a
lower ash box or receiver in combination with an upper sieve or sifting
box placed thereon or therein, and made so that it can be rocked to and
fro in combination or not with a cover, all substantially as shewn and as
described.
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In witness horoof, I, the said Isaac Chippindale, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.