Improvements in or connected with Boxes or Receptacles for Ashes, Garbage, and other Refuse
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1891-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in or connected with Boxes or Receptacles for
Ashes, Garbage, and other Refuse,
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to boxes or receptacles for ashes, garbage and other refuse,.
and has for its object to provide means whereby the contents of such receptacles
may be readily discharged.
According to my invention the box or receptacle is mounted upon trunnions
carried by a frame or standards which can be raised or lowered. Normally the box
is arranged in a pit or casing so that its top is level or substantially level with the
ground or with the casing.
Means, such as a windlass and chain, racks and pinions or the like, are provided
for raising the frame or standards carrying the receptacle to such a height that the
latter can be moved upon its trunnions to discharge its contents into a cart or other
vehicle by which the rubbish can be removed.
I sometimes provide means whereby, after the box or receptacle has been raised
to a certain height, it will be automatically tipped so as to discharge the contents.
For this purpose I sometimes attach a cord or chain to the box above its trunnions,
which cord or chain for a certain part of its length is free to run through a guide,
but which, when the box .has reached a certain height, is stopped so that the
continued movement causes the tipping of the said box or receptacle.
I sometimes also provide the box or receptacle with a lid having guide-strips
which, when the box is tipped, form a kind of shoot.
Dated the 3rd day of February 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Boxes or Receptacles for
Ashes, Garbage, and other Refuse.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, 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 invention relates to a new kind of apparatus in which a box or receptacle for
ashes, garbage and other refuse is adapted to be elevated for convenience of
discharging its contents as hereinafter more particularly described.
According to my invention the box or receptacle is advantageously mounted upon
trunnions carried by a frame or standards which can be raised or lowered.
Normally the box is arranged in a pit or casing so that its top is level or sub-
stantially level with the ground or with the casing.
Meaus, such as a windlass and chain, racks and pinions or the like, are provided
for raising the frame or standards carrying the receptacle to such a height that the
latter can be moved upon its trunnions to discharge its contents into a cart or other
vehicle by which the rubbish can be removed.
I sometimes provide means whereby, after the box or receptacle has been raised
to a certain height, it will be automatically tipped so as to discharge the contents.
For this purpose I sometimes attach a cord, chain or its equivalent to the box

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above its trunnions, which cord or chain for a certain part of its length is free to
run through a guide, but which, when the box has reached a certain height, is
stopped so that the continued movement causes the tipping of the said box or
receptacle.
I sometimes also provide the box or receptacle with a lid having guide-strips
which, when the box is tipped, form a kind of shoot.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe a suitable arrange-
ment for carrying the same into practice by reference to the accompanying drawings
which represent my invention in connection with what is known as a street orderly
bin. In the said drawings:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a street orderly bin:
Figure 2 is a rear view of the same; and,
Figure 3 is a plan :
Figure 4 is a view shewing the internal mechanism:..
Figure 5 is a section on the line a a, Figure 4:
Figure 6 is a section on the line yy, Figure 4:
Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 6 but shewing the box or receptacle in the
position for discharging its contents.
a indicates the casing of the apparatus, one side a¹ of which, as shown in the
drawing, is made removable in order to afford access to the interior of the apparatus.
bis the box or receptacle which is normally within the casing a, as shewn in
Figure 6, and which is carried by the frame c upon trunnions d, d, the said frame
being adapted to slide in grooves e, e in the side walls of the casing. f is a well
which receives the lower part of the frame when the apparatus is in its normal
position, the said well, when secured to the bottom of the casing, also serving as a
foot for steadying the casing.
g is a shaft supported in suitable bearings in the side walls and carrying two
drums h, h, to which two cords or chains i, attached at one end to the bottom of
the frame c are connected in such a manner that, when the said shaft is rotated, the
said chains will be wound upon the drums in order to cause the elevation of the
frame c and also of the box carried thereby:
Motion is imparted to the shaft g from the shaft j having the crank-handle k,
through the medium of the gear-wheels 1, m.
The wheel is connected to the
shaft by a key l, as shown in Figure 34, but the slot in the gear-wheel is made
broader than the key, as shewn in Figure 3B, to allow of a slight rotary movement
of the said gear-wheel relatively to the shaft ; for a purpose hereinafter described.
n is a rod secured to the box at a point o above but to one side of the
trunnions d, as shewn in Figure 6; the lower part of the said rod slides through a
bracket p and has upon it an adjustable stop which, after the box has been raised
to a certain height, arrests any movement of the said rod n so that any further
upward movement of the said frame c carrying the box causes the overturning of
the latter, as shewn in Figure 7. With this construction it will be understood that
by rotating the crank k the box will first be raised vertically until its bottom is
above the top of the casing a and that then, as the upward movement of the
frame carrying the said box continues, the latter will be tipped to discharge its
contents.
is the lid of the receptacle which may serve, (when a waggon is placed near to
the box so that when the latter is overturned the said cover rests upon the edge of
the cart or waggon) to form a shoot to prevent any of the contents of the box
from falling into the road-way.
In order to prevent the sudden lowering of the box in case the handle is released,
I provide a brake of such power as to retain the said box in an elevated position
unless the handle is turned. As shewn in Figures 3 and 4 this brake consists of
two cylindrical blocks s, s which are caused to rotate with the shaftj by means of
the key 1, but are capable of a slight rotary motion independent of the shaft in the
same manner as the pinion l.
The block s is connected with the wheel by a sleeve 12, and the said two blocks

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have their adjacent faces inclined spirally as at t and are arranged between two
arms u, u through which the shaft ; and the boss of the gear-wheel Z pass, the said
arms being part of a bracket attached to the upper part of the casing a.
this arrangement, when the crank-handle k is turned to elevate the box, the key
or feather in the shaft causes both blocks to rotate with the said shaft: when,
however, the pinion rotates in the reverse direction, it moves the blocks whilst,
owing to the amount of motion allowed by the broad keyways in the blocks, the
blocks remains stationary for a time whereby the spiral face of the blocks acts
upon the corresponding face of the blocks and so tends to separate the said blocks,
thereby forcing them firmly against the faces of the arms u, u and producing
the required friction to sustain the box. The lowering is effected by turning the
handle in the reverse direction.
To ensure that the box shall coincide with the opening in the top of the casing
as it descends, I may provide a forked-piece w pivotted to one of the standards e,
with which piece a pin on the side of the box is adapted to engage, so that as the
box is lowered the said forked-piece, owing to its angular position, will impinge
against the edge of the casing and be moved to draw the box into the vertical
position.
te is a pin which strikes against one of the standards c to prevent the box moving
beyond the vertical position.
Although in the foregoing description I have referred to the box or receptacle
as being pivotted, it is to be understood that it may be fixed, in which case the
whole or a part of one of the sides or of the bottom may be hinged to form a
discharge door.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A. new kind of apparatus in which a box or receptacle for ashes, garbage and
other refuse, is adapted to be elevated for convenience of discharging its contents,
substantially as described..
2. A box or receptacle for refuse pivotted in a frame or standards and adapted
to be elevated and tipped for convenience in discharging its contents, substantially
in the manner and for the purpose described.
3. The combination with a box or receptacle for refuse carried by trunnions in a
vertically movable frame or standards, of means for tipping the said receptacle
automatically when it has reached a certain elevation, substantially in the manner
described.
4. The manufacture and use of the improved apparatus hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 3rd day of November 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.