Improvements in Dust Pans.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CHARLES LUCIUS BELLAMY, of Arlington, in-
the County of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, United States of America,
Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Dust Pans.
I, JOHN MORGAN RICHARDS, of 46, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C., Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention, for DUST PANS, 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 especially to devices employed for removing dust and
sweepings from the floor or carpet, when collected together by a broom or brush,
and has for its object the provision of a dust pan, cheap and simple to construct,
and effective and convenient to use.
To attain the desired end, my invention consists essentially in a dust pan, formed
of a single piece of metal, having a flat portion and a sloping portion on one side,
and a sloping portion terminating at a receptacle for dust upon the other side, three
sides of the pan being provided with a rim, formed integral therewith; suitable
spurs are provided to prevent the pan slipping while in use, and a manipulating
handle is also attached thereto, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described,
and then pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 shows a cut blank, from which the dust pan is made.
Figure 2 illustrates a blank from which a pan is formed by stamping.
Figure 3 is a plan view of a completed dust pan.
Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view, at line -x of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the pan.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
A is the body of the pan, having a right-angular bend at B. C is the rim, either
bent around and soldered together at the centre, of the back of the pan, and to the
body thereof, as illustrated in Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5, or stamped up, as illustrated in
Figure 2. This method of construction gives a flat portion D, and a sloping
portion E, when the pan is used in the position indicated in Figure 4, but when
reversed, it gives a sloping portion F, and receptacle G, for dust.
H are pointed spurs, secured to the rim of the pan, designed to hold it from
slipping when in use, and I is a manipulating-handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:-
1: A reversible dust pan, stamped from a single piece of metal, and consisting
of a front flat portion having an up-turned rim at each side thereof, a sloping
bortion at the back in a different plane from the front portion, and connected to the
ear of the front portion by a vertical strip and the rim extending around such
nclined portion, whereby the pan is provided on one side with a flat portion for
eceiving dust, and on the other with an inclined front, and dust receptacle in the
ear, substantially as described.
2: As a new article of manufacture, a reversible dust pan, one side of which
as a flat portion, and a sloping portion, and the other side a sloping portion
erminating at a receptacle having a surrounding rim, vertical pointed spurs being
xed near the back of the pan, and projecting from both sides thereof, substantially
shown and described.
3-A dust pan in which is comprised a body made of a single piece of metal,

page_text: one side having a flat portion and a sloping portion, and the other side a sloping
portion and a dust receptacle, a rim upon three sides of the body formed integral
therewith, double pointed spurs fixed to the back of the pan, and a manipulating
handle, the whole combined and arranged, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1891.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.