IMPROVE- MENTS IN COAL BOXES OR SCUTTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cornelius Thomas Remmett, of Wolverhampton,
in the County of Stafford, Designer, for the Invention of " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COAL BOXES OR SCUTTLES.”
Scaled the 6th May 1878, and dated the 10th March 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION Jeft by the said Cornelius Thomas
Remmett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th March 1873.
I, CORNELIUS THOMAS REMMETT, of Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Designer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL BOXES OR SCUTTLES," to be as follows:-

page_text: the handle the lid is raised. The weight of the handle in part count-
balances that of the lid, so that when the lid has been lifted it remains
held up, the handle when resting upon the box or scuttle and holding
the lid in an upright position; or in place of the axis revolving the lid
and handle may be connected together and made to turn upon a fixed 5
axis. Or the arrangement may be modified by making the top of the
box or scuttle of a dome-like form, and divided vertically into two parts,
the one fixed to the box or scuttle, the other movable and forming the
lid. This lid is mounted upon a vertical stud or pivot, round which it
is able to rotate in one position. It closes the front of the coal box or 1
scuttle, and when rotated through a semicircle it passes behind the back
of the fixed portion of the dome and leaves the front of the box or
scuttlo open.
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filed by the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett in the Great Seal Patent 1
Office on the 9th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CORNELIUS
THOMAS REMMETT, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Designer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett, Her
special license that I, the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett, my executors, 2
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Cornelius Thomas
Remmett, 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 8
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, àn Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL BOXES OR SCUTTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Cornelius Thomas Rommett, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the 3

page_text: 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 Scal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Lotters Patent.
5 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in coal boxes or
) scuttles.
In place of attaching the lid of the box or scuttle by means of a hingo
joint as is usual I connect it to a horizontal bar or axis mounted upon
the top of the scuttlo. I fix a handle upon the axis either at one end
or intermediate of its length, and in such a position that by dopressing
5 the handle the lid is raised. The weight of the handle in part counter-
balances that of the lid, so that when the lid has been lifted it remains
held up, the handlo when resting upon the box or scuttlo holding tho
lid in an upright position; or in place of the axis revolving the lid and
handle may be connected together and made to turn upon a fixed axis..
Figures 1, 2, and 8 are perspective views of coal boxes or scuttles
constructed according to my Invention. In Figure 1 the lid is closed;
in Figure 2 it is partly raised; and in Figuro 3 it is in the position in
which it will stand wide open.
The arrangement may be modified by placing the centre of motion of
the lid lower. In place of the axis being over the top of the body of
the coal box as in Figures 1, 2, and 3, short studs fixed on the side of
the body are substituted for this axis, and the arms which connect the
lid with the axis receive a corresponding alteration in form.
Figures 4 and 5 show perspective views of coal boxes or scuttles thus
▸ constructed. In Figure 4 the coal box or scuttle is closed, and in
Figuro 5 the lid is raised.
According to another plan the arrangement may be modified by
making the top of the box or scuttle of a dome-like form, and divided
vertically into two parts, the one fixed to the box or scuttlo, the other
movable and forming the lid. This lid is mounted upon a vertical stud
or pivot, round which it is able to rotate. In one position it closes the

page_text: front of the coal box' or scuttle, and when rotated through a semicirole
it passes behind the back of the fixed portion of the dome and leavos
the front of the box or scuttle open.
Figures 6 and 7 are perspective views of coal boxes or scuttles of this
construction. In Figure 6 the coal box or scuttle is open, and one part 5
of the lid which is movable is clearly scen to stand behind and imme-
diately over the other part which is fixed to the body. On the fixed
part of the lid the vertical stud is fixed, on which the movable part
turns, and in turning to open the coal box or scuttle it rises by means of
inclines arranged as in the rising hinge of a door. Figure 7 shews the 1
coal box or scuttle closed.