An Improved Road Refuse Receiver.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Road Refuse Receiver.
1 HAROLD ATKINS of 117 Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, London, N.
Custom House Agent 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 relates to an improved road refuse receiver and is applicable to
the class of refuse receivers used in the streets and known as street orderly bins
and is intended to take the place of same. The said invention is also applicable
to and can be used in railway stations, tram yards and other places wherever it
may be found useful for receiving refuse and rubbish.
The said invention consists of an outer and inner bin both of which can be
made of iron, galvanized or otherwise, or any other suitable metal or material, in
any size, and can be either square or of an oblong shape. The outer bin has a
cover or lid but the inner bin is made without a cover or lid. In the front and at
the top of both the said bins an opening is made and attached to the front of the
outer bin is a shute for conducting the refuse and rubbish into the inner bin. The
inner bin is made to fit loosely in the outer bin with the three sides thereof just
touching the said lid or cover. The opening in front of the inner bin is of
sufficient depth to allow the shute to drop inside it and this bin is provided with
either handles, holes or pivets in the sides so that it can be lifted or drawn out
when full and emptied by means of a pulley attached to the refuse cart, or in any
other manner that may be found convenient and suitable.
The bottom of the inner bin is perforated and is of sufficient beight from the
bottom of the outer bin to allow any liquid substance which may be swept into
the bin to drain into the bottom of the outer bin in which an opening is made and
a pipe fixed thereto for the purpose of connecting the same with a drain through
which the liquid substance can be carried off into the sewer. The bottom of
both the said bins can be made perfectly plain when they are used for places
where no drainage is necessary.
It is intended by this invention for the said bins to be placed underground and
when used in the streets the lid or cover to be level or flush with the pavement
or footway. The lid or cover will thus form part of the pavement or footway
and kerb and the shute being level with the gutter or road will allow the refuse
and rubbish to be swept into the inner bin.
The advantages of this invention are that the said bins being placed under-
ground will not cause any obstruction or danger to the public as is sometimes the
case with the present street orderly bins. It would also obviate the nuisance
often occasioned to the public by boys throwing the manure and other refuse into
the present street orderly bins and the removal of the same which is performed
by taking it out again and shovelling it into the refuse carts, whereas by my
invention such removal will be greatly facilitated as the inner bin containing the
refuse and rubbish can be lifted out and the contents discharged at once 'into the
refuse carts. The nuisance would also be prevented in the suburban and other
districts occasioned by sweeping up the rubbish and mud and leaving the same in
heaps at the sides of the roads until such times when it can be removed...
In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated my said invention and will
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page_text: now proceed to more particularly describe the manner of carrying out the same
by referring to the said drawing in which-
Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of the outer bin.
Fig. 2 represents a sectional elevation of the outer and inner bin showing the
cover or lid closed and opened, and the shute in position for receiving the refuse
and rubbish, also showing the position of the said shute when the inner bin is to
be removed.
Fig. 3. shows a view of the inner bin which is placed inside the bin represented
by Fig. 1.
In Fig. 1. A is the shute for receiving the refuse and rubbish into the inner bin
marked Baud represented in Fig. 3. A¹ and A2 are the sides of the said shute.
The shute is attached to the outer bin by a hinge where marked C or it can be
fastened to the sides on pivets or in any other convenient and suitable manner.
Drepresents the front of the bin showing the opening through which the refuse
is passed. E¹, E and E represent an external flange attached to the sides of
the outer bin a space being left between the sides and the said flange to allow
the cover to properly shut down in the manner presently described. F is the
cover or lid which is attached to the flange at E2 by a hinge or it can also work
on pivets, or in any other manner and is made with two side flaps H¹ and H³
which fall in the space between the flange E and E and the sides G and G.
The said cover or lid need not be hinged or attached to the bin but the same can
be made separate so as to lift off. At the bottom of the bin is a trap beneath
which is a drain pipe marked I which forms part of the said bottom.
In Fig. 2. J, Jand Ja represent the front, back and bottom of the outer bin.
K represents the said trap and drain pipe the same as I in Fig. 1. The object
of having the said trap and drain pipe is as already stated to allow any liquid
to drain from the outer bin into the said drain pipe K and from thence to enter
the sewer, or any other drain. The bottom of the outer bin can as aforesaid be made
without the said trap and drain pipe should it be desirable not to connect it with
a drain.
L represents the shute as shown by A in Fig. 1. When it is required to
remove the inner bin this shute must be pulled up so as to allow the inner bin to
pass. The shute will then come in the position indicated by the letter M. The
letter N shows the cover attached to the outer bin when open. O represents the
inner bin, Fig. 83, placed inside the outer bin, Fig. 1. The said inner bin is made
so as not to stand flat on the bottom of the outer bin, but there is sufficient
space, as shown by the letter P between the two bottoms to allow any liquid
substance swept into the inner bin to drain through the holes made in the bottom
thereof into the outer bin.
QQ and Q represent a hole, handle and a pivet in the sides of the
inner bin.
In Fig. 3. R is the opening in the front S of the bin thus allowing the shute L
in Fig. 2 to fall inwards. This bin is made to fit easily inside the outer bin Fig. 1
and the bottom is perforated to allow the contents to drain into the outer bin as
aforesaid but when no drainage is necessary the bottom need not be perforated
but can be perfectly plain.
T and T represent holes made in the sides of the bin, U and U are handles
attached to the said sides and V represents pivets on each side of the bin. These
are the same as referred to in Fig. 2 and are intended for the purpose of lifting
the said bin out to be emptied.
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.-
An outer and inner bin with openings in the front thereof and having a shute
attached to the outer bin, the whole being made of iron, galvanized or otherwise,
or any other suitable metal or material in any size or shape and to be placed

page_text: underground for use as a road refuse and rubbish receiver in the streets and else-
where or for any other purposes for which the same may be found useful
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1896.
JAS. CATON,
Agent for Applicant.