Improvements in Cinder Sifters for Domestic Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1392
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cinder Sifters for Domestic Purposes.
We WILLIAM USHER Financier of The Hawthorns Ffynone and HENRY
KINSEY Engineer of 13, Terrace Road both of Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to cinder sifters for domestic purposes, our object being to
provide a sifter which may be taken about from room to room so that the cinders
may be sifted on the spot.
One form of our sifter consists of a pan or receptacle on which is superposed or
in which is carried a sieve portion and a receptacle for the ashes the whole being
provided with a tightly fitting cover or lid. Convenient handles are provided for
enabling the sifter to be held while being shaken. In some cases the sifter may be
provided with a bucket handle and it may also be provided with means for carrying
brushes shovels &c.
Dated this 21st day of March 1891.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cinder Sifters for Domestic Purposes.
We WILLIAM USHER, Financier of "The Hawthorns" Ffynone and HENRY
KINSEY, Engineer, of 13 Terrace Road both of Swansea in the County of
Glamorgan 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 :-
Our invention relates to cinder sifters for domestic purposes our object being to
provide a sifter which may be taken about from room to room so that the cinders
may be sifted on the spot. In order that our invention may be most fully under-
stood and how it is carried into effect we have shewn in the annexed drawings a
cinder sifter made in the form which we prefer.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the sifter.
Fig. 2 a section.
Fig. 3 a plan of the sieve A in Fig. 2.
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The meshes of the said sieve may be made with any number of meshes per square
inch or may be made of plate metal suitably perforated. The method of using the
sifter will be readily understood which is as follows:-After removing the cover B
the ashes are placed in the upper part C and the cover replaced.
The sifter is held by the handles D D D D while being shaken. The cover is
then removed and the upper part removed by the handles D¹ D'. The sifted
cinders being put on the fire or otherwise. In some cases the sifters are provided
with bucket handles and also with provision for carrying brushes or shovel &c.
The shape of the sifter may also be varied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A sifter, consisting of a pan or receptacle, on which is superposed or in which is
carried a sieve portion and a receptacle for the ashes to be sifted, such receptacle

page_text: for ashes being also provided with a tightly fitting cover, substantially a
described.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891
WILLIAM USHER.
HENRY KINSEY.