AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS BOR SEPARATING A SUPS PROW CINDERS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Lamb Hancock, of Tipton, in the County of
Stafford, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
BOR SEPARATING A SUPS PROW CINDERS' "
Sealed the 18th April 1866, and dated the 16th October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Lamb Hancock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th October 1865.
I, JAMES LAMB HANCOCK, of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING ASHES PROM CINDERS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in placing in an ash well under a grating in the front
of a stove or fire-place a pan or dish, and in forming in or on the grating a
boss or step to receive the bottom of a shaft. Where there is no ash well then
I provide a vessel and fit it with a grating or perforated top. The shaft is
held in an inverted pan or in a cover, and is armed with one or more blades;
the shaft passes through the top of the cover, and is provided with a cranked
handle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a section of an apparatus con-
structed according to my Invention. A is the ash well, and B the grating;
C is a pan or dish in the ash well; the top of this pan is furnished with
folding flaps or covers, as shown. D is a step on the grating to receive the
bottom of a shaft E, held in an inverted pan or cover F, and armed with

page_text: blades G. The upper end of the shaft is fitted with a crank handle H.
Figure 2 shows an apparatus where I provide a vessel I at the bottom of a
scuttle, or in other cases where there is no ash well. I fit this vessel with a
grating or perforated top B.
To use my apparatus rake the cinders and ashes over the grating B, place
the cover over them and the bottom of the shaft E in its step D, or place the
cover J over the vessel I, Figure 2, and introduce the ashes and cinders
through the cover; close the cover and turn the handle H, when the ashes will
fall through the grating B into the pan below, while the cinders will remain
in the grating and may be collected after removing the cover. The ashes
can be removed in the pan, and the operation may be performed without
causing dust to escape into the apartment where it is used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Lamb Hancock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
LAMB HANCOCK, of Tipton, in the County of Stafford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Lamb Hancock, Her special licence that I, the said James
Lamb Hancock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said James Lamb Hancock, 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
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING ASHES FROM CINDERS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Lamb Hancock,
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
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 Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Lamb Hancock, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in placing in an ash well under a grating in the front
of a stove or fire-place a pan or dish, and in forming in or on the grating a
boss or step to receive the bottom of a shaft. Where there is no ash well then
I provide a vessel and fit it with a grating or perforated top. The shaft is held
in an inverted pan or in a cover, and is armed with one or more blades; the
shaft passes through the top of the cover, and is provided with a cranked handle.
To use my apparatus rake the cinders and ashes over the grating; place.
the cover over them and the bottom of the shaft in its step, or place the cover
over the vessel before alluded to, and introduce the ashes and cinders through
the cover; close the cover and turn the handle, when the ashes will fall through
the grating into the pan below, while the cinders will remain on the grating,
and may be collected after removing the cover. The ashes can be removed
in the pan, and the operation may be performed without causing dust to escape
into the apartment where it is used.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a vertical section of an apparatus
for separating ashes from cinders, constructed according to my Invention, and
Figure 2 is a section shewing the Invention applied to a scuttle or other
receptacle for cinders.
A, Figure 1, is the ash well, formed in front of a stove or fire-place or
other convenient situation; this cavity is made of any convenient size according
to the space at command; B is a grating arranged on a level with the hearth
or flooring, and serving to enclose the ash well A; C is a pan or dish which
fits into the ash well A, it is made with folding flaps or covers, as shown at C',
which are binged to the sides of the pan C; and C is a handle for removing
the pan C from the ash well when required; D is a boss or step formed in
the centre of the grating B to receive the lower part of a shaft E, the bottom
end of which fits into the step D. The upper end of the shaft is held in an
inverted pan or cover F, the diameter of which is sufficient to cover the
openings in the grating B; G, G, are blades, by preference curved at their
outer ends, and extending radially from the shaft E; H is a crank handle
fixed to the end of the shaft E, which projects out through the upper
part of the cover F. In using this apparatus the cinders and ashes are raked
over the grating B, the cover F is placed over them, the bottom of the shaft
E being inserted into the step D. On turning the handle H, the motion of

page_text: the blades G causes the ashes to fall through the grating into the pan C below,
while the cinders remain on the grating, and are easily collected after removing
the cover F. In cases where there is no ash well, I provide a vessel for the
purpose as before mentioned, and fit it with a grating or perforated top similar
to the grating B.
I, Figure 2, is a vessel formed at the bottom of a scuttle. B is a grating
similar to that herein-before described; D is the step for the shaft E, which
passes up through the cover J, and is furnished with the radial blades G, worked
by the handle H; K is a sliding door to allow of the vessel I being emptied
when necessary. The ashes and cinders are introduced into the scuttle through
the open hinged part of the cover J, which is then closed, and on the handle
H being turned the ashes fall through the grating into the vessel I.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
improved method of and apparatus for separating ashes from cinders
the construction and employment of apparatus arranged and acting sub-
stantially as herein-before
herein-before described, and shewn in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lamb Hancock, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
J. L. HANCOCK. (L.S.)