Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Removing Sweepings, Ashes, and other Refuse from Houses, Workshops, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb.,
1894
PROVISIONAL DEMITICATION
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Removing Sweepings,
Ashes, and other Refuse from Houses, Workshops, or the like.
A communication by SELIG LEBACH, of 19, Lersnerstrasse, Frankfort-on-Main, in
the Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON,-F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for.
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
With the present always increasing removal of sweepings, ashes and other refuse
in towns, factories, etcetera, the need has become very evident both of suitable
receptacles in which the dust can be stored until it can be removed, as well as of
wagons which are capable of being loaded without causing a dust. Hitherto old,
worn out buckets, pails and the like, have been used as storage receptacles, and
these besides allowing of the dust escaping, also permit the not always pleasant
contents being seen. The dustcarts usually employed also possess the two latter
disadvantages, as they are open at the top, and thus allow the dust naturally
resulting from the emptying of the receptacles to escape unhindered about the
neighbourhood.
By the present invention, however, a sweepings receptacle and transport wagon
are formed, which, when used in combination, remove the sweepings from the
houses to the tipping place in a manner thoroughly complying with hygienic
requirements.
The shape and construction of this improved sweepings receptacle further allow
of the same, until it is emptied, being placed in the kitchen and not as hitherto
in the cellar, and thus the unpleasant crowding of the entrance passage of the house,
and the footpath, in the way it has been usual to do hitherto, may be avoided. This
invention may also be easily applied to the existing dust wagons which should
considerably facilitate the introduction of this system.
a roof.
The sweepings receptacle may be made of wood, iron, or other suitable material,
and forms, when seen sideways, an irregular pentagon, so that the lid is shaped like
One side of this roof-like cover is fixed tight, and has a ledge on which
the movable part of the lid is hinged, and which affords a support to the latter when
opened, and also serves for another purpose which will be hereinafter described more
particularly. In order to allow of the receptacle being conveniently transported,
handles are attached to the two ends, and on the ledge on the cover; and for the
same object the two ends are extended downwards, or cross bars are fixed on the
bottom, so that a space is left under the bottom which enables the persons carrying
the receptacle to hold the same from the ends, under the bottom.
The improved wagon for carrying away sweepings is an ordinary box wagon but
closed on all sides, that is to say, on the top also, openings as near the top as
possible being made on the longitudinal sides of the wagon. These openings may
be closed by doors, which are arranged in such a way that they open inwards on
pressure being applied from the outside, and on this latter ceasing again close
automatically. This is obtained either by means of springs, or weights, or by the
inherent weight of the doors themselves which stand somewhat obliquely.
The handling of the receptacles in connection with the dustcart or wagon is
Bomewhat as follows-
The dustman takes hold with one hand under the bottom of the receptacle, and

page_text: with the other hand, the handle on the bar across the lid, lifts the receptacle onto
his shoulder, carries it to the dust wagon and empties it in such a manner that its
longest side (or front) rests on the edge of the openings made in the side of the
wagon.
On the receptacle being tipped up, the bar on the lid of the same presses against
the flaps of the doors of the wagon and opens the same so far that the lid of the
receptacle can assume a vertical hanging position, so that the receptacle is opened,
and can automatically empty itself of its contents. If the bar on the lid were not
employed, the doors which press outwards would prevent the lid opening and the
receptacle being emptied. After the receptacle has been emptied and removed
from the wagon, the lid of the former and the doors in the latter again close
automatically.
The dust naturally resulting from the falling of the sweepings out of the
receptacle into the wagon cannot escape from the latter because, firstly, the
receptacle itself bars the way to the escape of the dust, and, secondly, because
the doors again automatically close with the same rapidity as the receptacle is
removed from the wagon.
By this method of removing sweepings, the unpleasant and infectious raising of
dust is prevented in the cheapest and simplest manner, and the disgusting and
unpleasant sight of the same is not only removed from the servants and dustmen
but also from passers by in the streets, so that the removal of such refuse does not
interfere with the street traffic, and can be carried on at any time of the day, and
thus necessitates the use of a smaller number of dust wagons.
Dated this 20th day of May 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Removing Sweepings,
Ashes, and other Refuse from Houses, Workshops, or the like.
A communication by SELIG LEBACH, of 19, Lersnerstrasse, Frankfort-on-Main, in
the Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer 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 :—
With the present always increasing removal of sweepings, ashes and other
refuse in towns, factories, etcetera, the need has become very evident both of suitable
receptacles in which the dust can be stored until it can be removed, as well as of
wagons which are capable of being loaded without causing a dust. Hitherto old,
worn out buckets, pails and the like, have been used as storage receptacles, and
these besides allowing of the dust escaping, also permit the not always pleasant
contents being seen. The dust-carts usually employed also possess the two latter
disadvantages, as they are open at the top, and thus allow the dust naturally
resulting from the emptying of the receptacles to escape unhindered about the
neighbourhood.
By the present invention, however, a sweepings receptacle and transport wagon
are formed, which, when used in combination, remove the sweepings from the
houses to the tipping place in a manner thoroughly complying with hygienic
requirements.
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The shape and construction of this improved sweepings receptacle further allow
of the same, until it is emptied, being placed in the kitchen and not as hitherto in

page_text: the cellar, and thus the unpleasant crowding of the entrance passage of the house,
and the footpath, in the way it has been usual to do hitherto, may be avoided.
This invention may also be easily applied to the existing dust wagons which should
considerably facilitate the introduction of this system.
The sweepings receptacle may be made of wood, iron, or other suitable material,
and forms, when seen sideways, au irregular pentagon, as shown in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings, so that the lid is shaped like a roof. One side a
of this roof-like cover is fixed tight, and has a ledge b on which the movable part of
the lid c is hinged, and which affords a support to the latter when opened, and
also serves for another purpose which will be hereinafter described more
particularly. In order to allow of the receptacle being conveniently transported,
handles are attached to the two ends, and on the ledge b on the cover; and for the
same object the two ends-f-and-flare_extended_downwards, or cross bars are
fixed on the bottom, so that a space is left under the bottom which enables the
persons carrying the receptacle to hold the same from the ends, under the
bottom.
The improved wagon for carrying away sweepings, such as is shown in Figures 3
and 4 of the accompanying drawing, is an ordinary box wagon but closed on all
sides, that is to say, on the top also; openings e as near the top as possible being
made on the longitudinal sides of the wagon. These openings may be closed by
doors which are arranged in such a way that they open inwards on pressure being
applied from the outside, and on this latter ceasing again close automatically.
This is obtained either by means of springs, or weights, or by the inherent weight
of the doors themselves which stand somewhat obliquely.
The handling of the receptacles in connection with the dustcart or wagon is
somewhat as follows-
The dustman takes hold with one hand under the bottom of the receptacle, and
with the other hand, the handle on the bar b across the lid, lifts the receptacle onto
his shoulder, carries it to the dust wagon and empties it in such a manner that its
longest side (or front) d rests on the edge of the openings e made in the side of
the wagon.
On the receptacle being tipped up, the bar 6 on the lid of the same presses
against the flaps of the doors g of the wagon and opens the same so far that the
lid c of the receptacle can assume a vertical hanging position, so that the receptacle
If the bar 6 on the
is opened, and can automatically empty itself of its contents.
lid were not employed, the doors g which press outwards would prevent the lid c
opening and the receptacle being emptied. After the receptacle has been emptied
and removed from the wagon, the lid c of the former and the doors g in the latter
again close automatically.
The dust naturally resulting from the falling of the sweepings out of the
receptacle into the wagon cannot escape from the latter because, firstly, the
receptacle itself bars the way to the escape of the dust, and, secondly, because
the doors again automatically close with the same rapidity as the receptacle is
removed from the wagon.
By this method of removing sweepings, the unpleasant and infectious raising
of dust is prevented in the cheapest and simplest manner, and the disgusting and
unpleasant sight of the same is not only removed from the servants and dustmen
but also from passers by in the streets, so that the removal of such refuse does not
interfere with the street traffic, and can be carried on at any time of the day, and
thus necessitates the use of a smaller number of dust wagons.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
1. An improved receptacle for sweepings or refuse which is closed during
removal and opens automatically when being emptied, consisting of a box or
vessel with a roof shaped lid, one side a of which is permanently closed and is

page_text: provided with a bar or ledge 6 which serves both as a rest for the movable hinged
Lid or cover c which closes the other side, and also for pressing open the spring
or weighted doors of the dust wagon so that the lid c is allowed to open and the
receptacle to be emptied, substantially as herein before described and shown in the
accompanying drawing.
2. In a wagon for sweepings, refuse or the like closed on all sides, the
arrangement of openings e which are closed by means of doors opening inwards
under pressure, but which by means of springs or weights attached thereto, or
even by means of their own weight, close again automatically with the object of
preventing the dust which is raised inside the wagon by the discharge of the
receptacle into it from escaping to the outside, substantially as hereinbefore
described and set forth.
Dated this 29th day of December 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.