Improved Ashpan or Tidy and Cinder Drawer.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 9th May. 1894-Accepted. 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Ashpan or Tidy and Cinder Drawer.
I, GEORGE MYERS, of Lydgate Lane, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved combination of ashpan or tidy, and cinder
drawer forming a single article of domestic utility.
The article as usually made consists of a front plate (in its most.simple form)
of plain or ornamental character, and of a size that will close or conceal the
opening underneath the fire, and to this front plate or tidy is sometimes added an
ashes pan, which can be drawn through an opening in the lower edge of the front
plate.
To render the article more serviceable and complete I propose to combine with
the front plate separately, or with the front plate and ashes pan as above described,
what I term a cinder drawer, arranged to draw out of the front plate, and placed
just above and over the ashes pan or drawer when there is one.
The bottom of the cinder drawer is made of rods, woven wire, or perforated
to act as a sieve or riddle, so that as the ashes drop from the fire the fine ash
will pass through into the ashes pan or on to the hearth as the case may be
and the cinders be caught and retained in cinder drawer, which may be drawn out
at any time and the contents thrown upon the fire.
Dated the 3rd day of August 1893.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Ashpan or Tidy and Cinder Drawer.
I, GEORGE MYERS of Lydgate Lane, Sheffield in the County of York,
Draughtsman 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 combination of ashpan or tidy, and cinder
drawer, forming a single article of domestic utility.
Two of its most convenient forins are shown in the annexed sheet of drawings,
Fig. 1, representing a tidy and cinder drawer of my improved construction.
Fig. 2, the cinder drawer withdrawn.
Fig. 3, the same with ashes door open.
Fig. 4, a superior or parlour ashes pan or tidy.
The tidy as usually made for kitchen use cousists of a cast iron front plate A,
shown in Fig. 1, of a plain or ornamental character, placed so as to conceal the
opening underneath the firebars and the ashes that drop therefrom, and to this tidy
is sometimes added a pan to catch ashes and cinders, which is passed through
an opening in the lower edge of the tidy. To render the article more serviceable
and complete I propose to construct what I call a cinder drawer and separator,
being a sieve and a drawer or ashpan, combined with a tidy of the most simple
form or any of the various forms of such article.
A

page_text: In Fig. 1, for kitchen and cottage use I make the tidy A, with an opening in
front to receive a drawer B, which when closed completes the front design.
This drawer is constructed with a hinged bottom plate C, secured when closed
by a catch D, preferably placed at the back, in Fig. 2, the bottom plate is shown
closed, in Fig. 3, it is shown open. A little distance above the bottom plate C, I
fix a sieve E, preferably of woven wire, but may be a perforated plate or any
equivalent, this is preferably a fixture, and it serves to separate the fine ashes from
the cinders, the fine ashes dropping through the mesh of the sieve into the space
below, and leaving the cinders in the upper part.
The drawer may be withdrawn at any time and when taken to the ashes place,
the catch D, is released, the bottom C, falls down and deposits the ashes, the clean
cinders retained upon the sieve E, can then be thrown upon the fire or otherwise
disposed of.
In Fig. 4, I show my invention as applied to a superior class of tidy or ashpan,
for parlours and such like rooms.
In this case I dispense with the separate drawer fitting through the front, and
combine the two parts A and B.
The woven wire or perforated bottom E, is fixed above the hinged bottom plate,
either resting upon it, or a very little distance above it, as these tidys are made
shallow, the stoves or fireplaces for which this modification is intended, being
usually made lower or nearer the hearth than kitchen ranges.
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:
1. The combination with a tidy such as A, Fig. 1, of a pull out drawer provided
with a woven wire or other equivalent meshed or perforated partition E, fixed
above the bottom plate C, which is hinged, at one of its sides and provided with
a catch at the opposite side-for the purpose specified, and substantially as
shown.
2. A tidy or ashpan such shown in Fig. 4, having a hinged bottom plate, or door
in the bottom plate, the opening being covered with a fixed partition of woven
wire, or of other equivalent sieve, for the purpose specified and substantially as
shown.
Dated the 3rd day of May 1894
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.