IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL SCUTTLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter William Barlow, of Hele Cottage, Ealing, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL
SCUTTLES."
Sealed the 3rd May 1878, and dated the 3rd November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter William Barlow
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd November
1877.
"
PETER WILLIAM BARLOW, of Hele Cottage, Ealing, in the County of Middlesex.
'IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL SCUTTLES."
My Invention relates to a construction of coal scuttle for use in an apartment in
such a manner that a scoopfull can readily be taken therefrom without the trouble
and difficulty usually experienced in pushing the scoop in amongst a mass of coals
consisting of lumps in irregular and unequal forms.
For this purpose I make the scuttle in the form of an elongated box, mounted by.
a transverse axis or trunnions on a framing, so that it can be depressed at either
end and elevated at the other, by causing it to oscillate on its axis or trunnions.
Through the bottom of the box, at each end thereof, I make a hole, under which I
place a scoop fitted in grooves attached to the box, so that it can be slid into
position immediately under the hole, or can be entirely withdrawn from its
grooves. The box is also made with a hole at the top which may be fitted with a
cover.
-The scoops
The scuttle thus constructed is operated in the following manner :—
being both in position under their respective holes, the scuttle is charged with coals,
but not fully so, by the hole in the top, the scoops becoming at the same time more
or less charged with coals dropping through the holes in the bottom of the box.
When it is required to remove a scoopfull to place coals on the fire, the scuttle is
tilted on its axis, so as to make the mass of coals tumble away from the one end
towards the other. The scoop is then withdrawn from the elevated end, and when

page_text: the coals are discharged therefrom on to the fire, the scoop is replaced. When
another scoopfull is required, the scuttle is tilted in the opposite direction, and the
coals in it now tumble away from the end which was previously depressed, and
from which the charged scoop is to be taken, and fall to the end that was formerly
elevated, so as to charge the scoop that had been replaced there. Thus scoopfull
after scoopfull can be taken alternately from the two ends of the scuttle, the charging
of the scoop being in each case effected by gravity, causing coals to fall through the
respective holes when the scuttle is tilted.
Although I have described a symmetrical construction of scuttle, having both
ends alike, and similarly fitted with scoops, the like principle of action may be applied
to a scuttle having a scoop at only one of its ends, but in this case two actions are
required for each scoopfull, the one being to depress the scoop end for the purpose of
charging the scoop, and the other being to elevate that end so as to make the coals
fall away from it before withdrawing the charged scoop.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter William Barlow in the.Great Scal Patent Office on the 3rd May
1878.
PETER WILLIAM BARLOW, of Hele Cottage, Ealing, in the County of Middlesex.
'IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL SCUTTLES."
My Invention relates to a construction of coal scuttle for use in an apartment in
such a manner that a scoopfull can readily be taken therefrom without the trouble
and difficulty usually experienced in pushing the scoop in amongst a mass of coals
consisting of lumps in irregular and unequal forms.
For this purpose I make the scuttle in various forms, one of which is shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings, a modified form being shewn in
Figs. 3 and 4.
The scuttle consists of a receptacle R, which may be of any suitable shape or
material, such as metal plate, when it is rounded in its outline, as shewn in the
Figures, or it may be of wood with a rectilineal outline, such as is indicated by the
dotted lines in Fig. 1. It is mounted by an axis A on a stand, as shewn in Figs. 1
and 2, or it may have a rocker base B, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4. On its upper
part is a handle H, and at the end is a scoop S, fitted to slide in suitable grooves
in the open mouth of the scuttle. The receptacle R may have on the top a lid that
can be opened for charging it with coals, or it may be charged by removing
the scoop and canting the receptacle back, so as to present the scoop mouth
upwards.
When charged, the scuttle is worked in the following manner :-By the hand
applied to the handle of the scoop S, the scuttle is canted downwards on its axis or
rocker base to the attitude shewn in Figs. 1 and 3, so that coals fall by gravity
into the scoop.
The scuttle is then canted backwards to the attitudes shewn in
Figs. 2 and 4, so that the mass of coals falls to the back part of the receptacle,

page_text: leaving a certain quantity in the scoop which can then be withdrawn, and its
contents having been discharged on the fire the scoop can be replaced ready for a
succeeding charge.
Scuttles operating in the manner described may be made symmetrical in form,
with a scoop at each end, as shewn at Fig. 5, and these scoops may in such case be
conveniently made to slide transversely.
When this double arrangement is adopted the canting of the scuttle to remove
one of the scoops S¹ bas the effect of charging the other scoop S, as indicated
in Fig. 5, so as to be ready for withdrawal when the scuttle is cauted in the
opposite direction.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I claim, the construction of a coal scuttle mounted on
an axis or rocking base, with a scoop so arranged that on canting the scuttle in one
direction coals fall by gravity into the scoop; and on canting the scuttle in the
opposite direction, the mass of coals falls back, leaving the scoop charged, so that it
can be withdrawn with its contents, substantially as and for the purposes herein
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter William Barlow, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.