IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCUTTLES, VASES, AND BOXES FOR CONTAINING COAL
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Tylor, of Nos. 28 and 30, East Road, City Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Iron Bedstead Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCUTTLES, VASES, AND BOXES FOR
CONTAINING COAL."
Sealed the 24th December 1878, and dated the 6th July 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Tylor at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th July 1878.
- HENRY TYLOR, of Nos. 28 and 30, East Road, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Iron Bedstead Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF SCUTTLES, VASES, AND BOXES FOR CONTAINING COAL."
This Invention relates to the construction of scuttles, vases, and boxes for con-.
taining coal wholly of metal, or of metal and wood, or other material.
According to my Invention I form edge or corner frames of cast or rolled metal
with flanges where desired to facilitate the attachment of a metallic body or shell,
or of pieces of wood, papier-mache, pottery-ware, glass, or other material. If of
wood it may be in the solid or veneered, these determining the width of the
scuttle, vase, or box,
The body of metal or pieces of wood or other material are held in position by tie
or stay bars, which connect the edge or corner frames and ensure solidity, the tie or
stay bars alone being used for that purpose or in conjunction with flange pieces or
angled metal strips, which can be arranged upon the inside or upon the outside of
the edges or corners.
The shapes or dimensions of the edge or corner frames are in accordance with the
desired shape of the scuttle, vase, or box that has to be made.
For a scoop-shaped scuttle, for instance, I cast an iron, brass, or other metal frame,
or it may be of soft rolled metal bent to the contour, with a portion of the top
flange removed where the mouth has to be formed. Under the top flange that
remains I fit either a metal body bent to shape or I fit in separate pieces of wood
Price 6d1

page_text: to form the frame of the scuttle. I then connect these firmly together by stay or tie
rods inside or outside the scuttle, their ends being threaded and tightened by nuts
or by rivetting the ends down. The front upper part of the mouth is provided with
a tie bar, which gives strength to that part, and serves also as a pin on which to hinge
the lid or cover. The sides of the scuttle may be of wood or sheet metal or other
material, and the handles may he attached to strap pieces thereon or to other tie
bars which can be fitted vertically or in other suitable positions.
This construction permits of the sides being of sheet iron ornamented by the
enamelling process with high artistic effect, which has not yet been available for
such articles as scuttles on account of the edges having been lapped with the edges
of the body, and hammered or rolled into contact.
If the body of the scuttle is of wood metal mountings can be attached in an easy
manner by nails or screws, and if of metal they can be rivetted on.
The scuttle, vases, or boxes may have the coals placed within them or within a
lining box or case which can be inserted into the scuttle, vase, or box.
In some cases the outer body or sides may be panelled off for the placing of
ornamental slabs, tiles, or other articles in or upon them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Tylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th January
1879.
HENRY TYLOR, of Nos. 28 and 30, East Road, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Iron Bedstead Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF SCUTTLES, VASES, AND BOXES FOR CONTAINING COAL."
This Invention relates to the construction of scuttles, vases, and boxes for con-
taining coal wholly of metal, or of metal and wood, or other material.
According to my Invention I form edge or corner frames of cast or rolled angled
metal, or of metal with flanges where desired to facilitate the attachment of a
metallic body or shell, or of pieces of wood, papier-mache, pottery-ware, glass, or
other material. If of wood it may be in the solid or veneered.
The body of metal or pieces of wood or other material is held in position by tie or
stay bars which connect the edge or corner frames and ensure solidity, the tie or
stay bars alone being used for that purpose or in conjunction with flange pieces or
angled metal strips, which can be arranged upon the inside or upon the outside of
the edges or corners.
The shapes and dimensions of the edge or corner frames are in accordance with
the desired shape of the scuttle, vase, or box that has to be made.
For a scoop shaped scuttle, for instance, I cast an iron, brass, or other metal frame,
or it may be of soft rolled (preferably angled) metal bent to the contour, with a
portion of the top flange removed where the mouth has to be formed. Under the
top flange that remains I fit either a metal body bent to shape or I fit in separate
pieces of wood to the frame of the scuttle. I then connect these firmly together by
stay or tie rods inside or outside the scuttle, their ends being threaded and tightened
by nuts or by rivetting the ends down. The front upper part of the mouth is pro-
vided with a tie. bar, which gives strength at that part and serves also as a pin on
which to hinge the lid or cover. The sides of the scuttle may be of wood or
of sheet metal or other material, and the handles may be attached to strap pieces
thereon or to other tie bars which can be fitted vertically or in other suitable
positions.
This construction permits of the sides being of sheet iron ornamented by the
enamelling process with high artistic effect, which has not yet been available for
such articles as scuttles on account of the edges having been lapped with the edges
of the body, and hammered or rolled into contact.
If the body of the scuttle is of wood metal mountings can be attached in an easy
manner by nails or screws, and if of metal they can be rivetted on.
The scuttles, vases, or boxes may have the coals placed within them or within a
lining box or case which can be inserted into the scuttle, vase, or box.
In some cases the outer body or sides may be panelled off for the placing of
ornamental slabs, tiles, or other articles in or upon them.
My Invention will be clearly understood by the examples shown upon the
annexed Sheet of Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a frame of
a coal scuttle or coal box.
A, A, are the two side frames of cast metal formed with internal grooves B, B,
as in the sectional view, Figure 2, for the reception of strips or sheets of metal,
papier-mache, or other material to form the sides, ends, and bottoms of the box.
C, C, are bars similarly grooved. These bars form the transverse or stay or tie
bars for holding the side frames apart, the ends of the bars being screw threaded
and passed through holes in the side frames, and fixed tight by nuts, or the ends
may be plain, and after being passed through the holes can be rivetted to make them
secure.
The side frames A, A, may be plain or ornamented, as desired, and side strips of
metal, as at D, D, Figure 3, may be arranged so that the side panelling may be

page_text: composed of strips of wood as shown. The lid E being of metal hinged by a bar to
the side frames, or by its ends passing into lugs cast or otherwise formed upon the
side frames for the purpose.
> :
A very beautiful effect may be produced by having the metal frames of lacquered
brass and the panels of different coloured woods, the article having the usual
detachable coal receptacle within it.
Figure 4 represents the skeleton frame of a coal vase or box, in which the frame
is composed of angle iron or other metal of the shape shown in the detached view,
Figure 5, or with grooves, as in Figure 6. The side frames in this construction are
kept apart by tie rods C, C, on which the transverse panelling slabs can be arranged
and fixed in position by overlap strips F, F, the ends of which can be screwed upon
the flange of the side frames.
Figure 7 is a perspective view of a coal vase corresponding in shape to that
shown in Figure 4, the sides being partitioned off and filled in with glazed tiles.
Figure 8 is a view of a coal vase of another shape, the side panels being of painted
or printed japan ware or of papier-mache, or it may be paper pasted on to the panels
and varnished.
Figure 9 is a detached view of a door or lid, with a flange E¹ on its edges to
enable a panelling which is fitted in at the back and attached to the flanges or
otherwise to be flush with the depth of the flanges.
It will be understood that any device or pattern of the sides or other panels, and
also of the frame, may be used, the object of the Invention being, as before stated,
to construct scuttles, vases, and boxes for containing coal of angled or grooved metal
frames in a skeleton form, and in filling in the intervening spaces with other mate-
rial of a plain appearance or with embellishments upon the exterior as to make the
article with patterns in conformity with articles of furniture, if desired, or to other
devices.
Coal vases, scoops, and boxes of the shapes shown in the annexed Drawings, and
of other approximate shapes, have hitherto been composed of pieces of wood only,
put together by a joiner, and the ornamental work has been by carving, by painting,
or by nailing ormolu mounts upon the wood, consequently real artistic or high
decorative embellishments have not been available, but by my Invention a coal vase,
scoop, or box may be constructed to receive panels composed of plates, slabs, or
tablets of the most fragile and most delicate and costly nature, as well as those most
simple and plain, the panels being independent of the frame work, which is so to
speak a construction in itself.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the manufacture of coal scuttles, coal
vases, and coal boxes of angled (plain or grooved) metal, braced or held by trans-
verse tie rods or bars, the intervening spaces being filled in or fitted with slabs,
tablets, sheets, or panels of any material or materials, as and for the purposes set
forth..
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Tylor, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand.
aight hundred and seventy-nine.