Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Screening Cinders from Ashes or for the like Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 24th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Screening Cinders
from Ashes or for the like Purposes.
I, RICHARD SOANS, of Northallerton, in the County of York, Commission Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to shovels, pans, or the like articles for screening and
separating cinders from ashes, or for similar purposes.
My object is partly, to construct the bottoms of such shovels, pans, or the like
articles so that all the residual material, such as the ashes, pass freely through the said
bottom without tendency to choke the intervening spaces; and partly, to combine
with the screening shovel or pan, so as to form one apparatus, a close bottomed
shovel or pan which receives the ashes or residual material from the screening shovel
or pan, the cinders to be used again and the residual ashes screened therefrom being
separately disposed of or conveyed away in the same apparatus in which they are
screened and separated.
In carrying out my Invention I provide in the bottom of the screening shovel or
pan a series of long narrow openings intervening between bars arranged in parallel or
similarly corresponding positions, whether placed longitudinally, transversely, or
diagonally with reference to the formation of the shovel or pan, or curved in some
convenient manner, but, in order that the residual material or ashes may have no
tendency to choke the passages, I provide bars, such as triangular or semi-circular
bars or the like placed broad-side upwards, or rectangular bars of small thickness
relatively to the intervening spaces.
The second shovel or pan may be of any shape convenient for the screening shovel
or pan to fit into, and having a close or full surfaced bottom collects the ashes
discharged from the screening shovel or pan, the bottom of the collecting shovel or
pan is curved or sloped if required from back to front so that the front edges of the
two shovels or pans fit together so as to have the effect of presenting only one
front edge.
For convenience of manipulation each shovel or pan is provided if required with
its own handle, the two handles preferably fitting together so as to serve as one handle
to the combination shovel or pan.
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G. J. CLARKSON,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or relating LO Apparatus for screening
from Ashes or for the like Purposes.
I, RICHARD SOANS, of Station Street, Northallerton, in the County of York,
Commercial Traveller, 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:-
My Invention relates to shovels, pans, or the like class of articles such as are
employed for screening and separating cinders from ashes or for the like purposes.
The object of my invention is to add to the efficiency and utility of such articles
when intended for household purposes, partly by constructing the screening shovel or
pan so that the finer or residual material, such as the ashes, passes freely through the
bottom thereof without tendency to choke the intervening spaces, and partly to
combine with the screening shovel or pan so as to be used as one apparatus a close
bottomed shovel or pan which receives the ashes or residual material from the
screening shovel or pan by which the cinders rendered available for further use and
the residual material screened therefrom are conveyed away in the same apparatus to
be separately disposed of.
The screening shovel or pan is constructed with an open bottom furnished with bars
forming long intervening spaces, the particular formation of the bars by which the
intervening spaces are rendered practically unchokeable forming an essential feature
of my invention; a further feature of my invention is the combination of a screening
with a collecting shovel or pan to be used as one apparatus.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and the essential features
thereof clearly distinguished from other articles by which the operation of screening
cinders from ashes is effected, I will describe the same with reference to the drawings
hereunto annexed, in which Figs. 1 and 2. illustrate in plan and section respectively.
Fig. 2. being taken on line X X of Fig. 1. a shovel constructed according to my
invention for ordinary household purposes in which an open bottomed shovel a fits
into a close bottomed shovel ; some of the most suitable forms of bars employed in
the construction of the open bottom of the screening shovel or pan for carrying out
my invention are illustrated to a larger scale in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, in the equivalent
forms in sectional area of the triangle, semicircle, or angle, or a flat bar with thin
edges placed broad side upwards. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate in plan and section
respectively an open bottomed or screening shovel, the bars of which are flat and of
small thickness relatively to the width of the intervening spaces; Fig. 9. is a trans-
verse sectional view taken on line Y Y of Fig. 10. which illustrates the corresponding
plan view of a household portable cinder box and ash pan combined.
The use of bars forming long intervening spaces in the open bottom of screening
shovels or pans is well known, but such bars have hitherto been formed with a view
of combining considerable strength with the alleged advantage of offering little
surface for the dust to rest upon, and in order to attain this object the intervening

page_text: spaces are formed between triangular bars placed broad side downwards with the
result that the sides of the intervening spaces converge outwards and impede the free
passage of the dust which in consequence effects a lodgement and chokes the shovel
bottom. In order to obviate this tendency of the ashes or residual material to choke
up the intervening spaces between the bars, I provide bars of the triangular, semi-
circular, angular or their equivalent sections placed broad side upwards as illustrated
in the figures, the object in view being by diregarding the amount of flat surface
contributed by the upper sides of the bars as part of the shovel or pan bottom to
provide intervening spaces, the sides of which do not converge outwards but which
either diverge outwards as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, or are so thin relatively
to the width of the intervening space as illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, as to afford no
opposite edges between which the ashes or residual material can effect a lodgement;
so long as these conditions are complied with beyond the question of economy of
manufacture and capacity for resisting wear and tear, I attach no importance to the
general arrangement of the said bars which may be fitted longitudinally, transversely
or diagonally with reference to the formation of the shovel or pan or to some curve
or other design selected for the purpose of ornamentation.
The collecting or close bottomed shovel or pan may be of any shape convenient for
fitting the screening shovel or pan into it so as to enclose the chamber c between the
bottoms of the two shovels or pans for receiving the ashes as illustrated more
particularly in Figs. 2 and 9, and in the case of the combined shovels I prefer that.
the front edge of the open shovel bottom a extend beyond the corresponding edge of
the close shovel bottom b, as distinctly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. sufficiently to have the
effect of presenting one edge only to the material to be shovelled up. For convenience
of manipulation each shovel may be provided with its own handle, the two handles
preferably corresponding in position to be convenient for use as one handle.
It is of course obvious that where the receiving shovel or pan is not required the
screening shovel or pan can be used without it, also that screening shovels at present
in use may be fitted into close bottomed shovels or pans to form a combination shovel
or pan for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Having now described my invention and how it may be carried into effect what I
claim is
Firstly In shovels or pans or the like articles in which an open bottom is
furnished with bars for screening cinders, the particular formation of the said bars in
sectional area such as the sections illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, whereby the
opposite sides or edges of the intervening spaces diverge outwards or are thin
relatively to the width of the intervening space, substantially as and for the purpose
as herein before described.
Secondly-The combination of an open bottomed with a close bottomed shovel,
pan or the like article for screening cinders fitted together to be used as one apparatus,
substantially as and for the purpose as hereinbefore described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1887.
G. J. CLARKSON,
Agent for the Applicant.