IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR STREET AND OTHER REFUSE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Roberts, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer of Sanitary Appliances, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR STREET AND OTHER REFUSE."
Sealed the 5th July 1878, and dated the 7th January 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Roberts at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th January 1878.
ALBERT ROBERTS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manufacturer of Sanitary
Appliances. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR STREET AND OTHER
REFUSE."
My Invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement of
the boxes, bins, or receptacles commonly known as street orderly bins, which may
be also used in stables and other similar places, and it consists chiefly in arranging
such bins or receptacles flush or level with the road or pavement in lieu of above
the ground, and also in the arrangements for opening and emptying the same.
In carrying out my Invention as applied to street orderly bins (for example)
I construct a frame, by preference of cast iron, and of a square, oblong, or other
shape, which is laid flush with the road or pavement, and fits round a small pit or
opening. The frame is fitted with a hinged lid which is intended to be used only
for the removal of the refuse, a ledge or flange is provided on the inner edge of the
frame for the purpose of receiving and sustaining a light box or pan, which may be
made of sheet iron, and have a flange or rim to rest on the above ledge in the
frame, a suitable handle being provided for the facility of lifting out the box or pan
when full.
In the lid before described I construct a smaller door for the introduction of
the refuse, and in order to prevent this door being left open, either accidentally or
otherwise, I arrange that it shall not open sufficiently to attain a perpendicular
position, so that when released by the operator it closes by its own weight.
For the convenience of opening the door, as above described, I cast or otherwise
form or attach to it a lever extending backwards from the centre of its axis or

page_text: hinge, by pressing on which lever through an opening suitably situated in the lid
or frame the door will be raised sufficiently for the purpose.
The end of the brush generally used may be made suitable for pressing down
the lever, but if desirable a hand hole or other means for raising the door may be
used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Albert Roberts in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th July
1878.
ALBERT ROBERTS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manufacturer of Sanitary
Appliances. IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR STREET AND OTHER
REFUSE."
"
My said Invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement
of the boxes, bins, or receptacles commonly known as street orderly bins, which
may be also used in stables and other similar places, and it consists chiefly in
arranging such bins or receptacles flush or level with the road, or pavement, or like
surface, in lieu of above the ground, and also in the arrangements for opening and
emptying the same.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings; the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in both the Figures.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings are sectional elevations of a
street orderly bin, constructed according to my said Invention, the closing lids,
herein-after referred to, being represented in the two Figures in two different
positions.
A is a frame composed by preference of cast iron, and made of a rectangular or
other convenient shape, which frame is laid flush with the road or pavement B,
and fits round a small pit or opening C. The frame is fitted with a hinged lid D,
which is intended to be used only for the removal of the refuse, the hinges being
by preference arranged beneath, as shewn at a. A ledge or flange b is provided on
the inner edge of the frame for the purpose of receiving and sustaining a light box
or pan E, which may be made of sheet iron, and have a flange or rim e to rest on
the above ledge in the frame, suitable handles being if necessary provided for the
facility of lifting out the box or pan when full.
The lid D is provided with an opening, to which I fit a smaller door D¹ for the
introduction of the refuse, the said door being hinged to the lid D at a¹; and in
order to prevent any liability of the door D¹ being left open I provide a projection d,
or otherwise arrange the door so that it shall not open sufficiently to attain a
perpendicular position, in order that when released by the operator it will close by
gravitation.
For the convenience of opening the door a removable key e may be employed,
the same being inserted when required in order to form a handle with which to
raise the door.

page_text: The latter may also be provided with a scraper f, as shewn, for the facility of
cleaning the shovel from adherent refuse in wet whether.
In Figure 1 the lid D is represented as open for the removal of the pan E, and
in Figure 2 the lid D is represented as closed, taking its bearing upon blocks J. the
door D¹ being however open for the introduction of refuse.
It will be understood that in the normal condition of the apparatus the lid D
and door D are both closed; when in this position the apparatus presents no
obstruction or unsightly appearance, whilst affording every convenience.
The Invention is applicable to dust or ashes bins, with only such slight modi-
fications in detail as will readily suggest themselves to competent persons without
further explanation.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I
would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the construction and arrangement of bins or receptacles, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Roberts, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
ALBERT ROBERTS. (L.S.)