AN IMPROVED Box OR RECEPTACLE FOR PREPARING AND HOLDING SALT
Year: 1886

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We CHARLES GAUL, Engine Tenter of 30 Longside Lane and THOMAS WOLSTEN-
HOLME, Clerk of 11 Albert Place Trafalgar Street both of Bradford in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for AN IMPROVED Box OR
RECEPTACLE FOR PREPARING AND HOLDING SALT, to be as follows:-
We construct this Box or receptacle of an oblong shape.
The lid is made to slide on or off in a grove, underneath the lid we fix a
grater perforated in a similar manner to a nutmeg grater, and when required for
small quantities it is made flat.
For larger quantities we make it in a circular or cylinderical shape to revolve by
means of a handle, underneath the grater is a drawer for the purpose of receiving
and holding the prepared salt, and underneath the drawer is a receptacle for
holding the salt in the block.
The advantages are a rapid and clean method of preparing salt to any required
fineness and at the same time having the whole complete and compact in the Box,
or receptacle protected from dust and dirt.
CHARLES GAUL.
THOMAS WOLSTENHOLME.

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We CHARLES GAUL, Engineer, of 30, Longside Lane, and THOMAS WOLSTEN-
HOLME, of 37, St. Michaels Road, Clerk, both of Bradford in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention for AN IMPROVED BOX OR
RECEPTACLE FOR PREPARING AND HOLDING SALT, 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 novel and useful improvements in apparatus for
preparing, or grating, salt; and its object is to provide a cheap and efficient salt
grater in combination with a drawer or receptacle for collecting and holding the
prepared salt.
For this purpose we employ a box, preferably of a rectangular form, horizontally
divided by a perforated grater and fitted with a drawer, underneath such grater,
adapted to receive the salt abraded by rubbing a block of salt upon the said grater.
A lid is provided to protect the grater from dust and dirt when not in use.
To prepare larger quantities of salt than the above arrangement is adapted for,
we employ a revolving grater in the form of a disc, fitted in the upper division of
the rectangular box against the face of which grater the block salt is pressed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus fitted with a revolving grater,
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation, and figure 3 is a plan of the same.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the apparatus when fitted with a horizontal
stationary grater. Figure 5 is a sectional elevation and Figure 6 is a plan of the
same. In order to make the figures more perspicuous the lid closing the top division
is in each case omitted.
Referring to Figures 1, 2, and 3. The inclined partition A, separating the upper
and lower divisions of the box, is preferably covered with a sheet of glass B
upon which the block salt is placed. The inclination of the said partition, and
the smooth surface of the glass cause the block salt to slide against the face of
the revolving grater C which is preferably formed of sheet zinc perforated in the
usual manner. The said grater is mounted upon the disc D which is capable of
being rotated by the handle E thereby rapidly abrading the block of salt which
passes in fine particles through the opening F, in the partition A, into the drawer G
fitted in the lower division of the box.
In Figures 4, 5 and 6 a flat horizontal grater C¹ is used resting upon the
bearing pieces H fixed to the interior of the box. The drawer G receives the salt

page_text: prepared by rubbing the block upon the grater C when the particles rubbed off
pass through the perforations in such grater into the drawer G.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
we declare what we claim is:
The general construction and arrangement of apparatus for grating and holding
salt, substantially as herein shown and described.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents,