An Improved Shovel or Scoop with Rake Attachment for Separating Coal, Cinders, and other Matter from Dust.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shovel or Scoop with Rake Attachment for
Separating Coal, Cinders, and other Matter from Dust.
JOSEPH RICHARD PARKER, Photographic Accessory Maker 1 Beaconsfield
Terrace Church End Willesden Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
By inverting the aforesaid shovel or scoop, the rake drops from inside of shovel
at a suitable angle, by again turning the implement the rake falls back and forms
the front edge and part of the bottom of shovel.
The shovel and rake is made of sheet iron or other metal-the bar of the rake,
having at each end one ear peice turned at right angels and is kept in position
inside of shovel, by two pivots which are passed through the ear peices and work
in two vertical slots at the sides and near the front of the shovel.
This shovel, having a rake at the end will separate and take up matter with very
little dust therefore is much cleaner for domestic purposes.
12th October 1894.
JOSEPH RICHARD PARKER.
An Improved Shovel or Scoop with Rake Attachment for
Separating Coal, Cinders, and other Matter from Dust.
I, JOSEPH RICHARD PARKER, Photographic Accessory Maker, of 1 Beacons
field Terrace Church End Willesden, London, in the County of Middlesex, 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 do consist of a rake attached to a shovel or scoop for separating
coal, cinders, and other matter from dust. The accompanying drawing Fig. 1.
shows the rake laying inside the implement. B. is the bar of the rake having at
each end one ear peice, turned at right angles, and is kept in position inside of
shovel by two pivots which are passed through the two ear peices, and worked in
two vertical slots in the sides and near the front of the shovel to prevent an
impediment of matter thrown from the shovel--the teeth of the rake is slightly
curved so that they lay a little below the plain of shovel. A. Fig. 1. C. Fig. 2
shows the opening where the rake falls in-by inverting the shovel the rake drops
from inside of shovel at a suitable angle, Fig. 2. By again turning the shovel or
scoop the rake falls back and forms the front edge and part of the bottom of the
shovel, shown Fig. 1. The shovel and rake is made of sheet iron or other metal
the rake is strengthened by the side edge of the teeth being turned back at
right angles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1st. A shovel or scoop, with rake attachment for separating coal, cinders, and
other matter from dust.
2nd. The aforesaid shovel can be used for many purposes, having a rake attached
will separate and take up matter with very little dust, therefor is much cleaner for
domestic use, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 21st November 1894.
JOSEPH RICHARD PARKER.