Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1887
Complete Left, 4th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 9th Mar., 1888
I, WILLIAM FITOH STOREY of 38 Lindore Road Wandsworth in the county of Surrey
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple cheap and effective appliance for
use in fire places by which the cinders will be separated from the ashes.
To carry out this object I fit in the fire place under the grate a piece of wire netting
or other similar material the back part whereof is preferably placed close underneath
the bottom bars of the grate while the front part thereof is at a much lower lovel
whereby an inclined plane is created by this piece of material the mesh or the apertures
whereof are made of the desired size.
Thus when the coal or cinders and ashes fall down out of the fire grate on this piece
of netting or material the smaller ashes will pass therethrough while the larger
coal or cinders being prevented from passing therethrough will roll down this inclined
plane.
This cinder sifter can conveniently be mounted on a suitable tray or pan or other
appliance whereinto the separated material can fall and two or more layers of the
wire netting or other material may be used having meshes or apertures of the same
or of different sizes.

page_text: I WILLIAM FITCH STOREY of 38 Lindore Road Wandsworth in the county of Surrey
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of my invention is to provide a simple cheap and very effective appliance
for use in and with fire places of all those descriptions in which the grates are raised
off the floor or hearth by which appliance the cinders or the unconsumed coal will be
separated from the ashes or the consumed coal or wood or other fuel.
To carry out this object I fit in the fire place under the grate a piece of wire netting
or other similar material the back part whereof is preferably placed close underneath
the bottom bars of the grate while the front part thereof is at a much lower level
whereby an inclined plane is created by this piece of material the meshes or the
apertures whereof are made of any desired or suitable size.
Thus when the coal or cinders and the ashes fall down out of the fire grate on this
piece of netting or material the smaller ashes will pass therethrough while the larger
coal or cinders which cannot pass through the meshes or the apertures thereof will roll
down on the inclined plane of this piece of material.
This cinder sifter can be constructed and fitted in any convenient manner and an
extremely suitable method do I shew in the drawing wherein Figure 1 is a front
elevation of a fire place provided with this my cinder sifter Figure 2 is a transverse
vertical section thereof and Figure 3 is a plan of the cinder sifter.
I make a tray or pan A preferably of sheet metal whereon the piece of wire netting
or other similar material B can be mounted in the aforesaid desired inclined position
preferably in such wise that the said piece of material B can easily and quickly
when required be disengaged from the said tray or pan A and this tray or pan A is so
formed as properly to fit the fire place below the grate C and projects so far beyond
the front bars of the same as may be expedient in each particular case and the piece of
material B may either cover the entirety of the tray or pan A as shewn in the drawing
or only so much thereof as may be necessary or advisable but in all cases it covers the
front part of the said tray or pan A that projects as aforesaid beyond the front bars
of the grate C.
Therefore when the coal or cinders and the ashes fall down out of the fire grate Con
this piece of netting or material B the ashes will pass therethrough into the tray or
pan A while the coal or cinders will roll down on the inclined plane of this piece of
material B as is desired and when required the tray or pan A can be removed the
piece of netting or material B can be disengaged therefrom and the ashes emptied out
of the same very easily and quickly.
According to this method of construction it is obvious that the coal or cinders that
roll down on the piece of material B will be free to roll all over the hearth to obviate
and remedy which untidy appearance and to confine the coal or cinders in such

page_text: position that the same can readily be placed again in or on the grate I can conveniently
enlarge the tray or pan A and this enlargement D is formed all along the front part
of the same projecting still further beyond the front bars of the grate C and therefore
into this enlargement D all the coal or cinders will roll and thence can be removed
when desired.
I consider that the method and style of construction of the tray or pan and of the
piece of netting or material and of the enlargement of the tray or pan if any and the
forms of the same as shewn in the drawing are very suitable and convenient but it is
sufficiently obvious that I can vary the same as and when I may desire and I may
form and construct this my cinder sifter and all the several parts thereof in such wise
as may be expedient or desirable or necessary in each separate and particular case. For
example I may mount in a similar manner on the tray or pan or elsewhere under the
grate two or more pieces of wire netting or other similar material having meshes or
apertures of differing sizes and the piece with the smaller or smallest meshes or
apertures would be the lowermost and would allow the ashes to fall through while the
coal or cinders would be separated in accordance with the sizes thereof by the two or
more pieces of material and be separately deposited by these pieces on the hearth or
in the tray or pan or in the enlargement thereof to effect which the more surely and
conveniently each piece of material projects a little beyond the piece immediately
below it and it is obvious that when the cinder sifter is made after this method sufficient
space must be created between the two adjacent and preferably parallel pieces of
material to allow the coal or cinders that cannot pass through the lower piece to roll
down on the same in manner as hereinbefore described.
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
The cinder ciftor substantially as herein before described and set forth
Dated this 4th day of February 1888.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.