Improvements in the Manufacture of Ash Pans
Year: 1891

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Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 23rd June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ash Pans,
I ABSALOM HARPER of Waddam's Pool Works House Dudley in the County of
Worcester Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My improvements in the manufacture of ash pans have for their object to
facilitate the production of the curved or bent ornamental fronts of the said ash
pans in the manner hereinafter described whereby the cost of production of the ash
pans to which the said ornamental fronts are fitted is much reduced.
In making the ornamental fronts of ash pans in the ordinary way the beading at
the top of the said fronts is made by attaching a separate properly bent or curved
piece of metal to the top of the curved band or strip of metal constituting the front
of the said ash pan by riveting or screwing; or the said beading is formed by
wiring the rim of the said band or strip; and the moulding at the bottom of the
said front is made by attaching by screwing or riveting a separate moulding
properly curved or bent to fit the front of the ash pan.
In making the ornamental fronts of ash pans according to my invention the usc
of the separate curved beading and moulding or the wiring of the rim to form the
beading are rendered unnecessary the said beading and moulding being made in one
piece with the strip or band constituting the front of the ash pan by the process of
rolling drawing or stamping as hereinafter described.
In making the ornamental fronts according to my invention by rolling or drawing
I take a long length of steel or brass or other elastic metal or alloy of a breadth
somewhat greater than the depth it is intended the ornamental front of the ash pan
shall have and I give to the said strip of metal by the rolling or drawing process
the figure in cross section it is intended the finished ornamental front shall have ;
that is I form along one edge a tubular beading having an oval or circular figure in
cross section and along the other edge a moulding. I cut from the said beaded and
moulded strip pieces of a length when bent or curved proper to fit the bottom of the
ash pan to be made the said curved and ornamented piece being attached to the said
bottom and to the two sides of the ash pan in the ordinary way.
When I make the ornamental fronts by stamping I take a strip of metal of a
length proper when bent or curved to form the front required. By the said
stamping operation I form the tubular bead on one edge and the required moulding
on the other edge the said beaded and moulded strip or piece being either curved or
bent to the required figure simultaneous with the beading and moulding. operation
described or afterwards curved or bent.
When it is required to ornament the space between the beaded and moulded
edges either with a pattern or design in relief or in intaglio or with a pierced pattern
or design the said pattern or design may be formed on or in the said ornamental
front by a separate stamping operation; or when the beading and moulding of the
edges of the ash pan front are made by stamping the said spaces may be ornamented
in the ways hereinbefore referred to by the same stamping operation.
Or a pattern or design in relief or in intaglio may be produced by rolling when
the beaded and moulded edges are produced by a rolling operation.
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LAL 1001
[Price 8d.]
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ash Pans. .
I ABSALOM HARPER of Waddam's Pool Works House, Dudley in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My improvements in the manufacture of ash pans have for their object to
facilitate the production of the curved or bent ornamental fronts of the said ash
pans in the manner hereinafter described, whereby the cost of production of the ash
pans to which the said ornamental fronts are fitted is much reduced.
In making the ornamental fronts of ash pans in the ordinary way, the beading at
the top of the said frouts is made by attaching a separate properly bent or curved
piece of metal to the top of the curved band or strip of metal constituting the front
of the said ash pan by riveting or screwing; or the said beading is formed by
wiring the rim of the said band or strip, and the moulding at the bottom of the said
front is made by attaching by screwing or riveting, a separate moulding properly
curved or bent to fit the front of the ash pan.
In making the ornamental fronts of ash pans according to my invention the use
of the separate curved beading and moulding, or the wiring of the rim to form the
beading are rendered unnecessary, the said beading and moulding being made in
one piece with the strip or band constituting the front of the ash pan by the process
of rolling drawing or stamping as hereinafter described.
In making the ornamental fronts according to my invention by rolling or drawing,
I take a long length of steel or brass or other elastic metal or alloy of a breadth
somewhat greater than the depth it is intended the ornamental front of the ash pan
shall have and I give to the said strip of metal by the rolling or drawing process
the figure in cross section it is intended the finished ornamental front shall have;
that is, I form along one edge a tubular beading having an oval or circular figure
in cross section and along the other edge a moulding. I cut from the said beaded
and moulded strip, pieces of a length, when bent or curved proper to fit the bottom
of the ash pan to be made, the said curved and ornamented piece being attached to
the said bottom and to the two sides of the ash pan in the ordinary way.
When I make the ornamental fronts by stamping I take a strip of metal of a
length proper, when bent or curved, to form the front required.
By the said stamping operation I form the tubular beading on one edge and the
required moulding on the other edge the said beaded and moulded strip or piece
being either curved or bent to the required figure simultaneous with the beading
and moulding operation, or afterwards curved or bent.
The short beaded and moulded strips may be made by rolling instead of by
stamping.
When it is required to ornament the space between the beaded and moulded
edges either with a pattern or design in relief or in intaglio or with a pierced pattern
or design, the said pattern or design may be formed on or in the said ornamental
front by a separate stamping operation; or when the beading and moulding of the
edges of the ash pan front are made by stamping the said spaces may be ornamented
in the ways hereinbefore referred to by the same stamping operation.
Or the pattern or design in relief or in intaglio may be produced by rolling when
the beaded and moulded edges are produced by a rolling operation.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation and end
elevation and Figure 2 in edge view, the curved or bent ornamental front of an ash
pan made according to my invention.
The said ornamental front or band is marked a and its upper edge is provided
with a tubular beading boval in cross section and its lower edge with a moulding c
the said tubular beading 6 and moulding c being made in one piece with the
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page_text: ornamented band or front a which is pierced with an ornamental pattern or design.
The tongue pieces d, d at the ends of the ornamental front serve to connect the said
front to the body of the ash pan in the ordinary way. The said ornamental front
Figures 1 and 2 may be made either by stamping or rolling from strips of the length
proper when bent or curved to form the front required. When the front or band
is to be ornamented by piercings, the ornamenting is effected while the strip is in the
flat. By the stamping or rolling operation, the plain or ornamented strip is first
shaped of the sectional form, drawn to a large scale, in front elevation and end
elevation in Figure 3; that is to say, the moulding c is formed at the bottom of the
strip and the partly made beading 6' is formed at the top of the strip. By a
further stamping or rolling operation, the partly made beading 6 Figure 3 is
converted into the finished beading represented at 6 Figure 4. The beaded and
moulded strip may either be curved or bent simultaneous with the beading and
moulding operation first described or after the beading and moulding operation has
been completed.
Instead of piercing or perforating the space between the beaded and moulded
edges of the short strip or band, a pattern or design in relief or sunken may be
produced by rolling or stamping.
Figures 5 and 6 illustrate examples of patterns or designs either sunken or in
relief with which the front of the ash pan made according to my invention, may be
ornamented.
Instead of making the ornamental fronts of ash pans from short strips by stamping
or rolling as described and illustrated, a long strip, either plain or pierced, may be
taken and by a rolling or drawing or stamping operation the plain or pierced length
or strip converted into a strip having the sectional form represented in Figure 3 and
afterwards into that represented in Figure 4. Or the flat long strip may be
converted by one drawing operation into the sectional form represented in Figure 4.
I cut from the long beaded and moulded strip thus made, pieces of a length, when
bent or curved, proper to form the ornamental fronts of ash pans.
Instead of forming the tubular beading of an oval figure in cross section, it may
have a circular figure in cross section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of ash pans ":-
Manufacturing the curved or bent ornamental fronts of ash pans from strips of
steel, brass or other elastic metal or alloy by stamping or rolling or drawing and
bending processes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing, whereby the tubular beading at one edge and the moulding
at the other edge of the strip or band, constituting the front of the ash pan, are
made in one piece with the said strip or band.
Dated the Twenty-first day of June 1892.