Improvements in Cinder Sifters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 23rd Sept.. 1892-Accepted. 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cinder Sifters.
ALBERT ABRAM WADE Designer 6 Hough Terrace Bramley Leeds do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A box to fit recess under fire grate has an inclined grating of perforated metal
or other material stretching from upper edge of one side to lower part of opposite
side. Its sides are turned up to form a wedge shaped box, fitting inside, and resting
by its rim on the first mentioned box. The sides of first box might be cut away
partly where inside ones stand up.
As debris falls from fire &c. the fine passes through grating & cinders &c. roll to
lower part of wedge shaped box or grating by which they can be lifted out.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1891.
ALBERT A. WADE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cinder Sifters.
I, ALBERT ABRam Wade, of 6 Hough Terrace, Bramley, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Textile Designer, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in cinder sifters, and it consists essentially
of a loose removable perforated and inclined tray or grid arranged within a box
for receiving the ashes as they fall from said grid or tray.
In the drawings:
1
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on line x x Fig. 3;
Fig. 2 a transverse section on line y y Fig. 3;
Fig. 3 a plan of the cinder sifter looking at the top.
A is a rectangular box preferably made of sheet iron and arranged to be placed
in the opening of the firegrate under the firebars. In order that the box A may
not require to be made exactly to fit said opening, under the firebars the wings or
pieces B B', hereafter termed direction wings, are hinged, or otherwise fixed,
respectively to the sides a a', and are made to rest against the walls of the said
opening, in an inclined direction (see dotted lines Fig. 1) for directing the ashes
into the perforated tray C of the box. Or the direction wings may be attached to
the tray C as shown in the drawings. The front of the box A may also be made
to taper upwards and outwards to any suitable distance as shown at B2 Fig. 2 to
form a direction wing for the same purpose.
Within the box A is placed a tray C which is perforated with any desired number
of holes or slots carranged in any desired position or pattern. The main or bottom
portion of the tray C is made in one piece and bent, as shown in cross section, so
as to allow the part c¹ to slope from the back a of the box A. towards the front a³
and to within a suitable distance of the bottom a; while the opposite and unper-
forated part 2 is arranged to be at a slight angle to the side a² and bottom a*. The
top of the tray is arranged to rest on the top of box A. The tray C is also
provided with end pieces c shaped to fit the bottom portion.
A handle D may be provided for withdrawing the box and tray from, and placing
it within the opening of the firegrate.
As the ashes and cinders fall from the firegrate, the ashes and dust will fall
through the perforations c, in the tray, into box A; whilst the cinders will be

page_text: retained in the tray, thus automatically sorting or sifting the same.
The ashes and
dust can on the removal of the tray C from the box A be at once conveyed to the
ash-bin or "midden" whilst the cinders in the tray will be ready for re-using.
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 cinder sifter consisting of a removable, inclined, and perforated tray
mounted within an enclosing box, with or without direction wings, whereby the
cinders may be retained in the tray and the ashes allowed to fall into the box
below.
2nd. In a cinder sifter substantially such as herein described, the combination
of a box A with a removable, inclined, and perforated tray C, with or without
direction wings B, B1, B2, arranged substantially as herein set forth and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Twenty-second day of September 1892
ALBERT ABRAHAM WADE,
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.