Improvements in Doors and Door Frames for Ashpits.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Doors and Door Frames for Ashpits.
THOMAS LAWSON 5 Booth Street Nelson Lancashire Building Inspector do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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According to this invention there will be an iron frame about eighteen inches
square, four to five inches wide, and a quarter or three-eighths of an inch in
thickness. The frame will have four small flanges attached to it on each of the
two sides, so that it can be securely fixed or built into a wall or other structure,
there will also he a flange attached to the front of the frame, at right angles to it,
this will form a groove between the flange and the wall for the door to slide up
and down in.
The door will be of iron also, and made to such dimensions as to cover the area
of the opening through the frame. There will be two small iron blocks, cast, or
screwed on to the face of the door, by which it can be lifted out and replaced
when required.
Dated this 10th in of Ontaber 1905
Improvements in Doors and Door Frames for Ashpits.
I, THOMAS LAWSON, 5 Booth Street, Nelson, Lancashire, Building Inspector,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manuer the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of this invention is to cheapen the cost of ashpit doors, and their
frames, to facilitate their fixing, and to prevent as much as possible their being
tampered with by children or mischievous persons.
The invention consists essentially in constructing ashpit doors, so as to slide in
grooves formed in their frames. Both doors and frames are preferably cast iron.
The doors are provided with hand blocks cast or otherwise fixed to them, whereby
they are put into or removed from the grooves as aforesaid, while the frames
are moulded with side flanges to receive say a 4 inch brick, for the
purpose of enabling them to be readily fixed or built into the wall or other
structure.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. is a front, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of an ashpit door and frame
constructed in accordance with my invention.
The frame A, preferably of cast or wrought iron, is provided with flanges B,
which form grooves for the reception of ashpit dour C, which slides in the said
grooves, and is put in position or removed by hand blocks D cast to or otherwise
fixed to the door. As shewn broken away in Fig. 2, the overlapping flange B
netds not have a corresponding flange rubbing interually in the frame from top to

page_text: bottom, but in lien thereof, I employ the small lug or projection E to maintain
the door C in position. The top side of the frame A retains the door at
the top
The frame A is formed with side flanges F, by which it is fixed or built into
the wall or other structure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The improved arrangement and construction of ashpit doors and frames,
substantially as described, and illustrated.
2. Arranging doors of ashpits to slide in grooves formed in their frames,
substantially as described, and illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896.
F. RICHMOND,
12 Standish Street, Burnley, Agent for the Applicant.