An Improvement relating to Ash and Cinder Receptacles for use Below the Grates of Kitchen Ranges and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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An Improvement relating to Ash and Cinder Receptacles for use
Below the Grates of Kitchen Ranges and the like.
We, MARY BAKER, no occupation, and JOHN ALFRED BAKER, Gentleman,
both of 3 Ninian Road, Cardiff, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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This invention relates to ash and cinder receptacles such as are used below the
grates of kitchen ranges and the like.
According to one arrangement comprised in this invention, such receptacles are
constructed in two compartments, the upper one of which has a grated, perforated!
or reticulated bottom the apertures of which are sufficiently large to permit fine
ash and dust to pass into the lower compartment, but also sufficiently close to.
prevent the passage, into the said lower compartment, of cinders suitable for return
to the fire, for which latter purpose the upper compartment is arranged so as to
be capable of being slid or otherwise readily removed from above the lower
compartment.
Under a modification the retainer for the cinders intended for return to the fire.
cousists of a reticulated, perforated or grated holder made separately from and
adapted to be superposed on an ash receptacle such as is ordinarily used, or upon
a similar or equivalent chamber. The back of the cinder retainer may be open or
closed.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement relating to Ash and Cinder Receptacles for use
Below the Grates of Kitchen Ranges and the like.
We, MARY BAKER, no occupation, and JOHN ALFRED BAKER, Gentleman,
both of 3 Ninian Road, Cardiff, 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 consists in an ash or cinder sifter designed to be superposed on
the ordinary ash receiver used below the grates of kitchen ranges and in like
places. The sifter, which is furnished with a suitable handle, is grated, perforated
or reticulated, the apertures therein being large enough to permit fine ash and dust
to pass into the receptacle below, and small enough to prevent the passage of
coarser cinders or partially burnt fuel such as may be profitably returned to the
fire. The return of such to the fire is effected by removing the cinder sifter from
the receptacle on which it is placed and inverting it over the fire.
In the accompanying drawing is represented a cinder sifter designed, in accordance
with this invention, to be laid on the open top of an ash receiver such as is
ordinarily employed for catching cinders below the grates of kitchen ranges and in
similar places.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of the appliance. It consists
of a frame of copper or other suitable metal. The sides, ends and bottom are
either of reticulated wire or are perforated or grated. The apertures or meshes in
the bottom are sufficiently large to allow fine ash and dust falling from the fire to
pass through, but sufficiently small to prevent the passage of coarser ashes or
cinders which may be profitably returned to the fire.

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The appliance is fitted with a suitable handle a for removing it from and replacing
it on the ash receptacle on which it is designed to be placed."
Under a modification to effect the same end the appliance above described and
shown in the drawing is not adopted, but the ordinary ash receptacle is divided
horizontally at a suitable depth from the top. The receptacle is thus made up of
two separate and separable open-topped boxes or chambers the uppermost of which
has a grated, reticulated or perforated bottom which constitutes the sieve for
screening the ashes. The useful cinders are retained in the upper part of the
receptacle and the fine ash and dust pass into the lower part.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
:-
1. In connection with ash receptacles such as are used below the grates of
kitchen ranges and in like places, the provision of a sieve or cinder sifter
superposed on such receptacle substantially as hereinbefore described and for the
purposes specified.
2. A divided ash receptacle for use below the grates of kitchen ranges and
in like places, the division separating the receptacle into two compartments,
one situated above the other, and having a grated, perforated or reticulated
bottom for separating fine ash and dust from coarser cinders, as set forth.
Dated this 31st day of August 1893.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent.