IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIFTERS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary, of 16, Horsfield
Road, in the County of the City of Bristol, Ironmongers, trading
under the Style or Firm of Geary Brothers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIFTERS."
Sealed the 5th September 1868, and dated the 12th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Geary and
Edwin Geary at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 12th March 1868.
We, ALFRED GEARY and EDWIN GEARY, of 16, Horsfield Road,
in the County of the City of Bristol, Ironmongers, trading under
the Style or Firm of Geary Brothers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIPTERS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in cinder sifters.
For this purpose we construct a cylindrical sifting vessel with wire or
openwork at its lower end, and of such a size as to enter into a pail so
far as a flange formed at the top of the sifter vessel admits. The sifting

page_text: vessel is fitted with a cover with a handle upon it, and there are notches
in the cover and projections on the top of the sifting vessel to prevent
the cover turning when it is in its place on the top of the sifting vessel.
In this way a very simple, cheap, and efficient cinder sifter is formed,
the sifting vessel is placed on an ordinary house pail, the cinders are
placed in it, and the cover is applied. The sifting is rapidly effected by
turning the sifting vessel partly round on the pail to and fro by means
of the handle of the cover, the dust being closely confined the operation
makes no dirt.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ALFRED
GEARY and EDWIN GEARY, of 16, Horsfield Road, in the County of
the City of Bristol, Ironmongers, trading under the Style or Firm of
Geary Brothers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary, Her special
licence that we, the said Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Alfred Geary
and Edwin Geary, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIFTERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us
or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six

page_text: resting within the pail. The movements should be rapid, and the sifter
should be moved as far round each way as is possible without shifting
the hand from the handle. Thus cinders are readily sifted without dust,
and by means of a very simple and inexpensive apparatus.
In witness whereof, we, the said Alfred Geary and Edwin Geary,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
ALFRED GEARY. (L.s.)
EDWIN GEARY.
(L.S.)
ALFRED GEARY. (L.S.)
EDWIN GEARY.
(L.S.)

page_text: LONDON: Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE.
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1868