practory OF ROCs ar Ends and Ashes, Matches, and like Articles or Substances.
Year: 1885

page_text: practory OF ROCs ar
Ends and Ashes, Matches, and like Articles or Substances.
I, DANIEL LIST BRAIN, Lieutenant Colonel, of the Army and Navy Club, Pall
Mall, in the County of Middlesex, 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 certain improvements in or applicable to trays or
receptacles for cigar ends and ashes matches and like articles or substances usually
deposited in such receptacles.
Existing appliances used for the purpose of the Invention are respectively more
or less open to various disadvantages other than being unsightly and inconvenient
in use and they expose the cigar ends or ashes matches or other substances placed
in them in such a manner as that such contents are spilled or emptied out should
the tray or receptacle be accidentally or otherwise overturned or upset.
An especial object of the present improvements is to construct a device suitable
for the purpose of the Invention and which will avoid such disadvantages and
defects, and to this end the Invention consists essentially in combining in such a
device, a tray or receptacle formed with curved inclined or equivalently disposed
sides or parts adapted for causing substances deposited thereon to fall to a desired
part or parts, a false bottom or depending sides or equivalent parts for automatically
or as desired yielding or giving way and permitting of the substances thus led to or
deposited on or against it or them being let fall or emptied, and a removable under
tray or receptacle adapted to receive the substances thus let fall or emptied and to
permit of the removal thereof from the apparatus at any time desired.
In subsidiary modifications the said inclined or equivalently disposed parts of the
said tray or receptacle and the said false bottom or depending sides or equivalent
yielding parts may be formed together or combined.
Various modifications of the Invention are illustrated on the accompanying
drawings and will be hereinafter referred to.
1, represents the tray or outer receptacle which in the modifications illustrated in
Figs. 1, to, 3, is formed with curved or inclined sides or with like sides and ends, 2,
which cause the cigar ends or ashes matches and other substances dropped or placed
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page_text: in the said tray or receptacle to fall towards an opening 3, in the centre or other part
of the case between the bottom edges of the said curved or inclined sides.-4, Figs. 1,
and, 3, (which are transverse sections) represents a false bottom adapted to automa-
tically close the opening or space, 3, and to cause it to be automatically opened
upon an accumulation of the deposited material on the said false bottom or by
pressure thereon exerted by hand or otherwise as desired.-The bottom, 4, is
pivotted at its ends, centrally of its width as at, 5, in the ends of the outer case,
and to its spindle as in Fig. 1, or to one of its edges as in Fig. 3, is secured fast
a depending or other weight, 6, the tendency of which is to keep the false bottom, 4,
horizontal or so as to normally close the space or opening, 3. To the said weight, 6,
or to any other suitable or convenient part of the bottom, 4, or of any of its attach-
ments there is adapted a button handle presser or other suitable means, 7, working
through a segmental slot, 8, in the end of the case, or in staples, 8, secured to one
of its inner ends, and which will permit of the bottom, 4, being tilted up as indicated
by the dotted lines on either side as desired in the modification illustrated in Fig. 1,
or on one side in the modification illustrated in Fig. 3, so that all ashes or matters
accumulated thereon may be let fall through the opening, 3, into an under tray, 9,
which is removable from the outer tray, 1, and can be freely drawn out therefrom
by an end knob when the parts occupy their normal positions.
Examples of other modifications of the Invention are illustrated in Figs. 2, and, 4,
which are also transverse sections.
In Fig. 2, 4, represents a double sided swinging bottom pivotted at its ends, 5,
and having a normal tendency to close the opening, 3, in the bottom of the curved
tray sides, 2, but yielding to a comparatively slight pressure such as that of any
substance deposited in the tray, 1, and falling down its curved or inclined sides
against either side of such yielding bottom, 4.
In Fig. 4, two counterbalanced parts or false bottoms, 4, adapted to receive the
ashes or substances deposited on them, are shown, the opening through which the
substances fall being caused by their separation upon the placing of the substances
thereon.
In other arrangements opposite inclined flaps may be so connected as to be
simultaneously opened in the same or in opposite directions by pressure upon a part
connected to both.
There may be further combined with such apparatus an appliance adapted to
break up and extract the ashes from the bowls of pipes upon the latter being knocked
thereon and to simultaneously open a portion of the bottom, 4, of the tray, 1, for
the falling ashes to fall through into the under tray, 9. Such a device may be made
in various suitable ways one of which consists of a metal ring of a diameter about
that of the bowl of a pipe having inner and upper projecting prickers arranged to
enter the bowl of the pipe as it is knocked on the said ring and to break up and
extract the ashes therein, the ring being carried by a guided spindle resting on a
counterbalanced lever, and as it is thus knocked down opening a. hinged portion
of the bottom and permitting of the escape of the ashes.
The various parts may be made of wood, papier mâché, metal or other suitable
materials, and may be made of any desired ornamental conformation, and in any
convenient size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The formation of trays or receptacles of the kind to which the Invention has
reference, with curved inclined or equivalently disposed sides or parts adapted for
causing substances deposited thereon to fall to a desired part or parts, with a false
bottom or depending sides or equivalent parts for automatically or as desired yielding
or giving way and permitting of the substances thus led to or deposited on or
against it or them being let fall or emptied, and with a removable under tray or

page_text: receptacle adapted to receive the substances thus let fall or emptied and to permit
of the removal thereof from the apparatus at any time desired, substantially as
hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The modifications herein before described or analogous thereto in which the
said inclined or equivalently disposed parts of the said tray or receptacle and the
said false bottom or depending sides or equivalent yielding parts are formed together
or combined, substantially as described.
3. The application to such trays or receptacles of the various improvements
herein before described.