Forms or Kinds Of Sieves.
Year: 1886

page_text: Forms or Kinds Of Sieves.
I, JAMES GILBERT, Junior, of 2, The Parade, Acton, in the County of Middlesex,
Sieve Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 or applicable to sand washing sieves
and to analogous forms or kinds of sieves operated by manual labor in the manner
in which such sand washing sieves are used, and consists in improved handle
attachments for such sieves by the application and use of which the advantages
hereinafter mentioned are attained.
As such sieves are at present constructed the handle attachments thereof consist
of flat strips of wood nailed screwed rivetted or wired to the top edge or upper
part of the upper hoop of the sieve and formed or provided with top cross pieces or
handles of which the workman takes hold for the purpose of lifting and turning
about or operating the sieve with its contents in a tub of water.
The principal defects attendant upon the application and use of such handle
attachments are, that the hoop to which the said strips of wood are secured is
frequently split or damaged by the nailing or rivetting of the handle attachments
to its outer sides and this considerably shortens the useful duration of the sieve,
and that the handles project beyond the outer circumference of the sieve so that
when taken hold of by the workman for operating the sieve in the usual manner
his hands or knuckle joints are liable to be knocked and injured by rubbing against
the inner sides of the tub or other container of the water.
The especial object of the present improvements is to avoid these defects and
disadvantages; and to this end the Invention consists essentially in the application
to and use in such sieves of handle attachments formed of wire so disposed as not
to require rivetting or like attachment to the upper hoop of the sieve, and the
holding parts of which are so bent or curved inwards or so shaped or disposed, and
are so provided as to afford convenient means of holding the same and supporting
the sieve well within the circumference thereof in such a manner as to protect the
workman's knuckles from abrasion with the outer container of water when
operating the sieve therein in the usual manner; and such attachments may also
and preferably be so disposed as to act as additional means of retaining the top
and bottom hoops of the sieve together.

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One modification of the Invention is illustrated in perspective view on the
accompanying drawings, in which, 1, represents the wire of the improved handle
attachment, and, 2, a reel of wood or other suitable substance which is threaded
thereon and adjusted to the centre portion of the length of the wire and is used as
aforesaid for the convenient holding of the sieve by the workman. The wire, 1,
in this modification is represented as being inserted from the inner side of the top
hoop, 3, through two small holes, 4, drilled or bored therein, and is bent down
close adjacent to the outer sides of both hoops, 3, 5, of the sieve and turned under
the bottom hoop, and when thus applied the improved handle attachment serves
also the purpose of retaining the hoops, 3, and, 5, of the sieve together.
The upper parts of the wires, 1, that is the parts thereof disposed within the
upper hoop and upon which the said holding reel is placed, are bent or curved
inwards so that the reel or holding part of the handle lies well within the circum-
ference of the top hoop of the sieve in such a manner as that when laid hold of
by the workman in a usual manner his hands will be well within the outer
circumference of the sieve and will thus be protected from knocking against and
being injured by the said outer tub or container.
The improved wire handle attachments may be applied to such sieves in such a
manner as to attain the said objects in various other equivalent ways, but the
modification herein before referred to is preferred on account of its efficiency and
simplicity.
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
In sand washing or analogous forms or kinds of sieves operated by manual labor
in the manner in which such sand washing sieves are used.
The application to and use of the hereinbefore described improved wire handle
attachments which may be variously applied thereto, but in all modifications of
which the holding parts are so provided as to afford convenient means of bolding,
and are so bent or curved inwards as to lie well within the circumference of the
Bieve in such a manner as to attain the object stated, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 20th day of Tanu 1006