A NEW Box RIDDLE FOR CINDER SIFTING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Caney, of the City of Worcester, Clerk, for the
Invention of "A NEW Box RIDDLE FOR CINDER SIFTING AND OTHER USEFUL
PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Caney at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1877.
EDWARD CANEY, of the City of Worcester, Clerk.
CINDER SIFTING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
"A NEW BOX RIDDLE FOR
This Invention consists in the construction and manufacture of a new box riddle
for sifting cinders in such a manner that while the apparatus is being used no dust
shall escape therefrom.
The ordinary sifters now in use cannot be used without causing a great amount
of dust, and hence the objection raised against their use by domestics and others,
and a great waste of cinders and coals is occasioned thereby.
Now by my Invention the cinders, coals, or ashes can be well and thoroughly
sifted without allowing of the escape of any dust whatever.
The apparatus, which can be made of any suitable size, consists of a circular box
made of wood, metal, or a combination of wood and metal, and japanned or orna-
mented, as may be desired, fitted with a lid hinged or otherwise fixed so as to be
easy to open, about two-thirds down in the body of the box I place (a riddle or
sieve secured in its place by means of catches, stops, or other convenient manner; the
top of the riddle or sieve is furnished with two finger holes to enable of its being
raised and removed when required from out of the circular box, for the purpose of
throwing away the dust. This box riddle can thus be used in a room or any other
place without escape of dust, and by its portability and convenient shape can be
easily carried about.
The mesh of the riddle can be made of any suitable size, and it is obvious that
this Invention is applicable to any purpose of sifting not being confined to coals,
cinders, or ashes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Caney in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th June
1878.
EDWARD CANEY, of the City of Worcester, Clerk. "A NEW Box RIDDLE FOR
CINDER SIFTING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
This Invention consists in the construction and manufacture of a new box riddle
for sifting cinders in such a manner that while the apparatus is being used no dust
shall escape therefrom.
The ordinary sifters now in use cannot be used without causing a great amount
of dust, and hence the objection raised against their use by domestics and others,
and a great waste of cinders and coals is occasioned thereby.
Now by my Invention the cinders, coals, or ashes can be well and thoroughly
sifted without allowing of the escape of any dust whatever.
The apparatus which can be made of any suitable size, consists of a circular box
made of wood, metal, or a combination of wood and metal, and japanned or orna-
mented as may be desired, fitted with a lid hinged or otherwise fixed so as to be
easy to open; about two-thirds down in the body of the box I place a riddle or sieve,
secured in its place by means of catches, stops, or other convenient manner; the
top of the riddle or sieve is furnished with two finger holes to enable of its being
raised and removed when required from out of the circular box for the purpose of
throwing away the dust. This box riddle can thus be used in a room or any other
place without escape of dust, and by its portability and convenient shape can be
casily carried about.
The mesh of the riddle can be made of any suitable size, and it is obvious that
this Invention is applicable to any purpose of sifting, not being confined to coals,
cinders, or ashes.
In the annexed Drawings Fig. 1 represents the riddle or sieve, and Fig. 2
the box shewn open. a is the lid; b, the sieve; c, c, the catches; d, d, the finger
holes.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention I declare that
what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent, is the new box riddle for cinder sifting and other similar purposes,
as herein-before described and shown on Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Caney, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
EDWARD CINEV
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EDWARD CANEY