IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIFTERS AND ASH RECEPTACLES APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE GRATES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Standing, of Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CINDER
SIFTERS AND ASH RECEPTACLES APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE GRATES."
Sealed the 20th June 1862, and dated the 26th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Standing at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
December 1861.
I, THOMAS STANDING, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CINDER SIFTERS AND ASH RECEPTACLES APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC FIRE GRATES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of appa-
ratus to be placed beneath ordinary domestic stoves or fire-grates for the
purpose of preventing the loss of cinders and portions of coal which fall from
such stoves or fire-grates, and for collecting and separating the ashes therefrom,
and preventing in a great measure the deposit of dust in the apartment.
According to this Invention it is proposed to place beneath any ordinary
domestic stove or fire-grate a combined cinder sifter and ash receptacle, the
sifter being composed of woven wirework, perforated metal plate, or in any
other suitable manner, and supported upon a frame capable of sliding to and
fro on fixed rods extending across the ash-box or receptacle in which the sifter

page_text: is placed at a slight elevation from the bottom thereof. A knob or handle in
the front of the grate or stove, and connected by a short rod with the sup-
porting frame of the sifter, serves to impart a to-and-fro shaking or vibratory
motion to the sifter when requisite, whereby the refuse matter or ashes which
fall from the grate are effectually separated from the cinders or pieces of coal
and collected in the ash-box beneath. The sifter may now be removed and
its contents thrown on to the fire, whilst the ashes are removed on their box or
receptacle to the dust bin. By this means the raising of dust by sweeping up
the ashes under the grate is entirely obviated, and as the sifting operation
is effected immediately beneath the grate any dust which may be thereby
produced will be carried at once up the chimney by the draught.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Standing in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
STANDING, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Standing, Her special license that I, the said Thomas
Standing, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Standing, my executors, administrators, or 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 " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CINDER SIFTERS AND ASH RECEPTACLES APPLICABLE TO DOMESTIC
GRATES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Standing,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, or under the hand, and seal of one of 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 calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Standing, 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,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
.
My said Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
apparatus to be placed beneath ordinary domestic stoves or fire-grates for the
purpose of preventing the loss of cinders and portions of coal which fall from
such stoves or fire-grates, and for collecting and separating the ashes therefrom
and preventing in a great measure the deposit of dust in the apartment.
According to this Invention it is proposed to place beneath any ordinary
domestic stove or fire-grate a combined cinder sifter and ash receptacle, the
sifter being composed of woven wirework, perforated metal plate, or in any
other suitable manner, and supported upon a frame capable of sliding to and
fro on fixed rods extending across the ash-box or receptacle in which the sifter
is placed at a slight elevation from the bottom thereof. A knob or handle in
the front of the grate or stove, and connected by a short rod with the sup-
porting frame of the sifter, serves to impart a to-and-fro shaking or vibratory
motion to the sifter when requisite, whereby the refuse matter or ashes which
fall from the grate are effectually separated from the cinders or pieces of coal
and collected in the ash-box beneath, when the sifter may be removed and
its contents thrown on to the fire, whilst the ashes are removed in their box or
receptacle to the dust bin. By this means the raising of dust by sweeping up
the ashes under the grate is entirely obviated, and as the sifting operation
is effected immediately beneath the grate any dust which may be thereby
produced will be carried at once up the chimney by the draught.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and
Figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
Figure 1 of the Drawings represents a perspective view of my improved.
apparatus complete; Figure 2 is a similar view of the sifter detached from
the ash-box; Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the whole apparatus
as it stands beneath the ordinary fire-grate; and Figure 4 is a corresponding
plan of the ash-box, the sifter being removed.
A is a metal box or receptacle for the refuse ashes, and B is a riddle or
sifter for receiving the cinders and pieces of fuel falling from the grate. This
riddle or sifter rests upon and is supported by a frame C, which is capable of
receiving a to-and-fro sliding or reciprocating motion along the guiding rods

page_text: D, D, fixed in the ash-box A; E is a rod connected to the front end of the
frame C, and passing through the front of the ash-box, where a knob or
handle F is provided for facilitating the vibration or shaking of the sifter,
when required, for the purpose of sifting the contents thereof or separating
the refuse ashes from the larger portions of fuel and cinders. It is obvious
that this combined apparatus is applicable to a variety of fire-grates and stoves
employed for heating purposes, whether in private or public buildings, on ship
board or in camp, and that it may be constructed in various ways without
, departing from the essential feature of the Invention, namely, the combination
of a vibratory seive or screen with an ash-box or receptacle beneath the
same.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
.into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
.herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the general construction,
-arrangement, and combination of cinder sifters and ash receptacles applicable
to ordinary fire-grates or stoves, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Standing, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
THOMAS STANDING. (L.S.)