Improvements in Coal Scuttles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1894-Accepted, 2'st Apr., 1.94
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coal Scuttles.
I, KATHERINE MARY KINLOCK of Gourdie House, Dunkeld, Scotland, Lady
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:
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This invention relates to improvements in connection with coal scuttles and has
for object to save labor and noise in connection with the withdrawal of coal
therefrom for the purpose of putting same upon the fire when required. The
scuttle or container may be of an ornamental construction when desired or may if
required be made of plain metal, wood, or other material, and thus be adapted for
use by all classes.
In the rooms of invalids and those of a nervous temperament this invention
will be found of great advantage as all noise at present unavoidable in the
scooping up of the coal from the scuttle in the ordinary manner is entirely
obviated.
In accordance with this invention I make the container of any desired metal or
material, and of any desired shape.
This container is capable of ornamentation to any extent to suit taste or
requirement to adapt it for use in drawing rooms, boudoirs &c. or it may, as
aforesaid, be plain and undecorated and thus be serviceable for rough usage, such
as say in the kitchen and the like.
This container I divide into a number of compartments into each of which I fit
a pocket or receptacle capable of easy extraction and adapted as far as size is
concerned to hold just a sufficiency of coal to serve for once making up a fire.
It is obvious that the size of the container may be varied to suit requirements and
may be made to hold any desired number of the aforesaid pockets or receptacles,
in practice however a convenient number of these pockets or receptacles will be
say, in two rows of three cach.
And in order that this invention may be fully understood and be readily carried
into effect I will now describe same with reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings in which
Fig. 1. represents in perspective view a container holding six pockets or
receptacles for coal, and
Fig. 2. shows separately one of said pockets or receptacles.
The container, though it may be of any shape or configuration desired and
suitable for the purpose, is in this instance shewn as being rectangular in top plan
the ends a however tapering both top and bottom above and below the line of the
height of the pockets or receptacles d. Hinged to the sides of the container I have
shewn two lids or covers 6 enabling the whole to be closed in when required.
These covers however may be dispensed with if desired. As shewn in Fig. 1. I
have divided the container into six compartments c. though a greater or a less
number may be employed if desired.
Into each of these compartments I fit a pocket or receptacle d of sufficient
capacity to conveniently hold a proper quantity of coal to serve for once making
up a fire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The improvements in and relating to coal scuttles substantially as herein
before described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. The combination of container divided into compartments with the pockets or
receptacles for coal substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn.
Dated this 20th day of March 1894.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.