IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RIDDLING CINDERS
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
I LEWIS EMANUEL EMMET of Cliffe House, 105 Union Road, Sharrow, Sheffield,
in the County of York, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RIDDLING CINDERS to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to make an apparatus for riddling cinders without
causing dust in a more simple convenient and effectual form than has hitherto been
constructed.
This improved apparatus is constructed as follows:-
An ordinary cinder riddle is constructed, and is provided with a cover which may
be made of any light material. The cover fits exactly to the riddle to prevent the
escape of dust.
To the riddle is fixed what may be broadly described as a contrivance something in
the shape of a sack without a bottom.
The lower extremity of this contrivance (which contrivance is afterwards for the
sake of brevity referred to as the contrivance") is also connected with a bucket or
pail into which the ashes are intended to fall.
The contrivance may be made of mackintosh or other light, durable substance that
has a good glazed surface upon it and to which the dust will not adhere.
It may be fixed to the riddle permanently or be made removable by means of a
buckle, strings, or other simple arrangement. I prefer however it being permanently
fixed.
The contrivance has to be fixed to the bucket in such a manner that the whole of
the ashes shall fall into the bucket, and that it can be readily removable to enable the
ashes to be emptied. This may be effected in various ways, for instance :-
By fastening the contrivance to a rim of iron, tin or other suitable material, which

page_text: rim is made to fit exactly to the top of the bucket. I prefer this manner of connection
as most satisfactorily effecting the objects above referred to, particularly as by this
method there is no liability of dust settling round the rim of the bucket which dust
would otherwise fall when the contrivance was removed to enable the ashes to be
emptied.
Other means of connection may be shortly referred to, as follows:-
By hooks fastened round and at a short distance from the bottom of the outside of
the contrivance, which hooks fasten on to the edge of the bucket and securely hold the
material to the inside of such bucket-By some elastic material, buckle or strings to
fasten round rim of bucket or some other such simple arrangement.
Or the contrivance may be made to fall to the bottom of the bucket so that the first
fall of ashes secures it to the bottom of the bucket, and when the bucket is full of ashes
the contrivance is simply drawn out.

page_text: I LEWIS EMANUEL EMMET of Cliffe House, 105 Union Road, Sharrow, Sheffield,
in the County of York, Solicitor, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to make an apparatus for riddling cinders without
causing dust in a more simple, convenient and effective form than has hitherto been
constructed.
This improved apparatus is constructed as follows:-
An ordinary cinder riddle (A) is provided with a cover (B) made of any light
material. This cover may be made removable or hinged, but must fit so as to prevent
the escape of dust. The riddle may, if thought advisable, be provided with handles.
To the riddle is fixed a contrivance (C) in the shape of a sack without a bottom. The
other extremity of this contrivance is fastened to a rim of tin, steel, or other suitable
material (D.) which rim fits exactly to the top of the bucket or pail into which the
ashes are intended to fall, or is made to attach directly to the bucket in manner
afterwards mentioned.
This contrivance may be made of mackintosh or other light, durable substance that
has a good glazed surface which will prevent the dust settling upon it.
The
contrivance should also be "shaped" so that there may be no folds to catch the, dust.
It may be fixed to the riddle permanently or be made removable by means of a buckle,
strap or other simple arrangement. I prefer it being fixed permanently.
This sack-like contrivance has to be connected with the bucket in such a manner
that the whole of the ashes shall fall into the pail, and that it can be easily removable
to enable the bucket to be carried away and the ashes emptied. This may be effected
in various ways;-for instance, by fastening the lower extremity of the sack-like-
contrivance to a rim (D.) as before mentioned. This is the node I prefer. The rim
may be made so that it would fit any bucket with a circular top to it, by it (the rim)
not being joined in one part. The rim would thereby, in a bucket with a small top,
fold within itself by virtue of the inherent elasticity of the material of which the rim is
made. The contrivance may be fixed directly to the bucket by the aid of some elastic
material or by a strap. To enable these latter modes to be effectively done, the top of
the bucket would have to be formed perpendicularly or sloping in such a direction
that the material would not slip down the sides of the bucket-Or the sack-like
contrivance can be affixed to the bucket by some other such simple arrangement.

page_text: By this invention cinders can be conveniently, quickly and effectively separated
from the ash without the least dust escaping. The riddle not being fixed inside the
bucket leaves the whole area of the bucket available for the ash.
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 arrangement or combination of parts forming the improved apparatus herein
described and illustrated.
2. The invention of the sack-like-contrivance fixed at one end to the riddle and at
the other end to the rim which fits into the bucket,-substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore set forth.