Improvements in or relating to Dust-bins and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Dust-bins and similar Receptacles.
I, FREDERICK SIGISMUND SALBERG of 92 Great Tower Street in the City of "
London, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention has for its object to construct a dust-bin or like receptacle so that
immediately after refuse matter has been introduced into it and upon the lid or
cover being closed, a quantity of disinfecting material may be automatically
distributed over the refuse so as to render it innocuous.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings
in which;
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a dust-bin or receptacle constructed
according to my invention, Figure 1 representing it open, and Figure 2 closed; a
portion of Figure 2 is shown broken away to more clearly illustrate the invention.
Like letters indicate like parts in both figures.
A is the body or receptacle proper, which may be constructed of galvanised
sheet-iron or other suitable material and have handles A¹ for convenience of
portability. B is the lid which is of substantially ring-form having the greater
part of its substance removed so as to form an opening B Figure 2 and virtually
constitute a frame. This lid or frame B is provided with an annular lip B² which
fits tightly into the open end of the body A, and with rings or handles B³ for
convenience of detaching or removing it from A.
CC are two flaps or doors hinged at their outer edges by hinges C² to the upper
surface of the lid B and adapted to meet and partly overlap at their inner edges
when closed down as indicated in Figure 1. The rebated portion C³ of the flap C
does not extend throughout the length of C but is stopped short at each end so
that it may fit between the diametrically opposite parts of the lid B, the whole
of this device being preferably so constructed as to render it as nearly air-tight
as possible.
To the under side of each of the flaps I attach, so that it may be readily removed
or opened, a box or case D comprising conveniently five walls, viz.-four, more or
less perpendicular to C or C¹ and substantially unperforated, and one D' preferably
parallel with C or C' perforated or formed of wire-cloth or equivalent. The
boxes D may be secured to C C' in any convenient manner; in the drawing they
are shown attached by clips E which engage with slots in the otherwise unper-
forated walls of the boxes D. Of these clips only two are shown in the drawing
but there are in all four, one pair for each box. One clip of each of these pairs
may be rigidly secured to C or C' and the other pivoted to it so that it can be
readily turned aside for releasing the box, as will be well understood. The boxes D
may however be hinged to the flaps C C or connected to them by means of
slides or equivalent.
The boxes D are for containing the disinfecting material which is preferably
in the form of blocks fitting loosely in D, and of such a nature that by the mere
act of opening or raising the flaps C C', and the friction to which it is thereby
subjected, particles of it become detached so that upon subsequently closing down
the flaps the particles thus detached fall through the interstices of DI and are
thereby automatically distributed over the refuse last introduced into the
receptacle A.
Care handles attached to the upper surface of the flaps C C' to facilitate their
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page_text: If desired roughened surfaces or graters may be inserted in the boxes D to
facilitate the disintegration of the disinfecting material; or the disinfecting
material may be in the form of a powder though this is not considered so desirable.
When it is required to empty the receptacle A the lid or frame B is lifted out by
means of the handles B³.
If desired I may construct the lid or frame B with one flap instead of two as shown
in the drawings or I may provide more than two such flaps on the same lid each one
being preferably provided with a box D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The combination with a removable lid or framework of a dust-bin or similar
receptacle of hinged flaps such as C C¹ substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with the flap of a removable lid or framework of a dust-bin
or similar receptacle of a disinfectant box such as D substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete dust-bin
or receptacle having flaps such as C hinged to a removable lid or framework
such as B B2 substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 26th day of May 1894.
FRED. S. SALBERG.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.