A Combined Cinder Sifter and Hearth Tidy.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Cinder Sifter and Hearth Tidy.
ARTHUR MORRIS 22 Rampton Road, Sharrow Sheffield Engraver do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The economical & structural peculiarity of my invention consists in making a
riddle with pan to receive & riddle refuse as it falls from fire grate.
Thus I claim that my invention saves fuel & labour and prevents the usual dust
arising when removing ashes &c. from beneath the fire grate.
In carrying out my invention I take zinc or other suitable wire & form an
inclined plane of bars, projecting & extending from bottom of fire grate backward
under same around & to which I raise sides & end made of the same or any other
suitable material. The whole of which I place in or upon a dish or pan made of sheet
iron, zinc or other suitable material. The riddle to be supported by means of two
or more permanent or movable rods or legs extending from the dish or pan to
riddle or from riddle to pan. The riddle to be detachable from pan. I may make
it any size or shape to fit any fire grate. I may leave the material its usual colour
ог may coat, or varnish, or enamel it black, red, or any other colour or
colours.
Dated this 26th day of January 1804
ARTHUR MORRIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Cinder Sifter and Hearth Tidy.
1, ARTHUR MORRIS of 22 Rampton Road, Sharrow, Sheffield in the County of
York, Engraver, 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 relates to a combined cinder-sifter and hearth tidy.
The object of my invention is to separate, at the hearth, the smaller from the
larger pieces of cinder and refuse which fall from the fire. I effect this object with
a minimum of labour and without raising an objectionable dust, as I will now
explain with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and
Figure 2 a plan of one construction of cinder-sifter and hearth tidy according to
my invention.
Like letters indicate like parts in both the figures.
A is the hearth tidy. B is the cinder-sifter. The hearth tidy is a rectangular
pan with one side wall inclined. The cinder-sifter is a pan somewhat resembling
the ordinary dust-pan except that it has its bottom formed as a grid or sieve of
bars B'. The cinder-sifter is inserted in the hearth tidy so that the bars B¹are
inclined as shown; to ensure the maintenance of the bars at the proper angle
struts C are provided, binged to one of two cross-bars B³.
The apparatus is placed below the grate so the bars B' incline downward from
the front to the rear of the fire-place.
Cinders and other fragments which fall from the fire into the sifter B are
immediately sorted. The smaller particles pass between the bars B¹ into the
hearth tidy A, and the larger particles travel along the bars to the lower end of
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page_text: the sifter and accumulate against the high wall B' thereof. They can be emptied
very readily by simply lifting the sifter bodily from the hearth tidy which latter
can be moved from below the grate quite easily.
For the struts C I may substitute any other suitable equivalents, so as to adjust
the inclination of the bars B' permanently, or so as to permit of a variable
adjustment.
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 hearth tidy of a cinder-sifter substantially as
described.
2. The construction of apparatus substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to the accompanying drawings for the purposes specified.
Dated this 26th day of October 1894.
ARTHUR MORRIS.
Alfred J. Boult,
Agent for the Applicant.