US1203289A - Ash-receptacle. - Google Patents

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W. C. WEFEL.

ASH RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 20,1915.

1,203,289. Patented Oct 31,1916.

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WILLIAM. C. WEFEL, OF DENVER, COLORADO;

ASH-RECEPTACLE.

Application filed July 20, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WVILLIAM C. WEFEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Asl1-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ash receptacles of the type used in furnace rooms for the temporary storage of ashes, and its primary object is to provide a vessel of this character which is provided with simple and easily operated means for discharging its contents into the opening of an ash pit while closing the same against the escape of ashes exteriorly of the pit.

The ordinary method of emptying the ashes from a receptacle into the opening at the top of the ash pit is usually a source of annoyance, as the slightest wind will blow the ashes away from the opening and frequently onto the body and face of the person performing the operation. By the use of my improved ash receptacle, this annoyance is completely evaded, and the work of emptying the receptacle is at the same time lightened inasmuch as my improved construction permits of the discharge of the contents of the receptacle while it remains in an upright position.

An embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in the various views of which like parts are similarly designated and in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved ash receptacle, Fig. 2, a vertical axial section of the same, and Fig. 3, a transverse section taken along the line 33, Fig. 1.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the reference character 2 designates a receptacle of cylindrical form, provided as usual with handles 3 and a bail 4 and closed at its top by means of a cover 5.

The circumferential wall 6 of the receptacle which is open at its lower end, has interiorly an inwardly flaring flange 7 which constitutes a hopper to direct the contents of the receptacle into an opening over which it is placed.

The bottom of the receptacle is composed of a pair of flaps 8 which are hinged for movement about a common axis extending diametrically with relation to its wall. The

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' Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

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flaps which normally close the lower end of the hopper and thereby provide a bottom for the support of the contents of the receptacle, are held in place by a pair of resilient catches 9 secured exteriorly and at opposite points of the inwardly flaring flange. Pull rods 10 connected with the catches, extend through openings in the wall of the receptacle and are provided with knobs 12 to facilitate their outward movement when it is desired to withdraw the catches for the purpose of releasing the flaps. The flaps are provided at their adjoining edges with integral hinge-knuckles which are axially alined to receive the pintles 13, which are rigidly secured to the flaps by suitable means such as set screws 14 shown in Fig. 3. The pintles are extended through openings in the cylindrical wall of the receptacle and their outer portions are bent at right angles exteriorly of the same to provide handles 15 by means of which the flaps may be returned to their normal closing position after the contents of the receptacle have been discharged.

The receptacle may be provided with an external flange as shown at 19 for its support over ash pit openings which in diameter exceed the circumferential surface of the receptacle.

In operation the receptacle is placed in an upright position over the opening in the top of the ash pit thereby separating the same from the surrounding atmosphere. By withdrawing the catches through the medium of the pull rods 10, the flaps forced downwardly by the weight of the contents of the receptacle, are permitted to drop and the ashes are, in consequence, discharged through the hopper 7 into the ash pit without the possibility of their escape exteriorly of the same.

Having thus described my improved ash receptacle in the best form at present known to me, it will be readily understood that' modifications in the construction and arrangement of its parts may be resorted to within the spirit of my invention as defined in the following claim.

A portable ash-receptacle including a hollow open-ended body, a bottom normally closing the same at a point between its ends and adapted to open by the weight of matter supported thereon, a flange on said body In testimony whereof I have afiixed my adapted to lag over an edge off an oopelning signature in presence of two Witnesses.

in which the ower portion 0 the 0 y is inserted, means for holding said bottom in WVILLIAM WEFEL its normal position, and means for releasing \Vitnesses:

the same at a point eXteriorly of the body G. J. ROLLANDET,

and above its said flange. M. C. BRADLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents;

Washington, D. C.

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