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Description

J. l. ORMSBY.

PORTABLE ASH SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.6. ma.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

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PORTABLE ASH SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.6. 1918.

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I I INVE/VTUR k dlfld 0rm5b W q I ATTORNEYS JAMES I. ORMSBY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PORTABLE ASH-SIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

Application filed April 6, 1918. Serial No. 227,040.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, JAMES I. ORMSBY, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Portable Ash-Sifter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved portable ash sitter arranged to permit of conveniently and quickly sitting ashes without causing any dust to pass into the kitchen, cellar or other room in which the ash sitter is used at the time. Another object is to permit of conveniently removing from the apparatus the separated ashes and the coal or cinders after the sitting operation is completed. Another object is to render the ash sitter exceedingly compact so as to take up very little room, and to allow of readily carrying the ash sitter from one place to another, say from the kitchen to the cellar or vice versa.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the portable ash sitter with the lid of the hinged cover of the casing in open position;

Fig. 2 is a like view of the same with the cover in open position;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal central section of the portable ash sitter; and

Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same on the line 4.4 of Fig. 3.

The casing 10 of the ash sitter is open at the top and the open top is adapted to be closed by abox-like cover 11 connected at the rear by hinges 12 to the rear of the easing 10 (see Fig. 4:). The front of the cover 11 is adapted to be locked in place by a suitable fastening device 13 such as a hook and stud, as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 1. The cover 11 is made box-like and in the form of a shoe blaeking box to permit the user to conveniently blacken the shoes whenever it is desired to do so. The cover 11 is provided with a lid 14 connected at its rear by hinges 15 to the top of the cover 11, and

drum 2() having its top somewhat below the 1 top of the casing 10, and the said sitting drum 20 is mounted loosely on a shaft 21, preferably made tubular, and journaled in suitable hearings in the side walls 22 and 23 of the casing 10. One end 24 of the shaft 21 extends beyond the outer face of the side wall 22 of the casing 10 for the reception of a crank handle 25 provided with a fork 26 adapted to straddle a pin 27 extending diametrically through the hollow outer end 21 of the shaft 21 thus permitting the user to conveniently turn the shaft 21.

In order to lock the drum 20 to the shaft 21 so as to rotate with the said shaft, use is made of a locking pin 30 removably extend ing through an aperture 31 in the shaft 21 and. engaging a staple 32 arranged on the inner face of the head 33 of the drum 20. On removing the pin 30 from the shaft 21 and staple .32, the shaft 21 can be drawn out through either bearing in the Side walls 22, 23, to allow removal of the drum 20 through the open top of the casing for repairs or other purposes. Normally, however, the pin 30 and the staple 32 connect the shaft 21 with the drum 20 to rotate the latter on turning the shaft 21 by the operator correspondingly manipulating the crank handle 25. The head 33 of the drum and likewise the other head 3 .1 of the drum are preferably made of wood provided with sheet metal linings 35, 36 at their inner faces, and the rim 37 of the drum is made, preferably, of wire netting and is provided with a removable section 38 to provide an opening through which the ashes to be sifted can be introduced into the drum at the time the said opening is in uppermost position. \Vhen this opening is in lowermost position with the section 38 removed then the coal, cinders or the like remaining in the drum 20 after the sitting operation is completed can be discharged from the drum, as hereinafter more fully explained. One end of the removable section 38 of the rim 37 is provided with a pin 41.0 adapted to engage a staple 41 secured in the peripheral face of the drum head 34, and one end of the said section 38 is adapted to be engaged by a spring catch i2 secured on the head 33 andof the casin plainly illustrated in Figs.

completely disconnecting the section 38 from 10 the drum for the purpose above mentioned.

In order to lock the drum 20 with the section 38 in either an uppermost or lowermost position, use is made of a locking pin 50 mounted to slide in bearings 51 formed on the outer face of the side wall 22, as plainly 1 and '2. The pin 50 is adapted to pass through a' diametrical aper- 'ture 52 formed-in the shaft 21 to hold this shaft against turning at the time the section 138 is either in an uppermost or a lowermost position.

In order to guide the ashes to be sifted into the drum 20 at the time thesection 38 is removed .and the rim opening is uppermost, use is made of chutes60 and 61 secured to the front and rear casing walls 62 :and 63 10 at the upper end thereof, as indicated in chutes 60 and 61 extend inwardly and downwardly and terminate at their lower ends adjacent the rim 37 of the drum 20 at opposite sideszof the rim opening so that the ashes can be readily dumped into the drum 20 without danger of any ashes passing down on the outside of the drum. Below the chutes '60 and '61 are arrangedannular deflecting plates 65' and :66 secured to the front and rear casing walls 62 and 63 which serve .to deflect any dust that arises within the casin-giduring the sifting operation.

In the lower portion of rectly above the bottom '.'70 is arranged a drawer 571 :adapted to receive the ashes or .-.the sifted coal from zthe drum, :as hereinafter more fully explained. Guide flanges 7 2 are secured to the inner faces of the'walls of the casing at the bottom portion of .the drum 20 to direct the ashes or the sifted .coal into drawer '71. The drawer 71 is preferably made of sheet metal'with a head 7 3 of wood "fitting into the drawer opening at :the side wall 22 of the casing and this head 7 3 is provided with a knob 7 i adapted :tobei taken hold of by the operator for sliding .the drawer in or out of the casing along its guideways 75 attached to the front and rear walls '62 and 630f the casing 10 (see Fig. 4) The inner faces of the side walls 22, 23, =62 and 63 ofthe casing as well as the under side of the bottom of the cover 11 are provided with asbestos linings to prevent the casing from *loeing -.accidentally charred or ig- =nited by hot coal or cinders.

21 are iloosely mounted washers "85, 86 extending between the heads 33 and'34E-andthe .1

:at'or now removes the section outer end 24: of the I the drawer 71.

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*On the shaft corresponding walls 22 binding of the drum on the said walls.

The device is used as follows:

When it is desired to sift the ashes,the cover 11 is swung into open position, as shown in Fig. 2, and then the drum 20 is turned until the removable section 38 is uppermost. 'The operator now engages the pin 50 with the opening 52 of the shaft 21 to lock the drum in this position. The oper- 38 as previ ously described and then dumps the ashes to be sifted into the drum '20 to the opening. The operator now replaces the removable section 38 and then closes the ,cover:11 after which the operator disengages the pin 50 from the shaft 21 to to rotate the shaft 121 and with it the drum '20 on applying and turning the crank handle r 25. On. rotating the drum '20 the ashes are separated from the coal and cinders and pass through the meshes of the rim .37 down into When the sifting operation has been completed the operator removes the drawer 71 and dumps the ashes into :an ash can or other suitable receptacle, after which the drawer is replaced. Theoperator now again opens the cover 11 and turns the and 23 to prevent permit the operator drum 20 untilgthe removable section 38 is ,7

uppermost, after which the section is re- ;mored and the drumis given a half turn to move the opening into lowermost position so that thecoal :and .cinders within the drum pass out of the same into the drawer .71 which latter is then removed for dumping the coal and cinders :into aooal' paid or other receptacle. When this "has'been done :the drawer 7 1 is returned and the section 38 is replaced on returning the drum to normal 5 position with itsopeniaig uppermost; the casing '10 di Theash sifter shown and described %is very simple and durable in constructionandrpermits of thoroughly sifting "the ashes without danger of :any Ldust :arising :during the sifting operation passing into the room in which the ash sifter is located. it will also be noticed that the (11111115206311 be readily. re- :moved from thecasing for repairs or other purposes and then replaced forum, 7 as EPI'QYi? ously mentioned. The ash sifter takes up very little room and isof neat aippearanceso that when .it is notin useit resembles a piece of furniture. 1

Having thus: described :invention, I claim as-new and desire to secure by Letters mounted in the said casing and .on which shaft'the said drum is loosely-and :removably mounted, the shaft being removable ithrough either bearing and having oneend-iextendihg 13 t0 the outside of the casing for the application of means for turning the shaft, and a radially disposed locking pin slidable on a head of the drum, the inner end of the pin engaging the aperture of the shaft to lock the drum to the said shaft to rotate the drum on turning the shaft and to allow of removing the shaft from the drum and the casing and subsequent gemoval of the drum from the casing, filling means on the shaft between 10 the drum and casing and means on the outer end of the shaft for engaging the outer wall of the casing to prevent inward movement of the shaft and to hold the parts in position.

JAMES I. ORMSBY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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