US276531A

US276531A - Assiginob to john s

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Publication number: US276531A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-04-24
Anticipated expiration: 1900-04-24

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N. T. FoLsoM.

DUST -PAN. No. 276,531. Patented Apr.24,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

N EHEMIAH T. FOLSOM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN S.

` FOLSOM, OF VSAME PLACE.

DUST- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patentl N o. 276,531, dated April 24, 1883. Application filed December 6, '1882. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEHEMIAH T. FoLsoM, of Boston, in the county of Sud'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has forits object to prevent the forward edge of a. dust-pan from being bent and distorted; and to this end it consists in shoeing or're-enforcing the said edge with a strip of steel or equivalent metal having suf- Iicient elasticity to prevent it from being indented and bent.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, Figure l represents a top view of a dust-pan embodying my im provement. Fig. 2 represents asection on line m fr, Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all the tligures.

In carrying out my invention I secure to the front edge of a dust-pan,p, a strip, s, of steel, brass, manganese, bronze, or other material having such a degree of elasticity that it will not readily become indented and will con form readily to the iioor or other surface from which dust or dirt is to be swept into the pan. The strip or shoe s may be of any desired form and thickness and may be secured to the. pan by any desired means, as by soldering or riveting. The shoe may be made so thin aslo be liexible or yieldngor may be rigid and inliexible. I have found that a. shoe of the charactrdescribed attached to an ordinary sheet-iron dust-pan preserves the edge in shape, and enables the edge to fit closely on a iioor or other flat surface.

lt is well known that an ordinary dust-pan, having its forward edge of the same material as the body of the pan-viz., sheet-iron-Will 4o soon become indented and incapable of tting closely against a dat surface. Doubling the thickness of the edge by bending it over upon itself or adding thereto a strip of the same material simply increases the stiffness of the edge 4 5 without preventing it from being indented.

I am aware that dustpans have been stiffened by strengthening plates or ribs of soft metal; but this, whileit adds strength, does not prevent the indenting of the edge, so prejudi- 5o cial to this class of articles. By combining a blade of sti elastic metal with the edge of the pan, to form practically a continuation of the body, the latter will spring so as to lit close to the surface from which the dust is to be 55 taken, and will not bend or buckle` like iron, but will retain the form and preserve that of the pan.

I claim- A dust-pan the forward edge of which con- 6o sists of a blade of stiff elastic metal secured to and forming a continuation of the body of the pan, as setforth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specilication, in the presence of two sub- 65 scribing Witnesses, this 25th day of November, 1882.

NEHEMIAH T. FOLSOM.

Witnesses:

J. S. FoLsoM, C. F. BROWN.