US554848A - Dust-pan - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) I

E. H. WHITNEY.

DUST PAN.

No. 554,848. Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

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EDWARD H. WVI-IITNEY, OF CAMBRIDGE, ASSIGNOR TO THE DOVER STAMPING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DUST-PAN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 554,848, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed March 22, 1895. Serial No. 542,755. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. WHITNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dust-Pans, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to the handle of the dust-pan and the preparation or shaping of the body of the pan to receive it, the whole being designed to provide a stifi and strong construction and organization.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the dust-pan inverted. Fig. 2 is a viewin elevation looking from the front of the pan. Fig. 3 is a view in section of a portion of the body of the pan and of the handle. Fig. 4 is a section upon the dotted line of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the handle detached.

The handle A is made from a flat piece of sheet metal, which is given a suitable outline by dies and is thus provided with three arms a a a and with a tongue a and a hole a, and the blank thus obtained is shaped to the form represented in the figuresnamely, its edges a a" are brought together, the tongue a passed through the hole a and bent backward, as represented in Fig. 4., thus securely tying the two edges togetherand the arms a a 0& are bent to the shape represented in the figures, and so that the arms a a are adapted to be fastened to the back of the part B of the body and the arm a to extend over the top of the back and upon the front side thereof, (see Fig. 3,) where it is riveted to the back. The handle thus formed is hollow and tapering inward from its outer end, and it is cut away between the arms a a, so that no portion of the handle shall extend below the bottom of the body. The arms are separated from each other by appropriate recesses, and the arms a a diverge from each other and have flat sections at their ends which bear against the back of the pan, while the arm a passes over the top and extends down its front.

The attaching rivets which I prefer to use in securing the arms to the back of the body are shown in the figures. This provides a very simple and strong way of attaching or securing the handle to the pan, and by cutting away the section of the handle between the arms a, a provision is obtained for the ready heading of the rivet used in attaching the arm a to the back, as it permits one part of the heading-tool to be inserted between the arms a a.

To enable thin metal to be used for the body, as well as to properly reinforce the back to receive the handle, I have formed in the back I), by stamping, the ribs 17, which extend from the stiffening-flange b to and into the bottom of the pan; and I also further stiffen it by the reinforcing-rib 19 which not only serves to strengthen the structure, but is also'made sufficiently deep to provide a foot or rest 12 integral with the rest of the body and upon which it rests when on the floor and which acts to maintain it in a level position when so placed.

The handle being hollow and tapering affords means by which it may be attached to a longer or wooden handle, if desired, the supplemental handle, of course, entering the cavity of the hollow handle.

While I prefer that the edges of the handle be united by one or more tying-tongues of the character specified, as this structure provides a very desirable one in that it is strong and prevents the parts from separating either way, yet the union of the edges may be made by overlapping or in any other of the common ways used by tinsmiths or metal workers.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an improved article of manufacture, a dust-pan having in its back the two corrugations or ribs 1) separated from each other and extending from the upper stiffening edge or flange 1) into the bottom section of the pan, the stiffening-foot 12 formed by a deep corrugation in the bottom and back of the dust-pan, the ribs or corrugations b and the corrugations 19 beingso located at the back as to provide an unobstructed plane or level surface for the attachment of the handle, and the handle A having the arm a which extends over the stiifening fiange on the inner side of the back and is riveted by a rivet passing through it and the back and the arms a, a, which diverge from each other and the handle and are riveted to the back closely to the ribs or corrugations b by rivets extending through outwardly-turned sections of the arms outside the line of the handle and whereby the said arms andlthe ribs 12', thearin a and the foot 11 eo-operate to strengthen thebaek and pro- 10 vide stiffness between the body and the handie of the pan, substantially as described. EDWARD II. \VI-II'INEY.

In presenceof- AGNES M; Es'rms, GEO. L. HACKNEY.

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