US697744A - Ash sifter and receptacle. - Google Patents

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Patented Apr. I5, 1902'.

J. M. OLSEN. ASH SIFTER AND BEGEPTAGLE.

(Application filed Aug. 19, 1901.) (No Model.)

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NITFD JOHN M. OLSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO CARL O. KJERSTENSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ASH SIFTER AND RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,744, dated April 15, 1902.

Application filed August 19, 1901. Serial No. 72.594:- (No model) To aZZ whom may concern: a, which, as shown, is semicylindrical, and

Be it known that I, JOHN M. OLSEN, a subto these heads is secured in anysuitable manject of the King of Sweden and Norway, renor the sifter-body. A cover a is hinged at siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and one side and is of the requisite dimensions to 55 5 State of Illinois, have invented a certain new entirely close the top of the sifter, and its free and useful Improvement in Ash Sifters and sideis provided with a suitable hasp or other Receptacles, of which the following is aspeciform of catch a by means of whichthe cover fication. will be held securely down in the operation The object of my invention is to construct of the sifter. 6c :0 a simple, effective, and reliable ash-Sifter in The sifter A as a whole is carried in a connection with a receptacle for the ashes frame or bandB,made of sheet metal orother which can be used, if so desired, by the side suitable material and of a diameter to fit of a stove, range, or furnace and into which within the top of the receptacle with which the ashes to be sifted can be deposited direct the sifter is used. The frame or band on op- 65 and the sifting operation performed without posite sides has an inwardly-extending jourthe necessity of taking up the ashes and carnal-box each formed of a fixed section b, atrying them out to a sifter, as has heretofore tached to the frame or band, and ahinged secbeen the general practice. At the same time tion I), held in place when down by a catch the construction of the sifter and receptacle 1) orin anyother suitable manner. Each end 70 is one which permits of the sifting operation of the sifter near its top edge has an outwithin the room containing the range, stove, wardly-extending journal or pivot-pin c, or furnace without any liability of the ashes which are mounted in the journal-boxes of and dust flying in the sifting operation, so the band, for which purpose the journalthat the ashes can be sifted directly in the boxes are made with an upper hinged sec- 75 room and no ill effects from flying ashes and tion, and when mounted the sifter is free to dust will arise. be oscillated or turned on the journals or The invention consists in the features of pivot-pins within the frame or band. The construction and the combinations of parts journal or pivot-pin c at one end is formed to hereinafter described and claimed. receive a handle or arm C, having a grip c, 80 0 In the drawingsillustratingthe invention, by means of which the siftcr can be oscil- Figure 1 is an elevation of the sifter and related or turned within its frame or band. ceptacle constituting the invention in condi- The receptacle D for cooperation with the tion for use; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of sifter may be in the general form of apail or the parts as in Fig. 1 with the sifter in full bucket or other desired form and can be made 85 3 5 elevation; Fig. 3, a top or plan view of the of sheet metal or other suitable material, its

sifter and frame; Fig. 4, a side elevation of open end having an interior diameter correthe sifter and its supporting band or frame; spending to the exterior diameter of theframe Fig. 5, an end elevation of the sifter, and orband carryingthe sifter, so thatsuch frame Fig. 6 a detail showing the construction ofthe or band can be entered into the top of the re- 0 4o journal-boxes carrying the shaft or journals ceptacle and have asuftlciently close fit thereof the sifter. in to prevent the escape of fine ashes and The sifter A has its body a made of wiredust in the sifting operation. The receptacle, netting or perforated metal of the proper if so desired, may have on opposite sides ears mesh to furnish the necessary openings for d to receive a bail D for carrying the recep- 5 the passage of the ashes and for retaining the tacle around. The receptacle and the Sifter particles or pieces of unconsumed coal, so are to be closed, so as to be ash and dust that the ashes will be separated from the portight, by a cover E, the open end of which fits tions of unconsumed coal and the coal can snugly around the upper portion of the frame be removed from the sifter to be burned in or band of the sifter and abuts against the 1o: the fire-pot of the stove, range, or furnace. top edge of the receptacle, as shown in Figs. At each end of the sifter-body is a tight head 1 and 2, and in order to allow the cover to be fitted closely to place a notch e is formed in its edge to pass over the projected journal or pivot-pin having the handle thereon, as shown in Fig. 1, and the cover can have a suitable handle e for the removal and replacement thereof. The cover can be made of sheet metal or other suitable material, and the construction of the open end of the receptacle and the open end of the cover has such relation to the construction of the frame or band carrying the sifter that when the parts are assembled and in position for use the operation of the sifter will be dustless, the parts having a sufficiently close relation to prevent the escape of fine ashes and dust in the sitting operation.

In use the receptacle, with the sifter therein and the cover removed, can be placed adjacent to the ash-pit of the stove, range, or furnace, so that the ashes can be removed from the ash-pit by a shovel or otherwise and deposited within the sifter, it being understood that the cover of the sifter is raised to allow the ashes to be deposited therein. The cover when the sifter is filled with ashes is turned down and locked, and the cover E for the receptacle is placed in position, so as to tightly close the receptacle. The operator by means of the handle or arm 0 then oscillates or turns the sifter, which causes the ashes to be separated from the unconsumed portions of the coal and to fall down into the bottom of the receptacle, and after the sifting operation has been continued a sufflcient length of time to separate the ashes the receptacle, with the sifter therein, is set to one side until the fine ashes and dust have settled, and when this condition is reached the cover E can be removed, the hinge-section of the journal-boxes raised, and the sifter, with the unconsumed coal therein, can be removed from the receptacle and the coal again returned to the fireentire operating mechanism independently of the receptacle to be carried to the alley or elsewhere and the sifting operation performed in a barrel or other vessel. The receptacle in addition to being a receiver for the ashes may also be used as a receiver and depository for dust, lint, orrubbish. Moreover, after the sifting operation in the receptacle the removal of the sifter enables the receptacle to be more easily carried out and emptied than would otherwise be the case.

The supporting frame or band carrying the sifter can be made of a diameter to fit into an ordinary Waste pail or bucket, thus enabling the sifter, with its cover, to be applied and used with an ordinary ash bucket, pail, or

can.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an ash sifter and receptacle, the combination of an oscillating sifter, a journal or pivot-pin on each end of the sifter, a frame or band having a slot in one side into which one of the pivot-pins is removably mounted, hinged journal-boxes on the inner wall of the frame or band removably mounting both journals or pivot-pins of the sifter, a receptacle adapted to receive the frame or band and have the same removably and rigidly entered into its top, a cover for the receptacle over the sifter slidable over and around the frame or band to rest against the top rim of the receptacle, and a handle for oscillating the sifter, substantially as described.

2. In an ash sifter and receptacle, the combination of a semicylindrical oscillating sifter having semicircular ends, a rounded screensurface between the ends and a hinged lid or cover, a journal or pivot-pin on each end of the sifter, a frame or band in which the sifter is removably mounted, hinged journal-boxes on the inner wall of the frame or band removably mounting the journals or pivot-pins ofthe sifter, a handle or arm on one of the journals orpivot-pins, and a receptacle adapted to receive the frame or band and have the same removably entered into its top, substantially as described.

JOHN M. OLSEN. lVitnesses:

BERTHA A. PRICE, OSCAR W. BOND.

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