US866915A - Dust-pan. - Google Patents

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No. 866,915. PATBNTED SEPT. 24, 1907. o. A. GHRISTOPHERSON.

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OLE A. OHRISTOPHERSON, OF RIVERTON, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CLINTON P. ADAMS, OF RIVERTON, WASHINGTON.

DUST-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Sept. 24, 1907 Application filed September 17,1906. Serial No. 334,957.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLE A. CHms'roPHERsoN; a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Riverton, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust- Pans, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a dust pan embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same when in position upon the floor to receive the sweepings; and Fig. 3,a similar view of the device to show the position the pan proper will assume when supported by the handle.

The objects of this invention are, first, to produce a pan which may be reliably held by the operator in position to receive the fioor-sweepings without the necessity of her stooping down, as is common; second, to provide the pan with inclined, or sloping side walls, so that the collected dirt and dust will be directed into the pocket at the rear without the same being scattered; third; to connect the handle with the pan in such manner that when raised thereby the latter will be suspended in a tilted condition with the closed rear end lowermost and thus prevent the spilling of the contained dust; and, finally, to make the device of such inexpensive and substantial construction as to be within the means of people in ordinary circumstances and retain its proper form under continued and hard usage.

With these ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and adaptation of parts as will now be described and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

According to my invention, the pan proper is formed of sheet metal and is comprised of a quadrilateral bottom 5 with its front and back edges parallel, a forwardly sloping back-wall 6, and side-walls 7 which slope inwardly and arranged to converge toward the rear. The bottom 5 is provided with a bend 8 in proximity of its forward edge to provide an inclined front lip 9 and also have the bottom therebehind slope oppositely. Within the rent ering angle 10 thus formed is fixedly secured, as by soldering, a rod 11 to prevent the distortion of the bottom and furnish additional support thereto when the pan is pressed down upon the floor. I

12 represents a handle which is connected with the side walls by a bail 13 desirably formed of wire which is doubled and bent to provide a tang 14 which is inserted in an axial hole in the handle, thence the parts of the bail are spread, as shown in Fig. 1, and have their extremities protruded through apertures 16in the side walls. These apertures are located in front of the center of gravity of the pan to cause the latter when raised by the handle to be tilted backwardly, as represented in Fig. 3. The bail ends, in proximity of their extremities, are bent or coiled, as at 17, to form stops adapted through the resiliency of the wire to be pressed against the inner surfaces of the side walls and prevent the accidental withdrawal of the extremities from said apertures.

In practice I have always manufactured the pan proper of a single piece of sheet metal by cutting a blank and folding the same to overlap at the back and then securing the same by rivets.

In operating the device, the pan is held firmly against the floor by pressure exerted through the handle which is grasped by one hand of the operator whereupon the accumulated dirt in front of the pan is swept into the same by a broom controlled with the other hand. The pan being charged with the sweepings is then raised with the handle and thereby carried, as before explained, in an inclined position to the place of emptying and which can be readily accomplished by lowering the device to cause the back end of the bottom to come in contact with some obstruction, as the edge of an ash barrel, when by further lowering the handle the dirt is dumped through the forward tilting of the pan. Where it is desired to empty the dirt into a stove it can be done without spilling any upon the stove top by taking hold of the pan with the right hand and tipping it sidewise so that the dirt will be poured out at one of the angles between the bottom and a side wall.

The invention is extremely simple and perfectly adapted to accomplish the purpose for which intended.

What I claim, is-

l. A dust pan formed from a single blank of metal, bent to form a fiat bottom of trapezoidal form, the longer parallel side thereof forming the front edge of the pan, side walls bent up from the two inclined sides of the bottom, the rear portions of the side walls extending beyond the bottom at the rear of the panand being bent over, overlapped, and connected together to form a fiat rear wall for the pan which slopes to meet the shorter parallel side of the bottom at the rear of the pan. I

A dust pan formed from a single blank of metal, bent to form a flat bottom of trapezoidal form, the longer palallel side thereof forming the front edge of thepan, side walls bent up from the two inclined sides of the bottom, the rear portions of the side walls extending beyond the bottom at the rear of the pan and being bent over, overlapped, and connected together to form a fiat rear wall for the pan which slopes to meet the shorter parallel side of the bottom at the rear of the pan and a rear extension bent up from said shorter side of the bottom and folded down upon and connected to said rear wall to reinforce the same and form a tight joint between said rear wall and bottom.

In testimony whereof I :iflix my signature in presence of two witnesses,

OLE A. CI-IRISTOPHERSON.

Witnesses:

Pinnrn BARNES, C. P. ADAMS.

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