US97276A - Improved dust-pan - Google Patents

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ailltitrd (tat FRANCIS L. DANIELS, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

11am Patent No. 97,276, dated November 3o, 1869.

INIPROVED DUST-PAN.

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The Schedule referred to in these Lettera/Patent and making part cf thesame.

To all to whom these presents shall come:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS L. DANIELS, of'Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachu- "set-ts, have invented 'a new and useful Improvement in DustPans for Housekeeping-Purposes; anddo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specica-- tion, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and

Figure 2, a transverse section of my invention, the latter' ligure being taken throughits dirt-receiving and discharging-trough.

The object of this invention is to provide arecep-V tacle. for dust and dirtfraken upupon a dust-pan, and by removing such dirt from the `inclined iiat portion or body of the pan, allow much more dirt to be collected by it than would otherwise be the case, the peculiar construction of the pan, which accomplishes this result, also enablingthe dirt to be expelled from the pan with vmore ease, and into a receptacle of less capacity.

lhe invention consists in providing a dust-pan, other wise of ordinary construction; witlia semi-cylindrical trough or chute, disposed across from side to side, and

at the rear part thereof, and contiguous to the handle, such trough being vformed with an inclination at one end, for facilitating the discharge of dust and dirt therefrom, substantially as hereinafter explained.

In the drawings above referred to, c denotes the body.

of the dust-pan, being a sheet of metal, made substantially in the ordinary form of such articles.

In carrying out my invention, I apply across the rear part of the body a, a semi-cylindrical trough, b, sunken below the level of such body, and being in length about equal to the width thereof, the handle c,

of 'the dust-pan, being aixed to the rear side of the trough. y

The said trough b has one of its ends inclinedatan angle to its bottom, as shown at d, in the drawing.

The depth of the trough should be such as to sustain the dust-pan, when upon the floor, at such an angle to the fioor as to best facilitate the taking up of the dirt from such fioor.

As this trough becomes lilled with dirt and dust, it may, be emptied very readily and expeditiously, by means of its inclined end or nose; d, the curved bottom of suchtrough allowing it to be thoroughly cleaned with a. brush'. Y

The upper rear edge of the trough b also serves the purpose of a scraper, to remove fromA the brush any dirt or lint which would otherwise adhere to it. Y By means of a dust-.pan constructed as above described, not only can much more dirt be taken up by it, but much less care is required to keep the dirt from falling from the pan, and thisdirt may be emptied from the pan with much more expedition and ease, and into a receptacle of smaller' compass than with a dust-pan of ordinary construction As before alluded to, the trough b serves to maintain the pan upon the iioor in the most favorable position for allowing the .dirt to be swept' upon it.

l claim thecombination of the circular trough and the inclined curved lip, at one end thereof, with the body of the pan, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

FRANCIS L. DANIELS.

. Witnesses:

EDWARD GRIFFITH, FREDERICK CURTIS.

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