US1258110A - Ash-pan. - Google Patents

Description

M. S. GORDON] ASH PAN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1-6. 1921.

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To all whom it may concern:

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r-sidiug at .1 abaunsce, Ct llll new 1 "lit-lull relates to ash pans, '1 he object of the invention is to provide an ash pan for use in cooking or heating st in similar connections where it is impossible to insert an ash pan which will wholly occupy the ash pit. It is well known that an ash pan seldom occupies the whole horizontal area of an ash pit, and that the ashes, therefore, will collect around the sides of the pit between the latter and the walls of the ash pit. It is a particularly disagreeable operation to remove an ash pan under these circumstances when the latter is full to running over. It is, therefore, intended to provide consruction, in simple and practical form, which will permit the ready removal or insertion of the pan, and also pro vide for the reception of all of the ashes which may fall into the ash pit.

Also, in this connection, it is the object of the invention to provide an improved form of operating device for the ash receiving bafiles, which are employed to direct the ashes into the pan, the operating mechanism also constituting a lifting means to be associated with the usual grate shaker.

.Vith the above objects in view, and such others relating to the details of construction,v as may hereinafter appear, my invention will now be fully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings:

In the drawings: Figure l is an end view of the ash pan embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-8 of Fig. 1, and Fig. i is a sectional view showing the manner of using a grate shaker to lift the pan.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the ash pan of a usual rectangular formation, along whose longitudinal edges are hinged the deflecting plates Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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or wings 2. Fivoted upon the front end of the pan 1, is a pair of rock levers 3, each of the levers 3 being provided with an intermediate journal whichis mounted upon a bearing stub 5 which projects from the face of the end wall of the pan. The upper ends of the rock levers 3 are over-turned so as to project across and ride against the outer surface of the wings 2, the guide loops 6 carried by said wings inclosing the ends of the rock levers, so as to direct the movement of the wings. The opposite ends of the rock levers cross one another adjacent the lower portion of the end wall of the pan, and at their crossing points are inclosed by a vertical housing which is carried by the end wall. Said housing is provided with a vertical slot 8 which coincides with the path of movement of the crossing points of the rock levers 3, and operative in said guide slot is a block 9 which has a rearward projection which also operates in intersecting slots formed in the rock levers, so that vertical movement of the block 9 in the slot 8 will cause the oscillation of the rock levers, which in turn open or close the wings 2, according to the direction of movement of the block. The forward end of the block projects beyond the slot 8 in a lug 10 which is adapted to cooperate with a pair of lugs 11 projected from the face of the guide or housing 7 on opposite sides of the slot 8. Thus, when the block 9 is carried to the bottom of the slot 8, thereby closing the wings 2 overthe pan, the lug 10 lies below the lugs 11, the distance being so arranged that when the head of a stove shaker 12 is borne upon the upper side of the lug 10, the tongs or prongs 13 thereof, will be engaged below the lugs 11, the result being to lock the wings in their closed position and to permit the lifting of the pan from the stove while the wings are in this state. Obviously, as soon as shaker 12 is disengaged from the lugs 10 and 11, the block 9 may be shoved upwardly to open the wing so that the latter may fall outside the vertical limits of'the sides of the pan.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that I have provided a very simple and practicable device for the cleanly and efficient removal of ashes from a stove, the provision of a suitable means for handling the pan, answering a requirement in devices of this character which has heretofore been missing.

What I claim as my invention is 1. An ash pan, comprising in combination, a receptacle, a cover section hinged on the longitudinal edges of the receptacle, rock levers mounted upon the end of the receptacle and operatively engaging the cover sections to open and close the latter as the levers are rocked, the ends of the levers being over-lapped and having slots formed therein, a housing carried by the end of the receptacle and over-lying the over-lapping ends of the rock levers, said housing having a vertical slot formed therein, a block slidable in said housing and having a lug ex tending through said vertical slot, said block also having a pin extending through the slots in said over-lapping ends, and a pair of lugs formed upon the housing to cooperate With the projecting lug of the block to permit the operative engagement of a stove shaker therewith for lifting the receptacle.

2. An ash pan, comprising in combination, a receptacle, hinged cover sections on the receptacle crossing toward the middle thereof, rock levers pivoted upon the end of the receptacle and operatively engaged With the said cover sections, the ends of said levers over-lapping, a housing on the end of the receptacle in closing the over-lapping ends of the rock levers, means operative in said housing for connecting said operative ends to operate simultaneously as the block is vertically moved and lugs carried by the housing and said block for the operative engagement of a stove shaker to lock the cover sections and to lift the pan.

In testimony whereof, I aliix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

Mes. MARY S. GORDON. itnesses HENRY WV. HEINE, RUDOLPH F. POHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, I). G.

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