US136418A - Improvement in devices for emptying stoves - Google Patents

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B. GDNNELLY.

Devices for Emptying St0 v es.

Patented March4,18 73.

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BERNARD OONNELLY, OEWILLIAMsBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR EMPTYING STOVESt Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,418, dated March 4, 187:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD (JoNNELLY, of Williamsburg, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Device for Emptying Stoves, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a top view of the bottom of a stove to which my improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section of the same taken through the line w m, Fig, 1. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section of the same taken through the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device by the use of which the ashes and cinders may be discharged from the body of the stove and removed without raising a dust to float through the room and settle upon the various articles within it. The inventionconsists in the improvement of devices for emptying ashes and cinders from stoves, as hereinafter described and pointed out inthe claim.

A represents the bottom of the stove, upon which rests and to which is secured the body of said stove. In the middle part of the bot tom A is formed a recess, a to receive the ashes from the grate. The stove-bottom A is east without any bottom to the recess a. Upon the outer surface of the sides of the recess a are cast flanges a B is a slide, the side edgesof which are turned upward to overlap the outer surfaces of the side walls of the recess a and are so formed as to fit and slide out and in upon the flanges a The rear end of the plate B when pushed fully in enters a recess or'groove in a flange, a, cast upon the lower edge of the rear-end wall of the recess a. The forward end of the slide B is turned upward, and is so formed as to fit upon a flange, a, cast upon the outer surface of the forward-end wall of the recess a. To the forward end of the slide B is attached a handle, by means of which it may be drawn out and pushed in conveniently. G are downwardly-projecting flanges, formed upon the bottom A at a little distance from the. side and rear-end walls of the recess a, said flanges having inwardly-projecting shoulders formed upon their lower edges. D is a-pan, the sides and rear end of which have their upper edges bent outward to fit and rest upon the shoulders of the flanges G. The forward end of the-pan D projects upward along the outer surface of the front-end wall of the recess a, and is slotted to allow the slide B to move out and in through it. The forward end of the pan D has a handle attached to it, for convenience in withdrawing the said pan to empty it.

With this construction, when the stove is to be emptied, the slide B is drawn out, and the grate is dumped, the ashes and cinders falling into the pan D. The slide 13 is then pushed in, closing the bottom of the stove. The pan D may then be detached and emptied whenever desired or convenient, so that the stove may be emptied and the ashes and cinders removed without allowing a particle of dust to escape into the room.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent- A stove having a recessed bottom, with the flanges a a a, combined with the handled edge-lapped slide 13, and the slotted handled pan D, resting upon the shoulders of flanges (l, as and for the purpose described.

BERNARD CONNELLY.

Witnesses: V

(l. SEDGWIoK, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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