USD4451S - Design for a coal-hod - Google Patents

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4451 C050. Hoc.

PATENTED Nov 1 1870 Witnesses.

JOSEPH PITTS AND JAMES K.

PITTS, 0F MCLEAN, ILLINUS.

Design No. 4,451, dated November 1, 1870.

DESIGN FOR A COAL-HOD.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that we, JosEriI lrr'rs and .limits K. PrrTs, of McLean, in the county oMeLoan und in the Stute oi' lllinois, have invented a certain new und useful Design for a Goal-Holl; und do hereby declare that the following is a full, eleor, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the neconipairying drawing ninkinga partei' this specification, in which is shown a perspective side View oi' our improved conlhod.

Our cool-hed is higher infront that in the rear, and has its upper front edge nearly square across, while its rear upper edge is rounded.

The edges of the sides are raised considerably above a line drawn from the center of the upper front edge to the center of the rear edge, the highest portion being in front of the lateral center of the hod. The sides of the llod are drawn in from the top to the bottom, and the base flares a little from top to bottom.

The advantage of the square front consists in the lirm bearing it give-s to the hod, when placed upon a stove, for discharging its contents; of the raised sides, in conforming closely to the gravity slope ofthe coals when the hod is filled, whereby there is less danger oi'spilliug the coals over any ol' its sides; ol' the n1 ward iront slope to the sides, in that, when the renr ol'tho hod is raised in the act ot' pouring out coals, this slope conl'ornis eloseliV lo the vertical sides ol a stove, nud therej is less risk ol' the couls falling over the [ront sides ol' the hod upon the lloor. ln uddition to these usel'nl results ol' the peculiar shape, ol'

our hod, the whole design has artistic merits.

In Inalting, however, this Ilnrlienlnr description ol our coul-hed, and statement ol' the advantages ol' its

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