Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1899
Complete Specification Loft 22nd Mon 1000
1000
Date of Application, 23rd June, 1899
Complete Specification Loft, 22nd Mar., 1000 Accepted, 20th Apr., 1900
We, KOBERT HAMILTON, BRICE WHITE RUNDLE, and JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON,
trading as Hamilton, Rundle and Johnson, of 39, Hanging Ditch, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, General Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:--
This invention is designed to provide a tea-pot or other vessel in which the
tea or tea leaves are held suspended instead of lying upon the bottom and in
which the leaves will have rooni to freely expand and the infusion will be quickly
carried away from the leaves.
It consists essentially in constructing the tea-pot or vessel with a ledge or
flange at or near the centre in combination with a horizontal perforated division
plate placed thereon dividing the tea-pot or vessel horizontally into two compart-
ments or chambers..
In carrying out the invention the tea-pot or vessel may be constructed of any
shape externally, and internally is provided with an annular ledge flange pro-
jection or projections preferably about midway between the top and bottom.
Upon this ledge or its equivalent we place a perforated plate or tray preferably
removable. This perforated plate or tray may be made of metal such as iron
copper aluminium or other suitable metal coated or plated with tin silver or
nickel or it may be made of china woven wire guaze earthenware glass or other
suitable material or composition.
To enable it to be readily removed from the pot or vessel it may be made of
two or more parts hinged or otherwise connected together or so as to fit into
position beside one another or otherwise to form a division forming two chambers
or compartments one above the other.
In use the division plate is placed in position and the tea deposited on top of
it after which the boiling water is poured over the leaves and the pot filled with
water above the plate and the tea thereon. This will have the advantage of draw-
ing the infusion from the leaves more quickly than in the ordinary pot and also of
permitting the same more readily to mix with the water than is at present the
case when the tea is placed in the bottom. It also prevents confinement of the
leaves and allows of their ready expansion under the action of the water.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea-pots, Coffee-pots, Jugs, and other Vessels.
We, ROBERT HAMILTON, BRICE WHITE RUNDLE, and JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON,
trading as Hamilton, Rundle and Johnson, of 39, Hanging Ditch, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, General Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of
[Price 8d.]
Improvements in Tea-pots, Coffee-pots, Jugs, and other Vessels.
We, ROBERT HAMILTON, BRICE WHITE RUNDLE, and JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON,
trading as Hamilton, Rundle and Johnson, of 39, Hanging Ditch, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, General Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of
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page_text: this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention is designed to provide a tea-pot or other vessel in which the
tea or tea leaves are held suspended instead of lying upon the bottom and in
which the leaves will have rooni to freely expand and the infusion will be quickly
carried away from the leaves.
It consists essentially in constructing the tea-pot or vessel with a ledge or
flange at or near the centre in combination with a loose horizontal perforated
plate or tray placed thereon dividing the tea-pot or vessel horizontally into two
compartments or chambers.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying draw-
ings in which as an example a tea-pot is shown.
Fig. 1. Side elevation of tea-pot partly in section.
Fig. 2. Sectional plan of same.
Fig. 3. Perspective view of the horizontal perforated division plate.
The tea-pot or vessel A may be constructed of any ordinary external shape or
of any other suitable or convenient shape.
Internally we provide the vessel A with an annular ledge flange or projection B
or ring of projections preferably about midway between the top and bottom or at
any other convenient position.
We also provide a perforated plate or tray C to be placed horizontally upon
the ledge or flange B in the interior of the vessel.
For tea-pots the plate or tray C may be made of aluminium or other metal or
metals plated or coated with tin silver aluminium nickel or it may be made of
woven wire gauze china earthenware glass textile or other suitable material or
composition.
The plate or tray C is preferably made in two parts as shown in Fig. 3 hinged
together to enable it to be readily placed in and removed from the pot or vessel A.
It may be otherwise made in one two or more parts hinged pivoted or otherwise
connected together or so as to fit into position beside one another or otherwise. to
form a division forming two chambers or compartments one above the other.
In use the division plate is placed in position and the tea deposited on top of it
after which the boiling water is poured over the leaves and the pot filled with
water above the plate and the tea thereon. This will have the advantage of
drawing the infusion from the leaves more quickly than in the ordinary pot and
also of permitting the same more readily to mix with the water than is at present
the case when the tea is placed in the bottom. It also prevents confinement of
the leaves and allows of their ready expansion under the action of the water, and
when some of the infusion has been poured off it prevents the remainder con-
tinuing in contact with the leaves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
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1. A tea-pot or other vessel constructed with an internal ledge flange or the
like in combination with a loose horizontal perforated plate or tray to receive
tea or other material from which an infusion is to be made substantially as
described.
2. A tea-pot or other vessel for making infusions constructed and arranged
substantially as described and shown.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool & London, Patent Agents...