Improved Apparatus for Supporting Pottery Ware while being Fired.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Supporting Pottery Ware while being
Fired.
We, ELIAS LEAK, and HARRY AYNSLEY, Manufacturers, of Fenton, Staffordshire,
do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 relates to certain improvements upon the means of supporting
pottery ware in saggers or the like while being baked, glazed or otherwise fired in
kilns or ovens, described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 17763 granted to
the said Elias Leak on the 24th day of December, 1887; the improvements consisting
essentially in constructing the grooved supports,-described in the Specification of
such Patent as made integral with projecting feet or equivalent supporting parts which
are stopped across for retaining the ware-supporting pins so that the support and
contained pins were together placed in the sagger and removed therefrom, separate
from such supporting feet, with the special object of facilitating the removal of the
supports and of the pins and ware from the sagger after the completion of the
treatment of the ware therein.
The said supporting feet, S, may be made of a single formation (that is, each being
adapted to support a single grooved standard or support, 9,) and with open backs as
represented in Figures 1. to 3.-of which Figures 1. represent the foot, 8, and
standard, 9, separate; Figure, 2, represents the same fitted together; and
Figure 3, represents the same standing against the side of a sagger ;-this
modification being preferred when it is desired to economise space within the
sagger or when it is desired that the said feet and the grooved standards they
support should occupy certain positions in the sagger, in which events the said feet
may be fixedly or detachably secured by glaze, clay or the like against or adjacent
to the sides of the sagger; or they may be made integral therewith at the time of
manufacture of the sagger. Or the supporting feet may be made of a single formation
with a closed back, vide Figure 4, in which event they may be placed in any desired
position in the sagger. Or they may be made of a double formation, ride Figures.5.
and 6, so as to be adapted to support a doubly grooved standard, grooved on its
opposite sides, or two contiguous or separate grooved standards, intended to be placed
between and so as to be used in supporting two separate piles of ware.
As thus constructed and adapted, the standards 9. pins 10. and ware 11. can be
more readily removed from the saggers, 12, after the completion of the treatment of
the ware therein, than with such standards as hitherto made integral with the supporting
feet, as in the latter case each article of ware requires to be separately removed, it
being located between the adjacent pins of each vertical series thereof;-whereas the
improved standards, 9, can be gradually drawn up from out of the supporting feet 8.
(vide Figure 7. and the dotted lines in Figure 3.) which permits of each article of
ware 11. gradually falling, as its pins, 10. get clear of the rising standards, and the
pile of ware can subsequently be readily lifted from out of the sagger in series of any
convenient number.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is.
1. The use in combination, for supporting pottery ware in saggers or the like while
being baked, glazed or otherwise fired in kilns or ovens ; of grooved standards and
of separate projecting supporting bases or feet respectively adapted in the manner
hereinbefore described or referred to.

page_text: 2. The construction of such grooved standards and of such supporting feet or bases
in separate parts substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 19th day of October 1889.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.