NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED PEPPER AND SALT BOXES OR CASTERS
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Shilvock and John Hipwood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patonta on the 10th October 1879.
JOSEPH SHILVOCK, of Aston, near Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Chaser, and JOHN HIPWOOD, of Aston aforesaid, Pierce Worker.
"NEW OR
IMPROVED COMBINED PEPPER AND SALT BOXES OR CASTERS."
Our Invention consists of new or improved combined pepper and salt boxes or
casters, the parts of which are constructed and arranged in the manner herein after
described.
By constructing pepper and salt boxes or casters according to our Invention,
either pepper or salt separately, or in some cases both pepper and salt at the same
time may be delivered at pleasure from the same box or caster.
In constructing a combined pepper or salt box or caster according to our
Invention we use, by preference, a glass bottle or vessel baving a wide mouth to
contain the salt, and cover the said bottle or vessel by a metallic cap or cover.
The said cap or cover is perforated with two sets of holes, the said sets of holes
being symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of a diameter of the flat top of the
cap or cover. Turning on a central pivot or axis, and lying closely on the cap or
cover, is a flat nearly semi-circular plate moved by a knob or handle. By means of
this plate one or other group or set of holes in the cap or cover may be covered, or
both of the groups of holes partly covered at pleasure. At the marginal part of the
cap or cover, and near one of the groups of holes, the letter S is inscribed, and near
the other group holes the letter P is inscribed. The group of holes marked S
open into the glass bottle containing the salt. Under that part of the cap or cover
at which the group of holes P is made a small metal box or case is fixed for
containing the pepper. This box or case is opened at its bottom, and is covered by
a lid. By the construction of parts described the pepper in the metal box or case
may be delivered through one of the group of holes, and the salt contained in the
larger glass bottle or vessel may be delivered through the other group of holes in
the cap or cover.
When it is wished to use the pepper the nearly semi-circular covering plate is
turned, so as to uncover the group of holes marked P and cover the group marked S;
the pepper may then be delivered from the box or caster in the same manner as in
using an ordinary pepper box. When it is wished to use the salt the covering

page_text: plate is turned so as to uncover the group of holes marked S, and cover the group
marked P, when salt may be delivered from the glass bottle or vessel. By turning
the covering plate so that it covers portions only of both groups of holes both
pepper and salt in the same or in different proportions may be delivered at the
same time from the box or caster.
Our Invention may be modified in the following ways:-Instead of fixing a
small metal box or case beneath the cap or cover for containing the pepper, the
large bottle or vessel may be divided vertically into two compartments, one
compartment holding the salt, and the other the pepper, and instead of a nearly semi-
circular covering plate a circular covering plate may be used. In the last described
modification one half of the covering plate is perforated, the perforated half being
brought opposite that group of holes in the cap or cover which it is wished to
uncover; or instead of a rotating covering plate a hinged semi-circular covering
plate or flap may be used. This plate or flap is hinged across the cap in the
direction of a diameter, and may be turned down so as to cover either of the groups
of holes in the cap. A spring snap fastening may be used to engage with the edge
of the cap when the covering plate or flap is shut down, and thereby retain it in its
place. By a gentle pressure the hinged plate or flap may be released when it is
wished to reverse its position. In this modification only salt or pepper separately
can be delivered from the box or caster.