Improvements in Tea and Coffee Pots.
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM COLLINS, of N°1 Blackwater Terrace, Lordship Lane, in the County
of Surrey, Watch maker and jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to tea and coffee pots or other vessels of a like nature, and
it is designed to enable liquid to be drawn off clearly and without sediment and to
prevent the clogging of the spout or outlet pipe.
I effect my purpose by combining with the body of the pot a finely perforated
egg shaped projection attached to the inner orifice of the spout by any suitable
joint. This joint may be a simple screw attachment or it may be a tube with a
button sliding within another suitably slotted tube forming a bayonet joint; in
some cases the attachment may be permanently fixed. My attachment although
conveniently formed of an egg shape and of perforated material may be formed in
any other suitable form and of wire gauze or other suitable material.
It will be seen that by means of the extended filtering surface a much better
straining of the liquid is effected than the present limited perforated screen.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Tea and Coffee Pots.
I, WILLIAM COLLINS, of N° 1 Blackwater Terrace, Lordship Lane, in the
County of Surrey, Watchmaker and Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to tea and coffee pots or other vessels of a like nature, and
it is designed to enable liquid to be drawn off clearly and without sediment, and to
prevent the clogging of the spout or outlet pipe,

page_text: In order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being
had to the letters and figures marked thereon 32.
Figure 1 represents my device in position with a screw joint.
Figure 2 represents the same with a bayonet joint.
Figure 3 represents same attached permanently.
Figure 4 represents a modified form in elevation and section.
Figures 5 and 6 show other modifications.
Figure 7 shows a modified form of joint.
Like letters refer to like parts throughout the drawings,
I effect my purpose by combining with the body of the pot a finely perforated
egg-shaped projection A, attached to the inner orifice of the spout by any suitable
joint. This joint B may be a simple screw attachment, as in figure 1, which is
well adapted where the joint is on earthenware; or it may be a tube with a
button, sliding within another tube suitably slotted, forming a bayonet joint as in
figures 2, 4, 5, and 7; or in some cases the attachment may be permanent as
shown in figure 3; or the joint may be a simple jamming joint, the collar of the
attachment being slightly coned.
;
My attachment, although conveniently formed egg-shaped and of perforated
material, may be formed in any other suitable form, and of wire gauze or other
suitable material; and although I have illustrated the most suitable forms, yet it
is obvious that other forms might be designed and be still within the limits of my
invention. It will be seen, that by means of the extended filtering surface, a much
better straining of the liquid is effected than by the present limited perforated
screen.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The combination with a tea and coffee pot or other vessel of a like nature of a
filtering attachment of extended filtering surface, and affixed by any suitable joint,
substantially as and for the purposes specified.