An Improved Dinner or other like Plate.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
COMI LEIE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dinner or other like Plate.
I, THOMAS WILSON MCLEAN, of 25 Flaxman Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Cashier, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to provide an improved dinner plate or like plate,
by which salt, sugar, mustard, or other condiments, fruit-stones, and the like, can
be placed and supported upon the rim of the plate, without liability of slipping or
moving down into the well of the plate, or spreading or moving about in an unde-
sirable manner; and the invention consists, essentially, in constructing a plate with
a groove round the edge of it by which these ends are achieved, in such a manner,
and of such a form, that the condiments, stones, or what not, will be held, and that
there shall be no liability of chipping, that they can be easily cleaned, and that the
plates shall fit one within the other or pile without any liability when piled, of
becoming chipped or broken, more than other ordinary plates.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which shew in
Figures 1 and 2 a plate according to this invention, in plan and cross section, respec-
tively; and the invention will now be further described, having reference to these
drawings.
The groove in the plate is designated a, and, as will be seen, is situated practically
about or near the centre of the rim b of the plate, and is carried round concentrically
with the inner and outer edges of the rim. The size and proportion of the groove
are preferably about those shewn by the drawing.
As regards the body of the plate, this, as will be seen, differs in no way, as regards
shape, from an ordinary plate.
The groove a is formed in the rim 6 by the depressed bulged portion '; and the
rim and bulge are without ledges, ridges, or the like, which are liable to become
chipped or broken; and then, as stated, the shape and form shewn allows the plates
to be piled as closely together, and in the same manner, as ordinary plates,
without bringing any strain upon the rim or the groove bulge b', or any tendency,
when piled, at any other part to chip or break more than an ordinary plate.
Moreover, the plate constructed as shewn is in no way difficult to clean, but is as
readily washed and cleaned as an ordinary plate, as there are no corners or angles
to cause any difficulties in this respect. Then again, if the groove a be coloured
or tinted, the different colour, tint, or design, gives the plate an improved
appearance.
As a slight modification of the plate shewn, the groove a in some cases may,
instead of being concentric with the edges of the rini, be arranged in a slightly zigzag
or waved pattern round the rim.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described dinner or other like plate, having a groove a in the
I
L
1
1
.” ונ

page_text: the rim, groove, and bulge being without ridges or angular recesses or corners ;
particularly as specified and shewn in the drawings, for the purposes described.
Dated this 30th day of August 1895.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.