An Improvement connected with Cups or other Drinking Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1891 .
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Cups or other Drinking
Vessels.
I HENRY LAMBERT of 9, Salisbury Road Gravesend in the County of Kent
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is an improvement connected with cups or other
drinking vessels so that infusions (tea or coffee for instance) may be obtained free
from solid matter in the cup in which they are made and this without the use of a
second vessel i.e. a tea pot.
According to this invention I divide by a perforated partition the cup or other
drinking vessel into two compartments the said partition may or may not be a
fixture that is to say I either make the cup with two vertical grooves therein
opposite each other so that a perforated partition with or without a lipped top may
be slid therein or the perforated partition may be a fixture. In case of my using a
fixed partition without a lip. I propose to employ a slide with a lipped top but not
perforated such slide to be held in position close to the fixed partition either by
grooves in the cup as before mentioned or otherwise.
I also propose to place the partitions out of the centre of the drinking vessel so
that the compartments will be unequal. The tea or matter from which an infusion
is desired is to be placed in the smaller of the two compartments so that when the
water is poured over the tea it shall pass through the perforated partition into the
larger compartment which will then contain the clear infusion.
The object of the slide without perforations is to effect a complete separation
between the two compartments. It is to be inserted after the infusion is made
and will then prevent anything that may be added to the clear infusion (i.e. sugar
or milk) from being affected by the tea leaves or solid matter in the smaller
compartment.
The lipped top with which the slides are provided is to prevent the contents of
the smaller compartment running over when the cup is inclined at an angle as it
would be when the infusion is being drank therefrom.
Doted this 6th day of November 1801
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Cups or other Drinking
Vessels.
I HENRY LAMBERT of 9 Salisbury Road Gravesend in the County of Kent
Clerk 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 :-
The object of this invention is an improvement connected with cups or other
drinking vessels so that infusions (tea or coffee for instance) may be obtained free
from solid matter in the cup in which they are made and this without the use of a
second vessel i.e. a tea pot.
According to this invention I divide by a perforated partition the cup or other
drinking vessel into two compartments the said partition may or may not be a
fixture that is to say :-
I either make the cup with two vertical grooves therein opposite each other so

page_text: that a perforated partition with or without a lipped top may be slid therein, or the
perforated partition may be a fixture.
In case of my using, a fixed partition without a lip--I propose to employ a slide
with a lipped top but not perforated such slide to be held in position close to the
fixed partition either by grooves in the cup as before mentioned or otherwise.
I also propose to place the partitions out of the centre of the drinking vessel so
that the compartments will be unequal.
The tea or matter from which an infusion is desired is to be placed in the smaller
of the two compartments so that when the water is poured over the tea it shall
pass through the perforated partition into the larger compartment which will then
contain the clear infusion.
The object of the slide without perforations is to effect a complete separation
between the two compartments. It is to be inserted after the infusion is made and
will then prevent anything that may be added to the clear infusion i.e. sugar
or milk, from being affected by the tea leaves or solid matter in the smaller
compartment.
The lipped top with which the slides are provided is to prevent the contents.of
the smaller compartment running over when the cup is inclined at an angle as it
would be when the infusion is being drunk.
And in order that my said invention may be better understood I will now
proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which:-
Fig. 1. represents sectional elevation of a cup provided with a fixed-partition.
Fig. 2. plan.
Fig. 3. plan of a cup shewing a movable partition.
a shews cup 6 fixed partition 6' movable partition d lipped top to same c grooves
in which the partition slides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The use of a fixed or sliding partition in cups and other drinking substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 10th day of December 1891.
is 10th day of December 1891.
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for Applicant.