An Improved Method of Securing Lids to Earthenware Tea-pots and the like to Prevent said Lids from Falling Off when.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 27th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
An Improved Method of Securing Lids to Earthenware Tea-pots and
the like to Prevent said Lids from Falling Off when the Article
to which it is Applied is Tilted.
JOHN JONES GROCOTT, Potter, and JAMES LEONARD GROCOTT, Potters' Printer,
Heaton Terrace, Port Hill, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention has for its object, an improved method of securing lids to earthen-
ware tea-pots and the like, whereby we prevent said lids from falling off, when the
article to which it is applied is tilted.
We will now proceed to describe our invention as applied to a tea-pot, although
the same description is applicable to other articles of a similar nature. We take a
tea-pot of an ordinary form, but having a circular aperture in the top provided with
two small snugs or projections, placed opposite and pointing towards each other. We
then form two slot holes in the flange of lid, said slot holes being similar in shape to
the letter inverted (r), and placed opposite each other.
To secure the lid to tea-pot,-hold said lid so that the slot holes formed in its
flange correspond to the snugs or projections in the aperture of tea-pot; and when
the lid is down, turn it round until the said snugs or projections are in the horizontal
portions of slot holes, and the lid will be secured, so that it will not fall off when the
tea-pot is tilted.
To remove the lid, turn said lid round until the snugs or projections are in the
vertical portion of slot holes in lid, and lift it off in the usual way.
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BILLINGTON & NEWTON,
Vulcan Works, Longport, Staffordshire,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: An Improved Method of Securing Lids to Earthenware Tea-pots and
the like to Prevent said Lids from Falling Off when the Article
to which it is Applied is Tilted.
JOHN JONES GROCOTT, l'otter, and JAMES LEONARD GROCOTT, Potters' Printer,
Heaton Terrace, Port Hill, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, 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 :-
Our invention has for its object an improved method of securing lids to earthen-
ware tea-pots and the like, whereby we prevent said lids from falling off when the
article to which it is applied is tilted.
We will now proceed to describe our invention and the mode of operating same as
applied to a tea-pot, although the same description is applicable to other articles of a
similar nature, such as coffee pots, hot water jugs, and biscuit jars.
We take a
tea-pot of an ordinary form and having a circular aperture at the top which we provide
with two small snugs or projections, said snugs or projections being opposite and
pointing toward each other. In the flange of lid we form two slot holes similar in
shape to the letter ✓ inverted (r), said slot holes being at opposite sides of the flange,
to correspond with the snugs or projections upon aperture of tea-pot; so that when
said lid is placed over the aperture, the snugs or projections will fit into the vertical
portions of slot holes in flange of lid. To secure the lid to tea-pot, place the lid
over the aperture so that the snugs or projections fit into the vertical portions of slot
holes, and when said lid is down upon its seating partly rotate it, so that the horizontal
portions of the slot holes may be over the snugs or projections, and thus prevent said
lid from falling off when the tea-pot is tilted.
Reference being now had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate our
invention applied to a tea-pot. The same letters refer to the corresponding parts in
cach figure. Fig. 1 is a side view partly in section, shewing lid in position and after
it has been locked or partly rotated. Fig. 2 is a plan with the lid removed to shew
the snugs or projections, and fig. 3 is a side view of the lid.
A is the tea-pot, B the snugs or projections which fit into slot holes C formed in
lid D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The method or means of securing lids to earthenware tea-pots, coffee pots, hot
water jugs, and other articles of a similar nature, by means of snugs or projections
engaging in slot holes, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and
shewn.
Deted this 35th day of April 1999