IMPROVEMENTS IN CRUETS OR RECEPTACLES FOR SALT FOR USE AT TABLE
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Green at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd May 1879.
GEORGE GREEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Stamper and Piercer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CRUETS OR RECEPTACLES FOR SALT FOR USE AT TABLE,"
This Invention relates to an improved construction of cruets or receptacles for
salt for table and general use.
Salt-cellars or receptacles as at present and hitherto used are made of any required
shape or pattern and of any desired material, and they are most generally made
open as a bowl at the top, and have a spoon or equivalent means by which the salt
can be removed therefrom as desired and placed at or upon the side of the plate.
For this purpose the present arrangement answers tolerably well, but in the
seasoning and preparation of salads and various other articles of food it is necessary
and is by some generally preferred to sprinkle the salt uniformly over the salad or
other dishes requiring similar preparation and the uniform addition of condiments,
and in such cases the present arrangement does not answer at all well, for with
whatever care the salt is sprinkled thus it is found a matter of great difficulty to
sprinkle it uniformly, as the salt will usually fall far too much in one place and
not at all in others, and thus the seasoning is irregular and the food is rendered
either distasteful or it is not appreciated.
Now the object of this Invention is to obtain a more convenient means of
sprinkling the salt in the compounding or seasoning of salads, and in the prepara-
tion or seasoning of other dishes, and in other domestic, culinary, or table uses than
the usual salt-cellar spoon affords, while at the same time also to supply a better
means of placing the salt at or upon the side or other part of the plate when
required.
In order to attain this object I form the cruets, cellars, or receptacles for the salt
of any desired shape and of any required material as heretofore, but I enclose or
cover the top by a suitable hinged or removable screwed or other cap, or other
equivalent means, of a flat, dome, conical, or other shape, which can be opened or
removed to allow of the salt being placed in the cruet or receptacle, and when
closed down or replaced will prevent it from falling out if upset, or of its being
removed bodily.

page_text: In order to allow of the uniform sprinkling of the contents I perforate the cover
or cap with suitably sized apertures or holes in any desired ornamental pattern for
the enhancement of the appearance, and to allow of the salt being placed in quantity
as desired at or upon the side of the plate or otherwise I make the said cap or cover
with a central or otherwise situated opening, which can be closed by a cork, glass,
metal, or other removable stopper of any desired form; or I form it with a side
spout, the aperture of which can be closed by means of a spring hinged to or other-
wise carried on or by the lid or cover, and which may be actuated by the pressure
of the finger so as to uncover the aperture of the spout when a quantity of salt is
required to be removed at once.