IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIDS OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ÅRTICLES " OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES "
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Thompson, of Napier Street, Sheffield, in
the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIDS
OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ÅRTICLES
"
OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Thompson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th February 1872.
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I, JAMES THOMPSON, of Napier Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE LIDS OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES,”
to be as follows:
My improvements consist in making the lids or covers of vegetable
dishes in one, two, or more parts, and so arranging the same that by
means of a thumb lever the whole may be opened at once, presenting
to the view a variety of vegetables at one and the same time, but each
separate and distinct.

page_text: In order that my Invention may be more distinctly understood I will
here describe the mode of operation, reference being made to accom-
panying Drawings; Fig. 1 being a general view, and Fig. 2 a section.
I take a dish of metal or other material made by any of the ordinary
known methods and attach a basket-like or kettle form of handle a (see
Drawings) in any manner most convenient, through the centre of which
I pierce a hole 6 so as to allow the handle or stem of the lever c to pass
through, I then take a lid in two parts d, d, the same being properly
fitted, and attach them by means of a swivel joint e or upon wire or
other convenient manner at each side of the dish so as to form a hinge
or joint near the centre of the dish and immediately underneath the
handle, each lid being fastened independent of the other but so as to
meet in the centre by each projecting a little beyond the pivots or
joints e, e, as shown at Fig. 2, I then place a round ended leverf, the
round or bevilled end exactly over and across the centre of the two lids,
the handle or stem of the same c passing upwards and through the
handle a of the dish, so that a person taking hold of the dish by the
handle and pressing the thumb upon the top of the lever c¹ the rounded
end f is forced down upon the two projecting parts of the lids, causing
the lids to work upon the pivots or joints e, e, and gradually force open
the lids d, d, from the outer ends, as seen at Fig. 2; by removing the
pressure from the lever the lids close again by means of their own weight.
I make however a provision in the event of the lids chafing by any
means and not closing, by making a projection upon the bottom of the
lever and continuing the same down between and underneath the
projecting ends of the lids and fastening thereto a kind of forked end g,
Fig. 2, across the under side of the projecting parts of the lids, so that
by simply pulling the lever c, c, upwards (the same being made in a
convenient form for this purpose) closes the lid effectually.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 3
filed by the said James Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
THOMPSON, of Napier Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, send
grecting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Thompson, Her special
licence that I, the said James Thompson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Thompson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE LIDS OR COVERS OF VEGETABLE DISHES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Thompson, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the dato of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Thompson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
My improvements consist in making the lids or covers of vegetable
dishes in one, two, or more parts, and so arranging the same that by
means of a thumb lever the whole may be opened at once, presenting
to the view a variety of vegetables at one and the same time but each
one separate and distinct.
In order that my Invention may be more distinctly understood I will
here describe the mode of operation, reference being made to the
accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 being a general view of a dish, and
Fig. 2 a sectional view of same, the same letters of reference referring
to like parts throughout.
I take a dish of metal or other material made by any of the ordinary
known methods, and attach a basket-like or kettle form of handle a in
any manner most convenient, through the centre of which I pierce a
hole so as to allow the handle or stem of the lever c to pass through.

page_text: I then take a lid in two parts d, d, the same being properly fitted, and
attach them by means of a swivel joint e, e, or upon wire or other
convenient manner at each side of the dish so as to form a hinge or
joint near the centre of the dish and immediately underneath the handle,
each lid being fastened independent of the other, but so as to meet in
the centre by each projecting a little beyond the pivot or joint as shewn.
I then place a round ended lever ƒ, ƒ, the round or bevelled ends exactly
over and across the centre of the two lids, the handle or stem of the
same c passing upwards and through the handle of the dish, so that by
a person taking hold of the dish by the handle and pressing the thumb
upon the top of the lever c the rounded ends f, f, are forced down upon
the two projecting parts of the lids, causing the lids to work upon the
pivots or joints e, e, and gradually force open the lids from the outer
ends. By removing the pressure from the lever the lids close again by
means of their own weight. I make, however, a provision in the event
of the lids chafing by any means and not closing by making a projection
upon the bottom of the lever and continuing the same down between
and underneath the projecting ends of the lids and fastening there a
kind of forked end g, Fig. 2, across the under side of the projecting
parts of the lids, so that by simply pulling the lever upwards (the
same being made in a convenient form for this purpose) closes the lid
effectually.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
mode of carrying the same into effect, now what I claim and desire to
be secured to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for improve-
ments in the lids or covers of vegetable dishes and other similar articles
as herein described and as shewn on the accompanying Drawings or any
mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Thompson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.