IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF TEA AND COFFEE POTS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Biggin, of Sheffield, and Joshua Biggin, of
the same Place, White Metal Smiths, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF TEA AND COFFEE POTS AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 13th April 1858, and dated the 10th December 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua
Biggin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 10th December 1857.
We, SAMUEL BIGGIN, of Sheffield, and JOSHUA BIGGIN, of the same Place,
White Metal Smiths, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANDLES OF TEA AND COFFEE POTS
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of the
handles of tea and coffee pots and other similar articles. In the manufacture
of these articles we employ pieces of horn let into the handle, for the purpose
of insulating it from the body of the pot, so as to prevent it from becoming
heated. For this purpose we mould the horn when softened by heat to the
required form, that is to say, the piece of horn is formed with a raised ring at
its centre, of the same size as the exterior of the handle of the pot, at the part
where it is to be inserted, and with two indented rings, one on each side of

page_text: the raised ring; we afterwards fill up these indented rings with metal, either
by casting it or pressing it into them, and when the piece of horn is thus
prepared it is inserted into the hollow ends of the two parts of the handle of
which it is to form a part, and is finally attached to them by soldering.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin in the Great Seal Paten
Office on the 20th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, SAMUEL
BICOIN, of Sheffield, and JOSHUA BIGGIN, of the same Place, White Metal
Smiths, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin, Her special licence that we, the said
Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any timo agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 CONSTRUCTION OF THE
HANDLES OF TEA AND COFFEE POTS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the we, the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua
Biggin, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly describod and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of the
handles of tea and coffee pots and other similar articles. In the manufacture

page_text: readny carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view of a handle constructed according to our Invention;
Figure 2 is a side view, partly in section. The handle is made in three parts,
a, b, and c, of Britannia or other suitable metal; the end portions a and c are
soldered to the body of the pot or article, and between them and the centra!
portion of the handle pieces of horn d and e are interposed. These pieces of
horn are brought to the desired form by pressing the horn when in a heated
state in suitable moulds, as is well understood when making other articles of
horn. The piece of horn for the upper part of the handle is shown in side
view and front view at Figures 3, and similar views of the piece for the lower
part of the handle are shown at Figures 4. The pieces of horn formed in
this way are placed in metal or other moulds, so constructed as to leave vacant
spaces around the indented rings in the horn, and Britannia metal is cast into
the spaces (the moulds being heated in the usual way), as is shown at Figures
5 and 6. Sometimes holes are drilled in the horn, as is shewn at Figures 3
and 4, so that in casting the fluid metal may pass through the horn, and thus
give the metal when cast on a better hold. In place of casting the Britannia
metal on to the pieces of horu, a strip of that metal of an L section may
be wrapped round the horn, so as to form a ring, which is then made to
adhere closely by pressure between dies. The pieces of horn with the metal
rings round them are slipped into their places and soldered and the pieces a, b,
and c of the handle.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we do not confine
ourselves to the exact details described; but what we claim is, the soldering

page_text: the parts of the handle to metal rings cast or pressed on to picces of moulded
horn, as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Biggin and Joshua Biggin,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
W NOWILL,
No. 5, Portland Street,
Upperthorpe, Sheffield.
SAMUEL BIGGIN. (L.B.)
JOSHUA BIGGIN.
(L.B.)