IMPROVEMENTS IN SPOONS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Paul Lomas, of 155, Moor Street, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, and of 141, Bridge Road, Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPOONS."
Sealed the 25th November 1879, and dated the 5th September 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Paul Lomas at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th September 1879.
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THOMAS PAUL LOMAS, of 155, Moor Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and of 141, Bridge Road, Battersea, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPOONS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in spoons.
In eating soup and other similar food with an ordinary spoon great inconvenience
is experienced by persons with long mustaches as it is very difficult to prevent the
mustaches from being soiled.
I obviate this inconvenience by placing a cover over part of the bowl of the
spoon.
I by preference make the bowl of the spoon of the ordinary shape, but instead of
the handle being fixed at one end I fix it at the side. The cover extends over
about half the bowl. A large opening is left at the rounded end so as to enable
the bowl to be filled without immersing the cover, and a small opening is left at the
other or pointed end through which the contents is poured or emptied into the
mouth, the cover extending far enough to keep the mustache out of the bowl. The
size of these openings should be so adjusted as to render the operations of filling
and emptying the spoon as easy as possible, whilst at the same time preventing the
mustaches from coming into contact with the contents of the spoon.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Paul Lomas in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th March
1880.
THOMAS PAUL LOMAS, of 155, Moor. Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and of 141, Bridge Road, Battersea, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPOONS.".
:
This Invention has for its object improvements in spoons.
In eating soup and other similar food with an ordinary spoon great inconvenience
is experienced by persons with long mustaches, as it is very difficult to prevent
tlie mustaches from being soiled.
I obviate this inconvenience by placing, a cover over part of the bowl of the
spoon.
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I by preference make the bowl of the spoon of the ordinary shape, but instead of
the handle being fixed at one end I fix it at the side. The cover extends over
about half the bowl, a large opening is left at the rounded end so as to enable the
bowl to be filled without immersing the cover, and a small opening is left at
other or pointed end through which, the contents is poured, or. emptied into the
mouth, the cover extending far enough to keep the mustache out of the bowl. The
size of these openings should be so adjusted as to render the operations of filling
and emptying the spoon, as easy as possible, whilst at the same time préventing.the
mustaches from coming into contact with the contents of the spoon.
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A spoon made in accordance with my Invention is represented by the Drawing
hereunto annexed.
I claim as my improvements in spoons,-
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First. Making, spoons with, a cover extending, over part of the bowl, but leaving
uncovered a portion at each end, the one for filling, the spoon and the other for
emptying its contents into the mouth.
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Second. Making spoons substantially as herein, described; and illustrated, by the
annexed Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Paul Lomas, have hereunto set my hand.
and seal, this Second day of March, in the year, of our Lord; One, thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
THOMAS; PAUL LOMAS: (L.S.)