Improvements in and relating to Ornaments for Decorating Prepared Food Dishes for Table.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1890-Accepted,, 27th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ornaments for Decorating
Prepared Food Dishes for Table.
I ROSABELLA SOPHIA URQUHART, of 250 Union Street in the City and County of
Aberdeen, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new mode and means, or arrange-
ment and combination of devices for being attached to and ornamenting or decorating
dishes of prepared food for table use, such as tongues, hams, fowls, game, boar heads,
and the like, for family use, and at mess tables, clubs and other dining places, and
which will be more ornamental and useful than the devices heretofore used for these
purposes, and prevent the risk of accidents by cooks putting ornamental papers on
the cooked food with common pins, which are often found in the dishes.
The improved devices under one arrangement consist in using pins with ornamental
heads on their outer ends, such as designs in the form of roses, thistles, or thistle heads,
shamrocks, or other emblems of flowers, and with pointed inner ends which would
project into the tongue, fowl, or other food on the dish. These new pins would pre-
ferably be used together in pairs situated some distance apart, and connected at their
heads or outer ends by a chain or chains, ornamental ribbons, or cords, wound into a
curved scroll or other ornamental shape, and may have emblems, flowers, or other
ornaments in the centre when two chains are used above each other. Or these new
pins may be made to secure paper or other ornaments in like manner.
These new
attaching pins may be made in the designs of daggers, swords, pistols, and the like, or
decorated with pendants, or they may be made in the form of duplex pins. These
pins and chains may be made of metal electro-plated in gold, silver, or other metal
which would not corrode and be easily cleaned by the servants for general use in the
decorating of dished foods for table.
Dated the 2nd M 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Ornaments for Decorating
Prepared Food Dishes for Table.
⚫I ROSABELLA SOPHIA URQUHART, of 250 Union Street, in the City and County of
Aberdeen, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, that is to say :-
My invention has reference to and comprises a new mode of, and means or
arrangement and combination of devices for being attached to and ornamenting or.
decorating dishes of prepared food for table use, such as tongues, hams, fowls, game,
boar-heads, cutlets, and the like, for family use, and at mess-tables, clubs, hotels, and
other dining places, and which will be more ornamental, useful, and durable than the
devices heretofore used for these purposes, and prevent the risk of accidents by cooks
putting ornamental papers on the cooked food with common pins, which are often
found in the dishes.
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
an explanatory sheet of drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of one design of my new or improved ornamental
.

page_text: devices for decorating food dishes, consisting of a pair of thistles mounted on the
heads of pins and connected together by a chain.
Figure 2 shows an elevation of another design of my improved food ornamenting
devices in which three thistles are shown, with hinged fixing pins fitted thereto, and
connected together by two chains.
Figure 3 shows a perspective view of a cooked tongue with the design shown on
Figure 2 applied thereto.
Figure 4 shows a perspective view of a cooked ham with a design similar to Figure 1,
but with hinged pins and duplex chains applied thereto.
Figure 5 shows an elevation of another design of my improved food ornamenting
devices consisting of a base stand with a thistle on top and an annular series of hanging
annular pins and chains connected to the base stand.
Figure 6 shows a perspective view of a dish of cutlets ornamented with the form of
design shown in Figure 5.
Referring to these drawings, the improved devices under the arrangement shown
in Figure 1 consist in using pins a with ornamental heads a' on their outer ends, such
as designs in the form thistles or thistle heads, roses, shamrocks, or other emblems of
flowers or ornaments, and with pointed inner ends a¹¹ which would project into the
ham, tongue, fowl, or other food on the dish. These new pins a are preferably used
together in pairs situated some distance apart as shown in Figure 1 and connected at
their heads a' or outer ends by a chain as or chains, ornamental ribbons, or cords, or
their equivalent and which may be wound into a curved scroll or other ornamental
shape round the dished food, and have thistles, flowers, hearts or emblems, coats of
arms or other ornaments in the centre when two chains a³ are used above each other
as shown in Figures 2 and 3. Or these new pins a may be made to secure paper or
other ornaments in like manner. These new attaching pins a may be hinged to the
centre parts of the thistles or other designs as shown in Figures 2 and 3; or they
may be made in the designs of daggers, swords, pistols, and the like, or decorated with
pendants, or they may be made in the form of duplex pins. As shown in Figures 5
and 6 the thistles a¹ or other designs may be secured on the top of a vertical base
stand A and have a series of pins a attached thereto by chains a³, and these pins a would
have their points a¹¹ secured in the ends of cutlets or other food dishes with ornamental
papers, as shown in Figure 6. These pins a thistles or ornaments a¹ and chains a³
may be made of metal electro-plated in gold, silver, or other metal which would not
corrode, and be easily cleaned by boiling or washing by the servants for general use
in the decorating of dished foods for table.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The mode of and means or arrangement and combination of ornamenting and
attaching devices for decorating prepared food dishes for table use, substantially as
herein described, in reference to, and by way of application shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Second. The combination of thistles, flowers, emblems, or other ornamental designs
with attaching pins and connecting chains, ribbons, cords or their equivalent, for
decorating prepared food dishes for table use, substantially as herein described in
reference to and by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 25th Novemhan 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.