An Improved Lid for Honey or Syrup Vessels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1893—Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lid for Honey or Syrup Vessels.
HUGH WALTER PELLS FRITH, 25 St. Johns Place Richmond Surrey, Grocer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I make a collar of sheet metal to fit over a suitable vessels neck or mouth, to
which I fix it by cement plaster of paris, or by turning the edge of the said collar
over a rim moulded in the vessel.
Inside the vessels mouth, attached to the collar, I fix an upright; of the same
curvature as the vessels neck.
Over this spout & collar I make a suitable lid-preferably of stamped metal-
which I fix to the collar by means of a hinge. To the lid I attach a small pro-
jecting thumb lever-by means of which the lid is raised.
On the inside of the collar aforementioned, I fix a suitable spring-the pressure
of which keeps the lid close upon the collar.
On pressure being applied to the thumb lever-the lid working upon the hinge
-opens. And upon the pressure being removed, the lid is instantly closed by
the spring: thus covering the vessels mouth & the spout also, to which syrup
may be adhering-thus protecting it from dust, flies &c.
Dated this 8th day of September 1892.
HUGH WALTER PELLS FRITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lid for Honey or Syrup Vessels.
HUGH WALTER PELLS FRITH 25 St. Johns Place Richmond, Surrey, Grocer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
To the neck of vessels suitable for containing honey or syrup I fix a metal
collar and lid, inside of which I place an upright spout to cut the flow of the
liquid and prevent it from running down the sides of the vessel after pouring.
Whilst the lid protects the contents from dust and insects. The particular
method of construction I adopt is as follows.
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Inside the vessels mouth, I fix a thin piece of sheet metal in the shape of a
spout with a curvature corresponding to the width of the vessel. This spout I
make to take a vertical position & may be also fixed to the inside of the rim
of the collar by a suitable groove in its base as illustrated in the drawings.
The collar aforementioned, I make to fit over and around the rim of the neck
of the vessel, so as to form a foundation for the support of the spout and lid
which I attach thereto. This collar I fix firmly to the neck of the vessel by
cement, plaster of paris or by turning its lower edge over a rim moulded in the
vessel.
I then fix a suitably shaped lid to the collar by a hinge pin running through
both, upon which pin I put a spiral spring, one end of which I solder to the
lid and the other to the collar, in such a manner that will cause the lid to have
a continual tendency to close. To the back of this lid I fix a thumb lever to raise
the same when required-a slight depression of which overcomes the pressure of the
spring, and moves the lid upon the hinge pin already described, thus uncovering the
mouth of the vessel ready for pouring.
On the pressure being removed from the thumb lever, the lid instantly closes by

page_text: the force of the spiral spring aforementioned thus accomplishing the object of this
invention as previously set forth.
The accompanying drawings I now describe
A. Fig. I illustrates the collar.
B II is the spout with a groove in its base C.
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III is the lid which covers the vessels mouth.
IV illustrates the whole cover in position.
IV is the thumb lever.
G IV is the position of the hinge pin & spring.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I claim is.
1st. The construction and arrangement of the automatic closing lid for syrup and
honey vessels.
2nd. The configuration and arrangement of the upright spout for cutting the flow
of honey and syrup.
Dated this 17th day of January 1893.
HUGH WALTER PELLS FRITH.