The Manufacture of Double Spoon-like Appliances for Holding Dry Tea or other Substance for Making Decoctions thereof.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification, Left, 16th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture of Double Spoon-like Appliances for Holding Dry
Tea or other Substance for Making Decoctions thereof.
I, GEORGE GRAY, of 114 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, Manu--
facturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the manufacture of double spoon like appliances for
holding dry tea, ground coffee, or other substances to enable a cup of tea, coffee, or
other drink to be rapidly produced by a simple operation of pouring boiling water
into the cup in which the charged double spoon like appliance is first placed.
For the purpose of my invention, I manufacture by stamping, or otherwise, a couple
of spoon bowls perforated, or openworked with handles, which I joint together, so that
the bowls can be opened upwards or sideways from each other, when the dry tea, or
other substance has to be put into one of the bowls, or the spent leaves etc. have to be.
shook out.
Instead of both bowls having handles, one only may be so arranged, the other
having a short stump with a turned up end and provided with a screw ring, which
when turned to the right, or to the left, will act upon the stump to open, or to close
the one bowl upon the other. The screw may be substituted by a band on the handle
to be slipped under the stump to hold it up and the bowl closed.
Dated this 12th day of April 1890.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said George Gray.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Manufacture of Double Spoon-like Appliances for Holding Dry
Tea or other Substance for Making Decoctions thereof.
I GEORGE GRAY, of 114, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, Manu-
facturing Jeweller, 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 :-
This invention has for object the manufacture of double spoon like appliances for
holding dry tea, ground coffee, or other substances to enable a cup of tea, coffee or
other drink to be rapidly produced by a simple operation of pouring boiling water
into the cup in which the charged double spoon like appliance is first placed.
For the purpose of my invention I manufacture by stamping or otherwise a couple
of spoon bowls, perforated or openworked with handles which I joint together so that
the bowls can be opened upwards or sideways from each other when the dry tea or
other substance has to be put into one of the bowls or the spent leaves etc. have to be
shook out.
Instead of both bowls having handles, one only may be so arranged, the other
having a short stump end and provided with a screw ring which when turned to the
right or to the left will set upon the stump to open or to close the one bowl upon the
other. The screw ring may be substituted by a band on the handle to be slipped
under the stump to hold it up and the bowl closed.
Several examples of double bowl spoons are shown in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of two spoon bowls A, B, both of which are openworked.
One bowl A is provided with a handle C, and a screw ring D encircles same and also
a stump E of the other bowl B just bebind the hinge pin F. The outer end of the

page_text: stump E is curved upwards so that as the screw ring D is turned backwards the upper
howl B becomes folded upwards and separated from the lower bowl A the reverse
movement of the ring or band D closing it again.
Figure 2 is a corresponding view but with meshed bowls A, B, and with the ring D
upon the handle only so that it may be slid under the curved end of the stump E for
keeping the bowls closed and so that when the ring D is drawn backwards a pressure
on the stump E will open or separate the bowls A, B.
Figure 3 shows a two bowled spoon hinged at the side G, the stump E being
uncurved to engage under the ring D to keep the bowls closed but so shaped that it
can be easily lifted, to fold the bowl B open when the band D is screwed or drawn
back.
Figure 4 is a plan of a double bowled spoon, with the upper bowl B hinged by a
pin at F to the shank H of the handle C as more particularly seen at the part
sectional elevations figures 5 and 6.
In this arrangement the shank H is formed with a boss I for a screw pin J to work
in and press against the eye of the loose bowl when the head D is turned in the
proper direction. The upper bowl when free can be lifted to rest upon the boss or
bridge I when the lower bowl A has to be charged or emptied.
Figure 7 represents an elevation of a double bowl spoon with a flattish spring K
affixed to the handle the eye of the upper bowl B being so shaped that it can be
held in open or a closed position by the tail of the spring K.
Figure 8 is an elevation of a double bowl spoon with the shank L of the upper
bowl B pivotted in a slot of the handle C of the lower bowl A a screw band or ring D
being employed to pass over the shank L when folded down.
Figures 9 and 10 are side and plan views of a double bowl spoon with a hollow
handle C to the lower bowl A and containing a piston M movable in one direction by
a knob N the stem of which rides in a bayonet shaped slot of the handle so that the
piston can be held in a backward position when pulled back and a side motion
given to the knob.
The piston M may be fitted for movement in both directions by the knob, or a
spring P can be fitted for the return or closing operation when the bowl B is folded
down.
Figure 11 represents a two bowl spoon with pivotted handles C, C, to open and
close by a sideward action, a stop Q being on the lower bowl A to prevent the upper
bowl B going beyond the covering of the lower bowl.
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
The several methods shown on the annexed drawings of affixing one bowl to the
other bowl of a double bowl spoon and the means or appliances by which the
separation and the closing of the same can be effected and the movable bowl
secured in position, all as described.
H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said G. Gray.