An Improved Appliance for Infusing Tea.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Infusing Tea.
JAMES WILLIAM HAME Tea and Coffee Merchant 13 St. Giles Street,
Norwich Norfolk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A circular pocket or receptacle made of fine gauze wire in any number of sizes to
suit the capacity of teapots and tea urns, with a long metal or other handle, a
concave cover of gauze wire connected with a hinge or other device with a clasp.
Dated this 29th day of May 1894.
I, JAMES WILLIAM HAME, Tea and Coffee Merchant, 13 St. Giles' Street,
Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, 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 :-
My improved appliance for infusing tea consists of a circular or curved pocket or
receptacle of fine wire gauze, attached to a suitable band or frame of sheet metal,
and provided with a cover of suitable shape, also made of wire gauze, and with
a frame. The cover is connected to the pocket or receptacle by a hinge, or
equivalent device, with a spring clasp arranged to fasten the two parts together.
A long handle of metal, or other suitable material, is secured to the infuser, which
is made of various sizes to suit the capacities of tea pots and tea urns.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an improved tea infuser showing the two parts
secured together by the spring clasp.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same form of infuser, but with the cover
opened out on its hinge, and
Fig. 3 indicates a similar view but with the pocket and cover placed at right
angles to the position of those parts in Figs. 1 and 2.
In these drawings, a is the handle, is the frame of the receptacle to which the
handle is secured, c is the frame of the cover, d is the hinge which unites both
frames together and it may form au integral part of the handle, or be secured
thereto; e and fare the two parts of the spring clasp which serve to secure the two
frames together ;_and 9 and h respectively denote the receptacle and the cover made
of wire gauze. The gauze is made of fine wire, closely woven, to prevent tea dust
passing through; and after it is made into the required form, the parts g and h are
firmly secured to their respective frames b and c. These frames are preferably
made of sheet metal doubled over with the rounded edges towards each other.
This allows the wire gauze to be placed between the two thicknesses of each frame
so as to be firmly clamped or rivetted together, but the wire gauze is sometimes
secured to a frame of a single thickness of metal, and by rivetting, soldering,
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page_text: or other suitable method. Any convenient form of hinge and clamping device is
used, and when the parts are put together, the whole is preferably silver plated.
In using the infuser, tea is placed in the pocket or receptacle, the cover closed,
and the whole inserted in the teapot or urn, within which the boiling water is
poured, and the infusion made. The infuser is allowed to remain as long as is
considered desirable, after which it is lifted out and the spent tea leaves are easily
removed from the receptacle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is ;-
An improved appliance for infusing tea consisting of a pocket or receptacle of
wire gauze, and a cover of the same material, each secured to a frame and the two
frames connected to each other by a hinge and attached to a handle, as and for the
purpose herein described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of February 1895.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents for the Applicant.