Strainers or Percolators therefor.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct., 1888
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Strainers or Percolators therefor.
I, MATILDA ELLIS WOODS, of Maunche Hotel, Corn Exchange, Sheffield in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The object of my invention is to provide for retaining the leaves, grounds or other
sediment in tea-pots, coffee-pots or the like and for preventing the smallest particle
thereof from passing out with the infusion when poured into a cup or other receptacle.
I am thus enabled to produce a perfectly clear infusion of tea coffee or the like.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide near the front or spout of a
tea or coffee pot or like apparatus of any suitable size or shape, a partition extending
in a slanting direction towards the bottom of the pot and having a suitable hole or
aperture covered with fine wire gauze forming a strainer which permits the infusion
of tea or coffee to pass through to the spout when the apparatus is inclined in the act
of pouring but retains or holds back the leaves or grounds. The said partition is
moreover fitted near the bottom of the apparatus and below the said hole or
aperture, with a slanting ledge or guard which retains or holds back even the slightest
sediment.
For making an infusion of coffee I provide moreover upon the inner side of the
said partition or towards the body of the said apparatus a suitable slide in which fits
the flat side of a cage or percolator the other side of which is of semicircular or other
suitable shape, the front or semicircular part or that part of the said cage or percolator
towards the body of the apparatus as well as the bottom of the same is covered
with fine wire gauze and the top of the said cage or percolator is provided with a
hollow cover the bottom of which is also covered with fine wire gauze. The coffee
from which the infusion is to be made placed in this cage or percolator, which
is then placed in its position, by inserting the flat side in the slide upon the
partition inside the said apparatus, the hollow cover being then placed upon the
said cage or percolator, the boiling water is poured upon the said cover and passes
D

page_text: through the fine wire gauze and through the coffee contained in the cage or percolator
and out through the fine wire gauze forming the semicircular side and the bottom
of the latter into the body of the apparatus.
Any coffee grounds or other sediment that remains in the infusion is prevented
from passing out through the spout by the fine wire gauze upon the hole or aperture
forming the herein before described strainer in the partition and the slanting ledge or
guard near the bottom of the same in a similar manner to that already described when
the apparatus is used for making an infusion of tea.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Tea Pots, Coffee Pots, and the like, and to
Strainers or Percolators therefor.
1, MATILDA ELLIS WOODS, of Maunche Hotel, Corn Exchange, Sheffield, in the
County of York 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide for retaining the leaves, grounds, or other
sediment in tea pots, coffee-pots or the like or preventing any particles thereof from
passing out with the infusion when poured into a cup or other receptacle. 1. am
thus enabled to produce a perfectly clear infusion of tea, coffee or the like.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention can be con-
veniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a perspective view partly in section, showing a coffee pot with my
improvements applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a plan and
Figure 3 is a side elevation showing details of construction.
Figure 4 is a similar view showing a tea-pot with my improvements applied
thereto.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing.
A is the body of the pot, B is the lid, C the spout, and D the handle theroof.
a is a partition extending in a slanting direction towards the bottom of the pot A
and having a suitable hole or aperture b covered with fine wire gauze & forming a
strainer which permits the infusion of tea or coffee to pass through to the spout C which
is also provided with a perforated plate 62 when the apparatus is inclined in the act of
pouring, but retains or holds back the leaves or grounds. The said partition is more
over fitted near the bottom of the apparatus and below the said hole or aperture, with
a slanting ledge or guard c which retains or holds back even the slightest sediment.
For making an infusion of coffee I provide moreover upon the inner side of the said
partition or towards the body of the said apparatus, a suitable slide d in which fits the
flat side of a cage or percolator e the other side of which is of semicircular or other
suitable shape; the front or semicircular part or that part of the said cage or per-
colator e towards the body of the apparatus as well as the bottom of the same is covered
with fine wire-gauze and the top of the said cage or percolator is provided with a
hollow cover g the bottom of which is also covered with fine wire-gauze g¹. The coffee
from which the infusion is to be made is placed in the cage or percolator e which is then
placed in its position by inserting the flat side in the slide d upon the partition a inside
the said apparatus; the hollow cover g being then placed upon the said cage or per-
colator the boiling water is poured upon the said cover and passes through the fine
wire-gauze g and through the coffee contained in the cage or percolator and out
through the fine wire-gauze forming the semicircular side and the bottom of the latter,
into the body of the apparatus.

page_text: Any coffee grounds or other sediment that remains in the infusion is prevented
from passing out through the spout by the fine wire-gauze b¹ upon the hole or
aperture 6 forming the hereinbefore described strainer in the partition a and the
slanting ledge or guardo near the bottom of the same, in a similar manner to that
already described when the apparatus is used for making an infusion of tea.
I prefer to form the lid or cover B of the said tea or coffee pot A with a flat
or cut away portion h.
By forming the lid or cover B of this form a ledge or portion h¹ is left upon
the top of the tea or coffee pot A which serves to prevent the infusion of tea or
coffee from spilling when in the act of pouring out the same.
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. In a tea pot, coffee-pot or the like, the slanting partition having the aperture
covered with fine wire-gauze (with or without the ledge or guard) substantially as and
for the purposes, set forth.
Second. The cage, strainer, or percolator adapted to fit in suitable slides upon
the slanting partition and having a fine wire gauze bottom and front, and a hollow
cover provided with a bottom of fine wire-gauze, substantially as, and for the purpose
hereinbefore specified.
Third. The lid or cover having a flattened or cut away portion substantially as
described.
Fourth. The improved tea or coffee pot substantially as described with reference to
Figure 1 or to Figure 2 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 20th day of August 1888.
MATILDA ELLIS WOODS.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.