Improved Straining Device for Coffee-jugs or the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improved Straining Device for Coffee-jugs or the like.
I, CHARLES DEAN SUTTON, of 47 Church Street, Lancaster, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved straining device for coffee-jugs or the
like, and consists in providing means that can be readily applied to, and removed
from, a coffee-jug or similar vessel, for effectually straining the contents thereof.
In carrying my invention into practice, provide a bag of any suitable shape,
formed of wire-gauze of suitable mesh, or of gauze composed of any other
desirable material, which bag is preferably strengthened and given rigidity, by
means of a metal or other rim around the upper edge or mouth. This rim has
affixed to it, or formed integral therewith, two or more hooks, adapted to fit upon
the upper rim of the coffee-jug or the like, and support the said strainer within the
mouth of the said Jug or the like, the hooks allowing of the said strainer being
readily removed from the coffee-jug or the like, and replaced therein. Where
the jug or the like is provided with a lid, grooves may be formed in the sides
of same, or other provision may be made to allow the said lid to properly fit in
or upon the mouth of the said coffee-jug or the like.
Dated this 24th day of November 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.
I, CHARLES DEAN SUTTON, of 47 Church Street, Lancaster, Manufacturer,
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 relates to an improved straining device for coffee-jugs or the like,
and has for object to provide a strainer that can be readily applied to, and
removed from, a coffee-jug or similar vessel, for effectually straining the contents
thereof.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1. is a front view of the straining device.
Fig. 2. being a side view of a coffee-jug, partly broken away to shew the device
in position, while
Fig. 3. is a plan of the jug with the device in position therein.
Referring to the drawings, I have there shewn the device as being in the form
of a plate a of wire-gauze or other suitable material, though it may conveniently
be in the form of a bag.
The said plate a, is preferably of a semi-elliptical or V-shape to conform to the
shape of the mouth 6' of the jug b, and is provided with hooks a¹ upon its upper
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page_text: part, to enable it to be suspended within the mouth of the jug, from the rim of the
latter, as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3. By this means the strainer a can be readily
removed from the jug, and replaced therein as occasion requires it.
The strainer is strengthened and given rigidity by means of a metal or other
rim a³.
Where the jug b is provided with a lid, grooves or recesses are provided in same
or other suitable provision is made, to allow of such lid fitting properly over that
part of the jug, where the hooks a' project slightly above the rim of the said jug.
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
1. A straining device consisting of a bag or plate and provided with means
for suspending same within a jug, substantially as described and shewn.
2. A straining device, consisting of a semi-elliptical plate or bag, formed of
wire gauze, having a strengthening rim, and provided with hooks for suspending
such strainer from the rim of a jug to intercept the contents of latter substantially
as described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of August 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.