AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF SPOONS AND LADLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Bullivant, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and Charles Hackney, .of
Balsall Heath, near Birmingham aforesaid, Mechanic, for the
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Sealed the 12th July 1853, and dated the 13th January 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Bullivant
and Charles Hackney at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th January 1858.
We, CHARLES BULLIVANT and CHARLES HACKNEY, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN CERTAIN KINDS OF SPOONS AND LADLES" to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to such spoons and ladles as are or may be
made of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous
substances, and consists in constructing the handles of the said spoons
and ladles of metal or other material less brittle than the material of
which the bowls of the said spoons and ladles are made. We attach
the said handles to the said bowls in any convenient manner. Spoons
and ladles made entirely of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other
vitreous or semi-vitreous substance are very fragile, owing to the

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Bullivant and Charles Hackney in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th July 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
CHARLES BULLIVANT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and CHARLES HACKNEY, of Ballsall Heath, near Bir-
mingham aforesaid, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Charles Bullivant and Charles Hackney,
special licence that we, the said Charles Bullivant and Charles
Hackney, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Charles Bullivant and Charles Hackney, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF SPOONS AND LADLES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles Bullivant and
Charles Hackney, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that wc, the said Charles Bullivant and Charles
Hackney, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say:
Our Invention relates to such spoons and ladles as are or may be
made of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous
substance, and consists in constructing the handles of the said spoons
and ladles of metal or other material less brittle than the material of
which the bowls of the said spoons and ladles are made. Spoons and
ladles made entirely of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other vitreous
or semi-vitreous substance are very fragile, owing to the thinness of
their handles and the brittleness of the material of which they are
made, and their fragility is the greatest objection to their use; by our
Invention this objection is removed, while the advantages arising from
the use of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other vitreous or semi-
vitreous substance in the manufacture of spoons and ladles are pre-
served. We do not limit ourselves to any particular manner of attaching
the metallic or other handles to the bowls of spoons or ladles made
of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous
substance, but we have represented in the accompanying Drawing
some of the methods we employ, the articles represented being in
illustration of the method of attaching handles of metal or other
substance to bowls of spoons made of earthenware.
Figure 1, represents the complete spoon in plan. «, is the bowl of
earthenware; b, the handle of metal or other substance; the bowl a, and
handle b, are shewn separately in Figure 2; and Figure 3, represents
a section of the complete spoon taken through the line c, Figure 1. The
part 6', of the handle b, fits on the depression a', of the bowl a, and is
held in its place by the rivet d. Figures 4, 5, and 6, illustrate another
method of carrying our Invention into effect. In this method a short
stem or handle e, is formed in one piece with the bowl, and on the side
of the said bowl to which the handle f, is to be attached, and the said
short stem or handle e, is introduced into a hole in the handle f, and

page_text: secured there by rivetting, cementing, or in any other convenient
manner. Figure 5, represents the bowl and stem e, in plan; and
Figure 6, represents a section of the bowl and stem e, and the handle f,
separately. Instead of making the stem e, enter a hole in the handle.
f, we sometimes make the handle f, solid, and the stem e, hollow, and
insert the handle f, in the said stem, and attach them in any convenient
manner:
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the methods of carrying our Invention
into effect herein described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of our said Invention. But we claim as our Invention the addi-
tion of handles of metal or other non-brittle material to the bowls of
such spoons and ladles as are or may be made of earthenware, por--
celain, glass, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substance, in place of
handles made of the same material as the bowls, or the making of
spoons and ladles having bowls of earthenware, porcelain, glass, or
other vitreous and semi-vitreous substance, and handles of metal or other
material less brittle than the material of which the said bowls are made,
whether the said bowls and handles are connected together by the
methods herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
or by any other method.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Bullivant, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
CHARLES BULLIVANT. (L.S.)
(L.S.)