Improved Construction of Appliances for use in Brewing or Infusing Tea or the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Construction of Appliances for use in Brewing or Infusing
Tea or the like.
I, WILLIAM WADE, High Street Works, Burslem, Staffs., Earthenware
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of appliance or
appliances for use in connection with tea-pots or the like receptacles for brewing
or infusing tea, and the object of my said invention is to produce such appliances
in a cheap and efficient manner.
One way of carrying my said invention into practice is by constructing such
brewing or infusing appliances in a curved or half-round form by moulding from
earthenware, china or other suitable material or materials without holes or
perforations, the flat or nearly flat sides of such appliances I perforate with any
suitable number of holes or apertures whilst in their clay state by machinery or
other suitable means much smaller than is the present practice, and I attach the
said side to the curved part and bottom by first moistening the parts where I wish
them to adhere with "slip," after which such appliances are fired, or I form any
suitable number of apertures or holes in and through the curved parts of such
appliances by means of hand tools, and through the flat or nearly flat parts by
machinery as herein before stated.
It will be understood that by making smaller apertures or holes in and through
the sides of such appliances, much finer tea or other ingredient or ingredients can
be infused, thus reducing the liability of such ingredients to escape from the interior
of such appliances when in use.
Dated this 12th day of p
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Construction of Appliances for use in Brewing or Infusing
Tea or the like.
WILLIAM WADE Flaxman Art Tile Works Burslem, Staffs., Earthenware
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 my invention has reference to an improved construction of appliance or
appliances for use in connection with tea-pots and the like receptacles for brewing
or infusing tea, and the object of my said invention is to produce such appliances
in a cheap and efficient manner.
In carrying my said invention into practice I form the main part or body of such
appliances with a lug or ear at the top end of each side, of any convenient shape
and size of or from earthenware by moulding, pressing, turning or throwing, and
whilst in a clay state I cut a portion of each side, and a part of the bottom of such
bodies away.
I then by means of a suitably shaped metallic die or dies worked by
hand, or attached to a press or other suitable machine form from clay flat or curved
perforated slabs.or sheets of suitable shape and size, each sheet I make a little
larger than the parts cut from the main body of such appliances, so as to leave a
sufficient margin or plain portion around the perforated portion of such slabs or
sheets, so that such sheets can whilst in their clay state by means of "slip" or
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page_text: other adhesive be attached to the main body or portion of such appliances where
cut away, such appliances are then dipped and fired in the usual manner.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts on all the figures alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of an improved strainer or infuser, such as is used
for brewing or infusing tea or the like, having an ear or lug at the top end of each
of its sides, and with perforated sides and bottom portion.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a plan view of the strainer or infuser shewn at Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is a transverse sectional elevation of a tea-pot, and a strainer or infuser
such as illustrated at Figures 1, 2 and 3 in transverse section fitted therein.
Figure 5 shews the top portion of a tea-pot in transverse section, having a
portion cut out from each side of its rim, and the top portion of a strainer or
infuser having cars or lugs at the top end of each of its sides fitted therein.
Figure 6 is a plan view of Figure 5, shewing the lug on each side of such
strainer extending through the aperture in each side of the rim of the tea-pot, and
a short distance beyond such sides, so that such strainers can be readily removed
from such receptacles by means of the projecting part of each ear or lug of such
strainers. It will be understood that the lid or cover of tea-pots when fitted with
such appliances would rest on the top surface of the rim g of such strainers.
In these figures a is the main part or body of such improved strainers or infusers,
to the top end of each side of which are formed in one with the main body a or
attached thereto by means of "slip" or other adhesive an ear or lug b, which
when such an appliance is placed in position for use in a tea-pot c or other similar
receptacle bear on opposite sides of such receptacles as shewn at Figures 4,
5 and 6.
The strainer or infuser shewn at Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 having inserted perforated
sides d and bottom parte can be readily lifted from a tea-pot or other receptacle
to which it may be fitted by means of the dished shaped portion of a spoon or
like article, being placed below the curved top portion of the strainer and
placing the stem or handle of such article through the narrow slot or aperture f of
the said portion ƒ³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
:-
1st. The construction of tea-strainers or infusers for use in connection with tea-
pots or the like receptacles, the body or main portion a of which are made of or
from earthenware of any suitable shape and size by moulding, pressing turning or
throwing, to which body a the clay ears or lugs b, and the top curved portion in
which is formed a slot or aperture fare attached by "slip" or other suitable
adhesive, the flat or curved perforated portions of which strainers are made or
stamped separately by a die or dies or other suitable means of or from clay and
inserted into the apertures or openings formed in the body of such receptacles
whilst in a clay state, and by means of "slip" or other suitable adhesive such
perforated parts are caused to adhere firmly to the body a of the receptacle,
which appliances or receptacles after being glazed and fired in the usual way
appear to be made of one piece of material for the purpose as herein substantially
described set forth and illustrated at Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the drawings hereunto
annexed.
2nd. The construction of tea-strainers or infusers for use in connection with
tea-pots or the like receptacles, to the body or main portion of which the clay ears
or lugs b are attached by means of "slip" or other suitable adhesive, the flat or

page_text: curved perforated portions of which strainers are made or stamped separately by a
die or dies or other suitable means of or from clay and inserted into the apertures
or openings formed in the body of such receptacles whilst in a clay state, and by
means of,"slip" or other suitable adhesive such perforated parts are caused to
adhere firmly to the body a of the receptacle, which appliances or receptacles after
being glazed and fired in the usual way appear to be made of one piece of material
for the purpose as herein substantially described set forth and illustrated at
Figures 5 and 6 on the drawings hereunto annexed.
10th of Janu1002
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs., Agent for Applicant.