Improvements in the Manufacture, Fixing, and Securing of Lids to Jugs, Mustards, Tea and Coffee Pots, and all such like Articles Made in all kinds of Earthenware, China, Glass, and Metal.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1886
Complete Left, 30th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 30th Sept., 1887.
Improvements in the Manufacture, Fixing, and Securing of Lids to
Jugs, Mustards, Tea and Coffee Pots, and all such like Articles
Made in all kinds of Earthenware, China, Glass, and Metal.
1, JAMES CLARKE of Derby Street Cobridge in the County of Stafford Metal
Mounter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
-
My Invention relates to improvements in that class of vessels which are fitted with
a moveable or detachable covers such as are mentioned above and made in every kind
of Earthenware, China, also in Glass, and Metal. My chief object being to improve
the present way of making, fixing and securing the said lids or covers in a more
simple and efficacious manner whereby their usefulness will be greatly enhanced.
The particulars of my Invention are as follows. The lid or cover finds its bearing
upon a ledge or verge moulded in the Jug Teapot or vessel and which has on one
side mostly at the back or handle side a hollowed place for a moveable cover to fit in.
The said hollowed place is so constructed as to fix or fasten the lid when placed in it,
and can be made square or slightly rounded as the case may be. The cover is made
with an over hanging piece which has a grooved bit attached which fits into the
hollowed place mentioned above, and on account of a peculiar turn or twist in the
said lid it answers in the place of an ordinary pin or hinge. The said turn or twist
in the lid or cover also prevents it from falling off when in manipulation a backward
movement opens or releases the same.
By another mode I dispense with about one-third more or less of the circumference
of the said interior ledge or verge at the back or handle side of the vessel and arrange
and fix a moveable or detachable cover by means of pins or points projecting beyond
the periphery of the said lid or cover. The said pins or points find their bearing in
holes or slots arranged in the rim of the vessel or one hole and one slot would suffice.
The said pins or projections can either be made with the cover or connected to it.
This I may call hinging or jointing. The cover may also rest on the rim of the
vessel and the said points or projections can be fixed either underneath or above the
cover in such a manner that they can be moved either backward or forward if required
to any part of the rim of the vessel where the slots are made.

page_text: Another method is still to dispense with a section of the said verge or ledge at the
back or handle side, but to keep the points or ends of the remaining portion of verge
or ledge square and wide or it can be so arranged that the whole of the said verge
can be left and two slots or holes made in it one on each side for the purpose of
placing and holding the cover when filling the vessel.
The following are amongst the advantages which are obtained by the practice of
my Invention that is to say I can dispense with the metal rim usually used on
metal covered Jugs Teapots &c. I make and fix the Earthenware or metal lid so
that it cannot easily fall off when being emptied of its contents. The cover being
wholly detached can quickly be taken off for cleansing or other purposes and when
putting Tea, Water or anything else in the vessel the cover will stand perfectly erect
by a backward movement.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture, Fixing, and Securing of Lids to
Jugs, Mustards, Tea and Coffee Pots, and all such like Articles
Made in all kinds of Earthenware, China, Glass, and Metal.
1, JAMES CLARKE of Derby Street Cobridge in the County of Stafford Metal
Mounter, 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 Invention relates to improvements in that class of vessels which are fitted with
a moveable or detachable covers such as are mentioned above and made in every kind
of Earthenware, China, Glass and Metal. Hitherto it has been necessary to remove
all moveable or detachable covers from the class of vessels above mentioned for the
purpose of filling. But by my Invention a place is made in the mouth of the vessel
for the cover to be fixed in erect when wanted to be filled, so that the removing of the
cover or lid for that purpose is entirely done away with. By a backward movement
the cover falls erect into the place provided for it and a forward movement
releases it.
1. The particulars of my Invention are as follows. The lid or cover finds its bearing
upon a ledge or verge a¹ moulded in the Jug Teapot or vessel and which has on one
side mostly at the back or handle side a hollowed place a for a moveable cover to
fit in.
The said hollowed place is so constructed as to fix or fasten the lid when placed
in it and can be made square or slightly rounded as the case may be.
The cover is made with an overhanging piece b which has a grooved bit attached
which fits into the hollowed place a mentioned above and on account of a peculiar turn
or twist in the said lid it answers in the place of an ordinary pin or hinge. The said
turn or twist in the lid or cover also prevents it from falling off when in manipulation
a backward movement opens or releases the same.
2. By another mode I dispense with about one-third more or less of the circum-
ference of the said interior ledge or verge at the back or handle side of the vessel and
arrange and fix a moveable or detachable cover by means of pins or points & projecting
beyond the periphery of the said lid or cover. The said pins or points find their
bearing in holes or slots e arranged in the rim of the vessel or one hole or one slot
would suffice. The said pins or projections can either be made with the cover or
connected to it. This I may call hinging or jointing. The cover may also rest on
the rim of the vessel and the said points or projections may then be fixed either under-
neath or above the cover in such a manner that they can be moved either backward
or forward if required to any part of the rim of the vessel where the slots are made.
3. Another method is still to dispense with the section of the said verge or ledge
at the back or handle side but to keep the points or ends of the remaining portion of

page_text: verge c or ledge square f and wide or it can be so arranged that the whole of the
said verge c can be left and two slot holes made in it one on each side for the
purpose of placing and holding the cover when filling the vessel.
The following are amongst the advantages which are obtained by the practice of
my Invention that is to say I can dispense with the metal rim usually used on metal
covered Jugs Teapots &c. I make and fix the earthenware or metal lid so that it
cannot easily fall off when being emptied of its contents. The cover being wholly
detached can be quickly taken off for cleaning or other purposes and when putting
Tea, Water or anything else in the vessel the cover will stand perfectly erect g by a
backward movement.
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 :-
The method of dispensing with the removing of detachable and moveable covers
from Teapots Jugs and such like vessels while being filled by providing a resting place
in the rim or mouth of the vessel wherein is fixed the cover either obliquely or erect
during the operation yet allowing the cover easily to be removed for the purposes of
cleaning &c., as herein shown and described.