Improvements in Wire Gauze Meat or Dish Covers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Gauze Meat or Dish Covers.
ALBERT ALFRED JAMES St. George's Wire Works; Paradise Street! West
Bromwich in the County of Stafford Wire Worker & Weaver, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide improvements in the manufacture of
wire gauze meat or dish covers by which the same can be made without solder or
any other cementing material being used in their construction; this doing away
with the use of any kind of chemicals, fluxes or soldering fluids which all tend to
affect the materials used in the construction of covers by causing rust &c. to attack
the said materials & thereby weaken & eventually destroy the same.
And as a further object I propose to increase the strength of the wire gauze.
portion of the cover without having recourse to strong, independent stay wires.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the metallic bands or rims of the
covers from tin-plate, terne-plate, or plain un-coated sheet-iron or other suitable
material; and in place of the usual soldered joints at the points where the ends
of the said bands are fastened together I propose to join the same together by
means of a seamed or folded joint; this joint being neater in appearance, stronger,.
and requiring no solder, chemicals or other injurious materials in the process of
manufacture. The handle and shield plate at the top of the cover is fastened in
its place by means of one or more tin, iron, or wire clips passing round the bottom
portion of the handle and carried through a slot or slots, cut through the shield,
and then passed through the gauze and also through corresponding slot or slots in
a "blank or washer plate placed inside the cover; the said clip or clips are then
turned at right angles and flattened or clinched inside the cover and against-the
blank or washer plate thus binding the whole together and firmly fixing the handle,
shield & blank or washer plate to the cover, without the use of solder, or any other
cementing substance, and at the same time allowing the handle to fall flat upon the
crown of the cover to facilitate packing &c.
I further propose to increase the strength of the wire gauze portion of the cover
by weaving double wires instead of single ones for a space of about one inch in
width along the entire length of the cover; such strengthened portion to go either
along the centre of cover from end to end or in any one or more suitable positions
[either along the length or across the width of the cover; thus adding considerably
to the strength of the gauze portion of the cover without the use of clumsy and
unsightly thick stay wires.
The entire cover can also if required be coated, after made up, with liquid' tin,
zinc, or any other protective material requiring heat to be used in the process of
coating; thus adding still more to the strength and durability of my improved
cover.
1001
ALBERT ALFRED JAMES:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Gauze Meat or Dish Covers.
I; ALBERT ALFRED JAMES,. Wire Worker & Weaver, St. George's Wire
Works, Paradise Street, West Bromwich in the County of Stafford do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
Paine d

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention has for its object to provide improvements in the manufacture of
wire gauze meat or dish covers by which the same can be made without solder or
any other cementing material being used in their construction; 'thus doing away
with the use of any kind of chemicals, fluxes, or soldering fluids which all tend to
affect the materials used in the construction of the covers by causing rust &c. to
attack the said materials and thereby weaken and eventually destroy the same.
And as a further object, I propose to increase the strength of the wire gauze
portion of the covers without having recourse to strong independent stay wires.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the metallic bands or rims of the
covers from either tin-plate, terne-plate or plain, un-coated sheet-iron or other
suitable material; and in place of the usual soldered joints at the points where the
ends of the said bands or rims come together I propose to join the same together
by means of a seamed or folded joint; this joint being neater in appearance,
stronger, and requiring no solder, chemicals, fluxes or other injurious materials to
be used in the process of manufacture.
The handle and shield plate at the top or crown of the cover are fastened in
their place by means of one or more tin, iron, or wire clips or staples passing round
the bottom portion of the handle and carried through a slot or slots or through
holes cut through the shield, and then passed through the wire gauze and if
requisite also through corresponding slots or holes in a "blank" or washer plate
inside the crown of the cover; the said clips or staples are then turned at right
angles and flattened or clinched inside the crown of the cover and against the said
"blank" or washer plate, thus binding the whole together and firmly fixing the
handle, shield, and blank or washer plate to the cover without the use of solder or
any other cementing material or substance, and at the same time allowing the
handle to fall flat upon the crown of the cover to facilitate packing &c.
I further propose to increase the strength of the wire gauze portion of the cover
by weaving double wires instead of single ones for a space of about one inch in
width along the entire length of the cover; such strengthened portion to go either
along the centre of the cover from end to end or in any one or more suitable
positions, either along the length or across the width of the cover, thus adding con-
siderably to the strength of the gauze portion of the cover without the use of
clumsy and unsightly thick stay wires.
The entire cover can also if required be coated-after made up-with liquid
tin, zinc, or any other protective material requiring heat to be used in the process
of coating, thus adding still more to the strength of my improved cover.
Figures 1 & 2 of the accompanying drawings shew respectively a side elevation
and a plan of my improved dish cover the wire gauze being omitted for the sake
of clearness. A small portion of the gauze shewing the double wires is illustrated
at Figures 3 & 4.
The handle shewn at A can be made of any desired shape and of either plain
wire or cast in iron or other material of more or less ornamental design.
The method of fixing the handle is shewn at B. B being the shield and blank or
washer plates C being the clips or staples which pass through same and are after
wards turned back at right angles or clinched inside the cover after passing round
the handle as shewn at C..
D is the tin band or rim of the cover which is shaped in the usual manner i
the form of a U, the gauze being placed between & held in position by the usual
swaging or corrugating process.
The method of joining together the ends of the tin bands or rims is shewn at E
which will be seen is a folded or seamed joint.
The strengthened portion of the wire gauze is shewn at Figures 3 and 4 by which
it will be seen that two wires instead of one are run for a space of about one inch in
width, such strengthened portions to occur in any one or more desirable portions of
the cover.

page_text: 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. Dish covers that can be made without solder or any other cementing material,
chemicals, fluxes, or soldering fluids substantially as herein set forth & illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
2. Dish covers having a strengthened portion or portions formed in the wire
gauze thereof by means of double instead of single wires being woven in certain
spaces along the length or width of the said gauze substantially as herein set forth
& illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of June 1892.
ALBERT ALFRED JAMES.