AN IMPROVED TABLE URN;
Year: 1827

page_text: ANTHONY SHARP, of Putney, in the County of Surry, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said George Anthony Sbarp, His especial licence that I, the said George
Anthony Sharp, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said George Anthony Sharp, my executors, adiñors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonics and Plantations abroad, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVED TABLE URN;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said George Anthony Sharp,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High,
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, referenco being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Anthony Sharp, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-.

page_text: tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):-
My said table urn is intended to supply hot water to a tea or coffee pot, or
both a tea and coffee pot, affixed to the water urn; and I can let down the
hot water into either of those vessels by means of a cock or cocks, a valve or
valves, a slide or slides, or by any other fit and proper mode of accomplishing
the said object, as well as of regulating and preventing the flow of the water,
and also of drawing off water for the other uses of the tea table when
necessary. I shall proceed to afford an example of one mode of carrying my
said Invention into effect by referring to the Figures contained in the Drawing
which, as before said, is annexed to this Specification; not, however, intending
thereby to limit myself to that particular mode only, but to avail myself of
every other method whereby my said Invention can be performed.
Fig. 1 is a side section of one of my table urns. A is the water urn, fitted
up with two handles, which are not shewn in the Drawing, and a heater,
which also is not shewn. The bottom of this urn is partly closed by a plate
at B, shewn separately in Fig. 2, having two holes in it, C and D. The
hole C communicates with a bent pipe E, which suffers the water to flow off
at the cock F on turning its handle G as usual. The water enters either of
the holes C or D in the plate through holes made in a circular ring H, Fig. 1,
which is affixed at the bottom of the water urn, and supports the cylindrical
tube intended to contain the heater. The water is let down into the tea or
coffee pot I occasionally through the cock J, which communicates with the
hole D in the plate at B, through the bent tube K, which enters. the side of
the bore of the cock J, as shewn in Fig. 3, and passes out at the opening
made in the plug of the cock at L, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3.
of the cock I a handle M. is affixed by means of screws N, N.
passes through a slit O, shewn in Fig. 4, and by dotted lines in Fig. 5,
which regulates the action of the plug of the cock; and in order to conceal
that slit a-ring P, Fig. 6, is fitted upon the fixed ring Q and turns upon it; a
hole R, Fig. 6, is made in the ring P to admit the handle M. A perforated
plate or strainer S, Figs. 1 and 7, is fitted to the lower part of the tea or coffee
pot I, through which the bent pipe E is passed, and leads to the branch T of
the cock F, as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 7, the other branch U of that
cock opening to the tea or coffee pot I. The cock F has two plugs V and W
to it; V is shewn in its place on the cock in Fig. 7, and the other plug W is
shewn separately in Fig. 8. X in Fig. 7 shews by dotted lines a cavity
formed in the cock. F into which the water or the tea or coffee from the noses
To the plug
This handle

page_text: of the plugs V and W are admitted and flow out at one common orifice or
mouth Y. The plugs V and W are retained in their places in the cock F by
means of screwed rings Z, Z, one of which is shewn at Z in Fig. 7 in its
place upon the cock, and the other is seen in Fig. 8 as ready to be screwed
upon the screw a of the cock F, Fig. 7, in the usual manner. Each plug
V and W of the cock has also a separate handle G, G, to it. b, in Fig. 9,
shews a screw formed upon a handle G which is to be screwed into a hole
made to admit it in the stem of the plugs, as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 8
at c, and it is secured from unscrewing by means of a cross screw d, Fig. 10,
which enters a screwed hole e shewn in Fig. 8, and passes through the
screw as usual. In Fig. 1 f is a section of the lid of the tea or coffee pot,
shewn separately in Fig. 11, instead of making a cock with two pipes to it
and one mouth only, as shewn in the Drawing, I can employ two cocks laid
side by side, and in case of having both a tea and a coffee pot, I can divide
the tea or coffee pot into two separate parts by means of a partition plate, but
in this case it will be necessary to employ cocks, valves, slides, &c. properly
adapted to let down the water into either the tea or coffee pot, as well as to
draw it off, or tea or coffee at pleasure.
I do not mean or intend hereby to limit myself to the employment of any
particular material or materials in the construction of my table urns, but to
use any which may be fit and proper for the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Anthony Sharp, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, One thousand