Improvements in Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles, Pans, and the like Vessels or Utensils, and in the Lids or Covers for the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles, Pans, and the like
Vessels or Utensils, and in the Lids or Covers for the same.
I, CHARLES WOODMAN, of the Palm Tree Works, Attercliffe, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Moulder, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to
be as follows:-
Although my invention is applicable to a variety of vessels or utensils, a
description of it as applied to a kettle for boiling water for domestic use, will
suffice.
The objects of my invention are, first, to provide the means for preventing the
cover or lid of such a kettle from falling off during the operation of pouring or
teeming out its contents. Secondly, to obviate the necessity of lifting off the lid
or Landling it when hot and thereby prevent burning or soiling the fingers.
Thirdly, to prevent scalding the hands by the rising of steam from the kettle in
the operation of refilling.
I effect these objects in the following manner,
On the lid of the kettle I form a lug with a hole through it. On the back of
the orifice of the kettle I provide a pin or pivot with a hooked end, so formed that
I can only enter it through the hole in the lug of the lid when the lid is held in
a vertical position at right angles to the position it will occupy when closed in
the orifice. Having so entered the hook end of the pin or pivot through the hole
in the lug of the lid, I am then able to turn the lid down in a horizontal position
so that it may swing on either side of and into the orifice. When in this position
the lid can be easily lifted out of the orifice by the application of some common
implement, such as a knife, fork, or spoon, to the underside of the front portion
of the knob or by a quick action of the finger, and swung to one side, a sufficient
distance to allow of the kettel being refilled, the lid remaining partly over the
orifice, forming a guard to protect the hand of the person who may be holding
the kettle from being scalded by the upward rush of steam which sometimes takes
place when refilling a heated kettle. To facilitate the removal of the lid, I bevil
the internal rim on its under side towards the back, and by the outer extremity
of the lug bearing upon the surface of the kettle behind the pivot, the lid is made
to rise up the pivot in such a manner as to lift its internal flange clear of the
orifice. It will thus be seen that by this arrangement the lid can be easily lifted
or jerked out of the orifice and swung to one side, either to the right or left, of
the orifice, and afterwards replaced without the necessity of handling it in such
a way as to burn or soil the fingers and without any risk of the lid becoming
detached or falling off the kettle. The lid, however, can be easily removed from
the pin or pivot by turning it into the same position as has been described for
fixing it to the kettle.

page_text: As a modification of the above mode of securing the lid by a pin or pivot, I
sometimes employ a stud, set-screw, or bolt, and a nut or nuts. As a further
modification of the above mode of securing the lid, I sometimes attach the pin or
pivot to the lid of the kettle instead of to the kettle itself, and instead of forming
the hole in the lid, I form the hole in the kettle at the back of the orifice. The
end of the pivot on the lid I make with a double hook somewhat like a T headed
bolt rounded at the angles and I form the hole in the kettle in the form of a slot,
so that the hook end of the pivot can only be entered into the slot when the lid is
swung to either side of the kettle, at right angles to the position it occupies when
in the orifice. In this arrangement I make the shank of the pin long enough
and loose enough to allow of the inner flange of the lid being lifted out of the orifice
so that it may be swung sufficiently to the right or to the left to allow of the kettle
being refilled, and at the same time, I make the T hook or head a sufficiently
good fit in the slot to prevent the possibility of its working out, except when the
lid is at right angles to the position it occupies when in the orifice.
Dated this 30th day of April 1897.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles, Pans, and the like
Vessels or Utensils, and in the Lids or Covers for the same.
I, CHARLES WOODMAN, of the Palm Tree Works, Attercliffe, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Moulder, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
Although my invention is applicable to a variety of vessels or utensils, a descrip-
tion of it as applied to a kettle for boiling water for domestic use, will suffice.
The objects of my invention are, first, to provide the means for preventing the
cover or lid of such a kettle from falling off during the operation of pouring or
teeming out its contents. Secondly to obviate the necessity of lifting off the lid
or handling it when hot and thereby prevent burning or soiling the fingers.
Thirdly, to prevent scalding the hands by the rising of steam from the kettle in
the operation of re-filling.
I effect these objects in the following manner:
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the ac-
companying 3 sheets of drawings, in which,
Fig. 1, Sheet 1, is a side elevation of the upper part of a kettle with the lid in
place shewing my improved attachment.
Fig. 2. Sheet 1, is a similar view shewing the lid removed.
Fig. 3. Sheet 1, is a portion of the plan of the same shewing the lid swung te
one side to the fullest extent.
Fig. 4. Sheet 2, is a cross section of a portion of the upper part of a kettle shew-
ing the lid in the position for being entered upon the attachment.
Fig. 5. Sheet 2, is a plan of the lid and
Fig. 6. Sheet 2, is a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 7. Sheet 3, is a side elevation of the upper part of a kettle with the lid in
place shewing the pin or pivot attached to the lid instead of to the kettle.
Fig. 8. Sheet 3, is a plan of the same shewing the lid in the position for entering
the head of the pivot into the slot.