CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON TEA AND COFFEE POTS OR BIGGINS
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
MEAD OGLE, of Turnham Green, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of Novem-
ber, in the fifty-eighth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Meade Ogle, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Meade Ogle, my
exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of " CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS ON TEA AND COFFEE POTS OR BIGGINS;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Henry Meade Ogle,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Meade Ogle, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following Drawing and description
thereof, that is to say :-
My Improvements in Tea and Coffee Potts and Biggins consist in the
adoption of an internal vessel or canister strainer, into which the tea or coffee
is put, for the purpose of extraction, decoction, or brewing. The external
form or fashion of the tea or coffee pot or biggin is of no consideration, as it
may be shaped or formed according to the taste or fancy of the manufacturer.
The canister or internal vessel should be cylindrical, occupying about two
thirds of the interior of the pot or biggin, standing about half an inch from
the bottom upon small feet, and coming flush at the top with the opening of
the external vessel. There must be several rows of holes near the bottom of
the canister, for the purpose of straining the extracts.
Fig. 1 represents the external figure of a tea or coffee pot or biggin; and
Fig. 2, the cylindrical canister with strainer, to be placed within Fig. 1.
The tea or coffee being put into the canister Fig. 2, placed within the pot
or biggin, the boiling water is then poured upon it, and the extract is filtered
thro' the strainer into the exterior pot or biggin, and from thence poured
out pure and clear.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Meade Ogle, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen
HENRY MEADE (L.s.) OGLE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1818, the aforesaid Henry Meade Ogle came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose..
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.