IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 128, Chancery Lane, London, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS."-A communication from
abroad by George Jones, of the City and County of New Haven, State
Sealed the 26th May 1868, and dated the 28th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th November 1867.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 128, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRA AND COFFEE POTS," a communication
to me from abroad by George Jones, of the City and County of New Haven,
State of Connecticut, United States of America, to be as follows:-
The nature of these improvements consist in constructing an area around
the upper and inside portion of the pot, and providing or forming upon the
lid of the pot one or more projecting rims extending downwards therefrom
nearly to the bottom of the said area, and also providing a tube or nozzle or
a portion thereof conducting from the area into the nozzle proper, which
nozzle has a cap fitting closely thereto, all being so constructed that when the
coffee or tea is put to steeping or boiling in the usual way (baving supplied
the area with water) the fragrance and full substance is retained within the
body of the pot until desired for use.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the tea or
coffee pot; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a vertical central section of the
tea or coffee pot constructed in a different manner to that shewn in Figs. 1
and 2; Fig. 4, a side view of a tea or coffee pot top and cover; Fig. 5, the
top detached from the cover.
A (Figs. 1 and 2) is the body of the pot; B, the handle; C, the nozzle
proper; D, a tube or nozzle or a portion thereof secured partly to the body
of the pot and partly to the upper portion of the nozzle C, its upper end
being a little lower than the top of the pot, and having a communication
orifice from the area at F thereto; E is an area secured to the top or upper
portion inside of the pot, the object of which is to hold water (and it is
beleived that cold water will best accomplish the desired object) and prevent
boiling over, and make it tight; G is the lid, to the inside of which are
secured flanges or rims X which project downward nearly or quite to the
bottom of the area (one however may answer the desired purpose equally
well), the object of which is to keep it (the pot) steam tight and prevent an
escape of the substance or fragrance of the tea or coffee. H is a cap which
is designed to be fitted closely to the end of the nozzle, and it is thought it
may be desirable sometimes to fit the cap on to the nozzle with a screw to
prevent its being thrown off by the pressure of the steam. By putting the
tea or coffee into the pot in the usual way and pouring on to it the required
amount of boiling water, then filling or partly filling the area with water and
closing the lid G, and securing the cap H, and placing the pot so as to
receive the required heat to boil in the usual way, the water in the area
above being of a different temperature will keep the pot steam-tight and
prevent the escape of the aroma. It will be clearly seen that in this mode of
constructing pots for tea or coffee, that the use of syphon tubes and additional
cups with or without strainers (which are complicated and liable to get out
of order) are or may be removed, and by this simple arrangement requiring
very little if any more care or attention than the ordinary pots.
In Fig. 3 I represent the pot as somewhat differently constructed so as to
avoid the necessity of the auxiliary tube or spout, and also the use of the cap,
and this construction I will now proceed to describe. A is the body of the
pot; B, the handle; and C, the spout; D, the cover; and E, the condenser,
all formed substantially as before described. The condenser is formed by a
plate a extending around the pot upon the inside near the top, and having a
hole in the centre around which is turned up a flange d, so as to form
a space E entirely around the pot; within the flange d is set a cylinder F
perforated at the bottom. Upon the spout side of the chamber E a tube

page_text: passage or space f is formed opening from above the plate a to the pot below,
but so that the flange of the cover will set down into the condenser, leaving
the tube between the flange of the lid and the side of the pot. In the
spout at the proper point I fix a metallic ball valve h arranged so that when
the pot stands upright the ball will close the opening, and yet so that when
the pot is tipped, as for the purpose of pouring, the valve will open and permit
the fluid to flow freely through the spout; thus the spout is automatically
closed and opened as required, and the cap in common use is dispensed with.
The operation of this pot is but little different from the first arrangement.
Place the tea or coffee in the cylinder F, and pour therethrough the requisite
quantity of water, hot or cold as the case may be, fill the space E with cold
water, say, up to the red line, and when the water below is heated the steam
passes up through the cylinder F to the cold water where it is condensed, and
when by condensation the chamber. E shall be filled the fluid will flow through
the space back into the pot, or after the tea or coffee is prepared, and the
pot is tipped to pour therefrom, the water in the space E having received and
condensed all the steam flows over and through the space f into the vessel,
thus preserving entirely all the aroma that would otherwise pass off in
steam.
In Figs. 4 and 5 is represented a design for the top of the coffee or tea
pot, and the design consists in a ball or sphere A mounted upon a cavetto
base B formed with a fillet between the base and the sphere, also a fillet which
forms a shoulder upon the cover, as seen in the Drawings, which said base is
secured to the cover C.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 128,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Thomas Hughes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others

page_text: as I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS," a communication to
me from abroad by George Jones, of the City and County of New Haven,
State of Connecticut, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings (that is to say):-
The nature of these improvements consist in constructing an area around
the upper and inside portion of the pot, and providing or forming upon the
lid of the pot one or more projecting rims extending downward therefrom
nearly to the bottom of the said area, and also providing a tube or nozzle or &
portion thereof conducting from the area into the nozzle proper, which nozzle
has a cap fitted closely thereto, all being so constructed that when the coffee
or tea is put to steeping or boiling in the usual way (having supplied the area
with water) the fragrance and full substance is retained within the body of
the pot until desired for use.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the
tea or coffee pot; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 8, a vertical central section;
Fig. 4, a side view of a tea or coffee pot and cover; Fig. 5, the top detached
from the cover.
In Figs. 1 and 2, A is the body of the pot; B, the handle; C, the nozzle
proper; D, a tube or nozzle or a portion thereof secured partly to the body
of the pot and partly to the upper portion of the nozzle C, its upper end
being a little lower than the top of the pot, and having a communication
orifice from the area at F thereto; E is an area secured to the top or upper
portion inside of the pot, the object of which is to hold water (and it is

page_text: beleived that cold water will best accomplish the desired object) and prevent
boiling over and make it tight. G is the lid, to the inside of which are
secured flanges or rims ✗ which project downwards nearly or quite to the
bottom of the area (one, however, may answer the desired purpose equally
well), the object of which is to keep it (the pot) steam-tight and prevent any
escape of the substance or fragrance of the tea or coffee. H is a cap which
is designed to be fitted closely to the end of the nozzle, and it is thought it
may be desirable sometimes to fit the cap on to the nozzle with a screw to
prevent its being thrown off by the pressure of the steam. By putting the
tea or coffee into the pot in the usual way, and pouring on to it the required
amount of boiling water, then filling or partly filling the area with water and
closing the lid G and securing the cap H, and placing the pot so as to
receive the required heat to boil in the usual way, the water in the area
above being of a different temperature will keep the pot steam-tight and
prevent the escape of the aroma. It will be clearly seen that in this mode of
constructing pots for tea or coffee, that the use of syphon tubes and additional
cups with or without strainers (which are complicated and liable to get out
of order) are or may be removed, and by this simple arrangement requiring
little if any more care or attention than the ordinary pots.
very
In Fig. 3 I represent the pot as somewhat differently constructed so as to
avoid the necessity of the auxiliary tube or spout, and also the use of the cap,
and this construction I will now proceed to describe. A is the body of the
pot; B, the handle; and C, the spout; D, the cover; and E, the condenser, all
formed substantially as before described. The condenser is formed by a
plute a extending around the pot upon the inside near the top, and having a
hole in the centre around which is turned up a flange d, so as to form a
space E entirely around the pot. Within the flange d is set a cylinder F
perforated at the bottom. Upon the spout side of the chamber E a tube,
passage, or space f is formed, opening from above the plate a to the pot
below, but so that the flange of the cover will set down into the condenser,
leaving the tube f between the flange of the lid and the side of the pot.
the spout at the proper point I fix a metallic ball valve h, arranged so that
when the pot stands upright the ball will close the opening, and yet so that
when the pot is tipped, as for the purpose of pouring, the valve will open and
permit the fluid to flow freely through the spout, thus the spout is auto-
matically closed and opened as required and the cap in common use is
dispensed with. The operation of this pot is but little different from the first
arrangement. Place the tea or coffee in the cylinder F and pour therethrough
the requisite quantity of water, hot or cold, as the case may be. Fill the
In

page_text: space E with cold water, say up to the red line, and when the water below is
heated the steam passes up through the cylinder F to the cold water where it
is condensed, and when by condensation the chamber E shall be filled the
fluid will flow through the space f back into the pot, or after the tea or
coffee is prepared and the pot is tipped to pour therefrom the water in the
space E having received and condensed all the steam flows over and through
the space into the vessel, thus preserving entirely all the aroma that would
otherwise pass off in steam.
In Figs. 4 and 5 is represented a design for the top of the coffee or tea
pot, and the design consists in a ball or sphere A mounted upon a cavetto
base B formed with a fillet between the base and the sphere, also a fillet
which forms a shoulder upon the cover, as seen in the Drawings, which said
base is secured to the cover C.
Having thus fully described this Invention, what I claim as new, and desire
to secure by Letters Patent is,―
First. The arrangement of the area E, flanges ✗ upon the lid G, with
apertures F and D, in the manner as and for the purpose specified.
Second. In combination with the space E, formed, constructed, and
arranged substantially as specified the tube space or passages f, substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
Third. In combination with the body A and spout C I claim the arrange-
ment of the ball valve h, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Fourth. The design herein illustrated and described for the top or ornament
for tea or coffee pot covers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord 1868.

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to EDWARD THOMAS
HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TEA AND COFFEE POTS," (the same having been communicated
to him from abroad by George Jones, of the City and County
of New Haven, State of Connecticut, United States of
America,) bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, No. 3370, the Specification of which was duly
filed on the Twenty-seventh day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.
DISCLAIMER proposed to be entered by the said Edward Thomas
Hughes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions
pursuant to the Statutes in that case made and provided.
WHEREAS since the date of the said Letters Patent and of the filing
of the Specification thereof I have been advised that it is not desirable
o retain the design for the top of the coffee or tea pot as mentioned and
lescribed in lines 32 and 88, Sheet 4, and in lines 9, 10, 11, 12, and 18,
sheet 6, and claimed in lines 23 and 24, Sheet 6 of the printed

page_text: Specification, and shewn in Figs. 4 and 5 of the Drawings accompanying
the same, as part of the said Specification and Letters Patent, as it
has been discovered that the said design is not new.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, by and
with the leave of Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, do hereby disclaim so
much of the said Specification as relates to the design for the top of the
coffee or tea pot as mentioned and described in lines 32 and 33, page 4,
and in lines 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, page 6, and claimed in lines 23
and 24, page 6 of the printed Specification, and shewn in Figs. 4 and 5
of the Drawings accompanying the same, as part of the said Specification
and Letters Patent: And I do hereby alter the said Specification by
omitting the parts struck out; and I do hereby alter the Drawings
accompanying the said Specification by striking out the Figures
numbered respectively 4 and 5, so that the said Specification when
altered by my Disclaimer shall be in the words, letters, and Figures
following (that is to say):
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, hearing date the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special
license that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas
Hughes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS," a communication to me from
abroad by George Jones, of the City and County of New Haven,
State of Connecticut, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was

page_text: to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say):
The nature of these improvements consist in constructing an area
around the upper and inside portion of the pot, and providing or forming
upon the lid of the pot one or more projecting rims extending downward
therefrom nearly to the bottom of the said area, and also providing a
tube or nozzle or a portion thereof conducting from the area into the
nozzle proper, which nozzle has a cap fittted closely thereto, all being so
constructed that when the coffee or tea is put to steeping or boiling in
the usual way (having supplied the area with water the fragrance and
full substance is retained within the body of the pot until desired
for use.
and
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional view
of the tea or coffee pot; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a vertical
central section; Fig 4,-a-side view of a tea or coffee pot top-and-cover-;-Fig. 5,
the top-detached from the cover.
A
In Figs. 1 and 2 A is the body of the pot; B, the handle; C, the
nozzle proper; D, a tube or nozzle or a portion thereof, secured partly
to the body of the pot and partly to the upper portion of the nozzle C,
its upper end being a little lower than the top of the pot, and having
a communication orifice from the area at F thereto; E is an area
secured to the top or upper portion inside of the pot, the object of which
is to hold water (and it is believed that cold water will best accomplish
the desired object) and prevent boiling over, and make it tight; G is the
lid, to the inside of which are secured flanges or rims x, which project
downwards nearly or quite to the bottom of the area (one however may
answer the desired purpose equally well), the object of which is to keep
it (the pot) steam-tight and prevent any escape of the substance or
fragrance of the tea or coffee; H is a cap, which is designed to be
fitted closely to the end of the nozzle, and it is thought it may be
desirable sometimes to fit the cap on to the nozzle with a screw to

page_text: prevent its being thrown off by the pressure of the steam. By putting
the tea or coffee into the pot in the usual way and pouring on to it the
required amount of boiling water, then filling or partly filling the area
with water and closing the lid G and securing the cap H, and placing
the pot so as to recieve the required heat to boil in the usual way, the
water in the area above being of a different temperature will keep the
pot steam-tight, and prevent the escape of the aroma. It will be clearly
seen that in this mode of constructing pots for tea or coffee that the
use of syphon tubes and additional cups with or without strainers
(which are complicated and liable to get out of order) are or may be
removed, and by this simple arrangement requiring very little if any
more care or attention than the ordinary pots.
In Fig. 3 I represent the pot as somewhat differently constructed, so
as to avoid the necessity of the auxiliary tube or spout and also the use
of the cap; and this construction I will now proceed to describe :-
A is the body of the pot; B, the handle; and C, the spout; D, the
cover; and E, the condenser, all formed substantially as before
described. The condenser is formed by a plate a extending around the
pot upon the inside near the top, and having a hole in the centre,
around which is turned up a flange d, so as to form a space E entirely
around the pot. Within the flange d is set a cylinder F perforated at
the bottom. Upon the spout side of the chamber E a tube, passage,
or space is formed, opening from above the plate a to the pot below,
but so that the flange of the cover will set down into the condenser,
leaving the tube f between the flange of the lid and the side of the
pot. In the spout at the proper point I fix a metallic ball valve h,
arranged so that when the pot stands upright the ball will close the
opening, and yet so that when the pot is tipped as for the purpose of
pouring the valve will open and permit the fluid to flow freely through
the spout, thus the spout is automatically closed and opened as required,
and the cap in common use is dispensed with. The operation of this pot
is but little different from the first arrangement. Place the tea or coffee
in the cylinder F and pour therethrough the requisite quantity of water,
hot or cold, as the case may be, fill the space E with cold water, say up
to the red line, and when the water below is heated the steam passes
up through the cylinder F to the cold water, where it is condensed, and
when by condensation the chamber E shall be filled the liquid will flow
through the space f back into the pot, or after the tea or coffee is

page_text: prepared and the pot is tipped to pour therefrom the water in the
space E having received and condensed all the steam flows over and
through the space f into the vessel, thus preserving entirely all the
aroma that would otherwise pass off in steam.
In Fige 4 and 5 is represented a design for the top of the coffee or tea por, end
the design consists in a ball or sphere A mounted upon a cavette base B formed
with a fillet between the base and the sphere-;- also a fillet which forms a-shoulder
upon the cover, as seen in the Drawings, which said base is secured-to-the
eover-C.
Having thus fully described this Invention, what I claim as new and
desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―
First. The arrangement of the area E, flanges x upon the lid G, with
apertures F and D in the manner as and for the purpose specified.
Second. In combination with the space E, formed, constructed, and
arranged substantially as specified, the tube, space, or passages f
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Third. In combination with the body A and spout C I claim the
arrangement of the ball valve h, substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
Fourth. The design herein illustrated and described for the top or ornament for
tea or coffee-pot-covers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May,
in the year of our Lord 1868.
(Signed)
E. T. HUGHES. (L.S.)
E. T. HUGHES. (L.S.)

page_text: To the Commissioners of the Patents for Inventions.
I hereby grant my fiat giving leave to the above-named Edward
Thomas Hughes to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the
Specification to which the same relates, the above-written Disclaimer.
Temple,
23rd December 1868.
J. D. COLERIDGE,
Solicitor-General.