IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSTARD POTS, CRUETS, AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Wright, of 61, Sandringham Road,
Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, Lamp Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSTARD POTS, CRUETS, AND OTHER
VESSELS."
Sealed the 7th November 1871, and dated the 25th May 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th May 1871.
I, ALFRED WRIGHT, of 61, Sandringham Road, Dalston, in the
County of Middlesex, Lamp Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSTARD POTS, CRUETS, AND
OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
:-
The Invention consists of the application of pressure by means of a
screw lever or other mechanical power acting upon an airtight disc or
piston fitted within a case or cylinder containing mustard, sauce, oil,
or other condiments, so as on the pressure being applied by means of
such screw lever or other mechanical power being forced, screwed, or

page_text: twisted downwards to cause such mustard, sauce, oil, or other condiment
to exude through an opening or spout on the outside of the said
cylinder or case fitted at or near the bottom thereof in such quantities as
shall be from time to time required.
One of the results claimed by the Inventor by reason of the appli-
cation of his Invention is the safe keeping of such mustard, sauce, oil,
or other condiment so contained in such case, cylinder, or similar vessel
unaffected by the action of the atmosphere.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ALFRED
WRIGHT, of 61, Sandringham Road, Dalston, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Lamp Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Wright, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred Wright, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Wright, 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
MUSTARD POTS, CRUETS, AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Wright, 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 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
The Invention consists of the application of pressure by means of a
screw lever or other mechanical power acting upon an airtight disc or
piston fitted within a case or cylinder containing mustard, sauce, oil,
or other condiments, so as on the pressure being applied by means of
such screw lever or other mechanical power being forced, screwed, or
twisted downwards to cause such sauce, oil, or other condiment to exude
through an opening or spout on the outside of the said cylinder or case
at or near the bottom thereof in such quantities as shall be from time
to time required.
One of the results claimed by me by reason of the application of my
Invention is the safe keeping of such mustard, sauce, oil, or other
condiment so contained in such case or cylinder unaffected by the action.
of the atmosphere.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Wright, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in the
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the said Alfred Wright in
the presence of
JNO. WITHERS,
Clerk to Mr. A. G. Ditton,
Solicitor,
9, Ironmonger Lane,
London.
ALFRED WRIGHT. (L.S.)