Improvements in Tea-pots.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea-pots.
I, FREDERICK MANN, of 82, Durham Road, Manor Park, in the County of
Essex, Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be
as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to the strainer by which the tea-leaves are prevented from
passing into and through the spout of the tea-pot when the infusion is poured out,
and is intended, among other things, to avoid or prevent the inconvenience which
now so often arises from the leaves passing into perforations of the strainer and
partly stopping it, or, as sometimes happens, passing through the strainer and
accumulating in the spout and partly blocking it; and it also affords ready access
to the base of the spout so as to render it easy to keep this as well as the body of
the pot clean.
According to my invention I provide a grooved frame on the inner surfaces of
the pot arranged to receive and hold a strainer a short distance from the internal
opening of the spout and so as, when the strainer is inserted to separate a portion
of the interior of the pot from the remainder.
I prefer to use a moveable frame made to correspond with and fit the groove or
frame before mentioned so that it will slide or fix therein, or thereon, and such
moveable frame is made to carry a piece of straining material either of textile
fabric, such as muslin or net, or wire-gauze, or perforated metal, or the like.
.
It will be readily understood that by this arrangement a much larger surface of
strainer is provided for any given sized pot than is usual, and whereby a much finer
mesh or size of perforations can be employed without liability to clog than when a
strainer of only the size of the opening of the spout is employed.
The strainer being also removable is easily cleaned and does not obstruct the
cleansing of the pot and spout, and further admits of the strainer itself being
changed or renewed as often as may be desirable.
A convenient arrangement for fixing the strainer in its frame is obtained by
forming the frame with an internal rabbet and providing another frame to fit
thereon so that when the latter is pressed into the former, with a strainer inter-
vening, the two fit tightly and securely together.
Dated the 16th day of January 1892.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea-pots.
1, FREDERICK MANN, late of 82, Durham Road, Manor Park, in the County
of Essex, but now of 20 Atherton Road, Forest Gate, in the said County of Essex,
Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the strainer by which the tea leaves are prevented from
passing into and through the spout of the tea pot when the infusion is being poured
out, and is intended, among other things, to avoid or prevent the inconvenience
which now so often arises.from the leaves passing into perforations of the strainer
and partly stopping it, or, as sometimes happens, passing through the strainer and
accumulating in the spout and partly blocking it, and it may, in some cases, be
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page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea-pots.
1, FREDERICK MANN, of 82, Durham Road, Manor Park, in the County of
Essex, Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be
as follows: :-
My invention relates to the strainer by which the tea-leaves are prevented from
passing into and through the spout of the tea-pot when the infusion is poured out,
and is intended, among other things, to avoid or prevent the inconvenience which
now so often arises from the leaves passing into perforations of the strainer and
partly stopping it, or, as sometimes happens, passing through the strainer and
accumulating in the spout and partly blocking it; and it also affords ready access
to the base of the spout so as to render it easy to keep this as well as the body of
the pot clean.
According to my invention I provide a grooved frame on the inner surfaces of
the pot arranged to receive and hold a strainer a short distance from the internal
opening of the spout and so as, when the strainer is inserted to separate a portion
of the interior of the pot from the remainder.
I prefer to use a moveable frame made to correspond with and fit the groove or
frame before mentioned so that it will slide or fix therein, or thereon, and such
moveable frame is made to carry a piece of straining material either of textile
fabric, such as muslin or net, or wire-gauze, or perforated metal, or the like.
It will be readily understood that by this arrangement a much larger surface of
strainer is provided for any given sized pot than is usual, and whereby a much finer
mesh or size of perforations can be employed without liability to clog than when a
strainer of only the size of the opening of the spout is employed.
The strainer being also removable is easily cleaned and does not obstruct the
cleansing of the pot and spout, and further admits of the strainer itself being
changed or renewed as often as may be desirable.
A convenient arrangement for fixing the strainer in its frame is obtained by
forming the frame with an internal rabbet and providing another frame to fit
thereon so that when the latter is pressed into the former, with a strainer inter-
vening, the two fit tightly and securely together.
Dated the 16th day of January 1892.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea-pots.
1, FREDERICK MANN, late of 82, Durham Road, Manor Park, in the County
of Essex, but now of 20 Atherton Road, Forest Gate, in the said County of Essex,
Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the strainer by which the tea leaves are prevented from
passing into and through the spout of the tea pot when the infusion is being poured
out, and is intended, among other things, to avoid or prevent the inconvenience
which now so often arises from the leaves passing into perforations of the strainer
and partly stopping it, or, as sometimes happens, passing through the strainer and
accumulating in the spout and partly blocking it, and it may, in some cases, be
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page_text: made by the omission of the usual fixed strainer, to afford ready access to the base
of the spout so as to render it easy to keep this, as well as the body of the pot,
clean, but for general use I prefer, to retain the ordinary fixed strainer.
According to my invention I provide a grooved frame, or a sunken groove, on or
in the inner surface of the pot, arranged to receive and hold a strainer a short
distance, say half the length of the pot, or less, from the internal opening of the
spout, and so as, when the strainer is inserted, to separate a portion of the interior
of the pot from the remainder.
I prefer to use a moveable frame made to correspond with and fit the groove or
frame before mentioned so that it will slide or fix therein or thereon and such
moveable frame is made to carry a piece of straining material either of textile
fabric, such as muslin, net, wire-gauze, perforated metal or the like.
It will be readily understood that by this arrangement a much larger surface of
strainer is provided for any given sized pot than is usual, and thereby a much finer
mesh or size of perforation can be employed without liability to clog than when a
strainer of only the size of the opening of the spout is employed.
The strainer being also removeable is easily cleaned and does not obstruct the
cleansing of the pot, and further admits of the strainer itself being changed or
renewed as often as may be desirable.
A convenient arrangement for fixing the strainer in its frame is obtained by
forming the frame with an internal rabbet and providing another frame to fit
therein, so that when the latter is pressed into the former, with a strainer inter-
vening, the two fit tightly and securely together.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings forming part of this my Specification :
Fig. 1, is a perspective representation of my invention, partly diagrammatic in
character showing the internal arrangement.
Fig. 2, is a plan of an oval pot with a groove sunk in the internal surface of the
pot, into which the strainer-carrying-frame is made to slide.
Fig. 3, is a plan of a rectangular pot with an internal grooved frame.
Fig. 4, is a longitudinal vertical section of a pot with an internal grooved
frame.
Fig. 5, is a transverse vertical section of the same.
Fig. 6, is an elevation of the strainer-carrying-frame with strainer complete.
Figs. 7, 7, 8, 8, show the details of the construction of strainer-frames.
A is the pot; B, in Figs. 1, 3, 4 and 5 is a grooved frame of the same material
as, and forming part of the pot B', in Fig. 2, is a groove sunk in the substance of
the side of the pot. In all these drawings the strainer is represented as being
placed about the middle of the pot, but it is obvious that it may be placed nearer
to the spout if desired although experiments have convinced me that it is most
advantageously placed approximately as shown in the drawings.
The strainer-frame and strainer are shown removed from the pot in Fig. 6, in
which C is the strainer-frame, which is also shown in elevation in Fig. 7, and in
section in Fig. 74: D, shown in elevation in Fig. 8, and in section in Fig. 8, is
the frame fitting into frame C, and serving to stretch or retain the strainer: E is
the strainer.
The strainer may very conveniently be formed of perforated metal, or wire
gauze, or net, or muslin according to the nature of the material to be infused. If
large leafed tea is to be used a tolerably coarse strainer is preferable, but if tea-
dust or the like is to be used a much finer strainer is proper.
Fine book muslin
answers well for this purpose.
It is for the infusion of tea-dust and tea-powder that my invention is specially
advantageous, for the ordinary strainer, as it is generally constructed does not
prevent its passing out into the cup, to the detriment of the tea, so poured out, and
the impoverishment of what is left in the pot, whereas when my said pots are used
and a fairly fine strainer employed, the powder is very perfectly retained, and the
tea comes away clean and bright, and yet flows almost or quite as freely as when
an ordinary pot is used with ordinary unbroken tea. The advantage of being thus

page_text: able to use tea-dust, without the usually attendant disadvantages, is too great to
need comment, as it is well known that such dust contains the virtues of the tea in
a much greater degree, or yields a much stronger infusion than does the unbroken
leaf.
When a wire-gauze or perforated metal strainer is employed it may be preferably
cut of such size as just to lie flatly in the rabbet of the frame C, and on frame D
being pressed into said rabbet the strainer is securely held between the two, the
friction between the frames being sufficient to secure them together. When a
muslin strainer is to be used, or a strainer of a like character, it is cut out rather
larger than the frames, and being drawn and held over one of these so as to be
included between them when they are brought together, they are pressed the one
into the other, stretching and securing the fabric firmly, and any superfluous
material may be afterwards removed with a pair of scissors.
Instead of the groove within the pot for the frame to slide into, the arrangement
may be reversed and the pot be made with a simple ridge or fillet where the groove
is shown in the drawings, and the frame C be made with a grooved edge to fit over
and embrace the said ridge or fillet so that the frame may slide into its place as in
the former construction, or instead of being made to slide into its place, the frame C
may be made to fit into such fillet or seat in the pot so as to be retained there by
the friction of the parts, but this I consider less advantageous than the construction
previously described.
It will be obvious that such pots may be used for making coffee or infusing other
finely divided material.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. Tea pots constructed with a removable strainer carried by a frame arrange-
ment made to slide into the pot substantially as hereinbefore described and set
forth.
2. Pots for infusing, constructed with an internal grooved frame, groove, fillet,
or the like for the reception of a strainer frame substantially as described and set
forth.
3. A pot characterised by an internal strainer mounted in a frame adaptable to a
groove or seat within the pot, all for the purpose of making infusions substantially
as described and set forth.
4. A pot having internally a grooved frame B, or groove B carrying the frames C
and D and strainer E substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated the Eighth day of April 1892,
FREDERICK MANN.