IM- PROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER DISHES AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Burford, of the Firm of Reynolds and Company,
of Richmond, in the County of Surrey, Ironmonger, for the Invention of " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER DISHES AND SUCH LIKE VESSELS."
Sealed the 30th September 1876, and dated the 19th April 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Burford at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April 1876.
JAMES BURFORD, of the Firm of Reynolds and Company, of Richmond, in the
County of Surrey, Ironmonger. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER DISHES AND
SUCH LIKE VESSELS."
The object of my Invention is to arrange hot water dishes and such like vessels
so as to afford facility for warming or retaining warmth to the spoon or ladle
used therewith when such spoon or ladle is not in actual use.
For this purpose the dish or such like vessel has formed. in or applied to one
side of its hot water compartment a chamber or pocket adapted readily to receive
the bowl of the spoon or ladle. To secure increased heat to this chamber or pocket
that part of it which projects may be formed double, so that the interior of such
double portion may communicate with the interior of the hot water compartment.
A hinged cover may also be applied to this chamber or pocket to aid in retaining
the heat therein. A hook or rest is provided to aid the support of the handle of
the spoon or ladle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Burford in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th October
1876.
JAMES BURFORD, of the Firm of Reynolds and Company, of Richmond, in the
County of Surrey, Ironmonger. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT WATER DISHES AND
SUCH LIKE VESSELS."
The object of my Invention is to arrange hot water dishes and such like vessels
so as to afford facility for warming or retaining warmth to the spoon or ladle used
therewith when such spoon or ladle is not in actual use, and so that the same may
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page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE-DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows by side view, and Figure 2 by plan view a hot water dish
arranged according to my Invention.
a is the dish, which is formed in the usual way with a jacket, or is double on its
under surface, so as thereby to obtain a receptacle or compartment for the reception
of hot water, by which to aid in keeping the dish warm, as is well understood, but
in addition to this ordinary compartment there is also formed on it the chamber or
pocket 6, which is in size and form adapted to receive the bowl of a spoon or ladle
to be used with such dish; c'represents a spoon or ladle resting therein; and d, a
hook or handle also attached to or formed on the outer case of the dish a to serve
as a rest for the outer end of the handle of the spoon or ladle. Such chamber or
pocket may be formed of a single thickness of metal or material, as shewn by the
section of parts, Figure 3, simply to receive and impart the leat communicated to
it by its proximity to the body of the dish, or it may be formed double or with a
jacket b¹ thereto, so as to receive and admit of a current of water passing into it
from the main compartment of the dish, and thence flowing around it and back into
that main compartment, as shewn by Figure 4, to facilitate which there are
passages e, f, between the main water compartment of the dish and this jacket 61 of
the pocket b, both at its lower and its upper points of junction with the main
water receptacle.
Figure 5 shews by sectional view of a portion of a dish a modification of the
Invention, in which the chamber or pocket b for holding the bowl of the spoon or
ladle is formed in the upper surface of the dish near the ordinary well a¹. It will,
however, be evident that the form and position of such chamber or pocket may be
varied to the form or character of the hot water dish, or such like vessel to which it
is applied.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not contine myself to the
precise arrangements of parts as shewn and described, as the same may be greatly
varied; but what I do claim is the arranging or combining parts of hot water dishes
or such like receptacles with chambers or pockets or suitable holding means for
facilitating the warming or retaining warmth to parts of spoons or ladles in manner
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Burford, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.