A New and Improved Stand or Holder for a Water Ewer, to Facilitate the Pouring of Water therefrom.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Stand or Holder for a Water Ewer, to
Facilitate the Pouring of Water therefrom.
We WALTER CLEWS, of 564, Great Hampton Street, City of Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Electro-plate Manufacturer, and GEORGE HAMMERSLEY,
of Springfield Terrace, Alsager, in the County of Chester, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to a new and improved stand or holder for a water ewer,
for wash-stands and the like, whereby the ewer is suspended or held, which greatly
facilitates the pouring therefrom the water, the labor of lifting the ewer being.
dispensed with.
In carrying our invention into effect we take an ordinary pottery ewer, or
pitcher, and we construct a metallic frame or cradle, the upper part of which
consists of a ring of a size to encircle the body of ewer, near its middle, or at a
part where the tapering commences.
About the centre of the said ring and on either side thereof, we connect a pivot,
forming trunnions, one of the said pivots terminates at a right angle into a tongue
which is fitted with a spring catch for the purpose hereinafter described.
We likewise construct an ornamental metallic stand, the upper part terminating
on either side into bearings; a little below one of the bearings, we connect a
quadrant having a series of indentations or notches.
We take the aforesaid frame or cradle, and place it over the stand, the trunnions
engaging in the bearings of the said stand, and are capable of swivelling thereon,
giving a rocking motion to the cradle. The tongue hereinbefore referred to
hanging downwards over the aforesaid quadrant, the spring catch connected to the
tongue engaging in the indentation in the quadrant, and preventing the cradle from
being swung too forward and too backward, or it may be used for retaining the
cradle in any desired position.
Now, if we take an ewer filled or partly filled with water, and place it in the
aforesaid cradle, it will be suspended or held upon the trunnion arms, and capable
of swinging forward or backward thereon.
When it is desired to pour water from the ewer into the wash-basin, it is only
necessary to lift the handle of the ewer, which will bring the ewer forward, and
allow the water to pour, the spring catch connected with the tongue engaging in
one of the notches on the quadrant, holds the ewer in any desired position, also
preventing it from being brought forward too suddenly against the basin.
The ewer may be taken out of the cradle for refilling, without interfering in any
way with the cradle or stand.
Or, instead of employing a pivoted bearing and quadrant arrangement as before
described, we may place two trunnion like arms on either side of the cradle, or we
may terminate their extremities into the form of a loop. The upper part of the
stand, on either side, we terminate into two ornamental fork-like bearings, into
which rest the double trunnion arms of the cradle supporting the ewer.
When it is desired to pour water from the ewer, the handle thereof is held and
tilted forward, the weight resting, and being supported on the foremost trunnion
arms which now take the form of pivots, and allow the water to pour from
the ewer.
Or, we may dispense entirely with the cradle and fix one or more pivots on either
side of the stand. And on either side of the ewer forming parts of the pottery, we
make one or more ornamental inverted seats corresponding with the pivots.
When the ewer is placed on the stand, the inverted seats on the sides thereof

page_text: rest on the pivots of the stand, and are capable of pivoting thereon in the manner
before described.
Our invention may be further applied to a ewer in the following manner :-
We may take an ordinary ewer, and spin or otherwise connect to the flange at
the bottom a metallic plate terminating into a ball and socket joint attached to a
suitable stand, in this arrangement the ewer may be turned round, or tilted, in any
desired position.
We have only thought it necessary to describe a metallic cradle and stand for
supporting an ewer; we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves
to this, we may employ for the same purpose pottery, wood or marble, and apply
pivots or trunnions for the purpose herein before described, without departing from
the nature or object or our invention.
Dated this 13th day of January 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Stand or Holder for a Water Ewer, to
Facilitate the Pouring of Water therefrom.
We, WALTER CLEWS, of 56 Great Hampton Street, City of Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Electro Plate Manufacturer and GEORGE HAMMERSLEY,
of Springfield Terrace Alsager, in the County of Chester, Manufacturer, 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 :-
Our invention relates to a new and improved stand or holder for a water ewer,
for wash-stands and the like, whereby the ewer is suspended or held, which greatly
facilitates the pouring of the water therefrom, the labor of lifting the ewer being
.dispensed with. In carrying our invention into effect, we take an ordinary pottery
ewer, or pitcher, and we construct a metallic frame or cradle, the upper part of
which consists of a ring of a size to encircle the body of the ewer near its middle,
or at a part where the tapering commences. About the centre of the said ring and
on either side thereof, we connect a pivot forming trunnions, one of the said
pivots terminates at a right angle into a tongue which is fitted with a spring
catch for the purpose hereinafter described.
We likewise construct an ornamental metallic stand, the upper part terminating
on either side into bearings; a little below one of the bearings we connect a
quadrant having a series of indentations or notches. We take the aforesaid frame
or cradle and place it over the stand the trunnions engaging in the bearings of
the said stand, and are capable of swivelling thereon, giving a rocking motion
to the cradle. The tongue hereinbefore referred to hangs downwards over the
aforesaid quadrant, the spring catch connected to the tongue engaging in the
indentations in the quadrant, and thus prevents the cradle from being swung too
far forward or too far backward, or it may be used for retaining the cradle in
any desired position. If we take a ewer filled or partly filled with water and
place it in the aforesaid cradle, it will be suspended or held upon the trunnion
arms, and may be swung forward or backward thereon.
When it is desired to pour water from the ewer into the wash-basin, it is only
necessary to lift the handle of the ewer which will bring the ewer forward, and
allow the water to be poured out, the spring catch connected with the tongue
engaging in one of the notches on the quadrant, holds the ewer in any desired
position and also prevents it from being brought forward too suddenly against the
basin. The ewer may be taken out of the cradle for re-filling without interfering
in any way with the cradle or stand. Instead of employing a pivoted bearing and
quadrant arrangement as before described we may place two trunnions like arms

page_text: on either side of the cradle, or we may terminate their extremities in the form of
a loop.
The upper part of the stand on either side we terminate into two ornamental fork
like bearings, into which rest the double trunnion arms of the cradle supporting
the ewer.
When it is desired to pour water from the ewer, the handle thereof is
held and tilted forward, the weight resting and being supported on the foremost
trunnion arms, and thus allows the water to pour from the ewer.
We may dispense entirely with the cradle and fix one or more pivots or trunnion
arms on either side of the stand, and on either side of the ewer, we fix one or more
ornamental inverted seats corresponding with the pivots. When the ewer is placed
on the stand, the inverted seats on the side thereof rest on the pivots of the stand,
We also
and are capable of swivelling thereon in the manner before described.
connect the said stand to a base in such a manner that the stand holding the ewer
may be gyrated or turned round in any desired position to facilitate the pouring of
water from the ewer to the wash-basin, which we effect by attaching to the bottom
of the stand a screw or stud which is fitted into a socket formed in the base, and is
held there by a nut or thumb-screw.
In our Provisional Specification we describe an arrangement for effecting the
turning round of the ewer in which we spin or otherwise connect to the flange at
the bottom of the ewer, a metallic plate terminating into a ball and socket joint
attached to a suitable stand, in this arrangement the ewer may be turned round, or
tilted in any desired position. In preference to this arrangement we now construct
a stand in which the ewer may be gyrated or turned round upon a base by screw
and socket arrangement before described.
We have only thought it necessary to describe a metallic cradle and stand for
supporting a ewer; we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to
this, we may employ for the same purpose pottery, wood, or marble, and apply
pivots or trunnions for the purpose hereinafter described, without departing from
the nature or object of our invention. We will describe our invention as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1, represents a perspective view of our new and improved stand or holder,
a, is a metallic frame or cradle having on either side a pivot or trunnion b and b
the pivot or trunnion terminating into a tongue e which is fitted with a spring
catch d. The pivots or trunnions and 6 engage into the bearings e, e, on the
upper part of the quadrant, which is attached to the stand or holder J.
Figure 2, represents a perspective view showing a ewer or pitcher placed in the
frame or cradle a, the upper ring a' and the lower ring a³ encircling and holding it,
it being retained in a vertical position by the spring catch d engaging in one of the
indentations on the quadrant f.
Figure 3, shows the same stand or holder with the cradle a holding the ewer
tilted forward, and allowing the water to pour therefrom, which can be effected by
lifting the handle of the ewer, the spring catch d engaging in another of the
indentations which is effected by the tongue c operated by the pivot ³ thus
preventing the ewer from being brought forward too suddenly against the
wash-basin.
Figure 4, represents a perspective view of a stand or holder in which the
quadrant arrangement for keeping the cradle and ewer in position has been
dispensed with, and two trunnion like arms 63, 6 are attached to the cradle a thus
forming a loop.
The upper part of the stand on either side forms two bearings r, r, upon
which the trunnion arms 6363 rest and support the cradle a carrying the ewer. The
dotted lines indicating the cradle a and ewer tilted forward, one of the trunnion
arms &³ resting in the bearing and supporting the weight.
Figure 5 represents a modification of our stand or holder in which we dispense
with part of the cradle and use for the same purpose a metallic band h, having the
trunnion arms 636 attached thereto, we connect the band h into a recess or neck
formed in the body of the ewer and attach it thereto by the thumb-screw j.

page_text: Figure 6, illustrates another part of our invention in which we dispense entirely
with the cradle a, and fix the two pivots or trunnions like arms 4, 6 on either side
of stand and on either side of the ewer forming part of the pottery, we make two
ornamental inverted seats k, k³, which rest on the pivots or trunnions 6* and 5* and
can be tilted thereon as shown in the drawing.
Figure 7, shows the same stand and ewer turned round on a metallic base m,
which is effected by the screw stud n, turning in the socket o, which is attached
thereto y the thumb screw and thus it will be seen that in this arrangement the
ewer may be gyrated or tilted into any desired position to facilitate the pouring of
the water therefrom into the wash-basin.
Figure 8 shows a gyrating stand attached to a pottery base m: the upper part
of the stand is in shape similar to the stand shown at Figures 4 and 5. The cradle
shown in the same figures may be applied to the stand, Figure 8 in the same
manner as in Figures 4 and 5.
It is obvious that the various arrangements described and illustrated may be
slightly modified so as to enable the cradle a being applied to any of the stands or
holders, as the dispensation of the cradle a and application of the inverted seat and
the mechanical arrangement for effecting the gyrating of the stand and ewer may
be considerably modified for effecting the purposes described without departing
from the nature or object of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. The new and improved stand or holder for a water ewer to facilitate the
pouring of water therefrom substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
2ndly. The improved method of supporting a ewer on a stand by means of a
cradle and effecting the tilting forward of the same by means of pivots or
trunnions and and the retaining of the same in any desired position by means
of the spring catch d, the tongue c and the quadrant, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
3rd. The improved method of supporting a cradle a and ewer on a stand by
means of trunnion like arms 3 and 3 forming a loop and supported on bearings r
formed by an ornamental part of the stand, for the purpose of giving a tilting
movement thereto, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by
Figures 4, 5, and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
4th. The improvements in the arrangement for supporting a ewer on pivots or
trunnions by two ornamental inverted seats and giving a tilting and gyrating
movement thereto substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by
Figures 6 and 7, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of October 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.