CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TEA POTS
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CLARKE ASH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of July, in the seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Clarke Ash, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Henry Clarke Ash, my exors, aditiors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henry Clarke Ash, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF TEA POTS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I,
the said Henry Clarke Ash, shall cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part

page_text: recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Clarke Ash, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in combining a vessel within a tea pot for receiving
tea, in order that an infusion of tea may be made in such vessel, and from
that vessel be caused to flow into the tea pot. And in order that the Invention
may be fully understood, and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to
describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a tea pot, within which my said
improvements are combined. Figure 2 represents a vertical section of the
tea pot in a plane at right angles to that shewn in Figures 1 and 4. Figure 3.
represents a plan of the tea pot, the lid being removed. Figure 4 represents
a vertical section of the tea pot, in the same plane as that represented in
Figure 1, and the parts are shewn in the positions they would assume when
the infusion is being poured out of the tea pot. a is the body of the tea
pot, the handle, and c the spout; d is a vessel, shewn separately in
Figure 5, suspended within the body a of the tea pot by the axes e, f. The
vessel d is perforated with holes a, a, near the top, as seen in the Drawing.
The vessel d swings on the axes e, which are supported in the grooves or
bearings g, h. The bearings or brackets g, h, bave each a groove proceeding
from their lower to their upper ends; these grooves are for the purpose of
admitting the removal of the vessel d, the axes e, f, of the said vessel
sliding in the said grooves. The form of the grooves in the brackets or
supports g, h, is clearly seen in Figure 3. The action of a tea pot having
my improvements applied thereto is as follows:-When about to be used a
quantity of tea is placed in the vessel d, and boiling water is poured into
the said vessel d, until the level of the water rises to the holes a, .r. The
lid of the tea pot is then to be shut, and the whole left at rest until the
infusion within the vessel d is deemed of sufficient strength. When it is
desired to pour tea from the tea pot a, a further quantity of boiling water is
to be poured into the vessel d, by which the infusion will flow through the

page_text: holes a, a, formed in the vessel d, into the body of the tea pot a, and the
pouring of the boiling water into the vessel d is continued until the quantity
of infusion which has run through the holes a, a, into the tea pot a, is deemed
sufficient for immediate use. The infusion may now be poured from the
body of the tea pot a, by taking hold of the handle, and inclining the tea
pot as in using tea pots not having my improvements applied thereto, and
as is indicated at Figure 4; and it will be seen on an inspection of Figure 4,
that, during the pouring of the infusion from the tea pot a, the vessel d, by
moving with its axes c, f, in the bearings g, h. preserves its horizontal
position, and hence remains full of the infusion, even when the body of the
tea pot a is emptied. The tea is consequently left infusing in the vessel d,
and when a second quantity of the infusion is required boiling water is again
to be poured into the vessel d, as herein-before described, until a sufficient
quantity has flowed from the vessel d, into the body of the tea pot a. This
process of pouring boiling water into the vessel d and causing it to flow into
the body of the tea pot a may be repeated several times, and before the
last quantity of the infusion is poured out of the tea pot a the vessel d
should be tilted with a tea spoon, so as to empty the infusion from it into
the body of the tea pot a. In order to remove the tea leaves from the
vessel d, the said vessel is to be taken from the tea pot by being raised
perpendicularly by the handle t, the axes sliding in the bearings or grooves
g, h, as herein-before explained. It should be remarked that the filter at i
may be much more finely perforated than when the tea is put into the tea
pot without a vessel as herein explained. It will be evident that the shape
of the tea pot may be varied, and such is also the case in respect to the
vessel d, and they may be made of any suitable material.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details shewn, so long as the character of my
Invention be retained; but what I claim is the application of vessels d
within tea pots, in order to receive the tea when about to make infusions
thereof in such tea pots, and whereby the infusions being formed in the
interior vessels flow into the tea pots.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Clarke Ash, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
HENRY CLARKE (L.S.) ASII.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Henry Clarke Ash came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-four.