Improvements in Mustard Cruets.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mustard Cruets.
I, MAXIMILIEN MALÉZIEUX Aîné, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the
Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The mustard-pots or cruets hitherto used present various inconveniences of which
one of the most serious is that they allow the contents of the cruet to dry or become
spoiled through contact with air.
The distinctive features of the improved cruet herein described may be summed
up as follows,
(1). The mustard is always confined within a perfectly air-tight vessel wherein
it is as thoroughly protected from contact with air as when it was contained in its
original sealed receptacle.
(2). The cruet only supplies exactly the quantities of mustard required at the
time and does this in a clean and appetizing manner, and
(3). It enables the usual spoon, of which the handle is nearly always soiled to be
dispensed with.
The principle or main object of the invention is to make mustard-cruets self-
supplying or self-feeding so as to make it unnecessary to use a spoon or like article
in taking out the required quantities of its contents.
The mustard may be contained in a cylindrical vessel and adapted to issue
through a nozzle or spout when pressure is exercised upon it by means of a plunger
or piston connected with a screw passing through a nut by turning which to a
greater or less extent, the desired quantity of mustard is caused to come out of
the cruet. Substantially the same arrangement may be employed in modifications the
difference mainly consisting in the means employed in each case to bring the
required pressure to bear upon the contents of the vessel. Thus constant pressure
may be applied by the weight of the piston or plunger itself, the nozzle being pro-
vided with a cock permitting the quantity of mustard which is to flow out of the
cruet at a time to be controlled. Or the weight may be replaced by a spring acting
on the piston. Again, adjustable pressure may be applied to the piston by haud by
means of a rack arrangement with spring catch.
Dated this 6th day of February 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mustard Cruets.
I, MAXIMILIEN MALÉZIEUX Aîné of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, in the
Republic of France, 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 :-
The mustard pots or cruets hitherto used present various inconveniences of which
one of the most serious is that they allow the contents of the cruet to dry or become
spoiled through contact with air.
The distinctive features of the improved cruet herein described may be summed
up as follows:-
(1) The mustard is always confined within a perfectly air-tight vessel wherein
it is as thoroughly protected from contact with air as when it was contained in its
original sealed receptacle.

page_text: (2) The cruet only supplies exactly the quantities of mustard required at the
time and does this in a clean and appetizing manner, and
(3) It enables the usual spoon, of which the handle is nearly always soiled to be
dispensed with.
In the accompanying drawings several forms of the improved mustard cruet are
shown by way of example,
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Figure 1 being a section of a cruet provided with a force-screw;
Figure 2 a section of the cruet provided with a plunger acting by its weight,
Figure 3 a section of a cruet in which pressure is exercised by a spring, and
Figure 4 a section of a cruet provided with a plunger arranged to be operated by
hand.
The principle or main object of the invention is to make mustard-cruets self-
supplying or self-feeding so as to make it unnecessary to use a spoon or like article
in taking out the required quantities of its contents.
In the form shown in Figure 1 the mustard may be contained in a cylindrical
vessel B and adapted to issue through a nozzle or spout when pressure is exercised
upon it by means of a plunger or piston A' connected with a screw A passing
through a nut C, by turning which to a greater or less extent, the desired quantity
of mustard is caused to come out of the cruet. It will be seen from the drawings
that substantially the same arrangement may be employed in modifications, the
difference mainly consisting in the means employed in each case to bring the
required pressure to bear upon the contents of the vessel. Thus in Figure 2 con-
stant pressure may be applied by the weight of the piston or plunger M itself, the
nozzle being provided with a cock m permitting the quantity of mustard which is
to flow out of the cruet at a time to be controlled. In Figure 3 the weight M may
be replaced by a spring R acting on the piston. Again, in the arrangement shown
in Figure 4 adjustable pressure may be applied to the piston P by hand by means
of a rack arrangement with spring catch.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
:-
1. A mustard pot in which the air is excluded from the contents which are
removed without dipping into the pot.
2. A mustard pot in which the air is excluded from the contents which are
discharged through a spout substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete mustard
pot substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying
drawings.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete mustard
pot substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
5. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete mustard
pot substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
6. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete mustard
pot substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
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