securing Metal Lids to Earthenware, China, Glass, ana Metal Vessels or Receptacles.
Year: 1885

page_text: securing Metal Lids to Earthenware, China, Glass, ana
Metal Vessels or Receptacles.
We THOMAS CLARE of High Street Goldenhill Earthenware Manufacturer and
AMOS CHADWICK of Hall Street Burslem Earthenware Manufacturer and JAMES
CLARKE of Derby Street Cobridge Metal Mounter, all in the County of Stafford do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODe or
METHODS OF AND MEANS FOR SECURING METAL LIDS TO EARTHENWARE, CHINA,
GLASS AND METAL VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES to be as follows:-
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Our Invention has relation to "Improvements in the modes or methods of and
means for securing metal lids to earthenware china glass and metal vessels or
receptacles."
Hitherto it has been customary to secure or fasten the metal lids of fictile vessels
such as tea pots, jugs and the like in the following manner that is to say:-For
instance in the cases of attaching securing or fastening a metal lid to an earthen-
ware tea pot or to a jug. A metal rim surrounds the opening at top of such vessels
and is secured thereto by means of pins or rivets passing through such metal rin
and the top of the earthenware vessel. And similarly also as regards the mode of
securing the hinged attachment portion of said lid or cover.
Now, according to our Invention the hinged metal lid or cover is alone rendered
necessary as by the arrangement we adopt, the rim of metal aforesaid is dispensed
with, and the lid or cover falls or takes directly on to the top of the opening in the
fictile vessel to which said lid or cover is adapted. It is secured at the hinged
portion as follows:-
A slotted hole is formed through, and at a suitable distance from the top or
mouth of said vessel and into said slotted hole is introduced the hinged attachment
of the cover or lid which may be soldered on at this part; or said metal hinged
attachment piece may be elongated and curved or turned inwards so as to be
entered or passed entirely through said slotted hole, and there be soldered on to the
interior of the top of said fictile vessel.
Under another modification of our said Invention, the opening at the top of the
fictile vessel is so moulded as to be surrounded by a projecting rim with a ledge
partially surrounding also the base of the interior thereof. Said earthenware ledge
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page_text: serving as a bearing to receive the metal lid or cover; the hinged portion of the
latter being secured to the earthenware vessel by means of a piece of wire passing
through said hinged portion where it is soldered and fitting into the two holes
formed in the rim aforesaid.
Again say in the case of a lid for top of a jug the hinge can either be brought
through the boles in the inside or outside and can be filled in with metal hinge
soldered on the article or, it may be soldered on to metal from the outside There
may be either one or two (or more) holes, and these may either be in the shape of
a slot or slots or be circular perforations. It will be apparent that by means of our
Invention we are enabled to materially simplify and lessen the cost of manufacture
of the fictile vessels aforesaid and like articles while at the same time they shall be
at least fully equal to those hitherto put into the market as regards fully meeting
the requirements of the uses for which they are intended.
Again in the case of another fastener two holes may be made in vessel with
V openings which are filled with metal or solder, then the hinged lid is placed on
the holes and secured to it by solder The advantage so gained by this our
invention is that the lid cannot possibly be drawn out.

page_text: ALL
Earthenware, Ca, Class,
апа
Metal Vessels or Receptacles.
We THOMAS CLARE of High Street, Golden Hill, Earthenware Manufacturer
AMOS CHADWICK of Hall Street, Burslem Earthenware Manufacturer and JAMES
CLARKE, of Derby Street, Cobridge, Metal Mounter, all in the County of Stafford-
shire do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MODE OR METHODS OF AND MEANS FOR SECURING METAL LIDS TO EARTHENWARE,
CHINA, GLASS, AND METAL VESSELS OR RECEPTACLES," and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
Hitherto it has been customary to secure or fasten the metal lids of fictile vessels
such as tea-pots, jugs and the like in the following manner. That is to say in the
case of attaching, securing or fastening a metal lid to an earthenware tea-pot or to
a jug; a metal rim surrounds the opening at top of such vessels and is secured
thereto by means of pins or rivets passing through such metal rim and the top of
the earthenware vessel. And similarly also as regards the mode of securing the
hinged attachment portion of said lid or cover.
Now according to our Invention, the hinged metal lid or cover is alone rendered
necessary as by the arrangement we adopt, the rim of metal aforesaid is dispensed
with, and the lid or cover falls or takes directly on to the top of the opening in the
fictile vessel to which said lid or cover is adapted. It is secured at the hinged
portion as follows:-
A slotted hole or 2 circular holes is formed through and at a suitable distance
from the top or mouth of said vessel and into said slotted hole is introduced the
hinged attachment of the cover or lid which may be soldered on at this part, or
said metal hinged attachment piece may be elongated and curved or turned
inwards so as to be entered or passed entirely through said slotted hole and then
be soldered on to the interior of the top of said fictile vessel, as in Sketch No. 1.
Under another modification of our said Invention the opening at the top of the
fictile vessel is so moulded as to be surrounded by a projecting rim with a ledge
partially surrounding also the base of the interior thereof. Said earthenware ledge
serving as a bearing to receive the metal lid or cover, the hinged portion of the
latter being secured to the earthenware vessel by means of a piece of wire passing
through said binged portion (where it is soldered) and fitting into the two holes
formed in the rim aforesaid, as in Sketch No. 2.
Again, say in the case of a lid for top of a jug or other vessel the hinge can either
be brought through the holes in the inside or outside and can be filled in with metal
hinge soldered on the article, or it may be soldered on to metal from the outside.
There may be either one or two (or more) holes and these may either be in the
shape of a slot or slots or be circular perforations, as in Sketch No. 3.
In the case of a lid for jug, teapot, or other vessel, a perforation is made on two
sides of a slot shape with an opening, tapering inwards, and then enlarged in a

page_text: circular form, or otherwise as may be found most effectual. These slot holes being
filled or run in with metal, the hinge of the lid or cover is now soldered on or
affixed to that portion of the metal that projects from the slotted holes completing
the attachment or there may be two circular perforations and two projecting pieces
from each side of the hinge which can fall into the slots internally of the vessel
and these will by this means be soldered to the metal aforesaid, as in Sketch 4.
It will be apparent that by means of our Invention we are enabled to materially
simplify and lessen the cost of manufacture of the fictile vessels aforesaid and like
articles while at the same time they shall be at least fully equal to those hitherto
put into the market, as regards fully meeting the requirements of the uses for
which they are intended.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. The right of attaching or securing lids or covers to earthenware, china, glass,
and metal vessels or receptacles without a metal rim.
2. The cleanliness and freedom from corrosion at the mouth of vessels.
3. Non-liability of detachment of the lids or covers, as in the case of metal rims.
4. The simplicity of manufacture.