Improvement in Tea or Coffee Holders for Placing Inside the Pot, and for Containing the Tea or Coffee to be Mashed.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Tea or Coffee Holders for Placing Inside the Pot,
and for Containing the Tea or Coffee to be Mashed.
ARTHUR WADDAMS 155 Noel Street Hyson Green Nottingham Grocer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The object of this invention is to prevent the tea or coffee from getting into the
cup from which the decoction is drunk & to enable the tea leaves to be removed
from the pot as soon as sufficiently mashed and before injurious properties are
infused.
In order to carry out this invention I construct a ball shaped wire gauze strainer
or tea holder made of two hemispherically shaped halves each half having a tin or
other metal rim round the edge of the gauze and when closed a portion of the
rim of the top half fits into the rim of the bottom half and thus the shape of a ball
is formed.
The ball is fitted into a frame made of wire bent so as to form a curved top,
straight sides and twisted at the bottom into a ring.
The ball is fastened in the wire frame by soldering the sides of the frame to the
tin rim of the bottom half of gauze ball.
The purpose of the wire frame is to enable the strainer or holder to stand upright
on the bottom of the pot thus doing away with the need of a hinge and fastener (for
preventing the ball coming open in the pot), while the top of the wire frame
serves as a handle by which the strainer or holder can be readily removed from
the pot.
The strainers are made of a suitable size so that the tea can float within the ball
while the hot water is poured on and thus the tea is as quickly and thoroughly
mashed as when placed loose in the pot.
I purpose making the strainer either hemispherical or elliptical in shape to suit
differently shaped tea or coffee pots, and also to make them of any suitable metal.
Dated this 8th day of November 1892.
ARTHUR WADDAMS..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Tea or Coffee Holders for Placing Inside the Pot,
and for Containing the Tea or Coffee to be Mashed.
I, ARTHUR WADDAMS, of 155 Noel Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham, in the
County of Nottinghamshire, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to prevent the tea or coffee from getting into the
cup from which the decoction is drunk and to enable the tea leaves to be removed
from the pot as soon as sufficiently mashed and before injurious properties
are infused.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is an elevation of the strainer.

page_text: In order to carry out this invention I construct a ball shaped wire gauze strainer
or tea holder made of two hemispherically shaped halves a each half having a tin
or other metal rim. 6 round the edge of the gauze and when closed a portion of the
rim of the one half fits into the rim of the other half as indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 1, and thus the shape of a ball is formed.
The ball is fitted into a frame e made of wire bent so as to form a curved top
straight sides and twisted at the bottom onto a ring d and the ends e soldered
together.
The gauze ball is fastened in the wire frame by soldering the sides of the frame
to the tin rim of the bottom half of the gauze ball as in Fig. 1.
The purpose of the wire frame c which constitutes the invention or the principal
part of the invention is to enable the strainer a to stand upright on the bottom of
the pot thus doing away with the need of a hinge and fasteners, for preventing the
ball coming open in the pot, while the top of the frame c serves as a handle for
readily removing the strainer from the pot.
When the strainer a contains the tea or coffee, it is taken by the handle or top of
wire frame c and placed ring downwards in the pot for mashing.
The strainers are made of a suitable size so that the tea can float within the
gauze ball while the hot water is poured on and thus the tea is as quickly and
thoroughly mashed as when placed loose in the pot.
I purpose making the strainer either hemispherical or elliptical in shape to suit
differently shaped tea or coffee pots also to make them of any suitable metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a tea or coffee strainer, the combination of the wire gauze strainer with the
metal bands of each half fitting into each other and the ring fixed to the frame,
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
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2. In a tea or coffee strainer, the ring d and the frame e soldered to the bottom
ring b, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
3. In a frame for a tea or coffee strainer, the ring d and the ends e of the
frame c, substantially as herein described and acccording to the accompanying
drawing.
4. A tea or coffee strainer substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 27th day of i
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.