IMPROVEMENTS IN JUes
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bowden Sander, of High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JUes."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bowden Sander
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th November 1858.
I, GEORGE BOWDEN SANDER, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in jugs. Heretofore in
constructing covered jugs it has been usual to fix on the exterior of the cover
a thumbpiece, by means of which the cover of the jug is raised; but by this
means the cover is necessarily lifted to its highest position, which is incon-
venient. Now, my Invention consists in applying a moveable stop to prevent
the cover rising further than is requisite to allow the liquid to be poured out,
but which can be turned out of the way to allow the cover being fully opened
to fill or clean the jug. Or, in place of fixing the thumbpiece to the cover,
I attach it thereto by a hinge, which may either be separate from or form
part of the main hinge, and the hinge connecting the thumbpiece and the
cover is furnished with a stop, which prevents the one moving independently

page_text: of the other when the thumbpiece is pressed on in the usual manner; and
from the position of the thumbpiece, the pressure, on it only partially lifts the
cover, but when desired, the cover may be completely raised, so as to fill or
clean the jug, the hinge then allowing the cover to move independently of the
thumbpiece. In constructing jugs of earthenware, I hinge to them a cover
of the same material. The flap of the metal hinge to receive the earthenware
cover is made double, and the cover is placed between the two-parts of the
flap, and is fixed by rivets or otherwise in between the two parts of the flap of
the hinge. I also make one or more projections to fit into corresponding
recesses in the cover, to make the joint firmer. In some cases also I attach
the hinge to the jug itself in a similar manner, the jug being made with a
projection suitable for receiving the flap of the hinge.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bowden Sander in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BOWDEN SANDER, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
"Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Bowden Sander, Her special licence that I, the said George
Bowden Sander, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said George Bowden Sander, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom. of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, .and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Bowden Sander, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters. Patent..
.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that. I, the said George Bowden Sander, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvement in jugs. Heretofore in
constructing covered jugs it has been usual to fix on the exterior of the cover
a thumbpiece, by means of which the cover of the jug is raised; but by this
means the cover is necessarily lifted to its highest position, which is incon-
venient. Now, my Invention consists in applying a moveable stop to prevent
the cover rising further than is requisite to allow-the liquid to be poured out,
but which can be turned out of the way to allow the cover being fully opened to
fill or clean the jug.
Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Figure 2 is a plan of the upper part of a
jug furnished with a cover and arranged in the manner above described. a is
the upper portion of an earthenware jug; b, b, is a ring or mounting of metal
fixed round its edge; c is a cover, hinged to the piece b, and finished with a
thumbpiece d, by pressing on which the cover may be raised into the position
shewn in dotted lines in the Drawing Figure 1, but it is prevented turning
further back by the stop e on the piece b, with which, if the stop is in its
place, the thumbpiece d comes in contact. The stop e is mounted on a centre
at e, on which it is made to turn somewhat stiffly, so that it will remain in
any position it which may be placed; when it is desired to raise the cover
to its highest position, the stop is turned into the position shewn in dotted
lines in Figure 1, and then the thumbpiece on the cover when pressed down
no longer comes against it.
Figure 3 is a side view, and Figure 4 is a back view of the upper part of a
jug and cover arranged according to my Invention, but in a somewhat different
manner from that shewn at Figures 1 and 2. a is the upper part of a jug;
b, a metal ring or mounting; c, a cover; and d, a thumbpiece, as before;
but the moveable stop e, in place of being mounted on the piece b, as before,
is carried by the thumbpiece d; it passes down through a hole or passage in
this piece, and its end projects out from a slot d¹ formed at the back of the
thumbpiece. If the thumbpiece be pressed on when the stop e is in its
lowest position, as is shown by full lines in the Drawing, the lower end of the
stop comes against the projection f formed on the piece b, and the cover can
rise no higher than the position shewn by the dotted lines; but if the stop e be
first drawn up as far as the slot d' will allow, then the lower end of the stop e
will, when the thumbpiece is pressed back, pass clear of the projection f, and
allow the cover. to be fully raised. In place of fixing the thumbpiece to the

page_text: cover, I sometimes attach it thereto by a hinge, which may either be séparate
from or form part of the main hinge, and the hinge connecting the thumb
piece and the cover is furnished with a stop, which prevents the one moving
independently of the other when the thumbpiece is pressed on in the usual
manner; and from the position of the thumbpiece, the pressure on it only
partially lifts the cover, but when desired the cover may be completely raised
so as to clean or fill the jug, the hinge then allowing the cover to move
independently of the thumbpiece.
Figure 5 is a side view of a portion of a jug a, furnished with a cover, to
which a thumbpiece d is attached by a hinge, which is separate from that
When the
which connects the metal ring or mounting b and the cover c.
thumbpiece is pressed on, the cover rises, the hinge connecting the thumb-:
piece with the cover being so constructed as to prevent it turning further back
than the position in which it is shown; the cover is lifted until it assumes the
position shown in dotted lines, and is then stopped by the small projection d'
on the thumbpiece coming against the projection f on the piece b. To raise
the cover to its highest position, the thumbpiece has to be pushed forward-
until the projection will pass clear of the projection 'f.
Figure 6 is a vertical section, and Figure 7 is a plan of a portion of a jug a
furnished with a cover, to which a thumbpiece d is connected by the same
hinge as that which connects the metal ring or mounting band the cover c.
In this case projections c¹ are formed on the portions of the hinge joint which
belong to the cover, and when the thumbpiece is pressed on projections d*
from it come against the projections c¹, and so raise the cover until the thumb-
piece comes against the piece b; the cover is then in the position shown by the
dotted lines, and it may be lifted further independently of the thumbpiece, if
required. In order to prevent the thumbpiece falling forward when the
cover is closed, small projections b', b', are formed on the portion of the hinge
belonging to the piece b, and the cover has small notches cut in it opposite
these projections, so that when the cover is raised it may pass clear of the
projections.
Figure 8 is a vertical section of a portion of a jug and cover slightly
different in construction from that just described, the projections c' on the
portion of the hinge joint belonging to the cover, and the projections don
that belonging to the thumbpiece, are both placed within the jug.
In constructing jugs of earthenware, I hinge to them a cover of the same
material. The flap of the metal hinge to receive the earthenware cover is
made double, and the cover is placed between the two parts of the flap, and is
fixed by rivets or otherwise in between the two parts of the flap of the hinge

page_text: I also make one or more projections to fit into corresponding recesses in the
cover, to make the joint firmer. In some cases also I attach the hinge to
the jug itself in a similar manner, the jug being made with a projection
suitable for receiving the flap of the hinge.
Figure 9 is a vertical section of the upper portion of a jug. g is a
projection formed on the jug for receiving the back flap of the hinge h, which
is made double, and receives the projection g between its top and bottom
plate; the front of the projection is grooved to receive small metal tongues h',
which serve to render the joint more secure; both the projection and the flap
of the hinge have holes drilled through them, and they are fixed together by
rivets, as the Drawing shows.
The method of applying an earthenware cover I have not thought it
necessary to shew in the Drawing. The fore flap of the hinge is made to
receive the cover in the same manner as the back flap of the hinge shewn in
Figure 9, and is attached to the cover by rivets.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bowden Sander, have hereunto.
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
GEORGE BOWDEN SANDER. (L.S.)