VEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SERVING OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Moses Poole, of Avenue Road, Regent's
Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SERVING OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL
FISH"
Sealed the 4th May 1853, and dated the 11th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moses Poole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th March 1853.
I, MOSES POOLE, of Avenue Road, Regent's Park, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SERVING OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL
FISH to be as follows:-:
This Invention consists of an apparatus so arranged as to allow the
water to flow freely away from the oyster. It consists of a series of
trays or galleries placed one above the other, on which the oysters to
be served are placed. The galleries revolve round a central axis, either
altogether or one at a time, as required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Moses Poole, in the Great Seal Patent Oflice, on
the 10th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
MOSES POOLE, of Avenue Road, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Moses Poole, Her special licence that T, the
said Moses Poole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Moses Poole, 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 APPARATUS FOR SERVING
OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH," communicated to me from abroad,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Moses Poole,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and "in
what manner the samo was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next. and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Moses Poole, do hereby declaro
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 consists of an apparatus so arranged as to allow the
water to flow freely away from the yster. It consists of a series of

page_text: trays or galleries placed one above the other (on which the oysters to
be served are placed). The galleries revolve round a central axis,
either altogether or one at a time, as required. Underneath the whole
is attached a tray, into which the water which runs from them flows.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the drawing here-
unto annexed.
Figure 1, is an elevation of the complete apparatus. Figure 2, is a
section, with the galleries removed. A, shows separately the tube
which serves for axis on which the galleries, revolve. B, shows a plan
of the tray to catch the water which runs from the. oysters, and on
which the apparatus stands. C, shows a plan of a small vessel for
containing lemon, which is screwed on to the top of the axis A. D,
shows a plan of the lowest gallery: it is perforated round the circum-
ference to allow the water to pass away. It is fixed at its centre to a
short tube just large enough to pass easily over the axis A. This tube
projects above and below the gallery sufficiently to keep it at a proper
distance from the tray B, below, and the gallery E, above. This tube is
enlarged at its upper part to give a firm support to the gallery above.
E, F, and G, show the succeeding galleries: they are arranged in the
same manner as the gallery D, except that the central tube in these
galleries projects only above and not below, as in the gallery D: these
tubes retain the galleries, when placed one above the other, on the axis
A, at a proper distance the one from the other, and also maintain the
galleries at all times parallel one to each other, and perpendicular to
the axis A.
It will be seen that, if so desired, all the galleries may be fixed on
one tube in place of each one on its own portion of tube, by which
arrangement all the galleries will turn together in place of inde-
pendently of each other, as in the apparatus first described.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not con-
fine myself to the precise details described; but what I claim is, the

page_text: improvement herein described in apparatus for serving oysters and
other shell fisli.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
M. POOLE. (18.)
Witness, WILLIAM E. DAVES.