Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 2nd May, 1896
I, JAMES MACKINTOSH, of 15 The Square, Grantown, Morayshire, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a tea infuser in the form of a
portable strainer which may be lowered into the water or raised out of the infusion
in the tea-pot from the outside.
The improved infuser is composed of a strainer of wire gauze, perforated metal,
earthenware or other material of cup-like shape having a cross bar at top to which
is attached a cord, wire or chain passing up through an orifice in the tea-pot lid and
serving to suspend the strainer.
In using the device the dry tea is placed in the strainer, hot water is poured into
the tea-put, and when the infusion is made the cord, wire or chain is pulled
to draw up the strainer with the tea leaves into the cavity formed by the tea-pot
lid, the leaves being thus placed out of contact with the infusion. In this position
it may be retained by any convenient means for securing the cord, wire or chain.
Dated this 18th day of November 1895.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
2 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applica
I, JAMES MACKINTOSH, of 15 The Square, Grantown, Morayshire, Merchant,
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:-
This invention has for its object to provide a tea infuser in the form of a portable
strainer which may be lowered into the water or raised out of the infusion in the
tea-pot from the outside.
The improved infuser, which is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in
vertical section at Fig. 1 and in plan with the lid removed at Fig. 2, is composed of
a strainer A of wire gauze, perforated metal, earthenware or other material of cup-
like shape having a cross bar a at top to which is attached a chain B which passes
up through a hole a³ in a lid a' covering the strainer A and through an orifice in
the tea-pot lid C said chain serving to suspend the strainer A.
Ci
In using the device the dry tea is placed in the strainer A, bot water is poured into
the tea-pot, which may either be of metal or earthenware and the strainer lowered
to the position shewn by Fig. 1, a ring b being provided on the chain B to retain the
strainer clear of the bottom of the tea-pot. When the infusion is made, the
chain B is pulled to draw up the strainer with the tea leaves into the cavity c¹
formed by the tea-pot lid C, the leaves being thus placed out of contact with the
infusion. In this position it may be retained by a pin D passed through one of the
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page_text: links of the chain B and rested upon the bottom of a groove on the lid C, or by
any convenient means for securing the cord, wire or chain.
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 :-
The improved tea infuser composed of a strainer of wire gauze, perforated metal,
earthenware or other material combined with a tea-pot lid within which it is adapted
for suspension by means of a chain, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of March 1896.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.