AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Ryland, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manager of Works, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS."
Sealed the 19th November 1867, and dated the 25th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Ryland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th May 1867.
I, WILLIAM RYLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manager
of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has reference to the connection of the handles of tea pots,
coffee pots, and other vessels, required to contain hot water, such for example,
as urns and kettles, to the said tea pots and other vessels. The object of my
Invention being to connect the said handles so that the heat of the vessel is.
not transmitted to an inconvenient extent to the said handles.

page_text: By my Invention the use of the ordinary pieces of ivory, bone, or other non-
conductor of heat is dispensed with.
I will describe my Invention with reference to a tea pot. I make at the
parts of the tea pot where the ends of the handle are to be connected, two
nearly hemispherical depressions, the convex sides, of the said depressions being
situated towards and projecting into the body of the tea pot; these depressions
may be made from the metal of the tea pot or made separately and soldered
to the tea pot. I provide the ends of the handle of the tea pot with hollow
socket pieces, to the summits of which the handle proper is fixed. In connecting
the handle to the tea pot the socket pieces described are soldered to the edges
of the depressions. The hollow or concave side of each of the said socket
pieces being presented to the hollow or concave side of each of the depressions in
the body of the tea pot. There are thus formed at the junctions of the handle
with the body of the tea pot hollow air chambers which prevent more or less
the beat of the tea pot passing to the handle; the handle is thereby kept
cool during the use of the tea pot. I do not limit myself to the shape of the
depressions in the body, and hollow socket pieces on the ends of the handle, as
the shape of the said parts is not material, but I prefer to give them a bulbous
or globular figure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Ryland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL.COME, I, WILLIAM
RYLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manager of Works,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Ryland, Her special licence that I, the said William Ryland, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Ryland, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR

page_text: IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA POTS, COFFEE POTS, AND OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Ryland, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Ryland, 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:
My Invention has reference to the connection of the handles of tea pots,
coffee pots, and other vessels required to contain hot water, such for example,
as urns and kettles, to the said tea pots and other vessels. The object of my
Invention being to connect the said handles so that the heat of the vessel is
not transmitted to an inconvenient extent to the said handles.
By my Invention the use of the ordinary pieces of ivory, bone, or other non-
conductor of heat is dispensed with.
I will describe my Invention with reference to a tea pot. I make at the
parts of the tea pot where the ends of the handle are to be connected, two
nearly hemispherical depressions, the convex sides of the said depressions
being situated towards and projecting into the body of the tea pot. These
depressions may be made from the metal of the tea pot or made separately
and soldered to the tea pot. I provide the ends of the handle of the tea pot
with hollow socket pieces to the summits of which the handle proper is fixed.
In connecting the handle to the tea pot the socket pieces described are soldered
to the edges of the depressions, the hollow or concave side of each of the said
socket pieces being presented to the hollow or concave side of each of the
depressions in the body of the tea pot, or the socket and the depression may
be made in one piece. There are thus formed at the junction of the handle
with the body of the tea pot hollow air chambers which prevent more or less
the heat of the tea pot passing to the handle. The handle is thereby kept
cool during the use of the tea pot; the handle is made hollow, the hollow part
being isolated from the socket pieces the air confined therein assisting in
keeping the handle cool. I do not limit myself to the shape of the depressions
in the body and hollow socket pieces on the ends of the handle as the shape
of the said parts is not material, but I prefer to give them a bulbous or
globular figure.

page_text: Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which the same
is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation a tea pot provided with my Invention, and
Figure 2 represents a vertical section of a portion of the same.
a is the body of the tea pot, and 6 the handle of the same.
At the parts
of the body a where the ends of the handle 6 are to be joined two nearly
hemispherical depressions c, d, are made, the convex sides of which project
into the body of the tea pot a as best seen in the section Figure 2, I make the
depressions c, d, either from the metal of the body a by shaping or indenting
it at the required places as illustrated in the Drawing, or I pierce holes in the
body and insert and solder pieces of metal of the desired form in the said
boles. The ends of the handle 6 are provided with hollow sockets e, f, which
said sockets are soldered to the edges of the depressions c, d, in the manner
represented in Figure 2. Hollow air chambers g, h, are thus formed at the
junctions of the handle 6 with the body a, and between the hot water and the
said handle, means of which air chambers the heat from the tea pot is
prevented more or less from passing to and heating the handle 6 of the said
tea pot during, use. The chambers g, h, may be made of any required size
and shape, and each of the depressions and its socket may be made in one
piece. The handle 6 is made hollow, all communication being cut off between
its sockets e, f, and the hollow of the said handle. The air confined in the
hollow of the handle assists in keeping the handle cool. A piece of ivory or
other non-conducting material may be fixed on or inserted in the top of the
handle for the thumb to rest upon while pouring out the liquid; the said piece
of ivory may be made of any convenient shape.
In applying my Invention to coffee pots, urns, kettles, and other vessels
required to contain hot water, I construct and arrange the parts essentially in
the manner 'described with reference to a tea pot.
Having 'now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated as the same may
be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention. But I claim
as my Invention the improvement or improvements in 'tea pots, coffee
pots, urns, kettles, and other vessels, to contain hot water, herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, forming
under the sockets of the handles of the said vessels, or at the parts where the
ends of the handles are connected to the vessels air chambers projecting into

page_text: the body of the vessel and isolating the handles from the said sockets or hollow
parts substantially as described and illustrated for the purpose of keeping the
handles of the vessels cool during use.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Ryland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
WILLIAM RYLAND. (L.B.)
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.