Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates and other similar Articles of Pottery or Earthenware.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept.. 1396-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1836
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates and other similar Articles
of Pottery or Earthenware.
We THE WORCESTER ROYAL PORCELAIN COMPANY LIMITED of The Royal
Porcelain Works in the City of Worcester, EDWARD PROBERT EVANS of
Sunnyside Worcester aforesaid, a Managing Director of the said Company and
CHARLES FERGUS BINNS of St. Catherines Lodge, Battenhall, in the said city,
Porcelain Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The essential feature of our invention is a protected edge to the plate, dish or like
article obtained by means of a second or false edge slightly projecting beyond the
ordinary edge and so formed that damage by clipping will be localised and confined
to the under surface of the rim.
We are aware that it has been proposed to make such articles with a curved edge
and groove and ridge on the underside.
According to our invention we add a second edge to the plate and this edge may
be brought at the back of the plate, into the line with the back of the rim by any
suitable curve.
Dated the 3rd day of January 1896.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates and other similar Articles
of Pottery or Earthenware.
We THE WORCESTER ROYAL PORCELAIN COMPANY LIMITED of The Royal
Porcelain Works in the City of Worcester, EDWARD PROBERT EVANS of
Sunnyside, Worcester, aforesaid, a Managing Director of the said Company and
CHARLES FERGUS BINNS of St. Catherines Lodge Battenhall, in the said city,
Pcelain Mauufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what mauner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The essential feature of our invention is a protected edge to the plate, dish or
like article obtained by means of a second or false edge slightly projecting beyond
the ordinary edge and so formed that damage by chipping will be localised and
confined to the under surface of the rim.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows a sectional view of a plate having our improvements applied.
Fig. 2 shows the same article by a (half) plan view, and
Fig. 3 shows a half plan (reverse or underside) of the plate.
The plate a bas its edge & protected by means of the second or false edge c.

page_text: We are aware that it has been proposed to make such articles with a curved edge
and groove and ridge on the underside. According to our invention we add a second
edge c to the plate and this edge may he brought at the back of the plate, into line
with the back of the rim by any suitable curve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The bereinbefore described improvements in the manufacture of plates and other
similar articles of pottery or earthenware consisting of a protected edge thereto
attained by means of a second or false edge slightly projecting beyond the ordinary
edge, as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 24th day of September 1896.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.