Improvements in Covers or Lids for Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles, Pans, and the like Vessels or Utensils.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Lids for Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles,
Pans, and the like Vessels or Utensils.
I, CHARLES WOODMAN of 214 City Road, Bradford, in the County of York,
Moulder, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The objects of my invention are,
Firstly, to provide improved metallic covers or lids for preventing the contents
of hollow vessels such as kettles, pans, and the like vessels or utensils, boiling over
or issuing from the spout or lid when the same have reached the boiling point.
Secondly, to provide means for preventing such metallic covers or lids falling off
during the operation of pouring or teeming out the contents.
Thirdly, to provide knobs, for such covers or lids, of increased strength and
durability.
I attain these objects in the following manner, and as the principle of my
invention is the same to whatever kind of cover or lid it is applied, a description of
it as applied to an ordinary kettle will suffice.
For the purpose of preventing the contents boiling over or issuing from the
spout when the same have reached the boiling point, the metallic cover or lid is
provided with one or more outlets, in the form of continuous indentations, formed
on the outside of the internal rim of the lid and on the underside of the external
flange of the same so that the steam may escape from the vessel into the
atmosphere.
For the purpose of preventing the cover or lid falling off during the operation of
pouring or teeming one or more nibs, lugs, or projections are provided on the
outside of the back portion of the internal rim, so that when the kettle is raised
or tilted these projections fit under the rim of the kettle, and the lid is thereby
prevented from falling off..
The knob is strengthened by casting it with a wrought iron or steel double
headed rivet or pin, passing from the outside of the knob through the centre of the
same to the inside of the cover or lid. The heads of such rivets or pins being in
some cases recessed on the underside at one or both ends, the object of this being
to afford increased means of preventing the knob coming asunder in the case of
cracks or breakage.
My improved covers or lids which are cast in one piece with the knob are made
in cast or malleable iron or any other suitable metal or alloy.
Dated this 25th day of September 1893.
K. HEDER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Covers or Lids for Hollow Vessels, such as Kettles,
Pans, and the like Vessels or Utensils.
I, CHARLES WOODMAN of 78 Victoria Street, (late of 214 City Road,)
Bradford, in the County of York, Moulder, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The objects of my invention are-
Firstly, to provide improved metallic covers or lids for preventing the contents

page_text: of hollow vessels such as kettles, pans, and the like vessels or utensils, boiling over
or issuing from the spout or lid when the same have reached the boiling point,
thereby preventing accidents from scalding.
Secondly, to provide means for preventing such metallic covers or lids falling
off during the operation of pouring or teeming out the contents.
Thirdly, to provide knobs for such covers or lids, of increased strength and
durability.
I attain these objects in the following manner, and as the principle of my
invention is the same to whatever kind of cover or lid it is applied, a description of
it as applied to an ordinary kettle will suffice.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig. 1, is a side elevation of my improved
cover or lid-Fig. 2, being a plan looking on the top or outside of the same. Fig. 3,
is a sectional elevation taken on the line A, B, and Fig. 4, a plan looking on the
bottom or inside of the same.
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The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
For the purpose of preventing the contents boiling over or issuing from the
spout when the same have reached the boiling point, the metallic cover or lid is
provided with one or more outlets, a, a, in the form of continuous indentations
formed on the outside of the internal rim, b, of the lid, and on the underside of the
external flange c, of the same, so that the steam may escape from the vessel into the
atmosphere or as a modification I sometimes form the indentations on the under-
side of the external flange c, only.
For the purpose of preventing the cover or lid falling off during the operation of
pouring or teeming, one or more nibs, lugs, or projections d, d, are provided on
the outside of the back portion of the internal rim, b, so that when the kettle is
raised or tilted these projections fit under the rim of the kettle, and the lid is
thereby prevented from falling off.
In some cases I likewise provide a similar nib, lug or projection e, on the outside
of the front portion of the internal rim b, such front projection being used when
necessary (as in the case of a loose fitting lid) to adjust the lid and take up the play
thereby ensuring the effective action of the projections d, d, on the back portion of
the internal rim b, as previously described.
The knob f, is strengthened by casting it with a wrought iron or steel double
headed rivet or pin, g, passing from the outside of the knob through the centre of
the same to the inside of the cover or lid. The heads of such rivet or pin being in
some cases recessed on the underside at one or both ends, the object of this being to
afford increased means of preventing the knob and lid coming asunder in the case
of cracks or breakage.
My improved covers or lids I make either round, oval, or of any other convenient
shape, and cast them in one piece with the knob, rim, flange, nibs, lugs, or
projections and with the outlets or indentations formed on the rim and flange.
The wrought iron or steel double headed rivet or pin used for strengthening the
knob, being placed in the mould and secured in position by the metal surrounding
the stalk of the same in the process of casting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
1. In covers or lids for hollow vessels, such as kettles and the like, providing one
or more outlets or indentations formed on the underside of the external flange of
the lid so that the steam which may pass between the internal rim of the same and
the sides of the orifice in the vessel may escape through such outlets or indentations,
in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
2. In covers or lids for hollow vessels such as kettles and the like, providing one
or more outlets or continuous indentations formed on the underside of the external
flange as described in Claim 1, and likewise on the outside of the internal rim of the

page_text: said lid, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
3. In covers or lids for hollow vessels such as kettles and the like, casting the lid
and knob with a wrought iron or steel double headed rivet or pin passing from the
outside of the knob through the centre of the same to the inside of the cover or lid,
the heads of such rivet or pin being recessed on the underside at one or both ends
to strengthen the lid and prevent the knob coming asunder, in the manner and for
the purposes substantially as herein described and illustrated.
4. In covers or lids for hollow vessels such as kettles and the like, in combination
with the foregoing Claims 1, 2 and 3, the application of one or more nibs, lugs or
projections formed on the outside of the back portion of the internal rim or on the
outside of the back and front portion of the internal rim to prevent the lid falling
off, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
Deted this 20th der of June 1804
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.