IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PLATES, DISHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO CONTAIN LIQUIDS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Howard Busby Fox and William Henry Smith, both of.
3; York Buildings, Dale Street, Liverpool, Engineers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PLATES, DISHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO
CONTAIN LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 10th January 1879, and dated the 18th July 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Howard Busby Fox and
William Henry Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
18th July 1878.
HOWARD BUSBY Fox and WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, both of 3, York Buildings,
Dale Street, Liverpool, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PLATES,
DISHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO CONTAIN LIQUIDS."
This Invention is an improvement to the present style or mode of construction of
plates, dishes, and other articles adapted for household purposes or otherwise.
We propose to construct according to our Invention all plates, dishes, or other
receptacles to contain fluids with a slanting or deep bottom, that is, a bottom at a
different angle to the upright position of the article when placed upon a level, so as
to enable the person using a plate, dish, or other article so constructed to more
readily reach the fluid contents of the same, thereby dispensing with the necessity
of raising the plate, dish, or other vessel so used at the present time.
We provide also that the angle from the inside of the plate, dish, or other vessel
shall so graduate that the centre shall be deeper than the inside edges of the same,
allowing the outward edges or bottom of the vessel to rest upon a level.
For meat or other dishes, such as are used by our Invention, we place at various
intervals, where necessary, pins or projections, so as to prevent the sliding down-
wards of the joint or any article so placed upon these dishes constructed according
to our Invention.
These improvements are also applicable to vats, salt pans, boilers, casks, sugar
pans, and other contrivances of a similar nature.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Howard Busby Fox and William Henry Smith in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th January 1879.
HOWARD BUSBY Fox and WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, both of 3, York Buildings,
Dale Street, Liverpool, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PLATES,
DISHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES TO CONTAIN LIQUIDS."
This Invention is an improvement upon the present style or mode of construction
of plates, dishes, and other articles adapted for household purposes or otherwise.
We construct according to our Invention all plates, dishes, or other receptacles to
contain fluids with a slanting or deep bottom, that is to say, a bottom at a different
angle to the upright position of the article when placed upon a level, so as to
enable the person using a plate, dish, or other article so constructed to more readily
reach the fluid contents of the same, thereby dispensing with the necessity of raising
the plate, dish, or other article used at the present time.
We provide also that where necessary the angle from the inside of the plate, dish,
or other article shall so moderate that the centre shall be deeper than the inside
edges of the same, allowing the outward edges or bottom of the vessel to rest upon
a level.
For meat or other dishes, such as are used by our Invention, we provide at
intervals, where necessary, pins or projections, so as to prevent the sliding down-
wards of the joint or other article so placed upon these dishes constructed according
to our Invention.
These improvements are also applicable to vats, salt pans, boilers, casks, sugar
pans, and other contrivances of a similar nature.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings we have shown a meat dish constructed
according to our Invention, as also a soup plate similarly constructed,―
Figure 1 being a plan view of a meat or other dish; Figure 2 is a section of
Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a plan view of a soup plate; Figure 4 is a section of Figure 3.
Having now described our Invention, and illustrated the same by the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, we wish it to be understood that what we claim is,-
First. The improvements connected with plates, dishes, and other articles to
contain liquids, substantially as herein described and set forth.
Secondly. The application of a slanting of falling bottom to salt pans, vats, boilers,
casks, sugar pans, and other articles of a similar nature.
In witness whereof, we, the said Howard Busby Fox and William Henry
Smith, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine
HOWARD BUSBY FOX.
(L.S.)
Witness to the signatures of
H. B. Fox and W. H. Smith,
WILLIAM NEWTON,
3, York Buildings,
Liverpool.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. (L.S.)