Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 24th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
FANNY PAYNE Wife of William Payne 4 Claremont Road Sparkbrook Birmingham
in County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An Improved Tea Kettle, the spout, handle, & lid arranged so as to prevent
the usual inconveniences belonging to a tea kettle of the hitherto usual shape or design,
viz. the spout is fixed on the top of the vessel, the lid at the opposite end instead of at
the centre, whilst the handle is so arranged as to be fastened between the spout
and lid.
I also claim to he the first inventor of fixing the lid at one end of the kettle and the
handle in the middle whether the spout be fixed on the top or on the side of the kettle
as heretofore.

page_text: I, FANNY PAYNE, Wife of William Payne, of 4 Claremont Road, Sparkbrook,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Japanner and Tinplate worker, 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 relates to such utensils as are used for boiling water for domestic
purposes, commonly called tea kettles, and consists in constructing those utensils in
such a manner as to produce the following advantages:-
I. The handle
cannot-become-heated-by-steam...
II. The position of the lid renders the task of filling and emptying easier.
III. The water cannot be slopped over from the lid in pouring, when the kettle
s full.
To obtain the foregoing advantages I have invented a handle which is so arranged
as to be fixed to the top of the kettle at right angles to the part by which it is held by
the hand in using: this arrangement leaves the fore and after part free, whereby I am
enabled to fix the spont and lid at either end of the top of the kettle.
In order more fully to ascertain the said Invention, I now proceed to describe the
same by reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings:-
:-
The Handle e is rivetted, screwed, or otherwise fixed to its counterpart at G, which
is a hoop of iron, or other substance, passing over the top of kettle, and fixed on the
sides as at d, or the said handle may be made in one piece and twisted round at
point G.
The lid a is fixed at the end of the kettle by a hinge f, or is otherwise fastened, or
can be made to take off as the lid of a saucepan, but, in order that the kettle may be
filled to the top, when such is raised in the middle, I provide a graduated rim e, thus
making the lid to be on a level with the highest part of the kettle.
The spout b is shown to be fixed on the top of the kettle, but it can be placed instead
thereof on the upright part of the body at the point has is the case of utensils of the
older kinds.
It will be seen that my invention will apply to tea kettles of any description, of
whatever shape, whether they be oval, round, oblong, or square, the principle of its
construction remaining unaltered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declaro that what
I claim is
1. The construction of tea kettles in such a manner as to permit of their being made
with lids at the end instead of at the middle, thereby making them possess those
advantages herein before mentioned.
Datad this 21st day of January 1888