An Improved Spout for Kettles and other Vessels intended for Boiling Water or other Liquid in cases where a Spout is required and is attached with Solder or made with Soldered Seam. ANDTAC WITH
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Spout for Kettles and other Vessels intended for
Boiling Water or other Liquid in cases where a Spout is
required and is attached with Solder or made with Soldered
Seam.
I, JAMES REEVE WILKINSON of Addington in the Provincial District of
Canterbury and Colony of New Zealand Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED SPOUT FOR KETTLES AND OTHER
VESSELS INTENDED FOR BOILING WATER OR OTHER LIQUID IN CASES WHERE
A SPOUT IS REQUIRED AND IS ATTACHED WITH SOLDER OR MADE WITH
SOLDERED SEAM," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
With kettles and other vessels intended for boiling water or other liquid that
have their spouts attached with solder or made with soldered seam, there is
always a great risk of the solder becoming melted by the heat of the fire over, or
against which, such kettles or other vessels may be placed when the said kettles or
other vessels are only partially filled thereby causing leakage and not unfrequently
causing the spout to become disconnected.
Now the object of my invention is to prevent to a considerable extent the solder,
which connects the spout to the kettle or other vessel or is used in the seam of the
spout from melting and thereby practically to secure the kettle or other vessel
against risk of leakage or becoming disconnected by the heat of the fire over or
against which may be placed.
I attain this object as follows:-
Before attaching the ordinary spout to the kettle or other vessel, I attach a
shorter spout of suitable size according to the size of said kettle or other vessel.
I then attach the ordinary spout by soldering in the usual manner, surrounding the
said shorter spout and leaving a space between the two. When the kettle or other
vessel having these two spouts attached is only partially filled with water or other
liquid and is required to be placed upon or against the fire, it is only necessary to
cover the mouth of the outer spout with the finger and tip the kettle or other
vessel forward, whereupon the said outer spout will more or less fill with the water
or other liquid contained the said kettle or other vessel, but upon slowly letting
back the said kettle or other vessel the interspace will become filled, while the
surplus water or other liquid will flow back into said kettle or other vessel, which
may now be placed upon or against the fire without risk of leakage being caused
in the outer spout or at its place of attachment until the water contained in the
interspace is more or less boiled away.
The said inner spout may be made of any required shape, and to suit any
required size of kettle or other vessel.
The expense of the said inner spout will add very little to the cost of the kettle
or other vessel to which it may be attached and allow more freedom in use.
In order that my invention may be better understood I will now proceed to
describe the same by reference to the annexed sheet of drawings illustrating same
in which :-
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view of a kettle having a straight spout and showing
the position of the inner spout.
Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of a kettle having a bent spout and the position
of the inner spout.
Fig. 3 represents a sectional view of an open boiler with V shaped spout showing
the position of the inner spout.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure,

page_text: A is the kettle or boiler B is the short inner spout soldered to kettle C is the
ordinary spout soldered to the kettle in the usual manner but of larger size than,
and surrounding the inner spout, leaving a space a between the two, which space
can be readily filled with water or other liquid contained in the said kettle or
other vessel by placing the finger over the mouth of the said ordinary spout,
tilting the said kettle or other vessel forward and then back again, the surplus
water or liquid flowing back into said kettle or other vessel. It will thus be seen
that so long as a portion of the space a contains water or other liquid the solder
contiguous to that portion cannot melt by the heat of the fire, thus very materially
lessening the risk of leakage or the liability of the spout becoming disconnected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Within the spout of kettles or other vessels intended for boiling water or other
liquid in cases where a spout is required and is attached by soldering or made with
soldered seam, the attachment of a shorter narrower inner spout B to the aforesaid
kettles or other vessels, creating an interspace a between the said spout and the
said inner spout to contain water or other liquid, thereby providing a means for very
materially lessening the risk of leakage from the melting of the said solder or a
portion of the said solder by the action of the fire over or against which the said
kettles or other vessels may be placed substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of November A.D. 1891.
JAMES REEVE WILKINSON.