IMPROVEMENT IN TEA POTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, DAVID LINDO, of South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT
IN TEA POTS, to be as follows :-
My Invention relates to an improvement in tea pots, and it has for its object
to prevent the tea leaves clogging the spout of the pot, or entering the cup by
passing through the spout.
For these purposes I provide the interior of the tea pot, at a suitable distance
from the bottom thereof, with a diaphragm or partition, consisting of a frame to
which is secured tine wire gauze, or which diaphragm or partition may consist of a
perforated plate. The said diaphragm or partition may be divided into two
portions, and hinged at opposite sides to the interior of the pot, and arranged to
open upwardly and outwardly, so as to allow of the pot being cleaned, but this
diaphragm or partition may be in one piece, and hinged to one side only of
the pot.
The tea is placed in the space or compartment formed below the diaphragm or
partition, the meshes interstices or perforations of which are of such a size as to
prevent the passage of the leaves through the same, thereby obviating the clogging
of the spout, or the entry of the leaves into the cup.

page_text: I, DAVID LINDO, of South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT
IN TEA POTS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and Figures marked thereon, that
is to say :-
My Invention relates to an improvement in tea pots, and it has for its object to
prevent the tea leaves clogging the spout of the pot, or entering the cup by passing
through the spout.
I proceed with reference to the accompanying Drawings to fully describe my
Invention.
Fig. 1, is an elevation, partly in section, of a tea pot constructed in accordance
with my Invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same taken on the line x, x,
of Fig. 1.
For the purposes of my Invention I provide the interior of the tea pot A, at a
suitable distance from the bottom thereof, with a diaphragm or partition, consisting
of a perforated plate a, or of a frame to which is secured fine wire gauze. The said
diaphragm or partition may be divided into two portions and hinged together at
their centre at c, the central axis on which the portions turn being soldered at c*,
and these portions are arranged to open upwardly towards the centre of the pot as
shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Or the portions may be hinged to the interior of
the pot at opposite sides and so arranged as to open upwardly and towards the
sides thereof, so as to permit of the pot being cleansed. This diaphragm or
partition may however be made in one piece and hinged to one side only of
the pot
d, d, are ledges on which the two halves of the diaphragm rest when closed
down.
e, e, are eyes, by means of which the diaphragm may be raised, either by hand,
or by the insertion of a suitably hooked instrument.
The tea is placed in the space or compartment formed below the diaphragm or
partition, the perforation's, meshes or interstices of which are of such a size as to
prevent the passage of the leaves through the same thereby obviating the clogging
of the spout or the entry of the leaves into the cup.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
The perforated plate or partition, or wire gauze diaphragm, hinged to the interior
of the tea pot and arranged to open, substantially as described and shewn and for
the purposes set forth,