Improvements in Cups and Saucers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1991-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
Improvements in Cups and Saucers.
I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS OETZMANN, Complete House Furnisher 67 to
79 Hampstead Road, London, N.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has for its object a cup and saucer constructed in such a manner
that there can be no dripping from the cup when in use.
With cups and saucers as ordinarily made any liquid that may become spilt into
the saucer collects in its centre and the cup stands in the little pool so formed with
the result that when the cup is raised drops of tea or coffee fall off its lower edge
and soil the table linen or dress.
To obviate this I make the saucer with a raised centre the top of which is about
half an inch above the surrounding well or bottom of the saucer. The cup is
slightly hollowed underneath and fits on to and overlaps the raised centre of the
saucer.
In this improved form of cup and saucer the lower edge of the cup is supported
at such a height that it cannot touch any liquid there may be in the saucer and it
is thus much more cleanly in use.
I am aware that cups are ordinarily made at present with a slight hollow under-
neath but what constitutes the novelty of my invention is the altered form of
saucer and the manner in which the cup fits on to and is supported by it.
Dated this 26th day of February 1891.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS OETZMANN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cups and Saucers.
I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS OETZMANN, Complete House Furnisher 67 to
79 Hampstead Road, London, N.W. 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 has for its object the formation of cups and saucers in such a
manner that when in use the cup is kept free of any drips or spillings which may
have become lodged in the saucer.
To attain this object I make the saucer with a raised centre which is about half-
an-inch higher than the lowest part or well of the saucer and I make the cup
with a hollow foot which fits on to and partly overlaps the raised centre of the
saucer.
Any liquid which may be spilled from the cup falls into the bottom of the
saucer. The cup, being supported on a higher level, does not come in contact with
these spillings and consequently when lifted for use is free from the disagreeable
dropping of tea or coffee from its lower edge as is the case with cups and saucers as
ordinarily made.
I am aware that cups are now usually made with a slightly hollow foot but
what I claim as novel is the relative shaping and fitting together of the cup and

page_text: 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 :-
As an article of manufacture a saucer formed with a raised centre and a cup
with a foot formed to fit and partly overlap this centre of saucer in the manner and
for the purpose herein described.
Dated this 22nd day of December.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS OETZMANN.