Improvements in connection with Butter Blocks.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Butter Blocks.
We, FREDERICK MAUND, Complete Shop Fitter and Shop front Builder, and
EDWARD MAUND, Shopfitter both of 336, Old Street, London. E.C., do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in connection with butter blocks, and the
object is to combine therewith a show case for the display of breakfast and other
comestibles. In carrying our invention into effect, we proceed in or in about the
following manner. We provide a butter block constructed in the ordinary manner
with the exception that the back is set in so as to leave a compartment which can be
provided with shelves, the compartment being furnished with a glazed door or sash or
with glazed doors or sashes for protecting the shelves. The door or sash, or doors
or sashes may be provided with ventilating panels or other suitable means of
ventilation, as also may be the back and sides.
As a modification the show case (and shelves) may be complete in itself and slid
into, or withdrawn from the compartment provided by the setting in of the back of
the block as already mentioned. By having a double back and a movable lid or
door the intervening space may be filled with ice or other cooling substance, or a
suitable receptacle filled with cooling material may be placed in the space between
the double back. A cooling drawer or chamber might also be provided to slide in
below the block and show case. The butter block case and shelves may be of wood,
marble, slate, glass, or any other suitable material or materials.
Improvements in connection with Butter Blocks.
We, FREDERICK MAUND, Complete Shop Fitter and Shop Front Builder, and
EDWARD MAUND, Shopfitter, both of 336, Old Street, London. E.C., 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in connection with butter blocks and the
object is to combine therewith a show case for the display of breakfast and other
comestibles. In carrying our invention into effect, we proceed in or in about the
following manner, making reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which:
Fig. 1. is a vertical section from back to front, and

page_text: Fig. 2, a front view.
Similar letters denote the same parts where they occur.
We provide a butter block a, constructed in the ordinary manner, with the
exception that the back b is set in so as to leave a compartment c which can be
provided with shelves d, the compartment being also furnished with a glazed door or
sash, or with glazed doors or sashes e for protecting the shelves. The door or sash or
doors or sashes may be provided with ventilating panels or other suitable means of
ventilation, as also may be the back and sides of the compartment. Perforated zine
or other material may also be employed to keep out flies and other insects.
As a
modification, the show case and shelves may be made complete in themselves, and
Blid into or withdrawn from the compartment c. By having a double back b and b¹,
or by not slipping in the self contained show case far enough for its back to touch
the set in one, and making the top f act as a lid or movable cover, the intervening
space g will be provided and may be filled with ice or other cooling substances, or a
suitable receptacle filled with cooling material may be placed in the said space g.
A cooling drawer or chamber might also be provided to slide in below the block and
show case.
The butter block case and shelves may be made of wood, marble, slate,
glass, metal or any other suitable inaterial or materials.
As some variations in details are possible without departure from the essential
features of our invention, we do not confine ourselves to the precise shapes, relative
proportions or disposition of parts as shewn in the accompanying drawing or
described in the above specification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
CLAIMS.
1. Constructing butter blocks with set in backs so as to provide a compartment
which can be converted into a show case by being furnished with shelves, which may
or may not be shut in by a glazed door or sash or by glazed doors or sashes, suitable
provision being made by panels or otherwise for ventilation and by perforated zinc
or otherwise for preventing the entrance of flies and other insects, the whole
substantially as described in the above specification and exemplified in the
accompanying drawings.
2. Constructing butter blocks with set in backs, so as to provide a compartment
into which can be slid a self contained show case, substantially as described in the
above specification.
3. Constructing or providing butter blocks with double backs or equivalents, or
with double backs or equivalents and lower drawers or spaces for containing ice or
other cooling material contained or not in suitable receptacles, substantially as
described in the above specification, and partly shewn in the accompanying
drawings.
4. The improvements in connection with butter blocks, provided for substantially
as described in the above specification, and exemplified in the accompanying
drawings.
Doted thin ALL
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