Improvements in Connecting the Metallic Handles of Metallic Tea Pots, Coffee Pots, and Hot Water Jugs, and of other Vessels for Holding Hot Liquids, to the said Pots, Jugs, and Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connecting the Metallic Handles of Metallic Tea
Pots, Coffee Pots, and Hot Water Jugs, and of other Vessels for
Holding Hot Liquids, to the said Pots, Jugs, and Vessels.
We ELKINGTON & CO. LIMITED of Newhall Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Silversmiths and Electro Platers and HENRY THOMAS FELLOWs of
Shirley Road Acock's Green in the County of Worcester Manager of Works do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention has reference to such metallic handles of the articles
enumerated as are provided with discs or pieces of ivory or other imperfect
conductor of heat interposed between the ends of the handle and vessel for
preventing or diminishing the transfer of heat from the vessel to the handle; and
the said invention consists of the method hereinafter described of connecting such
metallic handles to the tea pot or vessel.
The ivory or non-conducting piece of the handle ordinarily consists of a plate or
disc having at opposite sides a stem made in one piece with the said plate or disc.
One of these stems is fixed by riveting in a socket on the tea pot or vessel and the
The stems of the non-
other stem is riveted in the end of the tubular handle.
conducting piece or disc are liable to be split or injured by the treatment to which
the tea pot or vessel is exposed and the object of the said invention is so to construct
the parts that a strong and durable connection of the handle with the pot or vessel
is effected; and the use of ivory or non-conducting pieces with stems of the same
material is superseded.
In connecting a metallic handle to a metallic tea pot or other vessel according to
the said invention we use a thin metallic stem in place of the non-metallic stem
ordinarily employed and combine with the said metallic stem a separate non-
conducting disc or piece. The metallic stem we use consists preferably of a small
flat bar the end of which is soldered in a hole in the closed end of the socket piece
on the tea pot or vessel the greater part of the said stem projecting from the closed
face of the said socket. We place by a sliding motion upon the projecting stem
the ivory or other non-conducting piece and make it bear closely against the face
of the socket. That part of the flat stem beyond the non-conducting piece is
pierced with a rivet hole. The end of the hollow handle is closed with a guide
piece slotted or perforated at its middle the slot or perforation having a size and
shape proper for taking upon the projecting stem soldered to the socket of the tea
pot. The end of the said handle is also pierced with rivet holes.
Each of the two sockets on the tea pot or vessel is provided with the metallic
stem described and non-conductor and each end of the handle is closed and slotted
and pierced with rivet holes as described with respect to one end.
In connecting the metallic handle to the tea pot or vessel the ends of the handle
are passed by a sliding motion onto the projecting flat steins on the sockets of the
tea pot or vessel and the closed ends of the said handle made to bear against the
non-conducting pieces placed on the said stems. By means of rivets passed through
the rivet holes in the ends of the handle and through the rivet holes in the stems
the said handle is connected to the body of the tea pot or vessel ivory or other
non-conducting pieces being interposed between the nearly meeting faces of the
sockets on the tea pot or vessel and the closed ends of the handle for preventing or
diminishing the transfer of heat from the tea pot or vessel, to the handle as before
described.
D and dow of Ontahan 1801
W. T. WHITEMAN,
. Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connecting the Metallic Handles of Metallic Tea
Pots, Coffee Pots, and Hot Water Jugs, and of other Vessels for
Holding Hot Liquids, to the said Pots, Jugs, and Vessels.
We, ELKINGTON & CO. LIMITED, of Newhall Street, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Silversmiths and Electro Platers, and HENRY THOMAS FELLOWs, of
Shirley Road, Acock's Green, in the County of Worcester, Manager of Works,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The said invention has reference to such metallic handles of the articles
enumerated as are provided with discs or pieces of ivory or other imperfect
conductor of heat interposed between the ends of the handle and vessel for
preventing or diminishing the transfer of heat from the vessel to the handle; and
the said invention consists of the method hereinafter described of connecting such
metallic handles to the tea pot or vessel.
The ivory or non-conducting piece of the handle ordinarily consists of a plate
or disc having at opposite sides a stem made in one piece with the said plate or disc.
One of these stems is fixed, by riveting, in a socket on the tea pot or vessel and
the other stem is riveted in the end of the tubular handle. The stems of the
non-conducting piece or disc are liable to be split or injured by the treatment to
which the tea pot or vessel is exposed and the object of the said invention is so to
construct the parts that a strong and durable connection of the handle with the pot
or vessel is effected and the use of ivory or non-conducting pieces with stems of the
same material is superseded.
In connecting a metallic handle to a metallic tea pot or other vessel according to
the said invention, we use a thin metallic stem in place of the non-metallic stem
ordinarily employed and combine with the said metallic stem a separate non-
conducting disc or piece. The metallic stem we use consists preferably of a small
flat bar the end of which is soldered in a hole in the closed end of the socket piece
on the tea pot or vessel, the greater part of the said stem projecting from the
closed face of the said socket. We place by a sliding motion upon the projecting
stem, the ivory or other non-conducting piece and make it bear closely against the
face of the socket. That part of the flat stem beyond the non-conducting piece is
pierced with a rivet hole. The end of the hollow handle is closed with a guide
piece slotted or perforated at its middle, the slot or perforation having a size and
shape proper for taking upon the projecting stem soldered to the socket of the
tea pot. The end of the said handle is also pierced with rivet holes. Each of
the two sockets on the tea pot or vessel is provided with the metallic stem described
and non-conductor, and each end of the handle is closed and slotted and pierced
with rivet holes as described with respect to one end.
In connecting the metallic handle to the tea pot or vessel the ends of the handle
are passed by a sliding motion onto the projecting flat stems on the sockets of the
tea pot or vessel and the closed ends of the said handle made to bear against the
non-conducting pieces placed on the said stems. By means of rivets passed through
the rivet holes in the ends of the handle and through the rivet holes in the stems
the said handle is connected to the body of the tea-pot or vessel, ivory or other
non-conducting pieces being interposed between the nearly meeting faces of the
sockets on the tea pot or vessel and the closed ends of the handle for preventing
or diminishing the transfer of heat from the tea pot or vessel to the handle as
before described.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing
the manner in which the said invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, a metallic tea pot to which a metallic
handle is connected according to the said invention and

page_text: Figure 2 represents a plan, partly in horizontal section of the same;
Figure 3 represents the handle detached from the tea pot and one of the ivory
or non-conducting discs or pieces.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
a is the body of the metallic tea pot and b, c are the tubular sockets on the said
body a;
d is the metallic handle. Each of the tubular sockets b, c on the tea pot
is closed by an end plate e in which a hole or slot is made; fare the metallic
stems attached to the sockets b c. The said stems consist of small flat metal bars
the ends of which are soldered in the holes in the end plates e of the sockets b, c as
seen in Figure 3 the greater part of the said stems projecting from the closed faces.
of the sockets. Each of the projecting stems f, is pierced with a rivet hole g.
The ends of the hollow handle d are closed with guide pieces h, h slotted or
perforated at their middles, the slots having a size and shape proper to take upon
the projecting stems ff attached to the sockets of the tea pot. The ends of the
handle d are furnished with rivet holes i, i.
The ivory or non-conducting discs or pieces situated between the ends of the
sockets b, c on the tea pot and the abutting ends of the handle d are marked k, k
each disc or piece having in.its middle a hole of the shape and size of the projecting
metallic stems f, f.
In connecting the metallic handle d to the metallic tea pot a the non-conducting
discs or pieces kk are first passed by a sliding motion onto the projecting flat
metallic stems f,f the said non-conducting discs or pieces being made to bear
closely against the ends of the sockets b, c.
The ends of the metallic handle d are next passed by a sliding motion onto the
projecting flat stems f. f and the closed ends of the said handle made to bear
against the non-conducting pieces k, k on the said stems. When the handle has
been thus passed onto the stems f, and its rivet holes i, i made to coincide with
those marked 9.9 in the stems, rivets m, m are passed through the said coincident
rivet holes and rivetted in the ordinary way. The said handle is thus connected to
the body of the tea pot as represented in Figures 1 and 2, ivory or other non--
conducting pieces k, k being interposed between the nearly meeting faces of the
sockets and closed ends of the handle for preventing or diminishing the transfer.
of heat from the tea pot to the handle.
We apply our invention to the connecting of the metallic handles of metallic
coffee pots, hot water jugs and other vessels for holding hot liquids substantially
as herein before described and illustrated with respect to the connecting of a
metallic handle to a metallic tea pot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as the said invention :-
The improvements in connecting the metallic handles of metallic tea pots, coffee
pots, and hot water jugs and of other vessels for holding hot liquids to the said
pots, jugs and vessels hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying.
drawing; that is to say, connecting the said handles to the said pots jugs and
vessels by passing the ends of the handle by a sliding motion onto projecting flat
metallic stems, on the sockets of the pot, jug or vessel and making the said ends
of the handle bear against loose non-conducting pieces or discs placed on the said
stems and against the sockets and rivetting the said ends of the handle to the said
metallic stems substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 22nd day of June 189
ELKINGTON & CO., LIMITED,
By Herbert F. Elkington,
Director.
HENRY THOMAS FELLOWS..