Improvements in Menu Holders.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 18th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
RESERVE
Improvements in Menu Holders.
I, SAMUEL CLARKE, of the Childs Hill Works, in the County of Middlesex, Candle
and Night Light Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in menu holders.
The improved menu holder consists of a bowl of ornamental glass, porcelain or
metal, in which flowers may be set up and in the midst of the bowl a glass cup with
a dome cover, such as is used in Fairy lamps, is supported.
At the back of the bowl a lug or projection is provided for holding the menu card
between the lug and the rim of the bowl and so inclined that the light falls upon the
menu card at an angle which admits of its being readily read. I prefer to form the
bowl with corrugations all around the edge as this facilitates the arrangement of
flowers and I deflect the edge inwards at three equidistant points so that the top of
the bowl is trefoil like in form; the three points which are thus caused to project
inwards serve to support the cup of the Fairy lamp.
Dated this 17th dew of Antahan 1887

page_text: I, SAMUEL CLARKE of the Child's Hill Works, in the County of Middlesex, Candle
and Night Light Manufacturer, 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 improvements in menu holders.
The improved menu holder consists of a bowl of ornamental glass, porcelain or
metal, in which flowers may be set up and in the midst of the bowl a glass cup with
a dome cover, such as is used in Fairy lamps, is supported.
At the back of the bowl a lug or projection is provided for holding the menu card
and so inclined that the light falls upon the menu card at an angle which admits of
its being readily read.
In the drawings hereunto annexed I have shewn two forms of the menu holder.
Figure 1 is a vertical section and Figure 2 a perspective view of one form of the
holder. Figure 3 is a plan view with the central glass cup and dome cover removed.
Figure 4 is a vertical section and Figure 5 a perspective view of a modified form of
the holder.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3 H is a bowl of glass formed with corrugations around its
edge-to facilitate the arrangement of flowers within it. At three points of its
circumference the edge is deflected inwards for the flange of the glass cup A to rest
on. The glass cup shewn in the drawing is formed at the bottom with a central air
hole and radial corrugations G across its upper surface as described in a Provisional
Specification lodged by me No. 15254 in the year 1887-B is the ordinary dome
cover of the cup A-D is a candle placed within the bowl-H' is a projection rising up
at the side of the bowl from below one of the three points at which the upper part of
the bowl is deflected inwards-I is a menu card with its lower edge inserted and held
between the projection H¹ and the rim of the bowl H.
In the modification shewn at Figures 4 and 5 the central bowl H is made only of a
size to receive the glass cup A and separate glasses H2 for holding flowers are
supported around it in light metal rings H³ carried by a wire frame H* to the
centre of which the bottom of the bowl H is also secured as shewn at Figure 4-In
this case one of the radial arms of the wire frame H' carries a metallic clip H³ for
holding the menu card I.

page_text: 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 :-
1. Menu holders formed substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the drawing annexed.
2. Menu holders formed of a glass bowl H with outward projection H³ with
corrugated edge bent inwards at three or more points and a glass cup A resting upon
the edge where it is so bent inwards substantially as described and shewn at
Figures 1, 2 and 3.
3. Menu holders formed of a glass bowl Hinner glass cup A and flower glasses H³
carried by a metal frame H* which also carries a clip H' for holding a menu card.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.