Improvements in Plates and Dishes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plates and Dishes.
I JASPER JOHN SEXTON, Assistan; to my father Maurice John Sexton Inn keeper
of 3 & 5 Tooke Street Millwall in the county of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to plates and dishes and has for its object to construct the
same in such a manner that they will hold salt, mustard or any kind of same or
seasoning, on their rims or edges, without allowing the said salt, mustard, or
seasoning to run into the middle of the plates or dishes, and in the case of dessert
plates so that they will hold fruit stones or other rejected portions of food, without
allowing them to fall back into the plates. In carrying this invention into practice I
form hollows, or depressions round the rims or edges of the plates or dishes of any shape
or dimensions in proportion to the size of the plates or dishes, or in the case of dessert
plates one continuous hollow or depression running the whole way round the rim or
dge. The advantages of this invention are to prevent waste of salt, mustard, or
other ingredients and to prevent them from flowing or falling among parts of the
food where they are not required, and in the case of dessert plates, to receive fruit-
stones, kernels, or other rejected matter, and prevent them from falling, or rolling
back into the food which is being eaten.
I intend that plates or dishes male, or constructed, according to my invention may
be of metal, stone, wood, earthenware, or of any material whatsoever, and contain
one, two, or any number of hollows or depressions, on their rims or edges, or one
continuous depression or hollow running the whole way round the rim, or edge..
Dated this 28th day of September -1889
JASPER JOHN SEXTON,
3, Tooke Street, Millwall, Middlesex.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plates and Dishes.
1, JASPER JOHN SEXTON assistant to my father Maurice John Sexton, Inn keeper
of 3 & 5 Tooke Street Millwall in the t'ounty of Middlesex, 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 relates to plates and dishes, and has for its object to construct the
same in such a manner that they will hold salt, mustard, or any kind of sauce, or
seasoning, or condiment on their rims or edges without allowing the said salt,
mustard, sauce, seasoning or condiment to run into the middle of the plates or
dishes, and in the case of dessert plates so that they will hold fruit stones or other
rejected portions of food without allowing them to roll or fall back into the plates.
In carrying this invention into practise, form hollows or depressions round the
rims or edges of the plates or dishes, of any shape or dimensions according to the
size of the plates or dishes and in the case of dessert plates, one continuous hollow or
depression running the whole way round the rim or edge, and one continuous hollow
or depression running the whole way round the rim or edge also in the case of meat
or vegetable or other covered dishes. The advantages of this invention are to
prevent waste of salt, mustard, or other ingredients, and to prevent them from
Howing or falling among parts of the food where they are not required, and in the
case of dessert plates to receive fruit-stones, kernels, or other rejected matter, and
prevent them from falling or rolling back into the food which is being eaten, and in

page_text: the case of meat or vegetable or other covered dishes, to receive and hold the con-
densation of steam and prevent it from again mixing with the gravy, vegetables, or
other contents of the plates. or dishes. I intend that plates or dishes made or
constructed according to my invention may be of metal, wood, stone, or earthenware,
or of any material whatsoever, and contain one, two, or any number of hollows
or depressions on their rims or edges, or one continuous hollow or depression
running the whole way round the rim or edge as shown in the accompany drawing
in which
Figure 1 is a plan of a plate or dish showing three hollows or depressions in its rim
or edge as A. B: C.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of Figure 1 and showing a sectional view of one of
...the hollows or depressions at B.
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11.
Figure 3 is a plan of a plate or dish having one continuous hollow or depression
running, the whole way round its rim or edge, and
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of Figure 3.
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:
First. The invention of a plate or dish such as that shown in Figures 1 and 2 in
the accompanying drawing, containing one, two, or any number of hollows or
...depressions in its rim or edge, the said hollows or depressions being for the purpose
of holding and economising salt, mustard, sauce, or any seasoning, or flavouring
matter whatever.
Second. A plate or dish having one continuous hollow or depression running the
whole way round its rim or. edge, such as that shown in Figures 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawing for the purpose of holding any matter or substance that is not
intended to fall, roll, or otherwise make its way towards the middle of the plate
or dish.;
Dated this Eleventh day of November 1880
JASPER JOHN SEXTON,
3, Tooke Street, Millwall, Middlesex.