Improvements in Cruets.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Cruets.
I, THOMAS EDWARD JENKINSON, Weston Road, The Meir, Longton, Staffordshire,
Decorator on Pottery, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A cruet made in three sections one above the other which when placed in position
take the shape of a bottle. The two bottom sections are to contain salt and mustard
and have a small opening or nick in the upper edge sufficiently large to accommodate
the narrow part of the handle of a spoon when the three sections are placed in
position. The upper section which is in the form of the neck and shoulder of a bottle
is to contain the pepper. The aperture at the top of the neck of the bottle or the
part where the cork is usually inserted is closed up and perforated to allow of the
pepper passing through it when in use. The section for pepper is filled by means of
a hole in the bottom of it which is stopped, with a cork. The sections when put
together are prevented from slipping apart by means of external rebates in the top
of edges of the lower sections which accommodate corresponding internal rebates in
The invention is intended to be carried
the lower edges of the two upper sections.
out in either china earthenware stone glass or metal or any other such like substance
or composition. When made in metal the upper section or pepper receptacle may
be adapted so that it may be filled by removing the upper portion of it or what is
represented by the neck of the bottle which may be attached to the lower part of the
section by means of a screw thread and in this case the hole in the bottom of it will
be done away with.
I, THOMAS EDWARD JENKINSON, of Weston Road, The Meir; Longton, in the County
of Stafford, 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:-
above the other
bottom sections
the upper edge
spoon when the
According to this invention a cruet is made in three sections one
which when placed in position take the shape of a bottle. The two
are to contain salt and inustard and have a small opening or nick in
sufficiently large to accommodate the narrow part of the handle of a
three sections are placed in position. The upper section which is in the form of the
neck and shoulder of a bottle is to contain the pepper. The aperture at the top of

page_text: the neck of the bottle or the part where the cork is usually inserted is closed up and
perforated to allow of the pepper passing through it when in use. The section for
pepper is filled by means of a hole in the bottom of it which is stopped with a cork.
The sections when put together are prevented from slipping apart by means of
external rebates in the top of edges of the lower sections which accommodate corres-
ponding internal rebates in the lower edges of the two upper sections. The invention
is intended to be carried out in either china, earthenware, stone, glass or metal or
any other such like substance or composition. When made in metal the upper
section or pepper receptacle may be adapted so that it may be filled by removing
the upper portion of it or what is represented by the neck of the bottle which may
be attached to the lower part of the section by means of a screw thread and in this
case the hole in the bottom of it will be done away with.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a cruet made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section and Figure 3 is a plan of the cruet. Figure 4
is a plan of one of the lower sections of the cruet.
a and bare the two lower sections, these sections are of the same construction
having external rebates c in their top edges and internal rebates in their lower
edges. e e are the openings for the spoons.
The upper section f has openings at its top to allow its contents to pass out
when in use, and also an opening provided with a cork in the bottom for
filling it.
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:
1. A cruet made in three sections substantially as described.
2. A cruet substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.