AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CON- STRUCTING A CASTOR FOR CONTAINING PEPPER, SALT, OR OTHER CONDIMENTS FOR DOMESTIC USE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Heiron, of No. 11, Leadenhall Street, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CON-
STRUCTING A CASTOR FOR CONTAINING PEPPER, SALT, OR OTHER CONDIMENTS FOR
DOMESTIC USE."
Séaled the 29th May 1868, and dated the 2nd December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Heiron at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd December 1867.
I, GEORGE HEIRON, of No. 11, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD
or CONSTRUCTING A CASTOR FOR CONTAINING PEPPER, SALT, OR OTHER CONDIMENTS
FOR DOMESTIC USE," to be as follows:-
The castor is to be divided into two or more compartments, each separate
compartment to contain either pepper, salt, or other condiments. The top to
be perforated, or partly perforated and slotted, or both, round the rim only. At
present each condiment in use has a separate receptacle, that is, the pepper box,
salt cellar, and Cayanne bottle, but I propose combining the whole into one
castor by making a castor with two or more compartments and a top, which is
to be perforated round the rim, only instead of on the top surface, as. is now

page_text: adopted in the present pepper box; by this means not only are the ordinary
salt cellars and spoons and pepper boxes and bottles dispensed with, thereby
economising space on the table, but the whole of the condiments are protected
from dust and dirt,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Heiron in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HEIRON, of No. 11, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Vietoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Heiron, Her special licence, that I, the said George Heiron,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Heiron, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CON-
STRUCTING A CASTER FOR CONTAINING PEPPER, SALT, OR OTHER CONDIMENTS FOR
DOMESTIC USE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Heiron, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be. performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent: Office: within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, --:
NOW KNOW YE,.that I, the said George Heiron, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in, what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly, described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
.
:
The caster is divided into two or more compartments, each compartment
containing either pepper, salt, or other condiments; the top of said caster is to
be perforated, or partly perforated and slotted, or both, round the rim or sides;

page_text: by this means not only are the ordinary salt cellars, spoons, and pepper boxes
dispensed with, thereby economising space on the table, but all is protected
from dust and dirt.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Heiron, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEO. HEIRON. (L.B.)