IMPROVEMENTS IN COFFEE URNS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Willis Dixon, Junior, of Sheffield, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COFFEE URNS."
Sealed the 18th January 1868, and dated the 30th July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Willis Dixon at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on, the
. 30th July 1862.
I, JAMES WILLIS DIXON, Junior, of Sheffield, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COFFEE URNS,"
to be as follows:-
In
This Invention has for its object improvements in coffee urns.
arranging a coffee urn according to my Invention, I take a metal ring and
cover it with muslin, and the muslin is held in its place by a second ring
fitting within the first, and the fabric is nipped and held between the two.
These two being thus put together, they are then fitted into an annular
ridge at the bottom of the urn. To fix the muslin properly, lay it down
flat, then place the first ring in the centre of it, and turn the corners of
the fabric in over it, and then fix in the inside ring. The second or inner
ring carries a strainer of perforated metal; this I make in the form of a
flat plate or disc, which is soldered to the ring, and has a truncated cone,

page_text: also of perforated metal, attached to it at the centre and projecting
upwards. On this the coffee is placed, and boiling water being poured in it,
rapidly forms an infusion, which can be drawn off by a tap at the lower
part of the urn, the tap communicating with the space underneath the
muslin filter.
Instead of fixing the muslin in its place as above described, it may be
sewn on to its ring, and the ring of the strainer being no longer required
to secure the muslin, may be arranged to rest on a separate ledge on the
interior of the urn. In this case I prefer to make the perforated metal
strainer of such a form as to contain the coffee, so that it may readily be
removed, and the coffee with it.
SPECIFICATION-in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Willis Dixon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WILLIS DIXON, Junior, of Sheffield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Willis Dixon, Her special licence that I, the said James Willis
Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Willis Dixon, 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 "IMPROVE
MENTS IN COFFEE URNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said James Willis Dixon, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 James Willis Dixon, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
In
This Invention has for its object improvements in coffee urns.
arranging a coffee urn according to my Invention, I take a metal ring, and:
cover it with muslin, and the muslin is held in its place by a second ring,
fitting within the first, and the fabric is nipped and held between the two.
These two being thus put together, they are then fitted into an annular ridge at
the bottom of the urn. To fix the muslin properly, lay it down flat, then:
place the first ring in the centre of it, and turn. 'the corners of the fabric in
over. it, and then fix in the inside ring. The second or inner ring carries a
strainer of perforated metal; this I make in 'the form of a flat plate or disc,
which is soldered to the ring, and has a truncated cone, also of perforated
metal attached to it at the centre and projecting upwards. On this the coffee
is placed, and boiling water being poured in, it rapidly forms an infusion which
can be drawn off by a tap at the lower part of the urn, the tap communicating
with the space underneath the muslin filter.
,
Instead of fixing the muslin in its place as above described, it may be sewn
on to its ring, and the ring of the strainer being no longer required to secure
the muslin, may be arranged to rest on a separate ledge ou the interior of the
urn. In this case I prefer to make the perforated metal strainer of such a
form as to contain the coffee, so that it may readily be removed and the coffee
with it.
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And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a vertical section of a coffee urn constructed according to
the arrangement first described.
a is the annular ridge near the bottom of the urn; b is the metal ring,
which rests upon it, and which is covered by muslin, as is shewn by red
lines; c is the metal ring, which fits within the ring b, and holds the muslin in
its place.
A side view, a plan, and a section of these rings is shewn at Figures 2, 3,
and 4.
cis the flat plate or disc of perforated metal, soldered on to the top of the
ring c; and is the truncated cone of perforated metal, which stands up from
the centre of the disc; this cone is supported by a small ring c³, connected by
arm c' to the ring c; d is the tap communicating with the space underneath
the muslin filter.

page_text: Figure 5 shows a coffee urn constructed according to the arrangement
secondly described.
b is the ring having muslin sewn over it; this ring rests upon an annular
ridge a, as in the former arrangement; a' is another annular ridge, upon which
is supported the ring c, which carries the strainer c', which is composed of per-
forated metal; this strainer as before stated is preferred in this arrangement to
be of such a form as to contain the coffee, so that the coffee can readily be
removed from the urn.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Willis Dixon, have hereunto
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
set my
JAMES WILLIS DIXON, JR. (L.B.).