Improvements in and relating to Tea, Coffee, and like Pots.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Tea, Coffee, and like Pots.
I, EDWIN CHARLES STIMSON, of Cuba House, 22 Atherton Road, Forest Gate, in
the County of Essex, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide tea, coffee, and like pots with a
receptacle for containing the tea, coffee, or the like during infusion, and which is
capable of being fixed in the interior of the pot, or removed therefrom as required.
For this purpose I form in, or on, or attach to the inside bottom of a pot of any
ordinary shape, a socket, in which may be fitted a cylindrical or other conveniently
shaped receptacle formed of finely perforated metal or other material, or finely
woven wire webbing, or the like, and provided at its upper open end with a loop
or handle wherewith it may be inserted or withdrawn from the socket.
In this receptacle the tea or the like is placed, either before or after said receptacle
has been placed in the pot, and the infusion then made in the usual manner, the
receptacle and its contents being removed when the infusion has attained the desire
strength.
Dated this 16th day of March 1890.
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relating
Tea,
I, EDWIN CHARLES STIMSON, of Cuba House, 22 Atherton Road, Forest Gate, in
the County of Essex, Surveyor, 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 :-
My invention has for its object to provide tea, coffee, and like pots with a
receptacle for containing the tea, coffee, or the like during infusion, and which is
capable of being fixed in the interior of the pot, or removed therefrom as required.
For this purpose I form in, or on, or attach to the inside bottom of a pot of any
ordinary shape, a socket, over or in which may be fitted a cylindrical or other
conveniently shaped receptacle formed of finely perforated aluminium or other metal,
china, earthenware, or other material, or finely woven wire webbing, or the like, and
provided at its upper open end with a loop or handle wherewith it may be inserted or
withdrawn from the socket and pot.
A sectional elevation of a tea pot fitted with such an infuser is shewn in the accom-
panying drawing, and by the aid of this I will more particularly describe how my
invention may be carried into practical effeet.

page_text: As shewn the tea pot has formed on or attached to the inner surface of the bottom
thereof a socket a of conical or other suitable form to permit of a flanged portion on
the lower end of the infuser fitting on to it, or to receive said lower end when it is
preferred that the infuser should fit into it. This infuser is formed of a cylindrical
or other conveniently shaped receptacle constructed preferably of a body of finely
perforated aluminium or other metal fitted with a flanged bottom and provided at its
upper end with a band of sheet metal to which is hinged a loop or handle c where-
with the same may be inserted in the pot and fitted into or over the socket or withdrawn
from said socket and the pot at will. Where desired, however, said receptacle can be
made of perforated china, earthenware, or other material, or of woven wire, and its
shape and form, also that of the socket or its equivalent, made to suit the particular
conditions under which they will be employed, as will be understood.
In using a tea or other pot fitted according to my invention, the tea or the like is
placed in the receptacle 6 either before or after said receptacle has been placed in the
pot, and the infusion then made in the usual manner, the receptacle and its contents
being removed when the infusion has attained the desired strength. Where desired
the socket may be made detachable.
From the above description the application of my invention to tea pots of other
shape or construction to that illustrated and to coffee and other pots will be perfectly
understood and need no further explanation.
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 :-
A tea, coffee, or like pot with a socket a and receptacle substantially as and for the
purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated thi
1000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.