A New or Improved Article of Manufacture, applicable for Use as a Tea-pot Cosy, or a Cover for Keeping Foods and Drinks Hot.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 13th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Article of Manufacture, applicable for Use as a
Tea-pot Cosy, or a Cover for Keeping Foods and Drinks Hot.
I, EDWARD WILLIAM CREBBIN, of 5, Darby Road, Grassendale, in the
County of Lancaster, Mineral Ore Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a cover or cosy applicable for keeping tea and
also food and drinks of all kinds hot. It can be used, if so desired, largely as au
advertising medium, the article in that case being made cheap and sold at a small
price or given away with an advertisement printed upon it.
In carrying my invention into effect, one plan to make the cosy of paper or of
cotton, or paper and cotton combined. Strong brown paper or Japanese figured
paper are materials I find very efficient for the purpose. In order to prevent this
paper being torn or mutilated it may be folded or bound round the edges or
Furthermore it may
strengthened with wire, braid or any other suitable material.
be lined with any suitable nonconducting material and an artistic design or an
advertisement displayed in any suitable position. In some cases, I propose to make
the article of asbestos, leather, pulp, papier maché, sheet aluminium, bronze, mica,
or other suitable metal. When made of aluminium metal the sheets are preferably
rolled thin so as to be sufficiently flexible and are cut into any required shape.
Dated this 18th day of June 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Article of Manufacture, applicable for Use as a
Tea-pot Cosy, or a Cover for Keeping Foods and Drinks Hot.
1, EDWARD WILLIAM CREBBIN, of 5 Darby Road, Grassendale, in the
County of Lancaster, Mineral Ore Merchant, 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 has for its object a new or improved manufacture of covers or
cosies applicable for keeping tea and also other foods and drinks hot. By the
invention an article of this kind can be made cheap and sold at a small price, or it
can, if so desired, be used largely as an advertising medium, in which case an
advertisement is printed upon it or otherwise.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a general view of my invention as applied to a teapot cosy ;
Figure 2, a vertical cross section with the sides spread apart sufficiently to admit
and enclose the teapot ;
Figure 3 a vertical cross section with the sides lying flat one upon the other.
Figure 4 a general view of my teapot cosy with straight top and inside gusset ;

page_text: Figure 5 a vertical cross section thereof with the sides lying flat one upon the
other; and
Figures 6 and 7 front view and section of a cheaper form of cosy.
Referring to these figures, I form the cosy mainly of paper, made up in an
ornamental or artistic manner, with a foundation or backing of strong paper or
cardboard or paper and cotton combined. The backing or foundation is formed of
two sheets of cardboard, A A, hinged together by folded or gussetted paper a,
sateen, silk or other suitable material, at their adjacent side edges, and at their
adjacent top edges by the gusset or insertion b. The bottom edges are not joined
together, being left open so that the cosy can be slipped on to a teapot. This
arrangement of hinges or gussets and also the flexibility of the backings A, while
allowing the sheets of cardboard forming the backings or foundations to lie flat one
upon the other when not in use, as depicted in Figure 3, permits them when
required for use to be spread apart sufficiently to admit and enclose the teapot
between them as shown in Figure 2. The outside faces of the foundation are
covered or faced with crimped, crinkled, crêpe or other suitable paper B with a
rucheing C of crimped paper round the edge, which is fastened by gumming, gluing
or otherwise. My invention gives the choice of having an arched or curved
rucheing C at the top as depicted in Figures 1, 2 and 3 with a gusset 6 that shows
from the outside, or a straight rucheing C as shown in Figures 4 and 5 with the
gusset inside. One or both sides of the covering is provided with an artistic
arrangement of artificial flowers D, made also from crimped, crinkled, crêpe or
other paper, the stalks being, by preference, strengthened by wire which may be
fastened to the foundation by wire staples. In cases where the article is desired
to be used largely as an advertising medium, an advertisement can be printed
either on one or both sides or even inside, or any other convenient part.
I have described and illustrated the above way in which my invention may be
carried into effect, as applied to teapot cosies, but I wish it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to teapot cosies, as the invention may be applied to other
covers for keeping foods and drinks hot, nor do I confine myself to the exact
arrangement described, as alterations can be made without departing from the
nature of the invention. Thus, for example, the article can be produced with
numerous other artistic designs or arrangements, instead of the one shown, by
decorating it with chiffon, sateen or silk covering; it can be stuffed or padded with
cotton-wool, or other non-conductive material, and, moreover, instead of crimped,
crinkled or crêpe paper, Japanese figured paper (as shown in Figures 6 and 7
without the Japanese figures) or other paper, or even a Japanese or other grass
or fibre cloth, coloured or plain, are found to be equally efficient for making up the
article when a cheaper article is required. Furthermore, pulp, papier maché, mica
and asbestos are materials of which the foundation or backing of the article can be
made, or wholly of such if so required. In order to prevent the paper being torn
or mutilated, it may be bound round the edges or strengthened with wire, braid,
sateen, silk, or any other suitable material.
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. As an improved article of manufacture and commerce, a cover or cosy for
keeping tea or other food and drinks hot, in which the sides are formed of paper
or cardboard or other suitable material, so arranged that they will lie flat one upon
the other, but which, when required for use, can be spread apart sufficiently to
enclose the teapot or other article, said paper or cardboard having a design or
advertisement displayed on the outside faces thereof, or a facing arranged in an
ornamental or artistic manner, with or without a packing or filling of non-conducting
material, substantially as described.
2. In teapot cosies or the like, the use in combination with a backing or
foundation of paper, cardboard or the like, of a facing of crimped, crinkled, crêpe

page_text: or other paper, with or without an ornamental rucheing round the edges of the
same material substantially as set forth.
3. The manufacture and use of teapot cosies or other covers for keeping foods
and drinks hot, made partly or wholly of paper, papier maché, paper pulp, wood
pulp, cardboard, fibre or their equivalents substantially as herein described.
Dated this 18th day of March 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.