Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr., 1887.
We EDWARD FISHER Albion Works Sherlock Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer and HENRY WALTON LUDLOW Albion Works, Sherlock Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the making of spouts suitable for use on kettles or on
other such like articles, by the method herein-after described.
We cut out or otherwise provide a quantity of blanks of a suitable configuration
to form when dished the half of a spout.
We next pass the blank through a stamping process which is carried out with dies
of a horisontal configuration corresponding with that of the blank, the bottom die
being formed concave & the top die convex.
The bottom half of the spout after being dished into a semicircular or other suit-
able transverse section is extended horisontally at each edge so as to form a flange ;
each edge is further extended vertically at right angles to the flange thus-forming
a vertical wall or rib the top half is formed in an exactly similar manner to the bottom
half excepting that the horisontal flange is not carried up vertically to form a rib.
We take the top half and place it over the bottom half, the flanges of both halves
being lineable and in close contact; the vertical rib or wall of the bottom half is next
bent horisontally to rest over the horisontal flange of the top half thereby locking the
flanges of the two halves together: it will be now readily understood that there will
be three horisontal layers; the whole of these layers are next turned up vertical to
rest flat against the external surface of the spout.
Spouts made in the improved manner herein before described are much stronger
than spouts made in the usual and ordinary manner.
· Dated this 21st day of July 1886
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Kettle Spouts
We, EDWARD FISHER, Albion Works Sherlock Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer, and HENRY WALTON LUDLOW, Albion Works, Sherlock
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer 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 consists in the making of spouts suitable for. use on kettles or on
other such like articles by the method hereinafter described.
We cut out or otherwise provide a quantity of blanks of a suitable configuration to
form when dished the half of a spout.
We next pass the blank through a stamping process which is carried out with dies
of a horizontal configuration corresponding with that of the blank, the bottom die
being formed concave and the top die convex.
The bottom half of the spout after being dished into a semicircular or other suitable
transverse section is extended horizontally at each edge, so as to form a flange; each
edge is further extended vertically at right angles to the flange, thus forming a vertical
wall or rib the top half is formed in an exactly similar manner to the bottom half
excepting that the horizontal flange is not carried up vertically to form a rib.
We take the top half and place it over the bottom half, the flanges of both halves
being lineable and in close contact; the vertical rib or wall of the bottom half is next
bent horizontally to rest over the horizontal flange of the top half thereby locking
the flanges of the two halves together: it will be now readily understood that there
will be three horizontal layers: the whole of these layers are next turned up vertical
to rest flat against the external surface of the spout.
Spouts made in the improved manner hereinbefore described are much stronger
than spouts made in the usual and ordinary method.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which our invention is carried out.
Figure 1 represents the bottom half of a spout with concave side uppermost, formed
with vertical walls A.
Figure 2 represents the top half of a spout with its convex side uppermost, formed
with horizontally extending flanges B.
Figure 3 is a section of figure 1.
Figure 4 is a section of figure 2.
Figure 5 is a section representing figures 3 and 4 put together ready for folding.
Figure 6 represents figure 5 folded over.
Figure 7 represents figure 6 still further folded over to rest flat against the external
surface of the spout.
Figure 8 represents the two halves put together and formed into a kettle spout.
The dotted lines on the small end of the spout represent a piece that is sometimes
taken out of the spout in the V shape shewii.

page_text: We take the half on which is formed the external walls A, and place on to it the
top half on which is formed the horizontal extending flange B figure 2, in the manner
represented at figure 5. We have represented a broken enlarged view of the connec-
tion of figure 5 and also of figures 6 and 7.
The projecting part of the wall A is next turned over flat in the manner represented
at C figure 6, thus securing the two halves of the spout together. These three hori-
zontal layers are next turned up vertically from the form shewn at C figure 6 so as
to rest against the external surface of the spout as shewn at D figure 7.
We
We are aware that kettle spouts and other articles may have been stamped in halves,
we do not consider the mere stamping of the concave half of the kettle spout to in
itself form any part of our invention, but the forming of kettle spouts in halves with
vertical walls A, by a process of stamping is new and original and forms part of our
invention.
We do not confine ourselves to the circular section shewn at figures 3 and 4, as the
spouts may be of an oval transverse section or of any other suitable configuration.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is
1st. The making of spouts in the manner illustrated and described.
2nd. The stamping of the half of a kettle spout with vertical walls A for the
purpose of receiving the edges of the horizontal flanges B, provided on the other half,
to form a connection.
3rd. The folding of the three layers as illustrated and described in reference to
figure 6.
4th. The turning up of the three layers vertically to rest flat against the external
surface of the spout as described in reference to figure 7.