AN IMPROVED COFFEE POT MADE OF METAL. OR EARTHENWARE, TO CONTAIN COFFEE AND MILK OR CREAM SEPARATELY, THE SAME BEING USED AS A CHOCOLATE POT; THE SAME INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO TEA POTS FOR THE SAME PURPOSES, MADE EITHER IN METAL OR EARTHENWARE; THE SAME INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO TABLE URNS, AND THE SAME INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO JUGS, MADE EITHER IN EARTHENWARE OR GLASS OR METAL, TO CONTAIN SPIRITS AND WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS IN DIFFERENT COMPARTMENTS
Year: 1857

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Myers at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
December 1857.
I, WILLIAM HENRY MYERS, of 202, Whitechapel Road, in the Parish of St.
Mary, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, Printer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COFFEE POT MADE OF METAL.
OR EARTHENWARE, TO CONTAIN COFFEE AND MILK OR CREAM SEPARATELY, THE SAME
BEING USED AS A CHOCOLATE POT; THE SAME INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO TEA
POTS FOR THE SAME PURPOSES, MADE EITHER IN METAL OR EARTHENWARE; THE
SAME INVENTION BEING APPLICABLE TO TABLE URNS, AND THE SAME INVENTION
BEING APPLICABLE TO JUGS, MADE EITHER IN EARTHENWARE OR GLASS OR METAL, TO
CONTAIN SPIRITS AND WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS IN DIFFERENT COMPARTMENTS," to
be as follows:-
I construct the body of the coffee pot or tea pot in the following manner,
viz.-I make an outer case of the ordinary form (but I do not confine myself
to any particular size or shape), inside of which I place a lining or inner case,
thereby forming an outer chamber between the inner and outer case. I also
place on the outer case a hollow handle, and also a spout of the ordinary form.
I connect the spout to the inner chamber, out of which the solution of coffee,
chocolate, or tea will flow; I also attach a small tube to the outer case,
passing from the outer chamber before mentioned up the inside of the spout,
to within about one inch of the end of the spout; I also make on the top of
the hollow handle two small holes, one hole for the purpose of allowing air to
escape from the outer chamber, and the other hole for the purpose of admitting

page_text: the small tube on the top of the funnel-shaped cover or lid herein-after
described, and also for the purpose of admitting air to the outer chamber,
through which hole and funnel-shaped cover or lid I pass milk or cream,
for the purpose of being heated by the radiation of heat from the inner caso
containing the hot solution of coffee, chocolate, or tea, and for purposes herein-
after to be described; the milk will run into the outer chamber through a
hole in the outer case at the termination of each end of the hollow handle,
where it joins the outer case, which milk will flow or not from the outer
chamber through the small tube inserted in the spout before mentioned, at
the will and pleasure of the person using the same, by means of raising the
thumb from the hole on the top of the hollow handle to make the milk to
flow, or covering the same by the thumb to stop the milk from flowing. The
solution of coffee, chocolate, or tea will flow from the inner chamber through
the spout in the ordinary manner of a common coffee pot or tea pot.
I particularly claim the application of my Invention to coffee pots, tea pots;
and jugs, for holding two liquids in separate compartments; and I more par-
ticularly claim the application of the holes on the top of the hollow handle to
coffee pots and tea pots, for the admission to of milk, and discharge and
admission of air from and to the outer chamber in which the milk or cream
is placed. I also claim the application of my Invention to jugs for the
purpose of holding water, spirits, or other liquids in separate compartments.
I also insert into the inner chamber of the coffee pot or tea pot, for the
purpose of filtration, a small round or square metallic framework, composed
either of perforated zinc, tin, or other metal covered with muslin, linen, or
other like fabric, or of plated wire gauze, into which framework I propose
that the coffee, tea, or chocolate should be placed, and into which framework
I also insert through an aperture in the top of the frame a stout wire rod, on
to which I fix two or more fans, so bent as to form a scrow; I continue the
wire rod through an aperture made in the funnel-shaped lid or cover on the
top of the coffee pot or tea pot, which lid or cover I make in the shape of a.
funnel, with a small tube or short nozzle; the wire rod which passes through the
aperture in the funnel-shaped cover or lid also passes through the lid of the
framework before mentioned into the interior of the framework, for the purpose
of agitating for the better extracting the strength or aroma of the coffec,
chocolate, or tea placed therein. I fasten the lid of the framework to the
bottom of the framework by means of a nipple jetting into a slide, in a
similar manner to a bayonet being fixed to a musket..
Although I more particularly claim the application of my Invention to
coffee pots, tea pots, or jugs for containing spirits or other liquids, I apply the

page_text: principle of the aforesaid Invention to table urns used for similar purposes,
by applying one or more small valves fitted with india-rubber, or some such
flexible material to the top of the handle or handles, or some other con-
venient part of the urn. I can also dispense with the valve or valves, by
applying a small tap to the bottom of the outer chamber intended to contain
milk or cream, in the same manner as the tap is applied to the chamber con-
taining the solution of coffee, tea, or chocolate.
I construct the jug for the purpose of containing water, spirits, or other
liquids in separate compartments, in like manner as before mentioned, either
of glass, earthenware, or metal. I make an inner and outer chamber, the
outer chamber to contain water, and the inner chamber spirits or other liquid;
to the outer chamber I attach a tube spout for the purpose of pouring out the
water, either hot or cold, and to the inner chamber at the top of the jug, I
construct a lip spout for the purpose of pouring out the spirits or other liquid;
I attach a hollow handle to the outer chamber, with holes made in like
manner on the top, as before mentioned, for the purpose of introducing hot or
cold water through the funnel-shaped cover into the outer chamber. I make
the hollow handle in like manner to the coffee pot hollow handle, and the
thumb can be placed over the hole to prevent water running out at the will of
the person using the same; but I do not confine myself to any particular size
or shape for the jug.