An Improved Swinging Cover for Hot Water Jugs and other Covered Vessels of a similar Description.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 15th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Dec., 1887
An Improved Swinging Cover for Hot Water Jugs and other Covered
Vessels of a similar Description.
EGLEN TAYLOR Edward Street Works, Parade, Birmingham Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an improved selfacting cover, made to
swing upon a wire bar fixed across the centre of a Jug or other similarly covered
vessel, the cover being so constructed that the hinges or pivots generally used in
covers of a like nature are entirely dispensed with, as also the cuts or niches usually
made in the sides of Porcelain and other Jugs, to enable the ordinary swinging
covers, such as Tofts Patent,-(now expired) to act. In order to carry out my
invention I take an ordinary Jug, with a small hole pierced in each side, into which
is fixed a wire bar across its centre, which may be either permanent or removable.
The cover, preferably of metal, is constructed with a raised groove across its centre,
sufficiently wide and deep on its under part, to fit the wire bar fixed on the Jug, the
cover, when adjusted, is then placed upon the bar,-upon which it works, and its
centre of gravity being below the point of suspension, it always maintains a horizontal
position, and may be removed by the simple process of lifting it on and off the fixed
bar, as required.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Swinging Cover for Hot Water Jugs and other Covered
Vessels of a similar Description.
EGLEN TAYLOR, Edward Street Works Parade, Birmingham, 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
The object of my invention is to provide an improved selfacting cover made to
swing upon a wire bar fixed across the centre of a jug or other similarly covered
vessel, the cover being so constructed that the hinges or pivots generally used in
covers of a like nature are entirely dispensed with, as also the cuts or niches usually
made in the sides of Porcelain and other Jugs to enable the ordinary swinging
covers, as the cover known to the trade as Tofts Patent Cover,―to act. In order to
carry out my invention, I take an ordinary Jug, with a small recess or hole pierced
in the centre of each of its sides a. a. Fig. 1 into which is fixed a wire bar b, Figs. 2
& 3 which may either be permanent or removable.
The cover Figs. 4 & 5 preferably of metal, is made with a raised groove across its
centre e Figs. 4 & 5 sufficiently wide and deep on its under side as will suspend it on
the wire bar when fixed on the Jug, the cover when balanced is then placed upon the
wire bar, and the point of suspension being higher than its centre of gravity it always
maintains a horizontal position and may be taken off the bar by the simple process of
lifting.
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,
The use of the wire bar, and the method of suspending the cover upon it by means
of the hollow groove constructed across the centre of the cover, substantially as herein
described.
Dated this 14th day of November 1887.