An Improved Table Appliance or Stand having a Rotatory Platform for Holding Dishes and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Table Appliance or Stand having a Rotatory Platform
for Holding Dishes and the like.
I, SAMUEL Cook of the Victoria Works, Spring Street, Bury, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to supply a device or appliance for saving the
trouble and inconvenience of personally handing round dishes of various kinds of
food at table and consists in providing a platform or table capable of turning in a
The
horizontal plane on a central pivot or axis carried in or on a suitable stand.
rotatory platform may be formed of sheet metal having preferably recesses or holes
for holding in place the various dishes arranged thereon or it may consist of a
number of radial arms whose outer extremities carry rings or recessed parts for the
like purpose. The outer edges of the platform or extremities of the radial arms
may be provided with small handles or finger pieces to facilitate the turning
round of the platform. A rotatory platform constructed as above described may
be arranged to carry a number of different dishes which may readily be moved
round so as in turn to be brought in front as required of persons seated at opposite
sides of the table.
Dated this 24th day of March 1892.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Table Appliance or Stand having a Rotatory Platform
for Holding Dishes and the like.
I, SAMUEL COOK, of the Victoria Works, Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, 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 to supply a device or appliance for saving the
trouble and inconvenience of personally handing round dishes of various kinds of
food at table and consists in providing a platform or table capable of turning in a
horizontal plane on a central pivot or axis carried in or on a suitable stand. The
rotatory platform may be formed of sheet metal having preferably recesses or holes
for holding in place the various dishes arranged thereon or it may consist of a
number of radial arms whose outer extremities carry rings or recessed parts for
the like purpose. The outer edges of the platform or extremities of the radial
arms may be provided with small handles or finger pieces to facilitate the turning
round of the platform. A rotatory platform constructed as above described may
be arranged to carry a number of different dishes which may readily be moved
round so as in turn to be brought in front as required of persons seated at opposite
sides of the table.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an elevation, and
Fig. 2 a plan of one form of my improved table appliance hereinabove described.
a is the central part of a platform carried on the upper end of a pivot b working
in the stand or vertical tubular bearing c. In the arrangement shown the recessed

page_text: parts or dish carriers d d are mounted upon the outer extremities of radial arms ee
whose inner extremities are secured to the underside of the central part a. At
Fig. 1 ff indicate two dishes of different kinds upon the carriers dd.
Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views showing two convenient forms of lower bearing
or footstep for the central pivot b.
The number of dish carriers d d carried upon the pivot 6 may be varied as
desired and there may be readily arranged two or more heights of such carriers
one above the other either upon the same central pivot or upon separate pivots
working one inside the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved table appliance consisting of a central stand having a bearing
to receive a vertical pivot the said pivot supporting a platform capable of carrying
a number of dishes and of being moved round or rotated in a horizontal plane
substantially as hereinabove described and shewn in the drawings for the purpose
set forth.
Dated this 20th day of December 1805