IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS."-A com-
munication from abroad by Edward Baldwin Manning, of Middle-
town, in the County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, United
States of America.
Sealed the 16th April 1869, and dated the 20th October 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas
Hughes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 20th October 1868.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son,
Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE
POTS," a communication to me from abroad by Edward Baldwin Manning,
of Middletown, in the County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut,
United States of America, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the common Britannia
or metal tea and coffee pots. It is a well-known and admitted fact that

page_text: tea steeped in metal is more or less deleteriously effected by the
metal, so much so that a popular objection exists to metallic tea
drawers; yet breakage creates an objection to earthen vessels for this
purpose.
This Invention, the object of which is to overcome these difficulties
and combine in one the advantages of both, consists, first, in a hard
metal body lined with porcelain or similar material hardened thereon,
and after being so lined the body is covered with a softer material, as
Britannia or tin; second, in the construction of a mineral or carthen
pot or body, and covering the exterior surface with suitable metal which
may be formed thereon.
I will now proceed to describe the first part of my Invention, which
is illustrated in the following Figures, representing in
Fig. 1, a side view of the tea or coffee pot.
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2, a vertical central section of the same.
A body of any desired form is constructed according to the taste of the
manufacturer or requirements of the trade, as denoted in solid black, Fig. 2.
The body is then lined with the clay while in a plastic state, as denoted
in red, Fig. 2, and baked in the usual manner to harden the lining.
Thus finished, the outside of the iron body is covered with a softer
metal, as Britannia or tin, spinning the soft metal thereon' so as to
conform to the iron body, as denoted in yellow, Fig. 2. The spinning
process gives all the security necessary for securing the outer coating of
metal; the outer metal body is then perforated at the spout to correspond
to the perforations made in the iron and porcelain before the baking
process; the spout, handle, and cover are then attached in the usual
manner, and a porcelain lined tea pot is produced which to all appear-
ance is an ordinary Britannia or plated pot, as the metal which forms
the outer coating may be plated and burnished or finished in the usual
manner. For a tea drawer, that is to say, a pot in which it is required
to steep the tea, a soft metal outside would be quite as liable to melt as
an unlined pot; it is therefore deemed advisable in pots for this purposc
to make a hard metal bottom and lower portion of the body.
completes the first part of my Invention.
This
The second part is illustrated in the following Figures, representing in
Fig. 3 a side view of the tea or coffee pot; Fig. 4, a vertical central section
of the same. A pot of the desired size and shape is first formed from any

page_text: suitable material of a mineral or earthen nature, and when the pot is formed
is hard, either by baking or other curing.. The exterior surface is covered.
with any suitable metal, as Britannia,. tin, or other suitable material,
spinning or otherwise fitting the metal covering to the earthen pot, and
attaching to the metal a spout, handle, and cover in the usual manner.
In Fig. 4 a represents the carthen or mineral pot formed with an
opening at d for the pouring out of the tea. The metal covering, spout, .
and handle are represented in black, thus in its external appearance.
resembling in every way a metal pot..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th April 1869..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents,
123, Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of October, in the year:
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-eight,, in. the
thirty-second. year of Her reign, did,. for. Herself,. Her heirs and suc-
cessors; give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said.
Edward Thomas. Hughes,. my executors, administrators, and. assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term. therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use,. exercise, and vend, within the United.
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE POTS," a.
communication to me from abroad by Edward Baldwin Manning, of
Middletown, in the County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut,.
United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,

page_text: and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that
is to say):-
This Invention relates to improvements in the common Britannia or
metal tea and coffee pots. It is a well-known and admitted fact that
tea steeped in metal is more or less deleteriously effected by the metal,
'so much so that a popular objection exists to metallic tea drawers; yet
the liability to breakage creates an objection to earthen vessels for this
purpose.
This Invention, the object of which is to overcome these difficulties
and combine in one the advantages of both, consists, first, in a hard
metal body lined with porcelain or similar material hardened thereon,
and after being so lined the body is covered with a softer metal, as
Britannia or tin; second, in the construction of a mineral or earthen
pot or body, and covering the exterior surface with suitable metal,
which may
be formed thercon.
I will now proceed to describe the first part of this Invention, which
is illustrated in the following Figures, representing in Fig. 1 a side view
of the tea or coffee pot, and Fig. 2 a vertical central section of the
same. A body of any desired form is constructed according to the taste
of the manufacturer or requirements of the trade, as denoted in solid
black, Fig. 2; the body is then lined with the clay while in a plastic
state, as denoted in red, Fig. 2, and baked in the usual manner to harden
the lining. Thus finished, the outside of the iron body is covered with a
softer metal, as Britannia or tin, spinning the soft metal thercon so as
to conform to the iron body, as denoted in yellow, Fig. 2. The spinning
process gives all the security necessary for securing the outer coating of
metal; the outer metal body is then perforated at the spout to correspond
to the perforations made in the iron and porcelain before the baking
process. The spout, handle, and cover are then attached in the usual
manner, and a porcelain lined tea pot is produced which to all appear-
ance is an ordinary Britannia or plated pot, as the metal which forms the

page_text: outer coating may be plated and burnished or finished in the usual manner.
For a tea drawer, that is to say, a pot in which it is required to steep
the tea, a soft metal outside would be quite as liable to melt as an
unlined pot; it is therefore deemed advisable for this purpose to make a
hard metal bottom and lower portion of the body. This completes the
first part of the Invention.
The second part is illustrated in the following Figures, representing in
Fig. 3 a side view of the tea or coffee pot; and Fig. 4, a vertical central
section of the same. A pot of the desired size and shape is first
formed from any suitable material of a mineral or earthen nature, and
when the pot so formed is hard, either by baking or other curing, the
exterior surface is covered with any suitable metal, as Britannia or tin,
spinning or otherwise fitting the metal covering to the earthen pot and
attaching to the metal a spout, handle, and cover in the usual manner.
In Fig. 4 a represents the earthen or mineral pot formed with an
opening at d for the pouring out of the tea; the metal covering, spout,
and handle are represented in black, thus in its external appearance
resembling in every way a metal pot.
Having fully described the Invention, what I claim as new and
useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,--
First. A tea or coffee pot constructed with a hard metal or iron body,
the inner side coated with porcelain or similar material, and the outer
with soft metal after the lining has been baked, substantially in the
manner herein set forth.
Second. The herein described tea or coffee pot consisting of a
mineral or earthen pot covered externally with metal, substantially in
the manner set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 1869.