An Improved Non-dripping Tea-pot.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1397
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Non-dripping Tea-pot.
1, FREDA MOLONY, Ferndale Grosvenor Road, Rathgar, Dublin, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A tea-pot with attachment to spout of same, providing lip and chaunel, on the
outside, by which the droppings from spout are collected in a bowl or bulb at
base, having a sharp projection which prevents these droppings from returning t
outlet when tea-pot is raised to pour out tea, and thus preventing droppings falling
on cloth or whatever is placed under tea-pot.
Dated this 9th day of July 1896:
FREDA MOLONY.
1 FREDA MOLONY of Ferndale, Grosvenor Road Rathgar Dublin Ireland 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:-
A new and improved non-dripping tea-pot with attachment to spout of same,
providing a lip and channel, on the outside by which the droppings from spont are
collected in a bowl or bulb at base, same bulh having a sharp projection which
prevents these droppings from returning to outlet when tea-pot is raised to pour
out tea, thus preventing droppings from falling onto the cloth or whatever may be
placed under tea-pot.
The invention is fully disclosed in the following complete specification of which
the accompanying drawings form a part in which Fig. 1 is a sectional side view of
an ordinary tea-pot, provided with my improvement and Fig. 2 a front view
thereof.
In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of my
improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views,
and in the practice of my invention I provide a tea-pot, which may be of the usual
or any desired form or construction and which may also be composed of china,
earthenware, silver or any other material, provided at one end with a handle, and
at the opposite side with the usual discharge spout 3. At the lower end of the
spout, and outside the body portion of the tea-pot, is a chamber 4 which is preferably
of the form shown in Figure 1. Said chamber being circular or elliptical, and at
the upper side thereof is a backwardly and inwardly directed partial partition.
And extending from said chamber 4, upwardly along the under side of the
discharge spout, is a passage or channel 5, which is formed in a longitudinal
enlargement on the under side of the discharge spout in the process of making the
vessel, and said passage opens directly under the mouth of the discharge spout, as
shown in Figures 1 and 2.

page_text: As thus constructed it will be apparent that, in the operation of pouring the
liquid from the pot or vessel, the drippings, which usually flow down the under
side of the discharge spout, on to the table, table-cloth or other article, will pass
into the channel or passage 5 and down into the chamber or receptacle 4, and
will remain there in said chamber or receptacle until intentionally removed
therefrom.
This device is simple in construction and operation, and is perfectly adapted
to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and my invention is not limited
to the form or construction of the chamber or receptacle 4. Nor to the form or
construction of the channel or passage 5.
Having fully described my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, 1 declare that what I claim is:
First. An improved non-dripping tea pot which is provided at the lower end of
the discharge spout with a chamber or receptacle from which extends, along the
lower end of the discharge spout, a channel or passage and which opens under the
nozzle of the discharge spout, substantially as shown and described.
Second. A tea-pot provided with a channel or passage to conduct back droppings
to chamber or receptacle at base, the latter having a sharp angle or projection, on
the inside, which prevents droppings from returning to the outlet when tea-pot is
again raised, substantially as shown and described.
Third. A tea-pot provided with a channel or passage which conducts droppings
to chamber or receptacle from which receptacle there is no back outlet to admit
of cold droppings re-entering tea-pot or leaving receptacle until intentionally
removed therefrom-substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 30th day of March 1897.
FREDA MOLONY.