Percolator Packages or Infusers for Tea, Coffee, and other Substances.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Percolator Packages or Infusers for Tea, Coffee, and other Substances.
I, HENRY MARTYN HUMPHREY, of 325, Belvidere Avenue, Plainfield, in the
County of Union and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Merchant
and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a package for pulverized or crushed
coffee, or other material or merchandise, or a package for tea or a like article,
in which the substance is encased or enclosed in a stack bag, or a réceptacle made
of cheese cloth, muslin or other material, and to provide the package with a
weight capable of retaining it in position in a pot of water, or other quid, hot
or cold.
A further object of the invention is to so construct the weight applied
to the package that it may be employed to direct a package from a coin-operated
machine, and serve as a surface upon which directions may be produced.
Another object of the invention is to so connect the weight with the package
that when the package is placed in a receptacle and subjected to the action of
liquid, the process of infusion, decoction, percolation, distillation or maceration
will be carried out to the fullest extent and in a most expeditious and thorough
manner, the weight serving to assist the package in its downward course and
serving also to constantly change the position of the package and maintain said
package at all times in such position that the liquid will have free contact with
all of its surface.
In its most elementary form the weight is a metal or other plate and the bag
of cheese cloth or other coarse material, the bag being of such dimensions that
it will be slack upon the plate and loosely filled. It may be attached to the plate
by bending up the edge of the plate over the bag to form a clamping jaw or
it may be attached to the plate at both ends, the plate being provided with two
upturned jaws, the bag in this case being likewise filled slackly so that at its
central portion it may fall from or rise in direction of the plate or weight as
occasion may demand.
The weight may be in the form of a strip carried around the bag from one
end to the other in the shape of a band, the space between the members of the
band being very wide at one end and very narrow at the opposite end. Where
the members of the band are close together the members are made to clamp the
top and bottom of the bag and one member of the band is carried closely over
the other to form a locking jaw, the wide space between the members of the
band permitting the material in the bag to swell to its natural extent.
this form of weight is employed, it may be readily detached from a bag that
has been used, and quickly applied to another or fresh bag.
When
When the simple form of device is employed, the device is placed in the pot
with the weight uppermost, but as soon as the water is poured into the pot the
package rises, the weight still remaining uppermost. As the contents of the

page_text: bag swell, the bag with the plate or weight attached to one of its ends first floats
just below the surface of the liquid, then sinks slowly, the expansion of the bag
causing the weight to be thrown over in direction of the bottom of the pot,
and finally the weight practically rests upon the bottom of the pot while the
bag remains in more or less of an upright position. It is therefore evident that
the bag changes position frequently in its downward course.
When the form of package in which the bag is attached at each end is employed,
the weight or plate is likewise placed uppermost in the pot, and the movements
of the package in the liquid are substantially the same as heretofore described,
except that when the package reaches the bottom of the pot, the slackness of the
bag is depended upon to permit the liquid to pass between it and the weight,
even should the package assume a horizontal position. In fact the package
approaches the bottom of the pot more or less edgewise, and has a tendency to
rest upon the bottom of the pot in the same manner.
When the strip or band form is used, it matters not whether the package be
made to rest upon one face or upon the other.
The weights in addition to holding the bags in proper positions in the water,
likewise permit the bags to be readily delivered from a coin-operated machine.
Dated this 8th day of September 1898.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.
Percolator Packages or infusers for lea, conee, and other Substances.
I, HENRY MARTYN HUMPHREY, of 325, Belvidere Avenue, Plainfield, in the
County of Union and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Merchant
and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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The object of my invention is to provide a package for pulverized or crushed
coffee, or other material or merchandise, or a package for tea or a like article,
in which the substance is encased or enclosed in a slack bag, or a receptacle made
of cheese cloth, muslin or other material, and to provide the package with a
weight capable of retaining it in position in a pot of water, or other liquid, hot
or cold. A further object of the invention is to so construct the weight applied
to the package that it may be employed to direct a package from a coin-operated
machine, and serve as a surface upon which directions may be produced.
Another object of the invention is to so connect the weight with the package
that when the package is placed in a receptacle and subjected to the action of
liquid, the process of infusion, decoction, percolation, distillation or maceration
will be carried out to the fullest extent and in a most expeditious and thorough
manner, the weight serving to assist the package in its downward course and
serving also to constantly change the position of the package and maintain said
package at all times in such position that the liquid will have free contact with
all of its surface.
The invention consists in the novel construction, and combination of the several
parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in all the figures.

page_text: Figure 1 is a vertical section through the bottom portion of a coffee pot, illus-
trating the application of one form of the package thereto, the package being
in the position it last assumes;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of a package to which the weight is applied in
a slightly different manner from that shown in Figure; and
Figure 3 is also a perspective view of a package in which the weight is slightly
different in form from the weights shown in Figures 1 and 2.
In the simple form of the device shown in Figure 1, the weight 10 for the
bag 11 consists of a plate, which is usually of metal but may be of any desired
material, and the bag 11 is constructed ordinarily of cheese cloth, or of other
coarse fabric that will admit of the ready passage of a fluid through it.
bag 11 is made of such dimensions that it will be slack upon the plate, and the
said bag should be slackly filled.
The
In Figure 1 the bag is shown as attached to one end of the weight or plate 10,
the attachment being preferably accomplished by bending up one edge of the
plate over the bag to form a clamping jaw 12. In Figure 2 the weight 10 is
also in the form of a plate, but the bag is attached to the plate at both of its
ends, the said plate being provided with two upturned jaws 12 and 12", but
when the bag is attached at both of its ends to the plate said bag is also to be
slack after it is filled, so that at its central portion it may fall from or rise in
direction of the plate or weight, as occasion may demand.
Under the construction shown in Figure 3, the weight is in the form of a
strip 13, which is carried around the bag 11 from one end to the other in the
shape of a band, the space between the members of the band being very wide
at one end and very narrow at the opposite end. Where the members of the band
are close together the members are made to clamp the top and bottom of the
bag 11, and one member of the band is carried closely over the other to form
a locking jaw 14, the wide space between the members of the band permitting
the material in the bag to swell to its natural extent. When the form of
weight illustrated in Figure 3 is employed it may be readily detached from a
bag that has been used, and quickly applied to another or fresh bag.
When the simple form of device is employed, the device is placed in the pot
with the weight uppermost, but as soon as the water is poured into the pot, the
package rises, the weight still remaining uppermost. As the contents of the
bag swell, the bag with the plate or weight attached to one of its ends first
floats just below the surface of the liquid, then sinks slowly, the expansion of
the bag causing the weight to be thrown over in direction of the bottom of the
pot, and finally, as shown in Figure 1, the weight practically rests upon the
bottom of the pot while the bag remains in more or less of an upright position.
It is therefore evident that the bag changes position frequently in its downward
course.
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When the form of package shown in Figure 2 is employed, the weight or
plate 10 is likewise placed uppermost in the pot, and the movements of the
package in the liquid are substantially the same as heretofore described, except
that when the package reaches the bottom of the pot the slackness of the bag
is depended upon to permit the liquid to pass between it and the weight, even
should the package assume a horizontal position. In fact, when the construc-
tion shown in Figure 2 is employed, the package approaches the bottom of the
pot more or less edgewise, and has a tendency to rest upon the bottom of the
pot in the same manner.
Under the form of the device illustrated in Figure 3 it matters not whether
the package be made to rest upon one face or upon the other.
The weights in addition to holding the bags in proper positions in the water,
likewise permit the bags to be readily delivered from a coin-operated machine;
and it may be readily understood that the packages may be made sufficiently
large to contain, for example, coffee enough for one cup only, or for two or
more cups, or for a large pot, if desired.

page_text: 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: -
1. A package for tea, coffee or like substances, substantially as herein shown
and described.
2. A package for tea, coffee or a, like substance, consisting of a bag made
'from a porous or loosely woven material and provided with an attached weight,
which weight is so arranged as to facilitate the downward passage of the bag
in liquid, and to facilitate a change of position of the bag in said downward
passage, for the purpose set forth.
3. A package for tea, coffee or like substances, consisting of a bag made from
a porous or a loosely woven material and provided with an attached weight, for
the purpose specified.
4. A package for coffee, tea or other material adapted to be subjected to the
action of a liquid, the said package consisting of a slack bag made of a porous
material and having a weight attached, the said weight being arranged .for
engagement with a face of the bag, for the purpose specified.
5. As an improved article of manufacture, a package adapted to contain any
desired amount of tea, coffee or a like material, the said package consisting of a
slack bag made of loosely woven material, and a plate attached to said bag,
which plate serves as a weight, for the purpose specified.
Dated this 11th day of Feb 1899
A. M. & WM.. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London..