Improvements in Appliances for use with Tea or Coffee Pots.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1892-Accepted, 16th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for use with Tea or Coffee Pots.
I, ARTHUR WADDAMS, of 155 Noel Street, in the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in appliances for use with tea or coffee
pots, and has for its object to so construct such appliances that a clear infusion can be
made without any fear of the tea leaves, or coffee grits, entering the cup, or other
vessel, into which the coffee or tea is poured for drinking.
For the purpose of my invention the appliance consists of a perforated domed-
shaped cup or holder, preferably made of wire gauze which is provided with a
removable cap or cover furnished with a handle of sufficient dimensions to permit it
to pass freely over the dome-shaped cup or holder when the cap is fitted unto the
holder.
The tea or coffee is placed in the dome-shaped cup or holder and the cap or
cover is fitted over the month of the holder which is preferably provided with a
rim of any suitable material for giving additional strength, as well as for ensuring a
tight joint between the holder and the cap.
The cap having been fitted onto the mouth of the holder, the appliance is inverted
and in such position is placed into the tea or coffee pot by means of the before
mentioned handle with which the cap is provided. The cap in this inverted position
now forms a bottom, base, or tray to the domed-shaped cup or holder, upon which
the tea or coffee rests, and the perforated holder serves to prevent the tea leaves, or
coffee grits, from escaping, while permitting free circulation of the water and
euabling a clear infusion to be obtained.
The holder is of such dimensions as to permit of the tea leaves, or the coffee to
swell therein when the hot water is poured on, and thus the tea, or coffee, is as
thoroughly and quickly infused as when placed loosely in the pot.
Although I prefer to make the holder dome-shaped, it may be of any other
suitable shape to suit tea and coffee pots of various sizes and shapes.
Dated this 10th day of September 1891
ERNEST DE PASS,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for use with Tea or Coffee Pots.
I ARTHUR WADDAMS of 155 Noel Street, Nottingham, in the County of Notts,
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 this invention is to prevent the tea or coffee from getting into the
cup from whence the decoction is drunk.
In order to carry out this invention I construct a cup or dome of wire ganze of
any suitable metal, for containing the tea or coffee, the said cup or dome being
provided with a lid preferably stamped out of sheet tin or tin plate or any other
suitable metal for preventing the tea from getting into the pot while mashing or
making tea for drinking purposes.
The lid has a wire handle attached by soldering or otherwise. The handle being

page_text: so fixed to the lid and of such dimensions that it may pass over the perforated cup
or wire gauze dome when the lid is placed on the said dome or cup the lid fits
tightly upon the dome the edge or rim of which may be stiffened by soldering,
wiring, or attaching a tin rim or in any other suitable manner so as to insure a
sufficiently close fit to prevent the lid leaving the dome and permitting any of the
tea or coffee to fall into the tea or coffee pot.
When the holder contains the tea or coffee as the case may be it is taken by the
handle and placed lid downwards in the pot for mashing.
The holders are made of a suitable size so that the tea can float in the wire gauze
dome or cup while the hot water is poured on and thus the tea is as thoroughly and
quickly mashed as when placed loose in the pot.
The wire gauze dome or cup may be made hemispherical or semielliptical in
shape, with lid shaped accordingly, but the shape may be various to suit differently
shaped tea or coffee pots.
And in order that my said invention may be better understood I will now describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 shews section of ten pot with holder placed therein in position.
Fig. 2 shews view of holder complete.
The same letters denote the same parts in both views :-
:-
a. shews the ganze holder, b. lide. handle. It will be seen when the holder is in
position the lid is placed downwards.
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
claito is :-
Tea or coffee holders constructed and arranged substantially as set forth.
T1000
Dated this 100
10th day
T
BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, W.C., Agents for Applicant.