A NEW REVOLVING COVER FOR DISHES, BOWLS, AND OTHER VESSELS REQUIRING A MOVEABLE COVER
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Pomeroy Button, of 142 and 143,
Cheapside, in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "A
NEW REVOLVING COVER FOR DISHES, BOWLS, AND OTHER VESSELS REQUIRING
A MOVEABLE COVER." A communication from abroad by Julius Rhodes
Pomeroy, of Broadway, in the City of New York, United States of
America.
Sealed the 23rd March 1866, and dated the 3rd October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Pomeroy Button
at the Office of the: Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd October 1865.
I, CHARLES' POMEROY BUTTON, of 142 and 143, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
A NEW REVOLVING COVER FOR DISHES, BOWLS, AND OTHER VESSELS REQUIRING A
MOVEABLE COVER," (communicated to me from abroad by Julius Rhodes Pomeroy,
of Broadway, in the City of New York, United States of America,) to be as
follows:
This Invention, which is applicable to any description of dish, bowl, or
vessel, requiring a movable cover, consists of a cover or lid so arranged that

page_text: by turning a small projecting handle or knob on either side the dish, bowl,
or vessel may be covered or uncovered at pleasure, without the inconvenience
of removing the cover from the table. The revolving cover has on its outside
rim two pivots, each opposite the other, and made to play in sockets set in
the dish. To these pivots are placed a handle or knob. The dish has a
false bottom, so that by turning the handle or knob the cover is dropped into
the false bottom and concealed from view. By reversing said motion the
dish is covered. The revolving cover may be made of any desired-size-or
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Pomeroy Button in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
POMEROY BUTTON, of Nos: 142 and 143,' Cheapside, in the City of London,
Merchant, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of: October, in the year' of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Pomeroy Button, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Pomeroy Button, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Pomeroy Button, mý 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 "A-NEW-REVOLVING COVER FOR DISHES, BOWLS, AND OTHER VESSELS REQUIRING
A MOVABLE COVER," being a communication from abroad by Julius Rhodes
Pomeroy, of Broadway, in the City of New York, United States of America, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Pomeroy, Button, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner, the same was to be

page_text: performed, 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 Charles Pomeroy Button, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed;
and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say:
This Invention consists in the application of a revolving cover to dishes,
basins, bowls, or other vessels requiring a movable cover.
The cover is so
arranged that the dish, basin, bowl, or other vessel may be covered or un-
covered at pleasure by merely turning a small handle or knob placed outside
the vessel. The revolving cover is provided on its outer rim, with two pivots
or centres placed opposite each other, and made to play in sockets fixed to
the dish or other vessel. The outer ends of these pivots are provided with
knobs or handles. The dish or other vessel has a false bottom, so that by
turning the before-mentioned knobs or handles the cover can be turned into
the space between the false and the real bottoms of the vessel. By turning the
handles in the opposite direction the vessel will be covered.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The same letters of reference are used in all the Figures to represent
similar parts. Fig. 1 is a plan; Fig. 2 a section on line A, B, of Fig. 1,
and Fig. 3 a side elevation of a basin or dish upon my improved plan, shewing
the revolving cover turned down under the false bottom, and Fig. 4 is a side
elevation shewing the basin covered.
a, a, bottom of the basin or dish; b, b, false bottom; c, c, revolving cover
furnished with the pivots d, d, working in the sockets e, e, fixed to the rim of
the basin, and provided with caps f, f, fastened by the pins g, g; h, h, handles
or knobs fixed on the outer ends of the pivots d, d. It will be easily seen
that by turning the handles h, h, connected to the revolving cover c by means
of the pivots d, d, that the dish, basin, or vessel can be covered or uncovered
at pleasure. To remove the revolving cover for cleaning and other purposes,
all that is necessary is to draw out the pins 9, 9, and remove the caps f. f, of
the sockets. The revolving cover may be made of various dimensions, and
of any suitable material.
What I claim is the arrangement and application of a revolving cover to
dishes, basins, bowls, or other vessels requiring a movable cover, substantially

page_text: in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described and shewn in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Pomeroy Button, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One 'thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
CHARLES POMEROY BUTTON. (L.s.)
FLAVILLE LAURA BUTTON,
40, Talbot Terrace,-
Westbourne Park, W.