Improvements in Detachable Lids for Jugs and other like Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Detachable Lids for Jugs and other like Vessels.
1, HENRY HARRISON Bangor Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Metal
Spinner 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 :-
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My present invention is for improvements on the method of attaching removable
lids to Hotwater Jugs, and other like vessels, described in the Specification of a
former patent granted to me on the 8th day of February 1888, No. 1878; and has
for its objects, to attach the lid more securely to the vessel, to improve the appearance
of the lid, and to cause the movable part of the lid to open automatically when
pouring.
I have illustrated my invention as applied to a Jug, in the two annexed sheets of
drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in any of the
figures.
Fig. 1, is a side view of the Lid.
Fig. 2, plan of the underside of Lid.
Fig. 3, represents the lid fixed on the Jug.
Fig. 4, shows the lid opened automatically when pouring out the contents of Jug.
I make the lid in two chief parts, A being the fixed part, and B the part of the lid
that opens.
The part B is pivotted to the top of a standard or support C, by means of an
extension piece D, which I prefer to make of an ornamental character.
To the underside of the part A of the lid, I attach, by its centre or thereabouts, a
double ended spring-clip E, so that its ends are free and elastic, and of such a curve
that the top edge of the jug will be firmly clipped and held, when it is forced in
between the said spring and the depending edge of the part A, as shown in Fig. 3.
Although the lid is thus held in its position upon the Jug sufficiently firm and
secure for all ordinary purposes, it can readily be drawn off or removed when
required for cleaning or the like, by the exertion of a little force.-When the Jug is
tilted up to pour out the contents as shown in Fig. 4. the front part of the lid B,
swings open automatically on the pivot or axis upon the standard C, by gravity.
Dan R77

page_text: I wish it to be understood that I do not claim the swinging action of the lid
broadly, but only the especial arrangement hereinbefore described by which it is
carried into practice, also that I do not claim the principle of attaching the lids of
Jugs or other vessels by clasps instead of by pins or by other permanent means, but
only my particular method of accomplishing that object.
Having therefore now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st. In securing removable Lids to Jugs and other like vessels, the use of a double
ended spring clip E, placed inside the rim of the fixed part of the lid A, for the
purpose specified, and as described and shown.
2nd. In combination with detachable lids for jugs and other like vessels, a selfacting
opening portion B, with an extension D, and a standard or support C, substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown.
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