Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
1, FLORENCE LONGRIDGE of Grève d'Azette, St. Clements, Jersey, Spinster do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved spoon or fork holder to be applied to a pot or
jar containing jam or pickles, etc., for the purpose of supporting the spoon or fork
when not in use or preventing the handle of the spoon or fork becoming soiled by
falling into the contents or resting against the sides or mouth of the jar.
The holder consists of a standard adapted to be removably fixed to the mouth or
side of the jar curved inwardly over the jar at the upper part and terminating in a
forked eye or loop adapted to receive and form a rest for the handle of the fork or
spoon and support the latter in a pendent position with the bowl of the spoon or
prongs of the fork directly over or within the mouth of the jar so that any drip
therefrom will fall within the jar.
The standard may be attached to the jar either by clamping screws or a spring
applied to its lower end and adapted to fit upon and grip the edge of the jar, or by
providing the standard with a cupped disc of india rubber adapted to be applied
against the outside of the jar and retained by atmospheric pressure.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1888.
F. LONGRIDGE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, FLORENCE LONGRIDGE, of Grève d'Azette, St. Clement's, Jersey, Spinster, 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
My Invention relates to an improved spoon or fork holder to be applied to a pot or
jar containing jam or pickles, etc.; for the purpose of supporting the spoon or fork
when not in use, and of preventing the handle of the spoon or fork becoming soiled
by falling into the contents or resting against the sides or mouth of the jar.
The holder consists of a standard adapted to be removably fixed to the mouth or
side of the jar and terminating at the upper end in a forked eye or loop adapted to
hold the fork or spoon in a pendent position directly over or within the mouth of the
jar so that any drip therefrom will fall within the jar.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specifi-
cation, wherein various modes of affixing the spoon or fork holder to the jar, are
illustrated.
b
The standard or holder A terminates at the upper inwardly curved end in a forked
eye or loop a adapted to receive the shank of the fork or spoon and to support the
latter directly over the pot or jar by the handle, as shewn. The lower end of the
standard may be adapted to embrace the edge of the jar and be secured thereto by a
clamping screw, as shewn in figures 1 and 2. Or, a spring & may be rivetted to the
standard and bear against the inside of the jar, as in figure 3, the standard being
formed with a lug c which simply rests on the edge of the jar. Or, the standard may
be provided with a cupped disc of india rubber d, figures 4 and 5, adapted to be
applied against the outside of the jar and to be retained there by atmospheric
pressure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declaro that what I
claim is
The herein described holder adapted to be fixed to a pot or jar, and to support a
spoon or fork in a pendent position, as described.