An Improved Stand or Support for Dinner and other Plates.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1889-Accepted. 24th Aug. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Dinner and other Plates.
I, EDWARD AUSTIN, of Ivanhoe, St. David's Road, Southsea, Hants, Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a simple and convenient device for use in connection with
dinner and other plates; and it has for its object to enable the plate to be set at such
an inclination upon the table that salt and mustard when deposited on the edge or rim
may be kept in place and prevented from mixing with the food in the plate, the plate
being in effect converted into a "well" plate, that is to say with a well in which the
gravy or sauces. are received out of contact with the solid food.
The device is of wedge form and would preferably be made in the form of a
segment of the plate and be inserted beneath it so as to be concealed from view.
It may be made of cork or other light material, covered or not, or of cane, wire, or
other suitable material.
Dated this 5th da sa - 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stand or Support for Dinner and other Plates.
I, EDWARD AUSTIN, of Ivanhoe, St. David's Road, Southsea, Hants, Agent,
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 a wedge like stand for supporting dinner and other plates
at such an inclination upon the table that soup, gravy, sauce, syrup, or juice, will be
collected at one part of the plate, and condiments deposited on the margin of a plate
will be less liable to become dissolved in the gravy.or sauce.
By means of my invention gravy, mint & other sauce, syrup, or juice, is kept out
of contact with solid food and from saturating it, and gravy is prevented from spread-
ing over the bottom of the plate and thus getting cold, whilst in the case of a soup
plate it is unnecessary to hold the plate raised with the hand as is frequently done.
The plate rest or stand is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part
of this Specification, wherein figure 1 is a sectional view, and figure. 2 a plan, of a dinner
plate supported upon the stand. Figure 3 shews a small plate upon the stand.
The stand is constructed of a grid-like frame of about the form shewn, provided with
a series of preferably curved bars a a¹ a² connected together at the ends and supported
on feet b in the inclined position shewn, the bars a a¹ a³ having lugs c at about the
middle of their length projecting upwards in position to engage within the under
rim d of a plate placed upon it, as shewn in figure 1. The upper surface of the frame
is equivalent to an inclined plane upon which the plate is supported over a sufficiently
broad area to avoid liability of the accidental tilting of the plate sidewise. The feet b
are of graduated height so as to support the stand at a suitable angle from the
horizontal.
In use, the highest part of the plate stand is placed towards the edge of the table
so that the plate is inclined away from the person using it; the plate, if of large size,
being placed upon the stand, as shewn in figure 1, so as to rest on and engage with
the stops c of the topmost bar a, in which case the stand would be wholly beneath the
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page_text: plate and concealed from view, as in figure 2. If of small size the plate may be
similarly placed on the bar a' or a², as the case may be, according to the size of the
plate.
This plate stand or support may be made of solid metal, or of wirework, cane, or
other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;
The herein described stand or support for dinner and other plates, substantially as
specified.
Dated this 5th day of July 1889.
E. AUSTIN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.