Improvements in Earthenware and China Plates and Dishes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 30th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1887.
Improvements in Earthenware and China Plates and Dishes.
I, FREDERICK BENNETT of 50 Ludgate Hill, London, Glass and China Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its chief object to form meat dishes shaped with suitable
places on the rims or borders of them, in which can be conveniently laid the carving
knife and fork, so as to avoid the necessity of the separate article known as a "knife
rest" but my invention may also be applied to any ordinary plate, if desirable, so that
it will hold the knife and fork in the same way.
In constructing a dish according to my invention, I form on any part of the rim or
border, places shaped so that the knife & fork will lay in them and not slip or fall
out the most convenient way being channels at each end of the dish formed to hold
the knife & fork in position ready to the hand of the carver-these "rests" or
channels or holders, I form in the material of the dish or plate my invention referring
to earthenware & china only, and not to metal plates or dishes.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Earthenware and China Plates and Dishes.
I FREDERICK BENNETT 50 Ludgate Hill, London, Glass and China Manufacturer
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 has for its chief object to form Meat Dishes shaped with suitable 5
places on the rims or borders of them in which can be conveniently laid the carving
Knife and Fork, so as to avoid the necessity of the separate article known as a
"Knife rest" but my invention may also be applied to any ordinary plate if
desirable, so that it will hold a knife and fork in the same way.
In constructing a Dish according to my invention, I form on any part of the rim or
border, but preferably near the ends, places shaped so that the knife and fork will lay
in them and not slip out, the most convenient form being channels at each end of the
Dish shaped to hold the knife, and fork in position ready to the hand of the carver,
these "rests," channels, or holders I form in the material of the Dish or plate; my
invention referring to Earthenware and china only and not to Metal Plates and
Dishes.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood, I shall now proceed
to more particularly describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings-
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Fig. 1. In this way the rests " are formed by depressions in the rim or border
of the dish.
a
Fig. 2. The rests "a" are here raised above the level of the border, and it will be
better to make a corresponding depression on the under side, so as not to increase the
substance of the dish.
Fig. 3. Shews channels formed in the border of the dish at
laid the knife and fork.
a
in which can be
Fig. 4. Shews the rest "a" formed by an enlargement of the border or by an
additional piece added.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and the manner in which the same. is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
وو
The construction of Dishes and Plates with "rests or places which will hold the
carving knife and fork convenient to the hand of the carver substantially as herein
described.
This 20th day of April 1887