IMPROVEMENTS IN DISHES OR TUREENS HAVING REVOLVING COVERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I JAMES WILLIS DIXON of Hillsborough Hall Sheffield in the County of York
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DISHES OR TUREENS HAVING REVOLVING COVERS" to be as follows
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The object of this invention is to prevent steam which condenses on the under-
side of the cover from running on to the table cloth when the cover is turned on
its axis to uncover or to again cover over the dish or tureen
For this purpose I form the edge of the dome shaped cover with an inner rim or
shallow trough all around it and at the part of this rim or trough which is lower-
most when the cover is turned so as to be half open I form an opening through
which any water collected on the rim or trough may then run freely-and I form
the stand which carries the dish or tureen with a tray into which any water which
then runs from the cover may be caught so that all water so running from the
cover will be caught in this tray and not drip on to and soil the table cloth

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SPECIFICATION
I, JAMES WILLIS DIXON of Hillsborough Hall Sheffield in the County of York
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DISHES OR TUREENS HAVING REVOLVING COVERS" and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement
The drawings hereunto annexed show various views of a dish or tureen
constructed according to my invention.
The object of the invention is to prevent steam which condenses on the under-
side of the revolving cover from running on to the table cloth
Figure 1 shews a side view and Figure 2 a transverse section of the dish or
tureen Figure 3 is a perspective view of the cover shewing its underside
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the dish or tureen with the cover partly open
The stand is formed with a tray A at the bottom from which four supports A¹
rise up and carry the dish B
The inner faces of these supports are hollowed so that any water dropping on to
them may run down into the tray-C is the revolving cover turning on pivots D
at its two ends in the ordinary manner Any moisture collecting on the flat rim B¹
of the dish and dropping from it at the ends where the rim is slotted away to
make room for the pivots Cx of the cover is caught upon the inner face of two of
the supports A¹ and is conveyed by them into the tray A
The revolving cover is as heretofore formed with a rim C¹ projecting inwards all
around its edge-in this rim a notch C is formed at the back which when the
cover is being opened allows the water to run freely from the cover and into the
hollow channel of the inner face of the back support and is conducted by it into
the tray A at the bottom of the stand so that all the water formed under the cover
is caught by the hollow supports and conveyed into the tray and does not drip on
to the table cloth
Having 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 18
1 The construction of dishes or tureens having revolving covers substantially
in the manner herein before described and illustrated in the drawings annexed
2 The construction of the revolving covers of dishes or tureens with a rim
projecting inwards at their edge and with a notch cut out of this 11m at the back
to allow any water collected on the underside of the cover to run off into a tray at
the bottom of the stand when the cover is opened substantially as described
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