IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE URNS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Mead, of 203, Bethnal Green Road, Middle-
sex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE URNS,"
Sealed the 15th March 1864, and dated the 7th January 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Mead at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th January
1864.
I, GEORGE MEAD, of 203, Bethnal Green Road, Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE
URNS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a metallic tea and coffee urn, comprised of two or
more cylinders of suitable shape, the upper half or top cylinder having a wire
gauze or perforated bottom, above which bottom and inside the exterior
cylinder or upper part is another cylinder which acts as a measure of any
given capacity, and therein is inserted a plug, valve, tap, or other suitable
contrivance for emitting the water in a boiling state to the coffee or other
compound and extracting therefrom its valuable properties and passing free
of sediment to the chamber below. For tea or other similar substances
requiring length of time for extracting their qualities the lower cylinder only
need be used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Mead in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MEAD, of 203, Bethnal Green Road, Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Mead, Her special licence that I, the said George Mead, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Mead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEA AND COFFEE
URNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Mead,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Mead, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of a metallic urn comprised of two or more cylinders
of suitable shape, the upper half or top cylinder having a wire gauze or per-
forated bottom, above which bottom and inside the exterior cylinder or upper
part is another cylinder which acts as a measure of any given capacity, and
therein is inserted a plug, tap, valve, or other suitable contrivance for emitting
the water in a boiling state to the coffee or other compound, and extracting
therefrom its valuable properties, and passing free of sediment to the chamber
below. For tea or other similar substances requiring length of time for ex-
tracting their qualities the lower cylinder only need be used.
Having described the nature of my Invention, I now proceed to explain

page_text: its parts and the manner in which they are performed according to the annexed
Drawing.
A, A, A, A, represent the under portion of my improved tea and coffee
urn, which is formed to receive the outer or upper cylinder B, B, B, B, the
bottom of which is made of gauze, wire, or perforated metal C. Inside this
outer cylinder is placed the inner cylinder, forming also the measure E, E, E, E,
having an under chamber which is formed by attaching to it a perforated
piece of metal F. To the inner cylinder E, E, E, E, is attached a cock, plug,
syphon, or valve G so constructed that by opening or closing it the liquid
contained in the cylinder or measure E, E, E, E, may be retained or allowed
to pass through the cock G into the chamber below, being first diffused by the
perforations in chamber F on the coffee or other substance contained in the
lower part of cylinder B, and thence escaping through the orifices at C into
the lower part of urn A, from whence it is drawn for use through the cock J.
What I claim as my Invention is the application of a cock, plug, syphon, or
valve, or its equivalent, attached to a cylinder or measure for the purpose and
in the manner herein-before stated; the form of urn may be varied as pre-
ferred.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Mead, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEORGE MEAD.
(L.S.)